tearing-down of suburban living always feels so mean and i kind of feel bad for suburbanites.
but it's also funny and extremely true oh god.
they're not bothered. they can't hear your mockery over their surround sound system in their capacious living room that they never have to turn down because of their neighbors.
I really need a bigger TV for that room, It's hard to see map details from the couch sometimes.
tearing-down of suburban living always feels so mean and i kind of feel bad for suburbanites.
but it's also funny and extremely true oh god.
That Gen-X fuck suburbia nihilism is somewhat disingenuous and I don't like to latch onto those kinds of arguments unless I'm in the mood to channel Kurt Cobain.
What the book I linked does talk about,though, is that a lot of suburban people moving back to urban environments would make everyone's way of life much easier.
Most of the wood-boring beetles that are doing massive tree kills have been enabled by climate change leading to warmer temperatures allowing multiple generations per year instead of only one
And then they kill a lot of trees, which are carbon sinks, and the decomposition turns them into a carbon source thus exacerbating climate change conditions
Arch you need to tell the emerald ash borers that they're jerks they aren't listening to the higher primates I think they need an intervention from other insects
I heard on the radio they're going to wipe out 90+% of the Ash trees in Wisconsin in a few decades
lol sorry Wisconsin is fucked
so is canada and colorado
YAY FOR MONOCULTURE (a lot of the problems with wood-boring insects are due to shitty management practices early on that we can't really fix. also climate change)
Wisconsin is fucked for lots of reasons
in 30 years it's going to be a barren, strip mined toxic waste dump full of hordes of illiterate people working in the gas mines with a giant golden citadel bearing the moniker "Chamber of Commerce brought to you by Koch Industries" looms over the land and then matt damon will like attack them to steal their healthcare and robots and shit will fight and itll have a confusing ending
i mean, i definitely see the advantage of having 'your own' thing- being the final arbiter of a thing you care about is awesome! you never have to bow to someone else's caprice or whatever
but it seems like being a cultural hermit is a horrible tradeoff for the benefit of personal ownership and domain
unless you're a deeply antisocial person i guess
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Deebaseron my way to work in a suit and a tieAhhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered Userregular
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So, I realize i've kinda been going on about how insecure and crab fab I've been feeling in my new job (thanks for bein' there, or at the very least not telling me to shut my whiny dick hole)
Well, two people from my old team just came over and were all "So sorry to bother you, Deeb. PLS HELP US. WE NEED UR SMARTNESS!"
I was able to expertly able to answer all their questions and got big "THANK YOUS" and "WE MISS YOU SO MUCH".
All of this occured while my boss was in the room, and his boss passed by and was in his office.
I feel so swell. Those butts are STILL making me look good.
*tear*
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i mean, i definitely see the advantage of having 'your own' thing- being the final arbiter of a thing you care about is awesome! you never have to bow to someone else's caprice or whatever
but it seems like being a cultural hermit is a horrible tradeoff for the benefit of personal ownership and domain
unless you're a deeply antisocial person i guess
I also get the sense that never having to compromise or be accommodating of neighbors contributes to the Suburban Attitude.
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Explain to me how a giant company effectively carpooling their employees a net ill for society?
Like emissions alone make it positive
Also, like, if the bus catches on fire, that's at least 20 liberatarians gone LIKE THAT.
It's further Brazilification of society. Eventually, you get to the point where the "two Americas" becomes physical and tangible.
goddamn hedgie it's a major corporation providing mass transit to its employees. it has the effect of decreasing emissions/ pollution and curbing traffic, in addition to being net economically efficient.
and this is brazilifying how? that people who work at google get some well-thought-out and net-beneficial perks?
you are so dissatisfied with and nitpicking of everything that it's really difficult to take any of your objections seriously.
