It’s hard to do anything and know anything when one of the two major parties, backed by the wealthy, is anti-doing and anti-knowing.

There’s a whole Wikipedia article on that phrase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_God_for_Mississippi

More people from more walks of life (pun intended) on the street probably does reduce some types of crime, though. You’re not going to be mugged on the street outside two busy restaurants and a record shop with a bunch of other people walking around.

Yes. The American suburb model is probably the worst of all options. And people who haven’t really lived other ways might not even realize how bad it is.

I never want to live somewhere car-first.

Remember that comic that shows two people riding bikes through a nice area, and one of them says like “if anyone proposed building this where I live I would kill them”?

You can take it up with Jane Jacobs, I guess.

I don’t think anyone’s saying car dominance is the only factor, but it’s a big one.

Jane Jacobs wrote about this in like the 1960s. More regular people on the street makes people feel safer. It probably actually makes people safer, too.

So, yes, car-first culture makes crime and fear worse. A local neighborhood with people walking about doing their business is safer than one where people just drive, park, and leave.

“”“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”“”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3238058-we-live-in-capitalism-its-power-seems-inescapable-so-did

You can’t just kill them. You need to deal with the forces that enabled them. But getting rid of them would be a good start.

Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell released a statement about the incident, calling it an “incredibly tragic event.”

The US, maybe everywhere else, does this routine where something bad happens, people say it’s tragic, and stops. No root cause analysis. No steps to prevent it from happening again. Just thoughts and prayers and that’s it. It’s infuriating.

There are many complex problems that are going to be uncomfortable to solve. We are all going to suffer before it gets better. But we should demand better. We should demand that the rich help or get out of the way.

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

The Kansas experiment was a name given to a controversial and widely noted tax-cutting policy/agenda of Kansas Governor Sam Brownback that began with Brownback signing a bill cutting state taxes (Kansas Senate Bill Substitute HB 2117), in May 2012,[1][2] and ended with the Kansas legislature’s repeal of the bill in June 2017. It was one of the largest income tax cuts in

Despite its record and the fact that “many experts regard the Kansas tax cuts as a failure”, the 2017 Republican tax cuts (Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017) had some of the same elements of Brownback’s policy, and “many Republicans still embrace the ideology” behind the Kansas tax cuts.[2]

Conservatives don’t learn shit.

Yeah, we all do it. But some things are much harder to navigate (eg: driving a car when you live in a car-first hell is hard to avoid) vs just not using Twitter.

Rich people and capitalism are a bigger problem that arguably is easier to solve, though, to your point.

It’s so frustrating how people just don’t care about things. Especially if they’re complicated or indirect.

They’ll be like “but there’s funny memes there” and I’m like there’s humor in all sorts of places. Blank stare.

ICE and all of their supporters need to go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro-masculinity

Good. I don’t love copyright laws but I dislike AI, and double dislike “they can do what you want but you can’t.”

Thinking about some of the people I know who like AI, it does seem like their thinking is often vague and disorganized.

One of my old bosses got annoyed at me that I’d ask questions to clarify what he wanted. Like I should just know from vague instructions.

I’ve seen that ad in NYC, too. Occasionally defaced.

They’re probably betting on free outrage publicity plus soulless capitalists taking it straight. But I hope the outrage may be strong enough that it doesn’t net pay out for them.

Unpopular opinion: Masculinity doesn’t exist. There’s feminine things and then there’s everything else.

This seems to be a roundabout way of coming upon the idea of, like, defaults and privilege. Like how people will say the there’s “sexual orientations: straight and political”

The us really struggles to do anything for the public. A big part of why is racism, but I think a lot of people are also a mix of vanilla stupid and indoctrinated.

Conservatives value in-group solidarity more than almost anything else. Feels good in their brain.

You’d probably be an asshole too if you came a little every time you yielded to authority. That’s how their brains work.