Your periodic reminder that VC-funded CEOs are in a situation that they have bet both their kidneys on being able to deliver a 100x return to the bone-saw wielding loan sharks who funded them.
Your “community” is worthless to them unless it delivers Kidney Money.
They cannot just “decide” to not enshittify the community you mistakenly believed was yours. No appeal to justice or fairness will work, unless accompanied by a donor kidney or two.
For every ÖBB I can raise you SNCF or Renfe
For every Italo I can raise you Abellio or Connex or Railcoop or Midnight Trains
For SBB I can point you to their costs
For every sensibly opened railway (like Czechia) I can raise you Sweden (total chaos)
If you’ve travelled extensively ALL OVER EUROPE it's simply lazy to conclude “Public good, private bad" or vice versa. It's simply a denial of what you see if you take a comparative view
It is easy to get cynical about symbols like these. To see them as “virtue signaling,” “tribalism,” etc. I too am often skeptic and don’t appreciate shallow affiliations with symbols very much.
But this day and this month can remind us that it’s a luxury to think like that. Issues like gay rights or human rights in generally have been fought hard for and they are still in danger. Not everywhere, not always, but way too often.
The boundary between cringe and crucial is sometimes very narrow.
I know some folks hate Reddit with a passion but, as a mode of social interaction, I find the 'topic-oriented communities with an account that can move between them' model invaluable.
It's a great way to stay up to date with the comings and goings of communities I care about without needing to (a) remain glued to an overwhelming linear feed like Mastodon that aggregates *everything* or (b) sign up to hundreds of smaller forums or curate single-source RSS feeds.
Good luck to #kbin.
5 years of Veloren! 🎉
The fifth anniversary blog is looking back at the last five years with plenty of screenshots and video footage.
https://veloren.net/birthday-5y/
Dick pics available on request