You're missing the forest for the trees, Will. Google is setting things up so that their employees can live more or less completely in a Google bubble, free of intrusions from that pesky "real world". Facebook is going one step further with corporate dormitories.
if this were actually true they'd do like MS does with their subsidized campus housing and discourage remote living.
and in any case, who cares if they were trying to do this? i don't really understand your endgame here. google employees make a lot more money than other people and get good employment perks. money translates to nice things and perks are nice things.
your basic problem is that rich people get nice things. trying to engineer situations where they are forced into sitting next to a homeless guy on a train does nothing except excite a sense of glee of really sticking to some abstract person you resent.
(and they won't sit next to the homeless guy on the train. they'll just drive their SUV an hour and back to mountain view, exacerbating traffic and pollution and costing the city and state more money).
This piece spells out my problem - we're creating a society where the top 1% lives very well, the next 4-5% is comfortable, the next 10% is clinging on, and everyone else is fucked. I don't have a problem with rich people having nice things - I have a problem with the rich creating an American Versailles.
right, but that's not a problem caused by or indicated by corporate shuttles. that's a problem principally with taxes that are too low, redistributive effects that are too meagre, and social policies that are too stupid.
like, sure, i get that you resent the rich, but taking every opportunity to put a thumb in their eyes doesn't address the problem at all.
in fact, it's probably better to encourage things like these google buses, since it's a (rare) instance of a big corporate entity spending their own resources to ease their impact on public resources.
My problem with kale chips is just let them speak for themselves.
Salt them a little or something and maybe I'll give them a go. But when I go to trader joes and I see super nacho cheese kale chips I know that if Im looking for a healthy snack, Id rather eat something that doesn't taste gross, and if I want an unhealthy snack Ill just eat something else nacho cheese flavored that is actually really tasty.
tearing-down of suburban living always feels so mean and i kind of feel bad for suburbanites.
but it's also funny and extremely true oh god.
the suburbs are awful
other than being able to have your own garden
City living, dogg
Not Visible: Giant FUCK YOU graffiti on left, unidentified corpse under mulch.
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Also never ever being in real danger, I think, makes one more susceptible to media fear-mongering.
When safety is a concrete 'this block but not the next block over', abstract threats like 'some guys somewhere might want to blow up a building in another city' just don't have as much impact.
It's weird how little of corporate America is pushing for policies to increase the wages at the bottom given the effect increased consumer spending would have on their profits
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i mean, i definitely see the advantage of having 'your own' thing- being the final arbiter of a thing you care about is awesome! you never have to bow to someone else's caprice or whatever
but it seems like being a cultural hermit is a horrible tradeoff for the benefit of personal ownership and domain
unless you're a deeply antisocial person i guess
i mean, i'm pretty antisocial at times
but i also hate driving three miles to the grocery store to get $10 worth of groceries
i mean, i definitely see the advantage of having 'your own' thing- being the final arbiter of a thing you care about is awesome! you never have to bow to someone else's caprice or whatever
but it seems like being a cultural hermit is a horrible tradeoff for the benefit of personal ownership and domain
unless you're a deeply antisocial person i guess
Turns out you can experience city culture and also live somewhere else, as long as you also have a car.
I'm reminded of a sociology lecture I got about how urban america was insular and nobody knew their neighbors and suburban america was all happy funtimes traditional values everyone counts on each other neighborhoods
tearing-down of suburban living always feels so mean and i kind of feel bad for suburbanites.
but it's also funny and extremely true oh god.
they're not bothered. they can't hear your mockery over their surround sound system in their capacious living room that they never have to turn down because of their neighbors.
I believe sacrificing intangible benefits for immediate, more tangible ones such as these is fine if you believe in autonomy of self being more important than health of community / health of government / etc
It's something I disagree with strongly of course. I don't mock suburbanism; I think it is a worse and more inefficient usage of extremely precious materials; not only space and pollution-wise but in social capital and similar realms that make up a democracy
I guess suburbs are more american than cities because every suburban lot is really a succinct summation of everything that is "Fuck you I got mine"
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Explain to me how a giant company effectively carpooling their employees a net ill for society?
Like emissions alone make it positive
Also, like, if the bus catches on fire, that's at least 20 liberatarians gone LIKE THAT.
