I don't trust stairs

they always lead up to something.

[the-big-mood]

[libraford]

I was looking up directions somewhere and...

I DO NOT WANT THAT.

[rancidthing-deactivated20240711]

its all about the jaws and the paws

[rancidthing-deactivated20240711]

i said the jaws!

and the paws!

and just a little bit of style

[queer-as-city-folk]

Anti-city people are just plain fascinating to me

[fractally]

There's quite literally a grocery store two doors down from me. A round trip for milk takes less than 10.

[madgastronomer]

Great. Able-bodied people can make an entire store trip in 15 minutes. Bully for them.

I live on the outskirts of a city -- technically within the city limits, but a somewhat suburban neighborhood (common in a lot of parts of my city). I have a grocery store a block from me. I cannot walk to it or home from it. There are no good sidewalks between me and it, either, and the roads all have slopes that would be dangerous for me if I took my scooter. Furthermore, even if I had flat, even sidewalks between me and it (which most parts of my city, even the downtown areas, don't have; it's a hilly place), the most often I could shop would be twice a week, and then only some weeks. I don't have the spoons to do it every day. It takes a lot longer than 15 minutes, and it is exhausting. And the basket on my scooter is not built to carry groceries home.

City living can be great for a lot of people! That's fantastic! But city living is not going to make it possible for everybody to go car-free.

[sleepydumpling]

It's possible to have multiple people's needs met in a 15-minute-city. It's possible to have a walkable city that also caters to disabled people's needs. Wellington and it's inner suburbs are pretty close to a 15 minute, walkable city. We also have dairies in most places (corner stores) that cover things like the basics plus snacks and drinks etc. But I can't walk anywhere anymore due to chronic pain. I can however get groceries delivered in either large or small amounts. It should be cheaper than it is, but it's not too rough for me - a fortnightly shop gets delivered to my door for $9. A small top-up delivery is $7 or less. I do think if your big grocery shop is over a certain amount they should deliver it to you for free - they're making enough profits off us to factor that small amount in. If I had a mobility scooter, I could get to my local dairy, down to my doctor's surgery, to my local library, to a cinema, to most things I need. The only thing I struggle with is getting to and from work, but I work on the far side of town to where I live, and it's up in a very hilly suburb. I can't walk to the bus stop near home any more, but I can get to a bus stop in town in a rideshare for less than $10, and then catch a bus that drops me at the door of my workplace. I catch the bus down into town after work and then rideshare home for around $6-$7. I'm lucky enough to be able to afford this cost because I have a free bus pass. To catch the bus without a bus pass from the closest stop to my house would cost me $$60-$70 per week. To use rideshare to and from an accessible bus stop usually costs me another $20ish per week on top of what paying for the bus would cost, maximum. I'm good at playing discount codes between apps, sometimes I can get my weekly transport spend under $70. I looked at using a disability driving service but it was more than double the price of rideshare apps, even with a Total Mobility card! It's not impossible for 15 minute cities to be accessible. Low public transport costs, low delivery costs, accessible footpaths and crossings, affordable rideshare costs, plenty of drop off/pick up spots in busy areas, public toilets, etc etc are all doable. It just needs the community to demand it and those in power to put it into place.

[madgastronomer]

Ordering delivery still requires someone to drive a car, which means that, again, car-free doesn't work for everybody.

Is it possible to make things a whole lot better for me and most people, in my city? YES! Is it happening any time soon? NO!

[beatrice-otter]

Whenever you're discussing something, especially things like government policy and city design that impact a lot of people, it's important to have everybody on the same page as to what we're actually talking about. Because there's a big disconnect here.

A "walkable city" does not mean "walking is the only option." It means that walking is a viable mode of transportation in that city. It means that walking is an option. It means a city designed in such a way that if you don't want to own a car, you don't have to. A "car free" city doesn't mean that nobody owns a car, it means that for most people it's not a requirement to live in that city.

In a walkable city, there are still a fuckton of cars. Amsterdam is one of the most walkable cities in the world, and there are a lot of cars. But the city is designed such that while you can get just about anywhere with a car, it's still safe and easy and convenient for most people to walk, bike, or take public transit. Lots of people don't own cars; lots of people do (and will continue to do so!) and use them to get around in the city.

While there are a handful of extremists who want cars to go away completely, that's not what most people are talking about when they talk about wanting walkable cities or 15-minute cities or what have you. We just want cities where it is possible to go about most or all of your daily activities without needing a personal automobile. Not cities where everyone has to be car-free, just cities where it's an option. Cars and trucks and vans still existing within the city and being used both by individuals and businesses is not a sign that a city fails at being walkable, or a 15-minute-city.

