Gradually_Adjusting

joined 1 year ago
[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 2 points 34 minutes ago

...sounds like a DraStic solution

I'm white and even as a kid I felt unsafe around cops. As early as maybe 13 I'd reached this conclusion on my own.

I'm not sure what took everyone else the extra few decades.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago

An "avalanche" of... Videos with 6 second segments of weird B roll. Okay scary headline, I see you.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 29 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

That last line needs to be in all caps at the top. Never call the cops on Nazis, it'll just mean more Nazis putting the boot in.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Fun is an inefficient way to extract value from consumers.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

I did. Is it impolitic to have preferences now?

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

I didn't fail to qualify the statement; we don't disagree on the important part.

All good here 👍💥

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Worse. He actually found a way to make cuckoldry more distasteful to me, which is something of a feat.

A tech company said "how do we turn everybody's phone into the Truman show?"

I wasn't trying to downplay. If it can be wielded thoughtfully at scale, it could be life changing for literally millions.

The risk is that billionaires own these models, and far too often we see their interests aligned with fascism. If they choose to place a motive in this box, they now know it will have a quantifiable effect.

I like the term neofeudalism.

 

Living in a walkable city means my weekly shop is a few hours of walking or biking instead of being stuck in traffic, and I'm only mildly tired afterwards since I use a bike with pretty large pannier bags. Since I have no car related costs I can afford more fresh food, a healthier diet, and I can afford to be more choosy about the ethics of what I buy. There's a twice weekly farmers market about a ten minute walk away, and quiet walks through parks to get to the shops. Living somewhere with car centric infrastructure, as I used to, this lifestyle was far less feasible.

Have your experiences been different with moving to walkable/bikeable cities? Any questions or points to be made? I'm not very up on the theory side of city planning, but my experiences line up with the whole "fuck cars" thing.

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