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yeah, I lie about my age
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re the 1,000x
if you read the comments in the thread you posted, several people point out this is just ludicrouis
so I"m not quite sure what I should have said to you when you post something that is absurd
seriously, what am I to say ?
@SteveKLord
I was born in 1953 and my image of people doing labor like this , based on how we perceived people in low income countries, is of a person whose body was worn out by age 30
to a large extent progress is humans not having to do heavy manual labor
sheesh
I distrust toots that assert something without providing a link
I was lucky and found a link to the 31K figure; sounds partially like it does NOT apply to all homeless people, just some small percentage, so probably a bullshit number
https://homelessvoice.org/the-cost-to-criminalize-homelessness/
If YIMBYs are in favor of turning parks into asphalt, then YIMBYs are bad
but terms and conditions apply; what I said is certainly true for NYC or Chicago, maybe not Bloomington
but in general the willingness of YIMBYs to pave over grass is IMO really bad IMO
yeah, I agree VOTE and also, we need candidates contesting all seats, but really shouldn't pour money into things that look like loosers
I guess that is a self fufilling prophecy ? and also it is hard to tell in advance who will win and loose ?
but in 2018/2020 we wasted several hundred million dollars on senate races (in addittion to Beto/AM, Maine, SC and some others) so .
I dunno what to do
Ok, now what do we do ?
I would think:
- contact your state and local elected official to try to make sure that protections for women are as strong as possible
- if your state is having an referendum on the 2024 ballot, well, you should be helping, right ?
- if you can, send money to elect and re elect dem, from Biden/Congress down to local level (sheriffs - huge !!)
while somehow, dunno how, avoiding money pits like Beto and Amy McGrath
It is quite possible that my memory is from the slashdot era of comments like
"I put Linux on my laptop and then the wireless didn't work and it took me 3 hours on the help forum . ."
@BertramDitore @Hegar
Running water and indoor plumbing was relatively common in the ancient world.
really ?
In 1920, only *** 1% of US homes** had indoor plumbing
https://www.aceee.org/files/proceedings/2004/data/papers/SS04_Panel1_Paper17.pdf