Mid-sized stand-alone city. Think 50-200K people.
If I explicitly have to choose between big city or small town, then it comes down to employment options. If that is a non-factor (e.g. remote work) then small town.
For those saying culture or whatever, I'm ok with commuting to a big city once a month or whatever for that stuff. I don't need cultural attractions for my day-to-day life.
An obvious chipping away at old reddit. They are trying to get rid of it altogether.
I consider their new format to be unusable.
I feel like I'm just running the clock down to FIRE
Reduce my hours to ~30 and I'd get the same amount of work done in that time.
I'm vegan, so I never get to truly vote my conscience and won't be able to until someone takes a stand against factory farming. I'm not interested in debating factory farms here nor am I making a direct comparison to genocide, just noting that it is a significant moral issue for me and has never been up for a vote, just as the genocide in Gaza isn't up for a vote.
This is a key point. Biden is playing a dangerous game if he is serious about winning this.
I have no stats to back this, but I'd wager that leftists are more willing to concede and vote for Biden than Muslims and Arabs.
If the only obligation of the DNC is to be not quite as bad as the GOP, how do you expect there to be genuine, positive change, rather than the continued slow descent into fascism?
That's the problem, I don't expect there to be genuine, positive change. Our system is such that I don't see a way to break the cycle.
Our shitty election system is such that if one side puts in a crazed lunatic, this gives the other side a license to be as shitty as they think they can get away with. And the people who have the ability to change it benefit from not doing so.
The best we can probably do is chip away at states 1 at a time to get ranked choice voting or some other system that addresses our duopoly. That's what we should be doing too, but it's a long road (if it will succeed at all) and won't help for 2024.
We are essentially painted into a corner.
it’s immoral to vote for bad people.
One could argue that it's immoral to not vote in a way that prevents the worst choice from winning.
As I see it, the genocide is not up for a vote since neither candidate will stop it. It's the other issues that are up for vote.
They've decided to do genocide regardless of what the voters want.
Indeed, you've spelled it out plainly: there is no vote option to end the U.S. funding of Israel's genocide in Gaza.
I can either make a vote that won't end it, or I can make a vote that won't end it (and may actually make it worse, as you alluded) and will also lead to significant negative consequences for many groups of people here.
If there’s a single bone in your body that cares about the lives of your trans friends you will too.
Not just trans, but homosexual, non-white, non-religious, women.
I think they’re disgusting. Since they’re disgusting I don’t want their flesh in me.
Isn't this the basis behind some religions' prohibition against eating pigs? Basically that they are disgusting and disease-ridden.
A lot of big state university towns that are not part of major metros probably fit this. They are going to have a lot of amenities due to the university.