about an artist who didn't think he'd make it to adulthood, who never thought he'd manage to turn his art into a career, and who never thought he'd feel comfortable in his own body.
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i want asriel to know the inherent rage of being an older sibling and realizing ur parents dont know how to raise ur alienated little sibling
a lot of social networks live and die based entirely on whether they have an in-built translate button (even if it's not good!) and it's surprising that it's never higher priority when companies are looking for frivolous things to throw money at
like we're probably at the end of the social media boom by this point and it's probably too late to start asking "how can social media become better" but it's always struck me as odd
when you've got a few seconds maximum to make an impression on a user, the majority of people are just going to scroll past a post they couldn't read, which leads to people simply not following users who speak different languages than them
the end result of this is that english speakers hang out with english speakers and everywhere else just kind of has to speak english or settle for a much less engaging experience before eventually leaving
the literal seconds of time difference between having to paste text into a translator and being able to click a button for translation ends up being pretty significant
If you are thinking about it on paper, the bus running every half hour doesn't sound so bad, until you're waiting at the stop and you miss a bus or it's delayed. Then you're waiting a very, very long time. To people who never take transit, that's probably fine. Why do you care. To people who only take transit, they're expecting it, it's baked in their lives. But the important part, what really impacts our cities, is what happens to people for whom transit is an option.
The spiral goes like this. You go to take the bus instead of driving, thinking "I'm going to o have a couple drinks" or "I don't want to worry about parking where I'm going." So you take bus. First bus is right on time. But then you transfer from your neighborhood line to the line that takes you where you actually want to go. And your bus is delayed. And it only comes every 30 minutes. And then you're waiting, 40 minutes later, wondering where your bus is, knowing you could have driven there in 20 minutes.
Why would you ever chose to take a bus again? The bus made you waste precious time on your day off just sitting there. So next time you drive. Ridership goes down. When the transit authority asks for more money for more buses and more drivers, people point to the ridership numbers and say "why should we pay for this instead of paying for our schools/police/baseball stadium/parks/police again (let's be real that's who's taking all the money)?" If we want to increase ridership we need to actually design and fund functional transit networks. If we want people to actually ride the bus we need to make it a better option than driving, which means reliable service, which you don't get with a bus every 30 minutes.
Every 15 minutes, everywhere, all of the time.
