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by trgn 4y ago
We visited family in Europe earlier this summer. So much has changed there compared to only 10-15 years ago. We were never once worried for our kids wandering around alone, because streets were designed so drivers had to drive slow. Also no
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by trgn 4y ago
That's really the only thing. The saddest thing to me that the window is so small to fix it. If my city dawdles another 5-10 years to make our streets safer, my kids will be old enough for it not to matter anymore. It's a really h
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by trgn 4y ago
I phrased that wrong. Unhealthy habits are often permissively looked at as just a different lifestyle choice ("hey, I just like my burgers and sodas man!"), rather than really being problematic.
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by trgn 4y ago
The average american is just plain unhealthy. Terrible diet, little daily activity. It's in the stats, which people ignore. You just plain see it with your own eyes as well. It's a genuine problem, not a lifestyle choice.
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by trgn 4y ago
And this particular example of trolling, is "concern trolling".
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by trgn 4y ago
oh waw, this is great, thank you for sharing!
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by trgn 4y ago
> it's just yet another symptom of how entitled these people feel to...well, anything It is and it isn't. There is something particularly ugly that happens when you put a person in a car. A driver, when walking down the sidewal
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by trgn 4y ago
Loved how humane his angle is. It's only a 5 minute summary, so I guess a lot is missing. He isn't ridiculing mediocrity or the sorry state of bloated bureaucracies, he seems genuinely concerned about the detrimental effects of be
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by trgn 4y ago
US industrialized first (and most) in the parts without slaves. That slavery is bad for industrial production was a major abolitionist argument. It's been repeated for at least 150-200 years. de Tocqueville dedicates many pages to just
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by trgn 4y ago
Yeah, certainly, they were smaller. Lived for a number of years in Ghent and Leuven. Like living in a palace. There's nothing that compares to it here. :(
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by trgn 4y ago
I guess we were in different places.
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by trgn 4y ago
Maybe not starting from scratch, what is happening in reality is that the car-light movement is growing, and cities are calming traffic. I think this effort will continue, because quality of life in these places is just objectively better.
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by trgn 4y ago
Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
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by trgn 4y ago
> too much noise and too much energy spent looking over your shoulder. That's the bane of american cities. They're noisy, and sociopathy is tolerated by the authorities. Living abroad has shown me cities, significantly more de
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by trgn 4y ago
> What's insane to me is that we allow cars to dominate even our most urban spaces NYC would be so much better if it weren't for all the car traffic. It's not the density that's strangling it, it's the car comple
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by trgn 4y ago
Me too. Either my city calms traffic, or we're moving to a walkable city in Europe. Having young children makes the decision feel more urgent.
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by trgn 4y ago
There's a big difference in responsibility. A driver will kill somebody else when they're distracted, a cyclist will get killed themselves. That's why I find it so spiritually ugly when drivers blame pedestrians or cyclists f
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by trgn 4y ago
Just an observation. The best managers I've had, all had a very flat, neutral affect. In some sense, they had no personality, and I mean that in the best possible way. They weren't necessarily using corpspeak, but their phrasing w
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by trgn 4y ago
It's the difference between heating your house to 72 and walking around barefoot, or 68 and wearing a sweater and wearing loafers. Those are the tradeoffs. Need for indoor heating has a lot of stretch. In Europe, there's a ton of
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by trgn 4y ago
Europe is going to come out strong out of this whole mess. The political unity so quickly after the start of the war was unexpected (and admirable). Ten years from now, Europeans will drive electric (if they'll drive at all), solar pan
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by trgn 4y ago
> the modern popular vision of future is not worth living for. The popular vision for the future is _exactly_ technocratic. > I am a [...] futuristic optimist Me too. But 50s era techno-fetishization is not the lever to achieve a bet
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by trgn 4y ago
> I think we should return to the 1950s ideas of a futuristic cities and invest in building giant arcologies Ugh, I hope not. The 50s was the most infantile era, completely preoccupied with convenience and efficiency and big things that
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by trgn 4y ago
> when GenX grew up and didn't join the hippie counterculture. That was a mistake. GenX should have distilled the insights of the hippies, but chucking away the cosplay and fairytales. Modernism has not ended, it is the current stat
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by trgn 4y ago
We are living not in a capitalist dystopia, we live in a modernist dystopia. That is, technology itself is the value, rather than a means to an end. You can live in, say, in a socialist or fascist society, and you would still be subjected t
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by trgn 4y ago
Another poster has a counter argument and I'd agree. Unread books seep in through osmosis. That unread book that's been sitting there for years, somehow, magically, its content feel familiar when you do pick it up.
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by trgn 4y ago
I love libraries, but I borrow rarely. Not much so that I like to markup, but more that I manhandle books, and they always look like trash after I've gone through them. The physicality of a book really is something dear to me. Dog earr
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by trgn 4y ago
It's not a coincidence the law conveniently incentivizes vehicles with larger profit margins. Also, it's a fine excuse, basically consumers avoiding responsibility for their own choices. `But it's the Fed's fault!` The s
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by trgn 4y ago
I guess, at that point, the textile is just trash? Literally, just trash it. I think the article was more about no place to donate perfectly fine clothes, and the uncertainty what happens to them after donating. Having to throw away 5 items
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by trgn 4y ago
> And at some later point, I have to dispose of them. I somewhat disagree. You do have to get your clothes, but what is about the disposing of perfectly fine clothes that's necessary? It's only because we have too many of them.
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by trgn 4y ago
I know. But I find it actually quite easy to get rid of lightly worn children clothes, and donate them. Mostly informal networks, but a lot of more formal exchanges as well. e.g. also includes car seats, strollers, ... > And I’ve heard r

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