@Natanox in the original Sim City you could have a quite successful city with railways between blocks instead of roads. The residents would complain sometimes but they never really seemed to mind much.

They did complain vociferously if you tried to raise tax to any sensible level, though, so I guess they must have been accepting of shitty US healthcare

“Lauren Laverne presents an hour-long special live in the studio with The Chemical Brothers […] with the duo selecting music from across their career to date.”

Ah. that explains why the radio this morning sounds like they’ve raided my CD collection #6music

@clacke in my dialect “noose” has an “s” sound like in “seven” but “news” has a “z” sound like in “zachary”.

@clacke forgot to specify: my dialect of English is from England

@cstross @mekkaokereke how about taxing by “dynamic envelope”: the size of the vehicle plus the area around it such that it can stop safely from whatever speeds it usually travels at. I’ll cross the road in front of a moped in circumstances where I might hold back if the oncoming vehicle is a Fireblade, so let’s represent that “plays nice with other road users” externality in the taxation