It's further Brazilification of society. Eventually, you get to the point where the "two Americas" becomes physical and tangible.
goddamn hedgie it's a major corporation providing mass transit to its employees. it has the effect of decreasing emissions/ pollution and curbing traffic, in addition to being net economically efficient.
and this is brazilifying how? that people who work at google get some well-thought-out and net-beneficial perks?
you are so dissatisfied with and nitpicking of everything that it's really difficult to take any of your objections seriously.
You're missing the forest for the trees, Will. Google is setting things up so that their employees can live more or less completely in a Google bubble, free of intrusions from that pesky "real world". Facebook is going one step further with corporate dormitories.
if this were actually true they'd do like MS does with their subsidized campus housing and discourage remote living.
and in any case, who cares if they were trying to do this? i don't really understand your endgame here. google employees make a lot more money than other people and get good employment perks. money translates to nice things and perks are nice things.
your basic problem is that rich people get nice things. trying to engineer situations where they are forced into sitting next to a homeless guy on a train does nothing except excite a sense of glee of really sticking to some abstract person you resent.
(and they won't sit next to the homeless guy on the train. they'll just drive their SUV an hour and back to mountain view, exacerbating traffic and pollution and costing the city and state more money).
This piece spells out my problem - we're creating a society where the top 1% lives very well, the next 4-5% is comfortable, the next 10% is clinging on, and everyone else is fucked. I don't have a problem with rich people having nice things - I have a problem with the rich creating an American Versailles.
I think the core problem is that you really really love the specific social bargains that have grown up over time to distribute material welfare downwards
which, given the American Dream, are mostly instituted using a weird kind of passive-aggression rather than formal mechanisms of taxation and redistribution
Arch you need to tell the emerald ash borers that they're jerks they aren't listening to the higher primates I think they need an intervention from other insects
I heard on the radio they're going to wipe out 90+% of the Ash trees in Wisconsin in a few decades
lol sorry Wisconsin is fucked
so is canada and colorado
YAY FOR MONOCULTURE (a lot of the problems with wood-boring insects are due to shitty management practices early on that we can't really fix. also climate change)
Wisconsin is fucked for lots of reasons
in 30 years it's going to be a barren, strip mined toxic waste dump full of hordes of illiterate people working in the gas mines with a giant golden citadel bearing the moniker "Chamber of Commerce brought to you by Koch Industries" looms over the land and then matt damon will like attack them to steal their healthcare and robots and shit will fight and itll have a confusing ending
I see in the future Wisconson will adopt the "Upstate New York" economic policy.
i mean, i definitely see the advantage of having 'your own' thing- being the final arbiter of a thing you care about is awesome! you never have to bow to someone else's caprice or whatever
but it seems like being a cultural hermit is a horrible tradeoff for the benefit of personal ownership and domain
unless you're a deeply antisocial person i guess
Turns out you can experience city culture and also live somewhere else, as long as you also have a car.
i'm not talking about driving in to see the theater or 'spend a night with the wife in the bohemian neighborhood'- i'm talking about immersion. there's a lot more to city living than just being able to go to big-name concerts.
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my wife has been having meat guilt lately. She tried to go vegetarian for a while, but that's hard for a girl that doesn't like a lot of vegetables. I don't care either way. I like a lot of vegetarian dishes, but I love meat too. I guess it's like this for me:
I live in an area where Wal-Mart rules the grocery landscape. I use the small grocery stores that scrape by for the products that are good and buy free-range and sustainable meat when I can. When and if we move to a bigger city I will buy exsclusively free-range and grass fed meats and will actually take the time to research the providers to make sure they're ACTUALLY ethical. As it stands, the best I can do is buy cage free eggs, sustainable fish, and free range chicken when the smaller grocery store here has it.
As it is, I try to use every part of the animal when we buy meat. Even deli rotisserie chicken carcasses get used for soup. I am definitely against factory farming and all of that horrible shit. I am not against eating meat. I am against needless suffering, but my choices are regionally limited.
