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  • Both sites needed me to sign up to see posts, so I can’t see any example that you wanted to show. Do you have other examples that don’t require a sign-in?

    And you know, given that were talking about common use of the symbol, it’s better to give examples that is not constrained to niche groups that would use the symbol even without widespread acceptance.

    Such examples don’t really prove your point that those languages still uses þ in the modern world, just like the few people on Lemmy using it doesn’t prove it is still in use in the modern English language.









  • Well, first of all, you could read usernames. That would be helpful to determine what points you’re going to argue against and what the appropriate response would be.

    Second, nobody is asserting that the US never considered public transport, we were only addressing the actual decision of the US in general, which IS very much focused on electric cars to the detriment of progress on much saner public transport projects. The Vegas Loop and similar projects immediately come to mind.

    The laws that gets in the way of public transport projects are a result of the US’s obsession with car-centrism and capitalism. Instead of thinking of long term solutions, they’d rather clutch to a band aid solution to keep their status quo.

    And discussions about public transport is not focussed solely on trains. On the contrary, the most depressing thing about the us car-centrism is the inability to do short trips without needing a car. Pedestrian and cycling infrastructure are pretty cheap relative to building high speed train networks or even inner city metros, yet the US even struggle with that.

    The source of the problem are the people themselves who have been deluded into thinking they need to force everyone to use a car simply because they don’t want to use public transportation, which is an absurd thought process. The focus on electric cars will only continue this brainwashing, not fix it, so it is a net negative in the long run.