An interesting point about this, is that previously when people would try to gain control over subs with inactive mods the admins would drag their feet as much as possible. (I'm part of a sub where it took almost a year via several requests for the group of new mods to gain ownership of the sub).
But now some fee-fees got hurt and admins go nuclear and removes mods at lightspeed...
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Tbh that arrangement sounds kindy sus, but yes good that you are getting the laptop. Keep work and shiny separate!
Same-ish lol. I specifically looked at transit availability when I was purchasing a condo in the city. I'd open Google maps, click the nearest bus stop and see if I can get to a few central places in the city in one trip. Anywhere that required swapping buses was cancelled as an option.
I'll still need my car like once a week or two, but being able to either walk to or use transit daily for most of my needs would be a huge improvement to me. But still won't be fully able to get rid of the car!
Can't answer for all of humanity, but for me I basically live somewhere that has absolutely shit public transport. My village has a total of 5(!) buses a day. But that's rural life.
I'm planning on moving to The Big City™️, so when I will I won't be using my car daily. But I won't get rid of it because for any trip which is beyond the central city routes it'll be hell to get to without a car. (I expect it to be once a week-ish).
E.g - to get directly from where I'll be moving to my mom's house is like 40minutea by car. It's 3+hours by public transport.
Also if I'll want to do anything that requires carrying stuff (like let's say, going to the supermarket to buy more than one handful of stuff...) - a car would make that practical as I'll be able to put the things in the car rather than carrying it across the city.
I definitely aim to reduce my car usage by a lot, but in my country I'll still benefit from using a car. Maybe in a decade or two the state of public transport will be much better and I'll be able to consider dropping the car all together.
I'd imagine that would be offset by all the people who are redditing much less because most of the subs they frequent are private?
I... Don't think they realize how much work mods do, to both cultivate the community in their subs and to keep them from become a cesspool of society.
I say just let spez mod a spicy subreddit like WSB or dataisbeautiful. You haven't seen adult individuals decend to throwing feces at one another until they start arguing about the appropriate scale for a graph. Or one of the truecrime subs like TrueCrimeDiscussion, where every comment hidden 40 comments deep can be a dox. 🤣