jewayne

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by jewayne 6mo ago
Oh, look whose family has a roof over their head and food in their bellies! We get it, @ExtraRoulette. You're big pimpin'.
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by jewayne 10mo ago
Interesting, given the decline in birth rate that seems to be the inevitable consequence of widespread prosperity. "Happiness" is one of those words that has thousands of different definitions, so I would frame it this way: Parent
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by jewayne 10mo ago
> It really is a type of growth that would be dare say impossible to duplicate without kids. Perhaps, but as a childless adult who had to take over my parents' affairs as their physical and cognitive health declined, I marvel at t
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by jewayne 10mo ago
Strangely enough, I think I do understand. As near as I can tell, life's two greatest pleasures are 1. Love (both loving and being loved) 2. Voluntary hardship I mean, what is parenthood if not love and voluntary hardship? On the othe
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by jewayne 10mo ago
> Many of the parents I know are deeply and profoundly unhappy. As a childless person, I believe this is a societal problem, not a biological one. We've broken apart the tribe and made just two people (at most) responsible for mos
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by jewayne 10mo ago
As some point you're going to stop saying that because you'll realize that sixteen year olds are generally dumbasses.
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by jewayne 10mo ago
Are you insinuating that childless people never fully mature? Because as a childless person I've noticed that a lot of the distance I felt with my friends with kids disappeared as soon as their kids were grown. Essentially we're a
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by jewayne 10mo ago
what are you hinting towards??
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by jewayne 10mo ago
> A core value of America is our right to obstruct any government attempt to improve our lives and I defend that stubborness. Nobody tell this guy about how the interstate highways got built. Or about how we eradicated a dozen diseases
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by jewayne 1y ago
Also, I just realized that the tiny path I take to get into the next neighborhood only exists because of the elementary school there.
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by jewayne 1y ago
Yeah, I think that's the part that I was suggesting should be "banned". All neighborhoods should connect with all adjacent neighborhoods via pedestrian or multiuse paths. And yes, that means across arterials as well -- either
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by jewayne 1y ago
> The secret sidewalks also radiate outward from the elementary school, approximately. That is awesome. City planners should take note.
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by jewayne 1y ago
True. I grew up in the country, along a busy road. I never walked or biked anywhere, and it was very isolating. Moving to a city that had quiet residential streets, wide sidewalks, and actual bike paths was a game changer for me. I wonder h
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by jewayne 1y ago
True. Older (in the U.S., pre-war) neighborhoods actually provide kids with far more opportunities for walking than newer, cul-de-sac based suburban neighborhoods. I keep wondering when we're going to stop allowing such immobilizing, i
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by jewayne 1y ago
I don't know much about what Germany is experiencing, but even Germany's neighbors in the Netherlands and France seem to be having a renaissance predicated upon getting people out of their personal automobiles. Perhaps the problem
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by jewayne 1y ago
The ghetto is that bottom 20% living in Hell, not the 79% who merely deal with things that suck. Although I was more referring to our systems more broadly (health care, education, transportation - the topic of this post), let's go with
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by jewayne 1y ago
Actual Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems are in place all over the world, where there are physical barriers protecting the bus lane, and transit signal priority along the entire route. They work extremely well when they don't rely on mot
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by jewayne 1y ago
I'm going to guess that you're a fellow American. That's our answer to everything - build a ghetto. Why make anything nice for everybody when you can make it suck for 79% of us, Hell on Earth for another 20+%, and nice for th
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by jewayne 1y ago
I'm convinced that only people who have no idea how things get done in the real world can go on rants like this.
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by jewayne 1y ago
> I doubt they'd care if a democratic president wanted to do the exact same thing... Of course they would. They literally blocked Biden's student loan relief, calling it unconstitutional. These people are not there because
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by jewayne 1y ago
I'm pretty sure there's already a popular hypothesis that relates to evolutionary biology, but I don't know the name of it. Essentially, as hunter-gatherers every group of humans needed one or more experts on the local megafa
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by jewayne 1y ago
Yeah, I just realized there are two very different ways to parse the statement. I initially saw it as "Experiences shape thoughts in predictable ways." But the other way to interpret it is "Attitude shapes experiences in pre
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by jewayne 2y ago
Just because something is objectively a great idea, doesn't mean it's a great idea FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION. In fact, I've definitely been a part of an organization whose biggest problem was the inability to say no to objectivel
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by jewayne 2y ago
Yeah, last I heard Idaho still has traffic signs and signals. Commit to the bit, Idaho!
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by jewayne 2y ago
> a large Atlantic salmon meta-population I don't think this finding is necessarily relevant here, because Atlantic salmon are totally different. Pacific salmon always die right after spawning. Atlantic salmon return to the ocean
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by jewayne 2y ago
The busybodies don't realize that they are themselves a threat to kids' wellbeing. Nine times out of ten kids are better off with bad parents than with no parents.
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by jewayne 2y ago
There's also the intriguing possibility that many other diseases and even addictions have a heretofore-unknown metabolic component. The idea of some addictions -- even to things like heroin or gambling -- being partially metabolic does
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by jewayne 2y ago
Don't dismiss the most important question -- does semaglutide really have any effects outside its current intended use for diabetes and weight loss? In other words, would a thin, metabolically healthy person benefit from taking semaglu
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by jewayne 2y ago
I just listened to an in-depth analysis of this last night. All of these great effects can be explained by reduced caloric intake / weight loss / better glucose control. In other words - it just means it works as intended. So whil
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by jewayne 2y ago
> I simply stating the obvious that money should be taxed exactly once, not so many times. Why is that obvious? Doesn't a rule like that necessarily create distortions in who gets all the benefits of civilization? For example, in o

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