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Andy

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Is there a community for gently abused memes that I can post this to?

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You’ve captured my thoughts better than I could.

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That seems like a good question.

I guess the marketing team did a really good job?

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Nice! Any issues?

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That is lucky. A trail ride to work sounds idyllic.

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It seems silly to minimize this.

Even if the distances seem great to you, if the FAA says “that’s a near miss” and “we’re operating outside of safety requirements”, that means that if you roll the dice long enough you WILL have a crash.

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When air traffic controllers tell you “this is a crisis” I think we should listen. Must we wait for an actual crash before we do something? It seems like we never react UNTIL a crisis explodes.

Another example: last year, while threatening a railroad strike, the railroad unions warned that derailments and near catastrophes were going up. Just a few months after they were forced back to work without additional support or breaks, the East Palestine disaster struck. The people responsible for inspecting cars TOLD the media and TOLD congress that this was happening. And it’s still going on. Derailments are like mass shootings. They happen about weekly, but the reporting just covers a few of the big ones.

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Oof. I just want to say as a Jew that is constantly trying to dispel the myth of Jewish media conspiracies, Zuck really isn’t doing us any favors here.

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Are you familiar with the “Housing first” model? It posits that even for people who need medical or living assistance, having shelter, a bed, a bathroom, a refrigerator, and a permanent address will allow them and whoever is providing support to deal with compounding factors and receive regular visits, Conversely, attempts to treat something like dementia or substance abuse on the street are next to impossible.

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I don’t really understand the question. Normally, I think of a story as emerging out of an idea, and a genre emerging out of a group of related stories.

I don’t really know what you’re looking for. I think most solarpunk already has decentralized social media in it.

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