That being said I support her and I have been trying to do my best to support her ethical dilemmas.
i mean, i definitely see the advantage of having 'your own' thing- being the final arbiter of a thing you care about is awesome! you never have to bow to someone else's caprice or whatever
but it seems like being a cultural hermit is a horrible tradeoff for the benefit of personal ownership and domain
unless you're a deeply antisocial person i guess
Turns out you can experience city culture and also live somewhere else, as long as you also have a car.
i'm not talking about driving in to see the theater or 'spend a night with the wife in the bohemian neighborhood'- i'm talking about immersion. there's a lot more to city living than just being able to go to big-name concerts.
tearing-down of suburban living always feels so mean and i kind of feel bad for suburbanites.
but it's also funny and extremely true oh god.
the suburbs are awful
other than being able to have your own garden
City living, dogg
Not Visible: Giant FUCK YOU graffiti on left, unidentified corpse under mulch.
Eh. Up the hill I'd have to deal with college kids, and down the hill I'd have to deal with poors, but my street happens to be kind of an insulated dead-end.
I did have my car broken into, although that's happened before and this time they actually caught the guy (addict, had the misfortune to bleed on another car he hit). Otherwise I love the neighborhood, the people next door are great, and the garden is a huge plus.
It just blows my mind that there are so many people out there who are content having nothing unique about themselves or the place they live, and prefer a homogenous existence devoid of novelty. I mean, don't get me wrong, actually being unique is nigh-impossible in a world of 7 billion people, but it bugs me that they don't even struggle with it. This is why, for all their faults, I fundamentally respect where hipsters are coming from.
Like, probably the most disgusting thing I've ever seen were the cruise ship ports in the Caribbean. You get off and every island greets you with a TGI Fridays. I mean, we're on Isla Roatan in Honduras; you walk maybe 10 minutes out of the port and you're walking among islanders living in squalor, and yet you get off the boat and you see a TGI Fridays, a collection of comforting suburban mainstays, and a couple novelty T-shirt shops. The people who got on that boat didn't actually travel anywhere, and they sure as hell didn't go to Honduras. They might as well have never left suburbia.
It's weird how little of corporate America is pushing for policies to increase the wages at the bottom given the effect increased consumer spending would have on their profits
But why wait for that money to come back when you can just siphon it out of their pay right now?
Most of the wood-boring beetles that are doing massive tree kills have been enabled by climate change leading to warmer temperatures allowing multiple generations per year instead of only one
And then they kill a lot of trees, which are carbon sinks, and the decomposition turns them into a carbon source thus exacerbating climate change conditions
Also never ever being in real danger, I think, makes one more susceptible to media fear-mongering.
When safety is a concrete 'this block but not the next block over', abstract threats like 'some guys somewhere might want to blow up a building in another city' just don't have as much impact.
It's so true. In my experience, the Americans most frightened by the specter of terrorism live almost exclusively in areas that terrorists would never ever target.
i mean, i definitely see the advantage of having 'your own' thing- being the final arbiter of a thing you care about is awesome! you never have to bow to someone else's caprice or whatever
but it seems like being a cultural hermit is a horrible tradeoff for the benefit of personal ownership and domain
unless you're a deeply antisocial person i guess
Turns out you can experience city culture and also live somewhere else, as long as you also have a car.
i'm not talking about driving in to see the theater or 'spend a night with the wife in the bohemian neighborhood'- i'm talking about immersion. there's a lot more to city living than just being able to go to big-name concerts.
noise, shitty parking, high rent or high crime or both, lack of privacy, somebody pissing on my steps, no lawn to stand in while I shake my cane at people, forced to buy standard cane because sword-cane is illegal....
now it'll turn the tv on and off, but the menu button just brings up the same info as hitting the display button. No degauss option.
so I think we're just going to return it and find something else
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you guys are turning me into a goddamned hippie
turns out my wife's boss is in a relationship with a trans boy (female to male..I have that right, right?) anyway, to avoid too many personal details, I was in a situation where people were talking shit about her and I was definitely not allowed to say anything, and all I could think was you fucking cis shitlords
and I wasn't even really being sarcastic.
