Captain Howdy

I’ve definitely seen “median trees” and “sidewalk trees” here in Atlanta get removed or replaced after a car hits them. But for sure, large trees can easily shrug off a car crash. Those are just not usually in heavily urban areas like these tanks are meant for.

Not that it is super relevant to this discussion, but last month someone with a chainsaw cut down multiple (I wanna say a dozen or so) trees along a street in Atlanta in the middle of the night. Who TF would do that!!! Sad and pointless…

Who said I wouldn’t want to live in a city with trees? I just said that in some areas, these make more sense than trees.

Jeez, get off the Internet for a while. Obviously you’re looking for someone to argue with. I’m not that guy.

Dumb take. If someone crashes their car into one of these, it can be replaced in a few days. Trees take decades to grow in ideal conditions. Between tall buildings in a city is far from ideal conditions.

Also algae is way more efficient at converting CO2 into O2; I think it’s maybe multiple times more efficient using the same amount of light.

I liked it a lot. It was very reminiscent of the Matt Fraction run on Hawkeye in the mid 2010s, which was incredible.

But yeah, nobody watches most Marvel shows.

Because society simply has mixed standards and very little empathy for men.

Our culture has (thankfully) shifted very far from the idea of the male role as sole protector and provider for the family. While that’s great for women’s independence, society hasn’t changed the expectation that men should still primarily fill that role.

Young men are still expected to grow up to be financially successful, physically fit, willing to sacrifice their lives and happiness for their future families all while being completely emotionally invulnerable about all of it. Society is clear (and correct) that women can do any or all of that if they so choose, but it’s totally also fine if they want to be a “traditional” woman.

We’re at this halfway point where (compared to our traditional/conservative past) young women can choose any path they desire and it’s acceptable and celebrated (which is a great thing). We just need to have that same expectation for young men, and make it clear.

When young men have problems, they very often are told to man-up or change themselves in some way (get a job, go to the gym, buy an expensive car)in order to fix it, when they need to be told it’s okay to be upset, it’s okay to share your feelings, it’s okay to be vulnerable.

We can’t send mixed signals that women are primarily attracted to rich, ripped, emotionally invulnerable soldiers. We’ve got to stop only celebrating men who are billionaires or professional athletes. Boys need to see their nerdy English teachers or average looking artists as role models.

I don’t know how we can get there, but until we do our young men are going to continue this regression into toxic masculinity and far right ideologies.

This ended up way longer than intended, lol.

Regan sucks and Republicans even more so, but it’s not accurate to blame it all on them.

It’s the concept of neoliberalism that took hold in the 70s and has been steadily draining the working class to the point we are now where all power and wealth are concentrated on the few at the top.

Democrats, especially the Democratic presidents since Clinton, are also neoliberals. While they hold much better social views, they are still in on the policies that keep their donors rich and the working class desperate.

Your point is very valid.

But even just one billion is more than a whole family could spend in multiple lifetimes!

The difference between a million and a billion dollars is basically a billion dollars, while at the same time a million dollars is more wealth than a VERY large majority of Americans will ever see.

I watched a documentary on Mussolini this week (“ordinary things” is an incredible YouTube channel) and it’s absolutely terrifying how much Trump has in common with the OG fascist.

Y’all have brainwashed me over the last decade. I’m thankful TBH.

I used to be a staunch ancap libertarian and now I’m a hardcore socialist bordering on communist.

I mean, Trump’s first term also had a lot to do with it. That was a shit show.

It’s crazy how much a grown ass man can change deeply held beliefs when forced to re-evaluate reality.

Please tell me more about this free healthcare

Lots of great classic recs here.

I’m gonna just add two that are relatively recent.

The Last Man On Earth AP Bio

Neither am I. We’ll maybe I’m kinda in the socialist libertarian space a bit.

Huge difference from my ancap past self of 6 years ago.

You’re an idiot or you’re trolling, I honestly can’t tell.

While I can understand the sentiment, this is a REALLY bad and irresponsible thing to do and detrimental to yourself and society as a whole.

Lemmy, please do everything you can to set yourself up for a successful retirement. Even just a small contribution to a retirement account really will make a big difference when you’re older.

God damn this is the most real thing I’ve read in years.