Plenty of people in Oulu, Finland bike literally all year round. Fully 12% of all trips in winter are made by bike.
Their secret? Just as the roads are plowed, so are the bike paths. If we didn't plow and salt the roads up north, cars would also seem ridiculously impractical compared to a snowmobile or cross country skis.
Oulu invests in making winter biking safe and practical, while American cities of comparable size and climate like Syracuse, NY don't. The results are predictable.
Pre-industrial technologies will only get us pre-industrial amounts of meat, which has to be split between the current population.
There's a lot of people who probably won't be very happy with only being able to afford meat once or twice a week. That seems like a surefire way to trigger a backlash.
(3rd party voting, voting for independents, refuse to participate and vocally deride the whole process and so on)
What exactly do these acheive? How do these improve things? Why would this cause literally anything to be fixed? Why wouldn't this just entrench the current system?
Trumpism didn't take over the Republican Party by the alt-right voting third party or staying home. It took over by the alt-right showing up in droves at primary season to drag the Republican Party kicking and screaming in their preferred direction. Look at what Republican senators said about Trump just before and just after the primary.
AOC didn't get into congress by running third party. She did it by successfully primarying a more centrist incumbent.
It seems to me that to win, you need to do one of two things:
Win under the current rules. Show up at primaries to get progressives on the ticket, then show up and win.
Change the rules. Get your local and state governments to switch to using halfway- decent voting systems like instant runoff, or good ones like 3-2-1 or STAR. Get enough bottom-up movement on that to eventually change the way the president is elected.
Keep in mind, the president is only so powerful. President Sanders would still be limited by whatever he could get past Manchin.
The problem is that it isn't a matter of cars vs busses. It's a matter of urban design in general.
Public transit gets better as density goes up. A bus that drops you off at a giant-ass Walmart parking lot with nothing else but two drivethroughs in walking distance isn't very useful. A bus that drops you off in a neighborhood with 4 dozen shops, a dozen restaurants, 4 bars and 3 coffee shops within a 5 minute walk is way more useful.
By contrast, density makes driving worse. Density means more people are driving the same way you want to go. More people in cars means more traffic on the road with you. Designing for cars pushes you to low density sprawl.
Just building public transit isn't the solution. Just building public transit in a typical American suburban sprawl makes something about as compelling as a Ford F150 in Vatican City.
You have to fix urban design - stop building stroads and start building streetcar suburbs again.
saying "Yeah but you have to vote Biden because otherwise you get Trump".
This is true, though.
The way the US elects presidents is terrible. It's basically certifiably insane.
There's an election in each state. The winner of that statewide election gets all the electoral college votes for that state. If no candidate gets an absolute majority in the electoral college, then it goes to the House of Representatives. However, each state delegation gets one vote.
Functionally, that means that if the election goes to the House, the Republican wins.
Third parties have never done well in the US because the system structurally disadvantages them. This is mostly because the US was the first modern democracy, and social choice theory was in its infancy when the constitution was written.
If you want to vote Biden out in favor of someone more progressive, the only chance of that is to primary him.
Nope. The idea in no till is just adding stuff to the top and letting worms and roots handle the tilling.
I've had good luck just dumping a foot or two of finished compost on the ground and growing in it.
Another solid no-till approach is sheet mulching. You put down a layer of cardboard (to kill weeds), then layers of carbon and nitrogen like straw and kitchen scraps. Wait a few months, then plant. So you could do that in the late summer or fall to prepare a site for spring planting.
A lot of these things depend on location, though. Something that works great in Pennsylvania might not work as well in Utah.
To translate that into something sensible, the RDA in the US is 50 mg/kg = 110.25 mg/lb. 15% of that is 16.5 mg/lb. So 1653 mg per 100 lbs of bodyweight.
A can of diet coke is about 200 mg of aspartame. So that's a bit over 8 cans of coke per 100 lbs of body weight. Or 1.5 2-liter bottles per 100 lbs.
Fuck the realestate industry period. It shouldn't be commodified to the point where there are more empty houses up for rent, airbnb, or sitting empty as "investments" than there are homeless.
Yes, there's more apartments sitting empty for a month or two than there are homeless people.
There are fewer apartments for rent sitting empty for a year or more than there are homeless people.
How exactly are you proposing that we fix the homelessness crisis with apartments sitting empty for a month?
Owner-occupied housing is great. The only person who brought it up before this was me, when I pointed out that some vacant homes are actually owner-occupied.
The goal should be to have affordable housing and low homeless rates.
Why should my goal be for each apartment to be moved into the day the previous occupant moves out? What's the point?
Do you think those houses would've gotten so run down if there was soneone living in them to see the need and do maintenance?
I don't think you understand that category of vacancies. Vacancies under repair isn't "long term vacant buildings that needs repairs to become livable again", its "any building currently being repaired or renovated that doesn't have people actively living in it".
My sister's house, for example, was vacant for a couple months when she renovated her kitchen. It was owner- occupied just before the renovation and just after, but it was vacant during the renovation because she temporarily moved in with my parents.
After natural disasters, there's often a lot of housing that's vacant under repair.
I used to do it more back in college where I'd ssh into the schools computers to work on assignments. It's still sometimes useful if you're in the console and want to edit something quickly.
However, there's e.g. macvim and gvim which are literally just vim in a gui; they give you menus and the ability to drag panes and click to move your cursor. With a decent LSP setup they can actually be pretty nice.
And most other decent editors have vim emulation of various quality levels. Emacs is a bit buggy, but it's really useful if you want to code in agda or clojure. And VS Code has fairly decent vim emulation.
Even not being a vim wizard, editing code without vim keybindings feels... slow.
Yeah, I could grab the mouse, highlight everything between the arguments to a function and hit delete. Or I could just go to the open paren and just hit d%. I could grab the mouse, highlight the line and hit delete, or I could literally just type dd.
And trying to edit things in nano is positively masochistic.
as the THUGS we have inside our Country who, with their Open Borders, ... Woke Military, Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Iran, ... and so much more, are looking to destroy our once great USA.
That's not really anti-Israel.
Russia/Ukraine followed by Israel/Iran looks like it's suggesting Israel is in a proxy war with Iran. But the message there is about as clear as mud. I think he's saying we should be staying out of both Russia's war with Ukraine and Gaza? Maybe?
Plenty of people in Oulu, Finland bike literally all year round. Fully 12% of all trips in winter are made by bike.
Their secret? Just as the roads are plowed, so are the bike paths. If we didn't plow and salt the roads up north, cars would also seem ridiculously impractical compared to a snowmobile or cross country skis.
Oulu invests in making winter biking safe and practical, while American cities of comparable size and climate like Syracuse, NY don't. The results are predictable.