I agree that’s a great acronym

The final scene of Mirror’s Edge with that song makes me emotional every time

Is there a way to say OPQRST that isn’t just reading each letter? Because if not then that is a mouthful

What does WOMBAT stand for?

I do the same thing. My brain kept misinterpreting ACAB for a while and usually slotted in “cat” for some reason until I figured out what it meant

Yikes, I’ve never seen these ones before but I hope they’re confined to the back alleys of the internet and you don’t see them too much

That is an… unwise abbreviation

Valid!

It’s a numeronym!

I agree, very weird. I thought i18n was some weird sound thing that I hadn’t figured out yet. “‘eye-eighteen-ehn’ isn’t too far from ‘internationalization’, I guess”

if you know, you missed it

It is fun to say, though. wizywig

iirc it means “if I recall/remember correctly”

Rub the stick back and forth against the other to generate free wifi for the worms. They can’t repay you in away way but they will be very thankful

The part about going to your job is totally valid. Some jobs can be worked remotely or partly remotely now, but that doesn’t apply to all professions, so that is something to keep in mind.

In terms of not being able to realistically change the current cities, many of the best walkable cities prioritized cars first and then changed. It took decades, but they eventually achieved it.

There’s this presentation I found after doing some research on the 15-minute cities conspiracy theory, and it was a really interesting talk about how towns and cities can be changed into slower, more accessible ones. It’s an hour long but there’s a 5 minute segment where it discusses cases where cities have changed from car-based to a more walkable one, in this case Amsterdam and Pontevedra (in Spain).

I recommend checking it out. Here’s a link with the timestamp of the start of the section about those cities:

Dr Rodney Tolley: Fast Speed, Slow Cities

In the section before this one, he discusses the cost of other transport modes versus cars. Building and maintaining infrastructure for cars is waaaaay more expensive than for other methods, so cost isn’t an issue. I’ve included the slide below.

That’s fair enough. I also own a car, but I try to use alternative means of transport (bus, bike, walk, skateboard) whenever possible. It’s the prioritisation of cars over all other modes of transport where I have the issue. My city is riddled with car filled streets criss-crossing all over. There’s a plan to take one of the most shop focused streets and make it walkable. It would mean that I would be able to get to work almost the whole way on it. I hope it goes through

I heard a good saying the other day: “Electric cars are a solution for the car industry.” Give me walkable cities please