The ones in the movies exist irl. In the same way youve never seen the tube ones, I’ve never seen them in a pouch until now

Mr.Puss is strugglin’

Richard Nixon advocated for UBI but that doesn’t negate every horrible thing he did. What’s the point of saying Hitler said reasonable things other than thinly veiled fascist apologia?

Do whipits to save the planet! If it’s in your lungs it isn’t in the atmosphere

It’s almost like I was attempting to address that contradiction with my comment or something.

Signed, an anarcho-communist

Authoritarians shouldn’t hold a monopoly on the communist label. Anarchism is much more in line with communism imo. Seeing as both anarchic and communist societies would both be stateless, moneyless, and classles

You may be happy to know he and David Wengrow wrote The Dawn of Everything. It was published posthumously but his fingerprints are all over it. Great book to boot! Pirate Enlightenment was also published posthumously. Haven’t had a chance to read it but I think it’s safe to assume it’s great too.

Like you wouldn’t believe! Im jealous of her ability to pass out in the most uncomfortable positions

Here she is in all of her glory

Heh. Loads

For sure, I have a regular bike I ride for recreation when I have the time and I’m very familiar with the city. My average shift has me driving between 100-300 miles a day, usually without leaving my county. I’ve mapped out bike paths using Google and just kind of looking at adjacent roads and whathaveyou. Problem is for ~8 of my 10 mile commute would be following an 8 lane road that doesn’t have any viable alternatives near it. It’s lined by shopping plazas, with disjointed, disconnected housing subdivisions behind those. No bikepaths to speak of. After that it would be half a mile of mixed development side streets, crossing a 10 lane intersection, small stretch of residential street, crossing a 6 lane road, and then finally into the business park my job is located. A business park with a 40 mph speed limit, down winding roads with no bikepaths and sidewalks that like to end abruptly and switch sides of the road.

My city itself is damn near hostile to pedestrians and the area I live in is the poster child for awful design.

Shopping is another thing entirely that is just luck on my part. I’m a short walk to the shopping “hub” for my area

No doubt about that. It’s less a city and more a bunch of dense suburbs piled on top of each other. Urban sprawl is a huge problem here, it is starting to fill in but it’ll probably be a good 10-20 years before anything regarding decent city design starts to manifest here. I just want to free up our one car for my wife haha. She can’t find good work because I’ve been stuck taking the car most days and my schedule isn’t very conducive to sharing the car most of the time

I’m usually one to trust snopes but they’re full of shit

Anyone got any experience commuting 10-15 miles one way on an ebike in a car dependent city? I’d love to make the plunge but.my city in particular has a proud tradition of maintaining one of the highest rates of pedestrian deaths in the state. Id have to cross multiple 4-8 lane roads during rush hour in order to get to work so becoming road pizza is a very real concern

The problem with corporate charities is they don’t allocate the majority of the funds to their stated cause. More often than not that money is funneled into a myriad of other organizations controlled by the corporation/groups of corporations. Large non profits aren’t very transparent and there are a lot of tricks they can use to divert funds away from their stated cause.

There’s also the whole “paternalism” thing for lack of a better word. They use what’s left of the money for flashy, headline grabbing things that may not be beneficial or even wanted by the people they’re supposed to be helping. They tell those that need help how they need to be helped instead of asking them what they need. Clothes donations to various African countries come to mind. It looks good in articles when we ship all of our worn out novelty T-shirts to a bunch of poor people. But in the areas they go, it puts local manufacturers out of business, and oftentimes a lot of the clothes get thrown out. So sure, those people have “clothes” but their local economy is worse off. Had you asked the people of these counties how they would liked to be helped, they’d probably ask for investment in the local textile industry over getting a boatload of our leftovers.

I mean, the concept of corporate charities is sort of fucked to begin with. It’s a PR front for terrible companies. Nestle does charity work in Africa. A continent that they literally killed babies in back in the 70s. In counties that they are currently stealing their water from, leaving many of the citizens in said country without clean or safe drinking water. But they threw $50 at a farmer somewhere on the continent so help is help right? It’s just frustrating that they can get away with this shit

Same here! Been reading/listening to audiobooks since I left reddit. Found any new favorites?

Obligatory Joel Haver skit

You’re thinking of a chillum

They do but they can be hard to find and also aren’t nearly as good as lucky’s. Not trying to shill but damn are they cozy

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