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Urban planning is tricky, some times nice ideas have super tricky executions. Planting fruit/food trees in public spaces also accounts for rodents and pests, and managing disease vectors. Was just reading about fruit bats and Marburg virus spread in Central Africa…, regardless, just something that needs to be done with planning and consideration https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/04/23/178603623/want-to-forage-in-your-city-theres-a-map-for-that

Your mistake was inviting a fire demon to dinner, it’s better to invite them to brunch

What’s good about Amazon anyway? It’s better to get stuff directly from a sellers site, even better if they’re indie. There’s not much value to prime shipping anymore, most sellers are pretty good about it now ironically because of Amazon. Using services like Amazon just creates more pollution, wage depression and small business closures. Use services like Amazon less, favor indie and small and fair wage businesses

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Sorting by New people problems. I don’t run into any of that just looking at the main page of lemmy.world, and I am not even subbed to anything except [email protected]

The poorer families in those states make do better than poorer families in red states, but not enough to support having kids

That sucks, I hope you get some time to relax

I don’t know, but I think anyone who cares about progressive ideals should try to make it advantageous for amoral intelligent people to favor those ideals.

There’s no such thing as doing anything for altruistic or communal prospects just for the sake of it, nothing is turning back that clock on reaping the benefits of capitalism, and we can only work with what we have now.

I think ultimately everyone wants self-preservation, where family and community may be an extension of the self, that’s a good starting point. Things are super depressing now to say the least, which is why people who believe in progressive ideals need to hold on even harder.

Seems like all the competent people went to finance and justifying war think tanks, and we are left with these type of clowns for politics

I am not sure what’s this implying

This is all you really need to know about any of this

University of Texas law professor Lee Kovarsky said, "People confuse telling hard truths with just being a total f------ idiot."

Not enough people are shamed into keeping quiet these days, they think they’re being politically incorrect or edgy or owning woke libs. They’re really just letting everyone who knows how things work that they don’t know

Nice takes notes