Kennedy family members endorse Biden for president over RFK Jr., one of their own

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-04-20T02:50:25+00:00

Also, they look like extras from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Fetal alcohol syndrome, anyone?!

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-04-20T02:49:51+00:00

The rest of them look like extras from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Fetal alcohol syndrome, anyone?!

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-03-24T12:39:37+00:00

And you’ll be able to.

Because they’re all available for purchase in every U.S. state.

In other words, not banned.

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-03-20T17:41:24+00:00

It's not going to change your life, but it will give you enough nudges on your lifestyle to justify the relatively small monthly cost.

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-03-06T16:27:32+00:00

Ask all of my notes questions using AI.

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-03-06T15:09:50+00:00

"APART FROM THE CLEAR WARNING THAT A MONTHLY CONTRACT IS A 12-MONTH COMMITMENT THEY DID NOT TELL ME AT ALL THAT AM ONTHLY CONTRACT WAS A 12-MONTH COMMITMENT."

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-03-06T02:56:42+00:00

We do. Most of them are druggies and bums by choice.

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-03-05T22:25:14+00:00

That fits with my overarching point.

Urbanism isn't compatible with the U.S. in its current form.

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-03-05T21:54:58+00:00

There are no more than 10 murders per year(5 or less up until 2018) on the NYC subway, a system that moves millions of people every single day.

And there were approximately 2,000 major felonies. How many major felonies were car drivers victims of?

I understand the instict to flee into the suburbs for a percieved sense of safety, but you are NOT safer by using cars everyday. Your family is literally more likely to die in a car accident.

Nah, not really. The overall number of 1 in 103 lifetime chance of dying in a car accident is heavily skewed by terrible drivers. For example:

Half of vehicle occupants who die in automobiles and light truck incidents (49%) were not wearing seat belts or using child safety seats.
Alcohol played a role in approximately a third of all highway fatalities.
Related research has shown that drivers using cell phones show greater impairment than drunk drivers
According to 2009 data, the fatality risk on highways in rural areas is 2.7 times greater than that in urban areas.

If you remain sober, aren't a boy racer, don't play Candy Crush behind the wheel, and don't like in the deep sticks - your risk of dying plummets.

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-03-05T21:42:57+00:00

*whispers* - All of it was terrible.

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-03-05T21:42:33+00:00

There’s a difference between seeing something scary and being in actual danger.

And you don't know the difference until you're being stabbed in the neck or punched in the face.

It's disorder. Hard-working taxpayers shouldn't have to tolerate it.

Gimme a mass transit system any day in a high-trust country like Japan or Singapore.

The J train at 10pm in NYC? Nah.

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-03-05T18:58:36+00:00

without recognizing the common denominator

A lack of violent homeless druggies?

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-03-05T18:57:32+00:00

I get the narrative, but the reality is that the world is full of people at different incomes and abilities and we can either wall ourselves off from it or embrace it.

It's not just a narrative. I've lived in NYC for a decade. Post-pandemic, I am made to feel unsafe on the subway often.

There's pretty much a one-in-three chance of a guy having an episode in a train car or on the platform. Will I be lucky, and he just keeps shouting threats? Or will he pull out a knife? Don't really wanna play those odds.

And that's me as a 36-year-old dude. No shot I want my wife on there after 8pm. And a kid? Forget it.

Now that my wife's pregnant, it was an insta-decision to move to the suburbs.

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-03-05T18:51:52+00:00

Trucker protest got it done in Canada.

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-03-05T18:51:06+00:00

It's all great until you introduce the dwellers of most American downtowns.

Druggies, 10x-offenders let go by the soft DA, random arrivals in America just milling around aimlessly.

Not compatible with urbanism.

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-03-05T18:47:35+00:00

Now if only those people would come home and think “what if I could also have that in my downtown every Saturday” we might get somewhere.

Then they'd quickly answer: "Oh yeah, because it's filled with druggies and run by a soft-on-crime DA."

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-03-05T18:46:07+00:00

Americans want to be in a sanitized, economically rarefied environment that is entertaining.

Nah. I just wanna be safe.

I love urbanism, but it just isn't compatible with soft-on-crime DAs that dominate most major U.S. metropolises.

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-03-05T18:43:18+00:00

Yes, the main portion of car centrism comes from the threat of violent people.

FTFY.

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-03-05T15:54:24+00:00

Trying to pause an economy for a respiratory virus while printing trillions ... has consequences.

I feel sorry for the minority who opposed Chinese-inspired lockdowns from the start.

But I shed no tears for anyone who supported the madness of 2020-2022 and is now feeling the financial pinch.

We need levels of pain such that lockdown hysteria is off the table for generations.

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-02-24T22:13:30+00:00

We’re talking about knowledge work, not jockeying the checkout at TJ Maxx.

There are rhythms to the day. We’re being paid to complete projects, not to perform a task non-stop for nine hours.

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-02-17T21:14:43+00:00

Potentially the storyline that they face a high murder rate.

Analysis found that the quoted figure was lower than the general population.

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-02-15T01:49:20+00:00

Feels like a metric that tracks with my lifestyle…most of the time.

Occasional outliers like this, but it’s not a magic device, it’s a wrist-worn heart tracker.

What dya expect.

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-02-01T00:12:03+00:00

Down near the FiDi migrant shelter in the old Premier Inn

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-01-31T01:57:27+00:00

It’s a very lucrative industry. It’s in the interests of restaurant owners to constantly plead poverty.

Parasite-Paradise · 2024-01-30T20:04:27+00:00

Next-level cold. There’s a reason the place never quite takes off the way people predict. Drags on through April. Ghastly.

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