I don’t envy the writers at the Onion, the way reality is going satire must be hard work.

Well yeah of course, and meanwhile keep building out alternatives and walkable neighborhoods. See how far we can go.

What is it we imagine “banning cars” actually means?

I’m not disagreeing, but I’m curious. Does anyone think there’s a serious policy proposal to just…ban cars. Like, “starting May 1st, there will be no cars. Authorities will be collecting your car, and it will be crushed and melted down to make bikes. If you live in the middle of nowhere…well I guess you’ll have to eat pinecones or something.”

Obviously, that’s silly to even consider, but I am absolutely in favor of banning cars on at least a couple of specific streets in my city. We could do it today, and no one would be more than mildly inconvenienced, and the new car-free spaces would be thoroughly enjoyed.

You said “if you don’t want to be overweight, you have to eat carbs in moderation.” I am not doing that, and am not overweight.

If you’re going to word something as absolute, on the internet, you better be prepared for exceptions in reply.

Fat has more than double the calorie density, I’m not sure what you mean by “high carb food have more calories”.

I like to go to the bakery down the street and buy a loaf, then just eat the whole thing while it’s still fresh. I’m a scrawny little spitfuck.

Any restrictive diet can lead to weight loss, because you’re not allowed to eat the stuff you wanna eat, so you don’t eat as much.

If there’s nothing special about carbs (and I don’t think there is…) that’s what I’d call “debunked.”

If voting could dethrone the wealthy, they wouldn’t let us do it.

This looks like something you’d find in BioShock, or The Outer Worlds maybe.

Yes you have to consider who you’re talking to but I think a lot of us are ready to talk about patching the hole.

As a radical leftist I’m certainly not against bailing the boat, I just acknowledge that this is a temporary solution. Like, minimum wage needs to be high enough that people can work a reasonable number of hours, afford rent, and still have time to read Marx.

The minimum wage hike is still important, it’s just not the end game. If you’re saying you’re not interested in patching the hole, that sounds like a problem. If you’re saying “this hole won’t be patched for a while, but some day we’ll get there. In the meantime, bail like hell.” then, we are comrades.

Or, when someone says “abolish private property” they’re not talking about your toothbrush.

In this context, private property is the stuff you can use to generate capital. Personal property is your toothbrush, your phone, clothes, furniture, bike, car, house etc.

If you own a second house for rental income, that’s private property. The house you just live in is personal property.

There’s a funny hodgepodge of ideology here… “Guillotine oligarchs” sounds pretty cool, invokes the French Revolution, which was radical left, at the time. But then the unwillingness to abolish private property is either an erroneous conflation of “private” and “personal” or an unwillingness to actually change the system that produces the oligarchs.

It’s like bailing out the boat but when someone says “patch the hole” your like “but we need the hole!”

I can’t trust a car no matter how Japanese it is, but… I watched a lil docuseries on dangerous roads, and it seemed like at least 80% of the vehicles (outside of heavy trucks) were Toyota. I dunno if it’s because they’re the most reliable, or because Toyota just has the market in many of these developing countries, but it was interesting.

I wish people didn’t have such a tendency to think of things as binary, when basically nothing is. It’s super unhelpful.

Download Firefox

Change default search engine

Problem solved 😁

Copilot seemed to be a bit better tuned, but I’ve now confused it by misspelling strawberry. Such fun.

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Anyone who works nights, or an evening job that runs late like a bar or something, is currently used to having the date change in the middle of their “day”. I don’t think it’s really that big of a deal. It would be super weird at first, but kids who grew up with it would find our current system just as bananas as we would find this.