• @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      127 months ago

      Most people aren’t even ready to admit that this style of development is even a factor in loneliness, mental health, and general strength of a community.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      47 months ago

      Still lots of boomers in senior planning positions. It doesn’t help that the only people that attend public meetings are also seniors and boomers so nimbyism is rampant.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    257 months ago

    When did “cigarettes smoked per day” become the standard unit of measurement for negative impacts on health?

    • XbSuper
      link
      fedilink
      English
      37 months ago

      When they made them public enemy number 1.

    • Drusas
      link
      fedilink
      37 months ago

      They’re just trying to make it relatable to people. (Un?)fortunately, cigarettes per day hasn’t been relatable to people since the '90s.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    11
    edit-2
    7 months ago

    Hyper competitive global market Capitalism, that infects every aspect of our lives, teaches us to compete against each other as enemies. The zero sum mindsets of “you have to lose so I can feel like I’ve won” and “You’re poverty makes me feel wealthier by comparison” and “look at those selfish homeless people lowering my property values by greedily continuing to exist while destitude.”

    As end stage capitalism continues to progress and the top level capitalists fight to consume one another’s empires of dirt in their desperation for new growth/metastasis on a finite, overpopulated, already raped and pillaged world, what did you expect? That after a lifetime of being taught to be greedy, selfish, and sociopathic, oh sorry, rationally self-interested, we’d make lots of friends and have lots of next gen capital battery babies along the way?

    Fuck off. This is what live together or die alone looks like. Anything less would make us filthy commie socialists or something after all, amirite?

  • Lemminary
    link
    fedilink
    47 months ago

    Eh, I’m fine with my voluntary isolation. I have no trouble making friends at all. In fact, every weekend when I go out and I meet someone new, and it’s either a decent time or a miserable experience like this past weekend. I’ve yet to be able to say that it was a great pleasure meeting anyone in the past 4 years save for one person and even he does some shady shit that I have to put up with. Why does it have to be like this? It’s insane.

  • Franzia
    link
    fedilink
    27 months ago

    The government noticing social murder for the first time, huh?