NarrativeBear @ NarrativeBear @lemmy.world

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Exactly!! Though I don't understand why so many country's and civilians are opposed to clean decentralised power generation such as solar, wind, thermal.

The fact that you get to generate your own "free" power, and its less likely to fail in times of natural disaster.

Its essentially "freedom" & "sticking it to the man" in one clean package. Its not what the media or propaganda calls "the green agenda".

The fact that it also has applications in better national security is a win win.

Decentralised power generation makes you a american patriot! No a green hippy.

500 to 600 hours divided by 365 would only come out to a 1hr or 2hr a day.

1.5hrs a day x 365days = 547.5hrs

Though a good chunk of that time would be in the physical setup of the lights over a weekend or week.

Most of us commute 2hr or more a day in total. (1hr in and 1hr out of work). Just let that one sink in for a while.

And this is why north american suburban neighbours in how they are designed suck IMO. You need a car to get around, even just to go get milk.

Suburban neighboorhoods should really be designed like communities with mixed density housing, small shops that you can walk to, pedestrians and cyclists trails that connect two points quicker in a shorter distance then by car. Mixed zonning for offices and businesses and nothing over 6 stories.

Designing suburbs like this would allow the density required for a tram line and mixed transportation modes. It would also potentially solve suburban sprawl that then compounds the "car is king" problem.

Everything mentioned above is possible, but requires people to accept a level of change.

Think how Amsterdam as a whole transformed its self starting in the 1970-1980 from a gridlocked "car is king" mentality to pedestrian and livability first approach.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3052699/these-historical-photos-show-how-amsterdam-turned-itself-into-a-bike-riders-paradise

Once a hobby turns into a full time job it looses its meaning. Plus being hired means you are no longer your own boss.

Also, we seem to forget cities always cut budgets for things. It used to be the city may have decorated its streets with lights or setup decorations in public plazas. A city may have also had it's own light show that diminised in quality year after year, now a distant memory due to skyrocketing costs.

There may have been public fireworks show or a puplic skate rink. All those things usually are the first to go in a effort to save cash when city funded.

This man was doing a economic service to his town in terms of tourism on his own dime. The city shot it self in the foot here, then they tried to have their cake and eat it too asking him to pay for pirmits

I enjoy a drink or two each month, but I am not going shed a tear about a corporation not seeing exponential growth/profits year after year.

The whole business model of "sustained growth" is flawed IMO. We need better metrics

I leave you with this video.

Stroads

You are absolutely correct, the USA is not unique in this regard. Its difficult to spot propaganda when living inside the bubble

Its amazing how much propaganda Americans are exposed to on a dailly basis.

Hollywood basically a propaganda machine that always paints the US as a superior power.

News agencies at all levels repeating the same stories from a predefined script.

Once again a step backwards for Ontario.

Turing traffic calmed, safe and inviting Streets that directly serve local residents, business, pedestrians and cyclists, into high volume, high speed Roads that will only add to serve suburban commuters.

This is a battle between local Toronto residents and suburban morning/evening commuters.

Yonge Street and Bloor Street are called Streets, not Yonge Road or Bloor Road.

Streets are "destinations", Roads get you from point A to point B without regard for whats along the way.

Streets make a local community. Roads connect communities over long distances, and in this case will divide a established community in half.

Its called Street Parking, not Road Parking. Have you ever seen someone park on a high speed road (or strode) to run into a shop or backery?

If the plan would be turn Toronto Streets into Roads then I suppose Street parking would be completely removed with the addition of the second lane?

Its like the a majority (or at least the ones in power) are turning into Nazis.

Guess that's why the camps are being built to help people in the population to concentrate, in Texas as a example.

This is the answer, bbc is the solution.

To get less "tech inclined" people to use the bbc feature is another story.

Sending a email to the whole office from HR, bbc all recipients. Then recipients can only reply to HR, and not 600 plus staff members, into a email chain that last all day asking people to stop replying all, while replying all at the same time.

I can't imagin a neighbouring country accepting a large influx of people quickly or willingly. So Texas may find themselves "looking after" the people they send here for a long time.

I may be wrong on the process, but in Germany i believe it started with a community or neighbourhood being walled off. Think of a suburb or maybe a few large city blocks. People had to come and go through checkpoints and some were not allowed to leave.

After which these walled communities became slums or ghettos. Then the Nazis began to ship peoples from these walled communities out to Poland and neighbouring countries (that they invaded) into concentration camps.

History always repeats itself unfortunately.

I don't think you could have said this any better. Thank you.

If you were to see a article that said Texas is offering land to build a affordable housing neighbourhood, people would probably loose their shit in the USA.

Trouble is the plan is to send full families to these camps. These individuals will be waiting here a long time without the agility to freely leave.

Unless they plan to split women, men, and children apart. That means these camps will need to be built like walled neighbourhoods with schools for the kids while they wait. Housing with AC and heating, electricity, plumbing, fire protection. Streets to get around inside the complex, stores or shops.

Maybe a yellow star, it would be bright and big and very visible. You could wear it on your sleeve maybe?

And I suppose when chimney stacks start being built its just to keep everyone warm?

When you gather a large population of individuals with the intention to deport them you need a host countrys willingness to except a influx of individuals. This may be a tricky and long bureaucratic process.

This means people could be sitting in these walled "camps" for a very long time, with no ability to freely leave. There will more then likely be full families in these camps, which then over time can turn into slums or ghettos.

Alternatively you could just invade the neighbouring country and ship them all there.

Strange that Texas, which wants a large population of people deported, would also be the first to choose to "open it's doors" and say "bring them all here"

They offer land freely in their backyard to build what essentially could turn into the equivalent of a slum or ghetto.

So, you're asking what the thread count is?

You are probably right here in how news agencies and other competing sites would/might phrase it if BlueSky fails.

Though what bugs me and logically does not make sense (to me) is saying federation is what caused or could cause a site or service to fail.

Its like saying my new shinny website failed because of the Internet, the Internet must then be the problem.