What you have with a restaurant that you visit once or twice is a transaction. What you have with a restaurant that you visit over and over is a relationship.
12 principles for building a feminine economy.
“Be grateful. Remember, wealth has nothing to do with money. Divest your ego of the want to prove itself through struggle, sacrifice, and hard work. Practice radical self-love. Nourish, nurture, savor. Feel how rich you are already.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20190504200952/https://sister.is/12-principles
Everything gets amplified
Induced Demand is science.
In 1975 the rate of traffic deaths there was 20 percent higher than in the U.S., but by the mid-2000s it had fallen to 60 percent lower than in the U.S.
Widening or expanding the number of streets only incentivizes more people to drive.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-to-make-cities-less-car-dependent/
The hidden world of Ants
At the borders of those societies, they fight the most destructive within-species conflicts, in terms of individual fatalities, that the planet has ever known.
there are roughly 200,000 times more ants on our planet than the 100 billion stars in the Milky Way.
individuals from the same species or group can be expected to accept and cooperate with each other even when they have never met before.
Human efforts to control ants are regularly described as a war
As our world turns alien, trying to think like an alien will be a better route to finding the imagination and humility needed to keep up with the changes than looking for ways in which other species are like us.
https://aeon.co/essays/the-strange-and-turbulent-global-world-of-ant-geopolitics
without housing first, people will continue to die
‘illness in our patients isn’t just a biological phenomenon. It’s the manifestation of social inequality in people’s bodies.’
Medical textbooks usually don’t discuss fixing your patient’s housing. They seldom include making sure your patient has enough food and some way to get to a clinic. But textbooks miss what my med students don’t: that people die for lack of these basics.
https://kottke.org/24/04/end-stage-poverty-is-killing-people-in-safety-net-free-america
if the Dutch can, then surely we can too
Pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles can all coexist without conflict, but only if they’re all going the same slow speed. This advances the principles of shared streets.
n simple terms, the Downs-Thomson paradox claims that traffic will increase without limit until the option of public transport (or any other form of transport) becomes faster than the equivalent trip by car. It draws the conclusion that people do not care whether they drive, walk, bike, or take the bus to any location — they just want to get from A to B in the fastest and most convenient way possible.
Bikes > Cars
The average modern person, by one calculation, spends more than 1,600 hours a year to pay for their cars, their insurance, fuel and repairs. We go to jobs partly to pay for the cars, and we need the cars mostly to get to jobs. We spend four of our sixteen waking hours on the road or gathering the resources for the car.
Older people here remember when the bicycle was the most popular method for getting from one village to another, and the roads were safer then with so few cars. It’s possible that the schoolchildren of today will see those days again.
Loneliness is…
loneliness is defined as a discrepancy between the social life one has and the social life one would like to have.
the opposite of loneliness is shared agency.
There is a virtuous circle here: we need agency to work with one another, and we need one another to realize our own agency.
Loneliness is not soporific, like depression; it is depression’s frenetic cousin, goading us to seek some sense of belonging, however ill-conceived or dangerous.
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/whats-behind-americas-loneliness-crisis
a moderator team reminder
We must be vigilant to not act on our own biases and prejudices that create exclusionary thoughts or tendencies of any kind. As much as you may dislike what some people have to say, sometimes the most controversial must be ‘protected’ to ensure that their side remain a presence within our community. If we do not do this, and we begin removing people with whom we disagree, don’t understand, or simply don’t like we will end up in an echo chamber where everyone looks and acts the same way. Boring. Removals happen more through peer pressure and mob mentalities than via broken rules and bans, don’t forget this also.
It’s clear some of us hold strong views one way or the other, which is well and good but as representatives of this community we should set them aside at the door and work to ensure that everyone can have a voice here. Obviously provided that they are not outright trolling or speaking hate speech of any kind, that should be shut down immediately.
Lets all work together to try and ensure we remain as diverse and inclusive as possible, that is a key value that has perhaps not been spoken of before but if you look at the historical composition of the mod team, it was designed with diversity of view and persona in mind.