Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

#cats

@Lady except in order to put some of that infrastructure back we *will* have to destroy car based infrastructure in cities. There is no room for bike lanes without taking away car lanes & parking lots must give way to train stations. I am not advocating for the destruction of all car based infrastructure but I am actively advocating for the destruction of large swaths of the local system

@Lady @eldang @GwenfarsGarden further, i dont think the timing there is coincidental — our trolleys and trains were gutted simultaneous to the white flight to the suburbs — both direct results of racists being uncomfortable with integration. The local prioritization of a car system over public transit continues to perpetuate race and class based inequality and urgently needs to be remedied.

The ecological effects are of course also devastating

@Lady @eldang @GwenfarsGarden Car infrastructure is unequivocally a net negative in most of the places I’ve lived (all but one of which are urban) & the intentional destruction of billions of dollars of public transit infrastructure (in the 60’s & 70’s) to make room for cars has had a serious impact on my quality of life as a person who cannot drive due to disability

@Lady @eldang @GwenfarsGarden i think the general assumption is that the cost benefit analysis for rural areas re: cars is substantially different from urban and therefore require a different set of tactics.

@netkitty *pats*

@Lady so basically my support for the proposal is contingent on Ao3 making an actual commitment to step up when it comes to things like moderating bookmarks & just wanting to reduce that moderation load to more manageable levels

@Lady yeah which is basically my main concern with this proposed solution — it doesn’t actually successfully eliminate the need for moderation bc any site with user generated content inherently requires moderation. And the primarily issue at stake is that Ao3 has consistently failed to moderate its userbase

@Lady the issue is you can add your own notes / tags on bookmarks & people have used this as an avenue for harassment in the past. So if harassment is one of the issues you’re trying to solve they do need to be discussed

I’m not sure I’m into it as the final solution (I’m team just hire a fucking consultant), but I do think it should be one of the options, if that makes sense? And it’d be quite a bit simpler than a lot of the other ideas going around haha

During this weeks round of ‘So is Ao3 ever going to get its shit together re:fandoms racism problem’ someone suggested ‘well if they’re going to keep claiming they’re an archive why not make it more like an actual archive and get rid of all the social aspects’ (specifically kudus, comments, & hitcounts, though the pro’s & cons of also ditching bookmarks were discussed)

@megabyteGhost accidentally did artist — title for the first once and the reverse for the other two whoops

@megabyteGhost
rage against the machine — killing in the name
FTP — YG
Screwed — Janelle Monae

@Lady hm

@Lady does Japanese have commas

@Lady interesting

@Lady single dot ellipsis.

@Lady well yeah it wouldnt have mattered if they had it if it wasnt so useful

@Lady no i remember them i’m just not sure why yr bringing this up