• Allemaniac@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    we got stopped by police when we tried to walk from the Stratosphere Hotel in LV to an outlet outside the city (walk time approx. 30 minutes). They asked us if we needed assistance getting there, were asked why we didn’t order a taxi and were genuinelly baffled by our desire to walk lmao

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    4 days ago

    be glad you still have sidewalks, I have seen a lot of US cities that have just done away with making those.

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        The first time i went to Texas to visit SO’s family, I got bored once at a gathering so i decided to go for a walk. I walked one block and the side walk ended. Ok no problem so i turned and walked another block and the side wall ended again. I realized after i walked in a circle that the side walk only existed for the block i was in. There was no sidewalk in any of the adjacent blocks. I was flabbergasted.

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        I live in a relatively centrist-ish large suburb in North Alabama, about 65k people. There aren’t any stretches of sidewalk going for than a couple hundred feet, maximum. Outside of those scarce stretches, you get to walk on the wet grass with the dead armadilloes, a few feet away from certain death at the hands of Billy Bob’s Ford F150.

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      3 days ago

      They both involve being locked in a tiny metal box, so it fits.

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      It’s got the same root as the English word “incarcerated”, from latin carcer - prison. Neat!

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    4 days ago

    Naomi Klein refers to the right co-opting left phases (triggered, othered, fake news, etc) as “pipiking.” I think doing the reverse is hilarious, but also imagine a future where it results in an Idiocracy-like dialect 💀

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      Redpilled is also stolen from the left. In the Matrix, the red pill is a metaphor for estrogen. Anyway, I’ve taken the orange pill.

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      Idiocracy is a shit movie, language evolves, and dialects are not indicative of intelligence, which is another reason why Idiocracy is a shit movie.

      edit: oh no i angered the rabid fans of Liberal Eugenics: The Movie again

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        Yeah, we can basically guarantee any future dialect will sound stupid to modern English speakers, as complicated and rare sentence structures will be dropped and new ones will be imported from other languages, na mean

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    3 days ago

    Why build a city up and condensed when you can just spread it over 100 miles, add 1 rail line, and then declare yourself a great transportation hub?

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      You’ll also notice, in that Solo Stove abomination of a state, a distinct lack of cyclists. Because for huge chunks of the year, it’s way, way too hot outside to walk or ride a bike the incredible distances necessary to go anywhere.

      Source: I grew up in that molten pile of racism.

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        Bad drivers and the bike lanes are very intermittent too. The only road I regularly bike on with a bike lane (I try for smaller roads which aren’t deemed busy enough for a bike lane) usually has enough cars parked in the bike lane to make it useless. The bigger bike laned roads I ride on the sidewalk.

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          in Germany you get fined for using the side walk with your bike, if there are dedicated bike lanes. But than again we have real repercussions for unlawful driving and people could even lose their license if they endanger cyclists like that

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    Pheonix bus routes were ok last time I was there, but I had to buy the bus pass at a store and not on the bus.

    Also, pretty sure they’re all going to die in the next two decades as a result of the horrible droughts and power grid failures and a lot of them will deserve it for voting Trump.