59 karma · joined February 7, 2018
A big advantage EUCs have is you don't have to bother with folding like a bike, just hop off, grab the trolley handle and walk on.
Electric scooters have similar advantages but they have to compromise range, performance, and compactness for their ease of learning.
The commenters pointing out that natural gas stoves don't have a significant effect on emissions are right, but once a building gets a gas hookup installing natural gas heaters and water heaters becomes more attractive and economical. That's something we don't want to be incentivizing
Climate town recently released a new video talking about this issue as well as the decades of marketing and lobbying the natural gas industry has paid for to neuter or outright kill legislation like this.
But with a web app you redownload the application everytime which means you'd have to recheck that checksum every time you use the app. I guess that WhatsApp, Discord, et al have decided that this is a reasonable risk. But the privacy oriented Signal team disagrees.
I don't think it's a prioritization issue, the desktop app is currently running via electron which means it's effectively a web app already.