[orpheuslament]

its imperative you sexualise that mentor/protégé relationship

[orpheuslament]

oh that is fucking scary

[aint-love-heavy]

I know we talk a lot about the literacy crisis and the horrible anti-intellectualism happening rn but I think we need to talk more about how much of an entitlement complex the stupidest among us have developed

[sandersstudies]

I think of myself as a fairly well-read person with a decent vocabulary, and a couple years ago I made a goal to learn 100 new words in a year just by encountering them naturally. (That is, not googling “list of rare words” or something similar.) That’s a couple new words every week!

It was great fun keeping a list. I didn’t drill myself on them so I’m sure that there are a few which, if I encountered them again, I’d have to look up again, but so what? It felt great to learn even a few words.

I can’t imagine feeling angry about learning something new in such an easy way. (The internet is at our disposal! We don’t even have to flip through a Webster’s tome to find definitions any more.) Plan to learn new words until you die!

[datasoong47]

And also, there's usually a reason for using a particular word. Like that example in the original post, if you tried to describe it without the word "scry", you'd either be left with a needlessly wordy description or a vague less-informative one

[thombalan]

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[deervsheadlights]

wish everyone could perceive the Vague Concepts in my head because i just know you would looove my Vague Concepts. you would think im so smart if you saw the misty clouds of Vague Concepts floating around in my head. #MyVagueConcepts

[lastoneout]

I love when people try to gotcha me on my stance that all sports should be gender integrated with "even American football???" because I can instantly come back with "oh lmao, no, I don't think ANYONE should play American football at all, it's way too dangerous" like nice try but I know no amount of testosterone is going to protect you from the profound, life ruining health issues caused by getting repeated severe concussions over the course of several years. No one should play this sport.

[andhumanslovedstories]

look I'm not gonna pretend I know anything about electronics, but sometimes a plug is so big it blocks another socket, and I'm always like "who the fuck do you think you are"

[strictlyquadrilateral]

one time i went to the doctor and said "i think i have some sort of damage in my neck from hurting it on a trampoline as a teen" and the doctor said "no you don't." and i said, "well, the day after i hurt my neck, my bioparents tried to make me climb a mountain because they didn't believe i was hurt, and just a few minutes up the mountain i sat down on the side of the trail because i was in so much pain i couldn't keep walking, and they just left me there, and eventually i forced myself to climb the rest of the mountain because i was terrified they were going to legitimately abandon me on the side of the mountain forever. and i'm here today because it just recently occurred to me that when most people say 'i have a crick in my neck' they mean 'i slept funny and now i'm a little sore' and not 'i'm functionally bedbound at the moment due to severe neck pain'." and the doctor said "you have permanent nerve damage in your neck."

[ryan-sometimes]

One of my favorite things about having a degree in biochemistry is going undercover at a store like Sephora. I can read the composition of the cosmetics and actually understand them. There’s no words to describe how great it feels. It’s like being in on an inside joke or secret

[ryan-sometimes]

The main thing I observe is that a lot of employees recommend makeup that is chemically incompatible. For example, if you ask them to recommend you a foundation and concealer, a lot of times they’ll pick two products that are chemically immiscible, so they’ll NEVER blend together successfully.

Generally foundation/concealer is either water or silicone based. There are upsides to each based on your needs. However, water and silicone are immiscible, and so if your foundation is water based but your concealer is silicone based, you will never get a good blend between these products. You’ll have to go back to switch to something that works.

[ryan-sometimes]

If you want to test for this in-store, mix the two on the back of your hand. If they form a uniform mixture, they’re miscible. If they separate, they’re chemically incompatible, and should not be used together. You can do this for any number of skin products. Primers, moisturizers, foundations, concealers, contour sticks, etc etc. Anything that comes in liquid or paste form.

You don’t need to understand all the chemicals on the label to run this experiment!

[nobrain-nothoughts]

As someone in pharmaceutical sciences I also experience similar things, so a hint from me: collagen is useless. In a cream it will not penetrate the skin, so doesn't do anything. As a food supplement, lemme tell you a secret: collagen is a protein. And when you eat protein, your stomach thinks its food and chops it up, so it can be used to make your own protein. Collagen is just expensive protein powder, and doesn't do anything meat or a veggie substitute does.

[wordfather]

[thombalan]

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[anythings-a-sweet-if-you-eat-it]

boring take from real 21st century idiots: bdsm is bad because it's basically torture

interesting take from a fictional 14th century monk: torture is bad because it's basically sex

[ohholydyke]

Shoutout to the nun who had other nuns tie her up and pour hot wax on her as she confessed her sins

[amorphousgenderlesscryptid]

I'm sure that's true, but something tells me googling "nun tied up by other nuns" "hot wax" "confessing sins" will likely get what you might call rather un-academic results

[normaloperafan]

[bish0ps]

Remember when you could look things up online. Do you remember how we used to search

[velvetmasonry]

The Book of Kells, Ireland, c. 800 AD