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[-] pezhore@infosec.pub 47 points 4 weeks ago

This is why I've stopped listening to 99% Invisible.

"Oh, cool that's what the bumps in the sidewalk/curb are for - blind accessibility stuff. Wait, why did it take that fucking long to actually make those a reality and why isn't it everywhere?"

Even their more lighthearted ones tend to dive into some orphan grinding machine territory.

[-] ConsumptionOne@sopuli.xyz 36 points 3 weeks ago

This is me but with anti-car urbanism. Ever since I discovered Not Just Bikes, my feed has more and more videos showing how much better life can be if we shut off car brain and build for medium density with mixed use zoning and multi-mode infrastructure.

[-] dick_fineman@discuss.online 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's healthier for damn sure. But it only works if you can stand being around people. If you need space from people...you know, so they don't annoy you to the point of violence...then you need to live somewhere more remote, which necessitates driving. I'd love to walk a block, catch a bus, then walk a block to my destination if I didn't mean dealing with uncensored raw-humanity shoving its crotch into my face as I awkwardly pretend to be hyper-focused on my phone.

[-] ConsumptionOne@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 weeks ago

Sure, no shade on rural living for those who need the space. I'm more opposed the the forced ruralization of suburbia. This video popped up in my feed and shows how much better medium-density suburban living could be in many places.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

The bottom line rebuttal to all the variants of the "but whatabout people who want to live in single-family houses" arguments is real simple: if it were truly that important to them, then they would be willing to pay fair-market rates for it. Which means artificially inflating the supply (thus subsidizing the price) via restrictive zoning laws wouldn't be necessary.

People who think they are entitled to live in single-family houses to the point that they want the law to forcibly impose that lifestyle on vast swathes of the population are just selfish takers who want society to subsidize them.

[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

When I told one of my friends the idea of owning a full family home was selfish, they were shocked until I put into the perspective of how many people can fit in a city and save on transportation cost for materials and work across the board. It was a nice relief for them to realize the point.

I think the real truth of it is that these people conveniently default to whatever gets them away from other people because people are always telling them how wrong they are for acting how they do. They want no consequences for hating with prejudice.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I make this point at every opportunity:

The "normal" working-class single-family neighborhoods in my city are zoned R4, with a 9000 sq.ft. minimum lot size. The rich neighborhoods are zoned R1, with a 2 acre minimum lot size. That means every R1 lot could fit at least nine R4 homes on it. Why do we have ridiculous shitty traffic on the freeway going past that rich neighborhood? Because every single one of those mansions physically displaced eight other households out into the suburbs, who could have otherwise lived there if the law wasn't being (ab)used to subsidize the rich.

And that's just the difference between two kinds of single-family, let alone rezoning to allow the real level of density the market demands! If my city were zoned appropriately, the entire metro area population could be housed within the ring road.

Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying it's "selfish" or wrong to want to live in a single-family home... just that you only deserve one if and only if you're actually willing to pay for it. That means being willing to outbid multifamily developers who would build the lot out to its highest and best use, not hiding behind zoning to protect you from the free market.

(I'm also not saying it isn't selfish or wrong; I just try to stick to the geometric argument to deprive the person I'm debating of an excuse to turn it into an emotional debate.)

[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

This is new information to me. In a hypothetical scenario, would it be realistic for every person to have room for a home big enough for a family, and still have plenty of room for agriculture, industry, and all the services for those homes, plus any entertainment venues, assuming you don’t account for existing infrastructure (or even if you do)? I’d probably just be sad to learn the real numbers.

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[-] Star 20 points 4 weeks ago

Yup! This is why we need to take money out of the hands of the wealthy and give it to the people they exploited.

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[-] kautau@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

"I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy."

-- Gustave Gilbert (After interviewing Nazis post-WWII)

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

an empathetic society is a cooperative society, a socialist society.

capitalism is completely indifferent to the human factor, competition is about few winners and many losers. unemployment is desirable, poor people must be allowed to die.

people think economics is a science but it doesn't consider human nature, "everyone tries to maximize their personal profit" isn't an anthropological statement it's capitalism restated.

[-] plyth@feddit.org 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

A genuine incapacity

This is borderline using genetic arguments, ironic for Nazis. If people have learned to suppress their feelings the incapacity can be strong but is not genuine.

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

a lack of empathy isn't the source of corruption, money is. a lack of empathy is just a necessary pre-requisite.

[-] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

If you want to understand evil you'll need to observe it in yourself. Secondhand observations will not do.