Between this and the god damned cage free eggs I might as well just go hang a hammer and sickle on my goddamned house so the rednecks will eat me first come apocalypse time.
It just blows my mind that there are so many people out there who are content having nothing unique about themselves or the place they live, and prefer a homogenous existence devoid of novelty. I mean, don't get me wrong, actually being unique is nigh-impossible in a world of 7 billion people, but it bugs me that they don't even struggle with it. This is why, for all their faults, I fundamentally respect where hipsters are coming from.
Like, probably the most disgusting thing I've ever seen were the cruise ship ports in the Caribbean. You get off and every island greets you with a TGI Fridays. I mean, we're on Isla Roatan in Honduras; you walk maybe 10 minutes out of the port and you're walking among islanders living in squalor, and yet you get off the boat and you see a TGI Fridays, a collection of comforting suburban mainstays, and a couple novelty T-shirt shops. The people who got on that boat didn't actually travel anywhere, and they sure as hell didn't go to Honduras. They might as well have never left suburbia.
to be fair- while noting that i agree with the general premise of what you're saying- it strikes me as a little goofy to say "...having nothing unique about themselves". a lot of our lives are the experiences we face, sure, but eating at applebee's doesn't mean you can't have interesting conversation there or love your family in specific, personal ways. i think it's a little bit affected that we define a rich, interesting life as one where we pass by street performers and hear many languages we don't know.
i love the cultural potpourri of the big city, and i try to do new things especially when i am in new environments. but it's a pretty cynical view that people who don't do interesting things aren't having interesting or novel thoughts or lives.
I would rather live downtown portland but it is too expensive : (
as suburbs go beaverton is p good though
lots of little local businesses nearby, the neighborhood I live in feels distinct, etc
it would be nice to walk out my front door and be able to cross the street to a coffee shop in the morning instead of driving a couple of miles to one but
Explain to me how a giant company effectively carpooling their employees a net ill for society?
Like emissions alone make it positive
Also, like, if the bus catches on fire, that's at least 20 liberatarians gone LIKE THAT.
It's further Brazilification of society. Eventually, you get to the point where the "two Americas" becomes physical and tangible.
goddamn hedgie it's a major corporation providing mass transit to its employees. it has the effect of decreasing emissions/ pollution and curbing traffic, in addition to being net economically efficient.
and this is brazilifying how? that people who work at google get some well-thought-out and net-beneficial perks?
you are so dissatisfied with and nitpicking of everything that it's really difficult to take any of your objections seriously.
You're missing the forest for the trees, Will. Google is setting things up so that their employees can live more or less completely in a Google bubble, free of intrusions from that pesky "real world". Facebook is going one step further with corporate dormitories.
if this were actually true they'd do like MS does with their subsidized campus housing and discourage remote living.
and in any case, who cares if they were trying to do this? i don't really understand your endgame here. google employees make a lot more money than other people and get good employment perks. money translates to nice things and perks are nice things.
your basic problem is that rich people get nice things. trying to engineer situations where they are forced into sitting next to a homeless guy on a train does nothing except excite a sense of glee of really sticking to some abstract person you resent.
(and they won't sit next to the homeless guy on the train. they'll just drive their SUV an hour and back to mountain view, exacerbating traffic and pollution and costing the city and state more money).
This piece spells out my problem - we're creating a society where the top 1% lives very well, the next 4-5% is comfortable, the next 10% is clinging on, and everyone else is fucked. I don't have a problem with rich people having nice things - I have a problem with the rich creating an American Versailles.
right, but that's not a problem caused by or indicated by corporate shuttles. that's a problem principally with taxes that are too low, redistributive effects that are too meagre, and social policies that are too stupid.
like, sure, i get that you resent the rich, but taking every opportunity to put a thumb in their eyes doesn't address the problem at all.
in fact, it's probably better to encourage things like these google buses, since it's a (rare) instance of a big corporate entity spending their own resources to ease their impact on public resources.
I don't resent the rich, Will. What I do resent are the people focused on using their wealth to calcify the social structure on top, and who use their position to extract wealth from the rest of society with no benefit to anyone other than themselves.
