I think the capitalization is less baffling if you've ever received an email from Trump inviting you for an exclusive trip to Mar-a-Lago, or offering you one of his exclusive gold watches. I have no idea how they got my email, but they were sending them so frequently I actually blocked them.
I don't love the disregard for plant life just because they lack the central nervous system of animals, but this isn't an argument in favor of eating animals. If you want to argue it's better for us to die than to live via harm, that's one thing, but if you accept we have the right to live at the expense of other life forms then the goal of many becomes to minimize suffering.
While plants do have sensory experiences which elicit behaviors, they don't experience the world in a personal way; they're like a robot or generative AI. When a dog suffers, it has a concept of self and an understanding of what is happening to it, and it will carry memories of the experience which negatively influence its quality of life.
There's a YouTube video of a guy who I guess he and his wife did life blogs or something (I didn't watch their content, so I don't really know). He's got his recording going about the start of his day, talking about how she's sleeping in again, and then he goes to wake her, but she's fucking dead. It's like the most human thing I've ever seen on film, and I really appreciate that he posted it, even though I don't fully understand why I feel that way. It just feels important to me.
Yes, hostile architecture does sound exactly like the "solution" they'd go for. I hope I didn't imply the wrong thing; I think fences in conjunction with adequate crossings is the answer.
Thinking more about it, I don't think we actually have jaywalking laws here, or at least they aren't enforced in town. I should hope there's some kind of rules about being a hazard in busy traffic, but everyone walks in the street in town when cars and bikes aren't coming, right in front of police even, and I think that's very reasonable. Many streets are only open to buses, taxis, and delivery vehicles, so it's quiet and safe.
But if the crosswalks are unreasonably far apart then pedestrians are being encouraged by the state to engage in unsafe behavior. As I said, they could erect a small fence to prevent unsafe crossings. This is a failure of the state to serve its people.
I'm not sure how to feel about the driver not being charged, but one should drive with the expectation that unforeseen hazards will pop up at any moment, especially children. I would not be shocked to learn that he was driving one of those enormous American cars that makes it impossible to see short adults, another failure of the state. Or that the speed limit was too high. These things would make me feel the fault is more on the state than on the driver. (But it definitely isn't on the parents.)
As for your dog, just keep it on a lead. It's the safest thing for everyone if all dogs are secured properly while going about town.
e: Also his age. How good is the vision and reaction time of this 76-year-old man? How often are they re-testing drivers?
I'm having trouble visualizing this. Does this mean that at a walking speed of 3km/h it would take ten entire minutes to get to a cross walk? Because that's insane.
In Sweden we have crosswalks very regularly, usually like a couple minutes of walking at most. For bus stops farther between intersections there are markers indicating that people will cross, even without a normal crossing marker. For areas which can't have a crossing (you may need to walk around a ways to get under or over four lanes) they put up barriers to prevent walking across.
I don't mean to piss in the soup of anyone who just enjoys the topic, but I do want to question the idea that it's important to reflect on the potential for nuclear catastrophe. I think nuclear weapons are here whether we like them or not, and that the average person worrying about nuclear war is as unnecessary and self-destructive as worrying about solar flares or plane crashes. Is that incorrect? Is it possible to eradicate all nuclear weapons? Am I capable of influencing whether or not nukes exist? How might one go about disarming powers which do not want to be disarmed? How do we prevent future creation of nuclear bombs or the keeping of existing ones in secret?
My inability to just ask who the picture is of strikes again.
The image you've linked to appears to be a digitally generated portrait of a quokka, a small marsupial native to Western Australia. This particular image is featured on Pikwizard, a stock photo platform, where it's described as an "adorable AI-generated quokka portrait on black background."
Quokkas (Setonix brachyurus) are known for their friendly appearance and are often referred to as the "world's happiest animal." They are primarily found on Rottnest Island, near Perth, Australia.
Since the image is AI-generated, it doesn't depict a specific, real-life quokka but rather a lifelike digital representation intended to capture the animal's characteristic charm.
Maybe there's something I don't understand (I don't drink coffee at all), but coffee is antimicrobial and doesn't need to be kept out of the food safety danger zone. I should think it would take an extremely long time to grow pathogens.
I think the vast majority of people already have this value system. The problem is the minority who hoard gold and the governmental systems which enable them.
I think it's fine as an option for people with serious conditions beyond their control, like pedophilia, provided that the scientific community agrees it's a helpful treatment option. Other than that, I don't see how it could be helpful.
No, but I did get an Xbox that only needed a power cable.