Cars have scaled up with America's self-image, and the need to display it, as well as the mutual mistrust it spawns.
America is not a land of sharing and harmony, but of opportunity, driven by vicious competition; of conflict and waste; of winners and losers; of injury, death, and despair. The cost is borne by the victims of past conflicts, and their heirs.
Is there a way to have one without the other? America as it is would have to die.
Every time someone signs up at these conspiring platforms, that someone makes identity theft look more convincing. In parallel to living being's blog entries, under scrutiny, we can observe other covert actions. Shadowbanning on YouTube, Twitter, etc. Reddit doesn't even hide it.
@mimsical@mastodon.social including TikTok in the list is amazing. Just the idea that NPR is saying that theyd rather be a platform that has bipartisan support to get banned entirely than being on Twitter is incredible.
An enduring mystery with profound consequences for the sad state and sluggish pace of building public infrastructure in America has been resolved:
The reason it costs so much to build new public works projects is that states outsource their management to armies of consultants, rather than hiring and retaining the staff required for governments themselves to do it.
@mimsical I wonder whether one solution would be for the federal government to build up a really big body of design and management experts it can hire out (or loan or grant) to municipal projects. Sort of a mashup of the White House Digital Office, the Army Corps of Engineers, and an agricultural extension office.
@mimsical
In modern, developed nations, cars are entirely optional.
@mimsical @WarnerCrocker
Peachtree City. Gee, I dunno, what do YOU want to name this place.
How about Peachtree? That’s popular around here.
But how do you know which peachtree is which?
It’s decided then. Peachtree it is!
@mimsical A different kind of inflation?
Cars have scaled up with America's self-image, and the need to display it, as well as the mutual mistrust it spawns.
America is not a land of sharing and harmony, but of opportunity, driven by vicious competition; of conflict and waste; of winners and losers; of injury, death, and despair. The cost is borne by the victims of past conflicts, and their heirs.
Is there a way to have one without the other? America as it is would have to die.