Remove zoning restrictions is step 1 to allow denser more walkable areas, which will reduce urban cost of living.

Step 2 is to change the highway code to make stroads illegal and make more normal safe roads.

Step 3 is change the fha rules so more dense homes are built.

Step 4 change cafe standards so smaller lighter cars are the norm, possibly tax suvs and trucks.

These are all stroke of a pen changes.

> These are all stroke of a pen changes.

In a democracy you need buy-in from society at large. What's the plan on achieving that?

You can poll people about things that they want, but (like it happened with many great inventions) people don't actually know what they need. Do they want less car-centric environment? Most will answer "no" because they've never lived in a society that wasn't as car-centric. Most people are not urbanists and most are content with their lives. You can poll them and do inquiries to death, or you can allow experts to implement all of the things that are unambiguously good from any perspective, let people grumble for a bit, adjust and after that reap benefits.

A part of being a democratic society is accepting that an opinion of an average person is worthless.

> i mean what is your solution? ban all driving?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

2021 is obviously an outlier in terms of driving and walking. Can't quite tell what point you're making but your example is not representative.

99.9% of people will just click the google login button and continue on as if nothing had happened. i sympathize with you. i had to make a throwaway google account. but it's not even close to relevant to the vast majority of users. not saying that's a good thing but it's reality.

> 99.9% of people will just click the google login button and continue on as if nothing had happened

You have a very, very rosy perception of login walls. All the stats I’ve see would disagree.

why not just ignore the "chaos monkeys" and focus on your writers instead? no one is forcing you to interact with anyone you don't like on X.

One thing that’s impossible to ignore is that Twitter now forces you to read bad replies. Before, it would rank the most popular replies near the top, but now you have to scroll past lots of low-quality replies from people who are boosted just because they pay for the privilege.

I use Twitter daily and unless you're looking at major threads (like an Elon tweet) it's rarely more than a single verified user (if at all). And they are rarely better/worse than the average Tweet normally is in those mega threads.

It's got downsides for sure but I hasn't killed the UX IMO

Bad replies aren't necessarily the least popular. Any number of people would prefer blue check (basically signed) replies than pseudonymous drivebys whose entire participation in twitter is sharp replies that get massively upvoted.

Also, popularity based in upvotes from nobody, unverified accounts is usually inorganic. Scoring upvotes based on how many of them are from verified or likely authentic accounts can only improve user experience (for content providers, not professional reply guys.)

> Any number of people would prefer blue check

... where "any" is the number of people who paid for a blue check.

The chaos monkeys aren’t Twitter users, they’re changes to the site that Musk dictates.

A not implausible theory I’ve seen bandied about is that Musk isn’t happy about having been forced into buying Twitter so he’s trashing the place out of spite.

It seems a rather expensive bit of spite, but it makes as much sense as anything else.

What’s X?

The X Window System allows applications to present bitmap images on a display, and receive mouse and keyboard input. The main implementation is X.Org, shepherded by the X.Org Foundation: https://x.org/. Originally for Unix-like systems, it is now available on many other architectures, such as Microsoft Windows: I find ssh's X forwarding feature especially useful there.

So does twitter redirect to x.org now?

Would be an improvement to be honest :)

It's a slang term for MDMA. Clearly the poster means that you don't have to interact with anyone when you're on ecstasy.

A variable you could substitute with anything.

I'd like to substitute it for x

which holds a value "X"

It's what Musk is trying to rebrand Twitter as.

it's that thing you used to call twitter.

x.com

This is what GP was referring to when they said "chaos monkeys"

If I go to x.com it redirects me to a site called twitter.com in which there are things called "tweets" and "retweets"