[-] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

You will be seen as a malcontent and will be excluded from society more and more, the more you go down that road berating and lecturing people on their faults. Self righteousness doesn’t change the world for the better.

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[-] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 4 weeks ago

It's deeper than that. You can't fight hunger, you can't fight indifference. You can only push people to pretend. Police has to have compassion.

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[-] numberonedrewcarreyfan@piefed.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Seize the.... Something... Damn it, I know this!

[-] BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 13 points 4 weeks ago

We have always feared a robot uprising that would take over the world and subjugate humans, as though robots will replace us as the ultimate alpha predators.

We've already been replaced by our own creation. Money itself is the dominant species on this planet. Capitalism is the metabolic process of the organism. The stock market is its circulatory system. Politicians are its organs. Billionaires are its reproductive system. The individual workers are the mitochondria. This is a planet scale life form that is ready to reproduce itself onto surrounding bodies in space.

If you want the solution to the Fermi paradox there it is. Once a civilization is infected with economics it's only a matter of time before it is consumed by its own creation.

[-] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Money is power in a form transferable over time and space.

Long before capitalism, people considered money to be the root of all evil. Many religions have restrictions on what can be done with money, especially asking for interest.

[-] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's a desire fetish. Like a religious icon evokes a deity, money evokes desire.

[-] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

It’s called greed.

[-] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 weeks ago

No it's called money.

[-] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

We just need to speedrun capitalism. People had it worse, tbh. Now we need to make our species survive the mass extinction. Or die trying. Here we gooooo

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[-] NeedyPlatter@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 weeks ago

Me when I watch any nature/animal documentary. So many endangered or extinct animals and for what??

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

and for what??

agriculture

i can't find it rn but sth like this also applies to the land usage worldwide. basically, we're taking wild animal's land, and that's what's killing them.

human population count has gone up 30x since the medieval ages. We used to be 300 million, now we're close to 10 billion.

[-] Gyroplast@pawb.social 11 points 4 weeks ago

Fun side-effect: one finds a strange appreciation and understanding for supervillains hell-bent on ending life on earth, "for no reason".

Hey, if you want to see the world burn so badly, stop dilly-dallying and bring out the big guns! This is really taking longer than necessary.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I've flipped and flopped between being an accelerationist and a saviour when it comes to life-ending climate change.

Ultimately nobody has the guts to commit to using humans to simulate 100, 000, 000 whalefalls though.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago

How did you find a photo of me, with an accurate caption?

[-] shplane@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

Hence why conservatives hate education. It makes you have to feel empathy for other people and we can’t have that.

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

Ah, so you too have watched Adam Curtis documentaries.

HyperNormalisation https://youtu.be/to72IJzQT5k

[-] YourPsychiatrist@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago

didn't know about them

been binging them and now i am spiraling even harder

[-] Tower@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 weeks ago

Also applicable to scrolling through Lemmy most days.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

I just downloaded like 30 seasons of modern marvels. I'm hoping those will restore some of my optimism for life since watching that show made me happy as a child.

[-] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

I deal with it by trying my best but also a heavy dose of cognitive dissonance when required. And learning (painstakingly slowly) how to be compassionate to myself regarding my shortcomings of not being able to fix it all.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

I tried switching to historical documentaries but people have been terrible since well before we started writing things down.

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[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 3 points 4 weeks ago

if anyone is in need of good news this morning: https://archive.is/lv3eU

[-] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago

Meanwhile, History Channel: Aliens. It's all Aliens.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah...

[-] harbard@fedia.io 2 points 4 weeks ago

Me when I first watched Mr.Rob0t as a kid

[-] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I try my best to have my kid stay ignorant to politics , but sometimes it's hard. Ignorance is bliss until you can't escape.

[-] Fenrir@lemmings.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

You're part of the problem

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[-] Saint_La_Croix_Crosse@midwest.social 7 points 3 weeks ago

It's almost like you need an economic system to become a billionaire, control the labor of thousands of other people, and buy off other systems of accountability with your ill gained wealth. Weird, anyway, the form of society and how money/resources are allocated doesn't matter at all, but somehow communism is still bad for some reason, even if it means more equality and lack of oligarchs.

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[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I think you are missing the point. The system is the monster. It's what creates, gives power, hides, and protects those people so they can get away with it. Sure, all societies have horrible people, but only one system rewards and protects the worst of the worst and guilt trips and kills anyone else who tries to reveal or oppose them.

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