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Screens are part of the problem but the biggest cause is lack of space to be a child, and the biggest culprit is our car-centric urban planning which transformed our streets into car storage space / racing track. Our streets have becom
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SUVs should be banned. They are much more likely to kill when hitting pedestrians and cyclists. No reason for oversize overweight vehicles in our public spaces. Its a public health hazard.
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Those settlers do know the history (or should know) and they do know its stolen land. And many did fight in the military defending the Apartheid system. And they know they are not willing to share with native Palestinians. I don't mean
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How many of those civilians were ex-military (all?), how many were settlers in stolen land? If you knowingly occupy someones stolen land you are not that innocent are you? And, Israel does not have the right to defend itself. Israel is the
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Each country's Fed (Bank of England for UK) should provide a very basic free bank accounts to all residents. That would be the baseline from which all private bank would have to compete with. The cost is minimal (OK maybe charge 5USD a
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Car-centric urban planning has massing (mostly hidden) negative externalities: 1. Cars are discriminatory: only licensed 18+ (and not too old) can drive. A whole demographics of children+teens+disabled have lost their mobility independence.
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Recycling plastic doesn;t work. The best we can do is "downcycle" Recycling is very convenient for the plastic industry to shift the responsibility to the consumer.
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Why did they quit? Just don't go to the office and wait till they fire you.
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Fair enough, but the solution cannot be cars. Its simple geometry. Cars do not scale in cities and small spaces. Enough brainstorming would give a cycle-friendly non-car solution to this. I don't know: sprinklers + shading + narrow str
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So you need a 3 ton machine to avoid sweating? Shades and trees are cheap to install and maintain, not to mention the wind whilst riding which gives you a nice cooling effect. The only reason you do not have shading+trees around roads is be
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Avionics Full-Duplex Switched Ethernet
(en.wikipedia.org)
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Why? Sitting in desk for long periods and commuting by car/train in cycling-hostile countries is very bad for your health.
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Bad urban planning centered around the automobile and not the person is a big contributor. See "The Human Case For Fewer Cars In Our Lives with Melissa and Chris Bruntlett": http://www.modacitylife.com/ and https
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3y ago
Cars are bad for society, huge cars just exacerbate it.
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Relevant video about entropy and life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxL2HoqLbyA
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No need for genetics to understand evolution...
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3y ago
No need to know about electrons to understand electricity.