I believe that many of the negative misconceptions about a car-free lifestyle are rooted in attempting to conceive other modes as 1:1 replacements for cars. They are usually not!

I will illustrate this with the "private jet to Monaco" example.

— Laura Goodfellow 🚌🏃🏼‍♀️ (@transitrunner) August 19, 2019

While this is true in some areas, there’s basically nowhere that we visit in Florida that we could travel to sans a car. We couldn’t get to any of the state parks, most of the local parks, and we’d almost never be able to hike or explore. It would just not be possible. We’d be stuck at home all the time.

This is the case for about 90% of the US. The lifestyle she’s talking about works for people in about 10 urban areas in North America and that’s it.

Sure, we could change the system and make it work for more, which I am all for, but right now this deliberate asceticism would greatly impoverish my life and my experiences. As mentioned, we’d be stuck at home nearly all the time, or be forced to spend vast amounts on taxis or similar, while still unable to get to 90% of the places we go for recreation.

I like the ideas, but I see no signs of execution or the likelihood thereof anytime soon. Meanwhile, I am not going to make my life vastly worse and far more expensive to make some other person feel good. Not gonna happen. And that’s the impasse, isn’t it?

This harvard genius hasn't figured out that *animals* are an essential element in healthy eco- and agricultural-system function.

"Processed food" for the "lower-class"? Do they even understand the sh*^ they are saying? https://t.co/VQmnZnpxab

— Joe Norman (@normonics) August 18, 2019

Pinker is one of the biggest morons the world has ever produced, but he’s echoing the standard liberal line there, unfortunately. Look at the garbage that is in those things, though:

Yuck. No one should be eating that regularly. Might as well eat a “soup” of peas and canola oil, except with all the good parts of the peas thrown away.

Why “Friends” is still so popular.

Friends is a terrible show about insufferable people I’d hate in real life (except maybe Phoebe), and though it wasn’t a simpler time as this article styles it to be, the 90s was a hopeful time. Sure, it might’ve been false hope — but you don’t know that when you’re living it.

There was really no such thing as social networking and the sociality destruction that caused. Surveillance was still relatively minimal. The internet and browsers worked correctly. But most of all, I think it was the hope.

Even Gen Zers who weren’t even alive when the show began its long run can detect the great expectations we had then and yearn for that which they’ve never experienced. I understand perfectly. Though I am not nostalgic for the 90s, I do miss that sense of the future being unbounded, that we could and would create something better.

Now we know that we cannot and will not and that’s a severe blow indeed.

It’s shocking how often we have to express that disabled people exist. https://t.co/GtTuB2Bm4y

— Crutches&Spice ♿️ Crutch Girl Summer (@Imani_Barbarin) August 18, 2019

I’ve been very disappointed with so-called “progressives” lately, but never more so than with the banning plastic straws fiasco. This is another example above where the erasure of disabled people is part of this evil trend. Some “progress.”

man I’m all for post-scarcity neo-Victorian industrial policy with maglev characteristics, but if our institutions can’t stop Epstein from getting ganked in a jail cell in lower Manhattan then who is going to do the Green New Deal

— Isaac Wilks 🎤🐢 (@wilks_isaac) August 16, 2019

This is what I mean when I say that we need new minds, or to use Aurora’s phrasing a different kind of human.

Really, how big of a moron do you have to be to think Epstein committed suicide? That event is truly separating those enmeshed in the establishment narrative from those who have any desire at all to have a clue.

BTW, the hyoid bone is only broken in a “drop” style hanging, not how Epstein allegedly hanged himself (which of course he didn’t), which was by leaning forward.

Geek culture is really tiresome and boring. And repetitive. And repetitive.

Negative bond interest rates aren’t good, but consider that the cash in your wallet and bank account is effectively a negative interest rate bond when contrasted with inflation. It pays about -2% per year at present.

It really does seem at times that modern liberals want to ban anything fun, risky or dangerous. That ain’t my utopia. Safety is not my primary concern in life, nor is it a lot of people’s. Making life better does not equal complete safety. In fact, after a certain point, those goals begin diverging sharply

Without risk, without skin in the game, we are not fully human. Let’s have a safety net, yes, but not a straitjacket.

Starting to be able to see my abs a little, and I am not even that skinny, nor am I trying to be. They are just getting bigger.

When I get my fitness level and muscles closer to where I want them, they’ll probably look pretty decent. I worked hard for this so I am going to enjoy it even if my goal was mainly to get stronger.

More than two thirds of Americans don’t believe Epstein died by suicide

Only 29% of Americans believe Epstein died by "suicide" showing that the establishment's narrative control isn't working anymore#EpsteinSuicideCoverUp#EpsteinMurder #EpsteinCoverUphttps://t.co/1SyjrjjWI4

— Currie Dobson (@Ventuckyspaz) August 16, 2019

Yes, and this is really worrying the establishment. As it should. When their narrative control slips, soon enough all will be lost.

That’s why all the frantic articles alleging conspiracy theories — and not just conspiracy theories for this event, but for events that are well-documented historically are now being memory-holed into “conspiracy theories.”

Expect the pace and the outlandishness of the propaganda to increase enormously.

Saw portable tanks of "fitness oxygen" being sold at a gas station. And of course they were available in men's and women's editions.

— neural shroud (@neuralshroud) August 13, 2019

That women’s oxygen, gotta watch out for it. It’ll turn you right gay.

Yep the 2 guards watching over me fell asleep at the same time and then the camera malfunctioned and then i killed myself

— Jeffery Epstein (@DeadEpstein) August 14, 2019

According to centrists, all perfectly normal, move along, nothing to see here. An outlandish string of coincidences, malpractice, and errors happen to occur to a man whom many billionaires would like to see dead.

Just the usual, you know.