The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6hr ago
I don't think this is likely. There's definitely agitating for it, but having those sorts of riots depends on the authorities tolerating them, and if it happens Trump is going to invoke the Insurrection Act and send in the National Guard before the relevant Federal judge even wakes up.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6hr ago
You can't have a wrong opinion, that's not how it works. You can only be wrong about facts like 'X is richer than Y', not opinions like 'I don't like X'.
Sorry, once you're using value judgements like "backwards" and supporting them with said opinions, you've already given up that position.
Going on a boat did not create a new people.
It's selection. Certainly the European urge to bureaucratize exists in the US. But it's a lot weaker here because those who came here tended to have less urge to bureaucratize than those who remained in Europe.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6hr ago
If you want to accept just what Bezos provides you, that's fine, but they're not full-sized grocery stores.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7hr ago
“I will flee like a rat to the suburbs and abandon the civilization my forefathers built because getting rid of homeless psychos and dealing with violent crime seems like too much work”
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My forefathers never lived in those cities. Mostly they lived in rural areas and small towns. Well, some lived in Jersey City for a time, but you'd have a hard time finding its golden age to point to; it was a dump when they lived there too.
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Even if I had a solution to homeless psychos and violent crime, I do not have the power to implement it. I am neither omniscient (to come up with the solution) nor omnipotent and neither is not a valid source of shame.
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There are a lot of people with power who support the homeless psychos and violent criminals.
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Number 2 is true of "the American right" in general. "Red Tribe" / "Blue Tribe" derives from the old rural/urban split. And the left, largely through it's association with minority groups, has pretty much pushed the republicans out of positions of power in the major cities. Every once in a while New York City will elect an authoritarian Republican to sweep away some of the excesses, but they always return to form (and the city council and all other structures remain solidly Democratic). Other cities don't even do that.
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Even if none of this was true and the cities didn't have crime and bums, they still have far too many people in far too little area. There will always be conflicts over the limited resources, and they will always be settled by the politically powerful in favor of their clients. So maybe instead of Ramón and Dante's gangs monopolizing the parks by pure menace and police indifference, it ends up being Ralph and Buffy and their friends who somehow manage to get a city permit for its exclusive use every weekend and all the holidays.
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Rats, who thrive on the discards of human society, are known to prefer urban areas to suburbs.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7hr ago
I'm in the suburbs and I can get my groceries delivered also, though the charge is $15. Density doesn't make delivery viable; it reduces the area in which delivery is viable. When I can order shit from China for $11 (even after everything Trump has done) you know you don't need a dense city to do delivery. Though I admit it wouldn't be viable to do perishables that way.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8hr ago
She's been around forever, but was still having major exhibitions last year. Her connection to woke/leftism is mostly through her association with Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
17hr ago
Yes, I'm sure there are techniques for reducing noise between dwellings, or even between dwellings and commercial units.
Chance of them being used and/or holding up are pretty low, except in luxury buildings (and sometimes not even then). And I wouldn't trust anything but concrete for between-floors. Nothing converts a person to single-family detached living like having someone noisy living above them -- there's been shootings over failure to install carpeting.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
17hr ago
Americans don't seem to believe this today but there are many outsiders who visit America and really dislike the country, not out of jealousy or poverty but genuine dislike for how society works.
Of course there are. They're just wrong.
Europe is stagnating. Why is this? In large part its due to US influence, US NGOs, US foreign policy.
No, Europe has agency of its own. Its stagnation is of its own device. Unless the Law of Jante was a CIA invention and the EU a State Department plot... but really, not even then, as the EU is just an expression of the Europeans' native urge to bury everything in layers of bureaucracy.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
17hr ago
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
If you asked me to list the top 1000 people who might be the Antichrist...
Larry Ellison is at least 4 of the top 10, right?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
Can’t imagine a woke HR overlady doing that.
Yeah, her dungeon would be extremely inauthentic.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
19hr ago
Economically and technologically advanced, socially backwards.
That's what the Europeans say as they stagnate in all ways. They can keep telling themselves that. Personally I enjoy watching people find out the opposite, as they realize the joys of having a place where they don't have to deal with their neighbor's noise, or worry about annoying their neighbors with their own. Of being able to get from one place to another without worrying about timetables, or transfers, or weather, or how to carry stuff with them. Of a grocery store that has everything they need for a week or more in one trip. Or even of natural areas larger than a square block and not filled to the brim with people.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
22hr ago
Pre-car urban design is indeed quite different from post-car urban design. The US had walkable "streetcar suburbs" in the early 20th century. Most middle class and above people left them with great haste once car based suburbs were invented and they degenerated into slums.
My area has several streetcar suburbs; some still aren't slums and they others didn't become slums until the civil riots riots. The ones which are slums the ones which are still "walkable", though buses have replaced the streetcars. You have your main street with all the businesses you might need -- your check-cashing place, your bodega, even a bakery and a nail salon. But of course most people who would call themselves YIMBYs don't want to live there.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
23hr ago
No, because transit by nature sucks.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
23hr ago
If you think there isn't weird satanic shit over on the woke side, you don't know Marina Abramaovic.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Building more transit is doable. Making transit good is not.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The lawful system is supposed to be able to handle all the situations; after all, by definition, going outside it is forbidden. If it can't handle many common situations (and indeed getting a licensed contractor to do a small job is often simply not possible or feasible), it's broken, regardless of "we live in a society" defenses like "licenses exist for a reason".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Yes, if you get everyone to do everything they want and need to do within their little neighborhood, you can do that. Places like that in the US either tend to be planned retirement villages, or places which are extremely not-nice to live.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
building more places to live so they're cheaper
Phrasing things in positive terms doesn't somehow make them positive. You could frame the building of Chicago's Cabrini-Green projects the same way.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
And that's why people hire general laborers or do it themselves. If you have to hire an electrician, a plumber, a roofer, and a drywall contractor to put in a simple bathroom fan, it's going to cost you thousands.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
My standard encourages nitpicking, yes, but it's often not useless. Your standard encourages putting one over on people by allowing the use of implicit assumptions while getting the benefit of the statement without the qualification.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The problem of "towering luxury apartments" can't be fixed by building more. Nor can the problem of filling places with people. Nor can parking; transit is so bad that the only way to get people to take it is to make driving worse, and the only way to do that is to allow driving infrastructure to become highly oversubscribed.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The whole experience in Iraq (reasonably), makes people suspicious of Americas ability to influence other countries in a positive way
Even Iraq is probably better off than it was under Saddam. Certainly better off than it would have been under his sons. Afghanistan not so much.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
At which point a lot of them will learn about union dues, and another bunch will learn that even Starbucks customers have limits on how much they'll pay for a latte.
Because that someone will just get killed and replaced with someone else who values killing Jews over everything else.
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