Baugard

At dusk, amid the exhausted existence of every object and concept in the world,

[ewaneneollav]

party games

naked kill: get naked and kill people

break eachothers legs: self explaintory

[subsetcity]

[guerrillatech]

[pharmboywalt]

OH, this is the cover of Crabitalism!

[hug-your-face]

You’ve heard of late stage capitalism now get ready for

[trollrider1111]

How did we not guess the final evolution of capitalism to be carcinization like its been staring us in the face

[huachengslastbraincell]

[baugard]

That’s the White House! Is Joe Biden trolling again?

[delphinidin4]

I’m Honestly Fed Up With All The Bad News, So I Illustrated 40 Of The Best Ones From 2021

We need more positive news to acknowledge that the world is actually getting better little by little. Here are some of the top performing positive news illustrations from 2021.

[goneg0-deactivated20230705]

it’s all in your head….it’s all….

[violoncell0]

OH MY GOD

[doctorslippery]

Gingerbread Overlook Hotel

[weirdchristmas]

A thing of beauty.

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[sludgebones]

everyone in the comments like “its just focaccia” “he’s never seen someone bake focaccia before?” shut the fuck up

[voidingintotheshout]

And also, everyone has different experiences and an experience can be a person’s first time, even if it’s something you’ve seen over and over again. I was going on a hike in Central Jersey with a bunch of kids from Trenton, inner city. There were squirrels and birds singing. Typical suburban forest. It was a normal hike for me but this was the wilderness for them and they were excited and frightened because this was the furthest they had ever been from the city and they didn’t have any idea what a poisonous plant looked like or where snakes might be and it was all exciting and new, this suburban New Jersey forest. It’s really nice when you can just celebrate the exciting moment with a person without showing off how much of the world you have experienced.

[quasarkisses]

I’m always grateful I got to see this xkcd strip when I was young enough to change

[slimegargoyle]

strong contender for best book cover

[unawakening-float07]

[glam-apollo]

[mapsontheweb]

Territories where married gay couples can buy rifles to protect their marijuana plants.

by u/born_in_cyberspace

[sproutlett]

if you’re not paying attention to trees and how they sway in the wind then what are you even doing

[astrodidact]

[funnytwittertweets]

[cardinalmecha-deactivated202411]

Turns out we were feathered bipeds all along..

[myothertardisisonthemun]

Diogenes, spinning in his grave

[sarahconnorjr]

[politijohn]

[jumboflakybiscuits]

I took a college course on the history of cars in film, and the shit I learned about freeways blew my mind. They purposely got rid of a trolley system and replaced them with city busses that were bad ON PURPOSE. They wanted 2 cars at every home, so they really made a point to sabotage the public transportation system. Make it so people hated busses.

Freeways also destroyed homes, and caused a lot of pollution. I watched a video about how children were getting sick from the sudden pollution.

[antique-scarecrow]

This makes me especially furious when bus transport is such an incredible tool for public transport--when done right. unlike trolleys and trains, which require laying tracks (and sometimes massive tunneling projects), installing a bus system simply requires the individual vehicles and bus stops (signs and benches, in the most simple form). that makes it cost effective for small cities and towns that can't or won't invest in the overhead for larger projects. also bus routes can be easily adjusted--unlike, say, a trolley that goes down the same set of tracks every time. Buses have huge potential! Unfortunately, all these benefits also make them easier for politicians and lobbyists to quietly sabatoge.

Even so, in some places we do have good bus-based transportation systems--such as in university towns that have a vested interest in providing public transport to campuses that are already very tight on parking space. Some cities and towns also do a decent job with their bus systems--but that is highly dependant on local politics, and there is always a risk of wealthy interest groups getting involved and fucking with things. Ironically, some of the best proof we have that buses are a good mass transport option come from private bus systems set up by companies like Apple and Tesla which use buses to transport thousands of their own employees, who would otherwise be stuck in a broken system of enormous commute times--where everyone else is stuck.

Anyway. Everything the original post says is correct--public transport had been criminally sabatoged in the U.S. And it is costing people jobs, livelihoods, and access to basic necessities like hospitals and grocery stores. It's not glamorous, but it is an enormous quality-of-life and class issue, and I'm relieved to see more people talking about it.

Invest in public transport, in public housing, in libraries, in education. Invest in public services. These are the heart and soul of a functioning society, and they pay for themselves a thousand times over.

[goobra]

bro is it parasocial to experience art

[mx-selfdestruct]

[fandom-official]

He also made a Leia and Tarkin deepfake after Rogue One

[fatehbaz]

Income and tree canopies: In US cities, access to clean air, cooler air, shade, and greenery segregated by income.