IDK what the culture is like at your school, but if you're feeling motivated consider offering to organize a group ride to school to encourage others to join in. It could just start out as a one-time or once a month thing and increase from there if there's enough interest.

Assuming the structure can support the weight, I'm all in favor of green roofs. Though, most buildings are privately owned and therefore are not true replacements for proper public greenspace within a city. I think it's also important not to get distracted from the primary source of land waste within cities: car infrastructure.

I don't really see an obvious solution here that avoids the need for a car, at least in the US (which I'm assuming you're in base on the kind of car you drive). If your goal is to ultimately ditch the car, depending on how frequent the trips are, you could potentially save money by renting a car just for the longer trips.

you can’t drive the stock market to work

No, but you can ride a bike instead, which as the article demonstrates saves you a significant amount of money each year.

don’t buy an average car, by the one someone bought ten years ago for $5500.

That's not how markets work. If everyone started buying cheaper used cars there wouldn't be enough stock of said cheap cars. But even beyond that a $5500 car is going to cost you WAY more in the long run when you take into account the added recurring costs (e.g. higher maintenance).

At a reasonable (downright inexpensive) hourly rate of $50/hr and 11.000 miles at an average of 10mph vs 30mph in a car (including stoplights), she’s lost 700 hours or $35,000 just in lost time.

You are significantly overestimating the speed of cars and significantly underestimating the speed of ebikes. When accounting for traffic, stop lights, car accidents, etc., the average speed for car trips hovers around 18.5mph globally. Obviously that will vary significantly depending on your commute, but especially if you live in city bikes are at least on par in terms of speed. Most ebikes can reach speeds of 20mph+, and unlike cars they don't get stuck in traffic.

I'm not trying to sit here and claim everyone should dump their cars and ride bikes. My point is that people severely underestimate how much of a money pit they are. If you live in an urban environment, the benefits of car ownership simply don't outweigh the cons for the average commuter.

One thing these articles often neglect is the opportunity cost of car ownership vs bikes. The average used car in the US today is around $28k. Suppose you bought that car outright and sold it 10 years later. Assuming a reasonable depreciation of 15% per year, that car would sell for around $5.5k. That means (ignoring all other costs) your car cost you $22.5k. Now assume you took that $22.5k and invested it in the stock market. Assuming a reasonable interest rate of 8%, by the end of those 10 years your investment would more than double to $48.5k!

Cars are literally a mechanism to keep people poor.

Google pannier bags. They're basically totes that mount onto a bike rack. Some of them even have straps to convert them into a backpack for easy carrying.

In terms of distance, I think you might be surprised by how far and fast you can go with an ebike. A lot of people only think about their speed when on the highway, but most of your time on the road is likely spent at slower speeds navigating traffic in town. So what bikes may lack in speed, they make up for in maneuverability.

What class are you taking? Cognitive Dissonance 101?

Who tf keeps their phone off dnd at night? The last thing I want in the middle of the night is to be woken up by some email spam.

That said I have a rule set up which allows calls to go through if they are from my favorites list, just in case they're dying.

Love me some Panda Express

I know these are early-adopter pain points, but I think if Lemmy is really gonna take off, the devs need to get serious about backward compatibility and ensuring backend upgrades don't completely break major instances/clients. IMO switching from websocket to HTTP should have been treated as a breaking change with a new major version release and a more controlled rollout period for this exact reason.

It's supposed to make the site less desirable to advertisers. Reddit has continually restricted more and more of its nsfw content over the years in an attempt to appease advertisers, so this is a... provocative step in the opposite direction.

My parents told me they go to a farm far away.