I totally understand and will probably myself subscribe to suburban living because it's just what happens now. I think a lot of virtues behind wanting to peel back the suburbs and go back to city living only work if culturally we decided to have suburban flight BACK into cities.
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How can you say you're comfortable if you don't have a 70 inch 4K TV?
I really need a bigger TV for that room, It's hard to see map details from the couch sometimes.
That Gen-X fuck suburbia nihilism is somewhat disingenuous and I don't like to latch onto those kinds of arguments unless I'm in the mood to channel Kurt Cobain.
What the book I linked does talk about,though, is that a lot of suburban people moving back to urban environments would make everyone's way of life much easier.
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Wisconsin is fucked for lots of reasons
in 30 years it's going to be a barren, strip mined toxic waste dump full of hordes of illiterate people working in the gas mines with a giant golden citadel bearing the moniker "Chamber of Commerce brought to you by Koch Industries" looms over the land and then matt damon will like attack them to steal their healthcare and robots and shit will fight and itll have a confusing ending
but it seems like being a cultural hermit is a horrible tradeoff for the benefit of personal ownership and domain
unless you're a deeply antisocial person i guess
Well, two people from my old team just came over and were all "So sorry to bother you, Deeb. PLS HELP US. WE NEED UR SMARTNESS!"
I was able to expertly able to answer all their questions and got big "THANK YOUS" and "WE MISS YOU SO MUCH".
All of this occured while my boss was in the room, and his boss passed by and was in his office.
I feel so swell. Those butts are STILL making me look good.
*tear*
I also get the sense that never having to compromise or be accommodating of neighbors contributes to the Suburban Attitude.
right, but that's not a problem caused by or indicated by corporate shuttles. that's a problem principally with taxes that are too low, redistributive effects that are too meagre, and social policies that are too stupid.
like, sure, i get that you resent the rich, but taking every opportunity to put a thumb in their eyes doesn't address the problem at all.
in fact, it's probably better to encourage things like these google buses, since it's a (rare) instance of a big corporate entity spending their own resources to ease their impact on public resources.
Salt them a little or something and maybe I'll give them a go. But when I go to trader joes and I see super nacho cheese kale chips I know that if Im looking for a healthy snack, Id rather eat something that doesn't taste gross, and if I want an unhealthy snack Ill just eat something else nacho cheese flavored that is actually really tasty.
Not Visible: Giant FUCK YOU graffiti on left, unidentified corpse under mulch.
When safety is a concrete 'this block but not the next block over', abstract threats like 'some guys somewhere might want to blow up a building in another city' just don't have as much impact.
i mean, i'm pretty antisocial at times
but i also hate driving three miles to the grocery store to get $10 worth of groceries
i'd much rather walk down the block
Turns out you can experience city culture and also live somewhere else, as long as you also have a car.
because colleges liberal indoctrination etc
I believe sacrificing intangible benefits for immediate, more tangible ones such as these is fine if you believe in autonomy of self being more important than health of community / health of government / etc
It's something I disagree with strongly of course. I don't mock suburbanism; I think it is a worse and more inefficient usage of extremely precious materials; not only space and pollution-wise but in social capital and similar realms that make up a democracy
I guess suburbs are more american than cities because every suburban lot is really a succinct summation of everything that is "Fuck you I got mine"
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
no, I don't think so
I think the core problem is that you really really love the specific social bargains that have grown up over time to distribute material welfare downwards
which, given the American Dream, are mostly instituted using a weird kind of passive-aggression rather than formal mechanisms of taxation and redistribution
I see in the future Wisconson will adopt the "Upstate New York" economic policy.
i'm not talking about driving in to see the theater or 'spend a night with the wife in the bohemian neighborhood'- i'm talking about immersion. there's a lot more to city living than just being able to go to big-name concerts.
I live in an area where Wal-Mart rules the grocery landscape. I use the small grocery stores that scrape by for the products that are good and buy free-range and sustainable meat when I can. When and if we move to a bigger city I will buy exsclusively free-range and grass fed meats and will actually take the time to research the providers to make sure they're ACTUALLY ethical. As it stands, the best I can do is buy cage free eggs, sustainable fish, and free range chicken when the smaller grocery store here has it.
