You’re thinking too short-term. A central business district doesn’t have to be like we see it in the US. It can be vibrant and filled with cafés and restaurants and parks as well that give it life in the evenings and weekends.

Most of the people there are white so it counts as Western

Is this an American thing? In Europe we have regulated batteries and chargers made by well known companies like LG, Samsung and Panasonic.

Yeah the problem I have is when ppl say climate change doesn’t exist because today is moderate, meanwhile they ignore the droughts and floods elsewhere. I’m happy for our farmers and our rivers but next year could be completely different.

In Germany it’s colder and wetter than usual while in southern Europe they’re boiling. Crazy weather.

Thinking like this is why people get surprised when right leaning parties get voted for in elections

Women can wear pants with pockets and not be typecast as lesbian, men can’t wear dresses and not be typecast as gay or trans, unless they’re muscular bros on a stag do.

Good people do good things and get punished by bad people.

Bad people do bad things and get rewarded.

I feel for the mods, both here and on Reddit. Disrespected by both users and admins, but doing the important work even if sometimes they come across as power-hungry or capricious.

Reddit can suck it, I’m not going back.

I might be alone, but I don’t want or need a huge amount of users. I’d rather discuss the subjects I want to talk about with a smaller group of users. It would be nice to have some familiarity in the comments as well. On the big subreddits, your comment was practically guaranteed to be lost in the sea of thousands of comments unless you were the first to comment, or had bots upvoting you. If I want my comments to be lost, I’ll comment on a Tiktok video.

I think we reached peak smartphone a while ago. The newer ones don’t really do anything new, more just shuffling features around or on the top-level flagships, a better CPU or camera. On the mid-range you don’t even really get camera improvements except sometimes a bigger number.

I wonder how many of those comments were actually bots or nowadays generated by AI!