If you really get under their skin they can hold a grudge for a very long time.
It’s protection money, she says, the price of knowing you will not be attacked from the sky.
Remove polluting vehicles and kids get more active
Walking and biking and scootering to school is better for the child, better for the family, and better for the environment.
Physical activity in general is vital for preventing obesity.
https://grist.org/cities/london-fining-polluting-cars-more-active-kids/
about Prince
it was a heavy pill to swallow when someone that you put on a pedestal is normal.
He’s a genius, he’s majestical, he’s sexual, he’s flawed, he’s trash, he’s divine, he’s all those things.
https://kottke.org/24/09/the-prince-documentary-you-might-never-see
The benefits of being a restaurant regular
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.