As it is, I try to use every part of the animal when we buy meat. Even deli rotisserie chicken carcasses get used for soup. I am definitely against factory farming and all of that horrible shit. I am not against eating meat. I am against needless suffering, but my choices are regionally limited.
That being said I support her and I have been trying to do my best to support her ethical dilemmas.
But that's the important part really.
twitch.tv/tehsloth
Eh. Up the hill I'd have to deal with college kids, and down the hill I'd have to deal with poors, but my street happens to be kind of an insulated dead-end.
I did have my car broken into, although that's happened before and this time they actually caught the guy (addict, had the misfortune to bleed on another car he hit). Otherwise I love the neighborhood, the people next door are great, and the garden is a huge plus.
Like, probably the most disgusting thing I've ever seen were the cruise ship ports in the Caribbean. You get off and every island greets you with a TGI Fridays. I mean, we're on Isla Roatan in Honduras; you walk maybe 10 minutes out of the port and you're walking among islanders living in squalor, and yet you get off the boat and you see a TGI Fridays, a collection of comforting suburban mainstays, and a couple novelty T-shirt shops. The people who got on that boat didn't actually travel anywhere, and they sure as hell didn't go to Honduras. They might as well have never left suburbia.
But why wait for that money to come back when you can just siphon it out of their pay right now?
Suburbs for life
Never forgive
Never forget
They are kinda just better.
or you can hassle and shoot black kids and claim it was self-defense
or you can sit in your backyard and not think about the cancerous gasoline suckers marching their way throughout your streets
it's an honestly great system of perpetuating stark differences and making it easier not to think about the state of society
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
It's so true. In my experience, the Americans most frightened by the specter of terrorism live almost exclusively in areas that terrorists would never ever target.
city living kind of blows in some respects
we want to have a driveway where friends can easily park when they visit, and enough room for a dog
those 2 things (backyard and a driveway) are so insanely expensive in the city
so we will move
noise, shitty parking, high rent or high crime or both, lack of privacy, somebody pissing on my steps, no lawn to stand in while I shake my cane at people, forced to buy standard cane because sword-cane is illegal....
It was a ludicrously quick search but having dealt with services like this in produce, could you find something like this?
http://organicstoyou.org/home/organic-groceries.html
found the programmable remote
now it'll turn the tv on and off, but the menu button just brings up the same info as hitting the display button. No degauss option.
so I think we're just going to return it and find something else
turns out my wife's boss is in a relationship with a trans boy (female to male..I have that right, right?) anyway, to avoid too many personal details, I was in a situation where people were talking shit about her and I was definitely not allowed to say anything, and all I could think was you fucking cis shitlords
and I wasn't even really being sarcastic.
Between this and the god damned cage free eggs I might as well just go hang a hammer and sickle on my goddamned house so the rednecks will eat me first come apocalypse time.
Hopefully someday Texas will get public transportation that white people won't sneer at
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
to be fair- while noting that i agree with the general premise of what you're saying- it strikes me as a little goofy to say "...having nothing unique about themselves". a lot of our lives are the experiences we face, sure, but eating at applebee's doesn't mean you can't have interesting conversation there or love your family in specific, personal ways. i think it's a little bit affected that we define a rich, interesting life as one where we pass by street performers and hear many languages we don't know.
i love the cultural potpourri of the big city, and i try to do new things especially when i am in new environments. but it's a pretty cynical view that people who don't do interesting things aren't having interesting or novel thoughts or lives.
as suburbs go beaverton is p good though
lots of little local businesses nearby, the neighborhood I live in feels distinct, etc
it would be nice to walk out my front door and be able to cross the street to a coffee shop in the morning instead of driving a couple of miles to one but
I don't resent the rich, Will. What I do resent are the people focused on using their wealth to calcify the social structure on top, and who use their position to extract wealth from the rest of society with no benefit to anyone other than themselves.