Uranium3006

Christian is a dirty word and it’s Christian’s fault

Can relate, am screwed

Language education evolved from Greek and Latin lessons designed to get you I to college which required them because in the rennesance reading classical texts was important and the ability to was essential and it persisted for hundreds of years. Because of this speaking wasn’t a part if the pedagogy and is kinda tacked on in modern language ed

Or both

Congress is where stuff actually gets done.

Since when?

In the US there are videos of people losing limbs in train accidents begging to not have the ambulance called because it’s too expensive - and that’s before you even get to the hospital. Better hope they take you to one your insurance covers or they might not cover the ER visit

We need to do way more than just voting to defeat fascism

fuck off.

abolish ICE

This seems like a dumb tiktok trend or some shit.

a lot of these articles are trash for this reason. most of it shouldn’t be posted tbh

banning non ZEV cars and trucks, nationalizing, improving, and electrifying the rail network, and shifting all the highway widening money to protected bike lanes and public transit would do a lot and none of it is individual scale

at this point I think the biggest single CO2 source from me is my electricity usage, and I have no direct control over my electricity source. it’s not like I can call up the utility company and tell them to only send solar, wind, and nuclear power to my house.

absolutely not, that’s how you get mass murder of poor people

washington has 7.8 million people and consumed 750,773 megawatt hours in 2022 https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/washington/

agreed

with any luck this will destroy them and funnel disgruntled users our way, where the servers are too numerous to ever fully take down and many aren’t even US based anyways

we shouldn’t allow the manufacturers to have nay control over how we use the things they sell us. it’s a $3500 borked headset.

neighborhood streets should be narrowed to no more than 20 ft, maybe even less, and the rest of the land annexed into adjacent properties

we need a distinction between streets in roads, culturally, legally and design-wise. a road is for cars to go fast, a street is for residential/business life. people should intuitively know which they’re on by looking at it and act accordingly

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/10/30/the-stroad like this, but you can also get all old urbanist about it and make your streets all Really Narrow

make it legal for people to put holloween decorations in the street (with the understanding if you do the fire truck/ambulance is allowed to run them over if need be)