Huh. If traffic is more likely to kill me than violent crime, it's a dishonest emotional reaction to fear traffic more than violent crime?
SwingingTheLamp
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Yes, if your city has more homicides than traffic deaths, the bigger problem is—drum roll please—homicides.
But if your city has more traffic deaths than homicides, then traffic is a bigger problem than homicides. Which is the whole point of this post.
Unironically fascinated to learn that there's a difference between pigments and dyes!
FDR said, "I welcome their hatred." Look at how today's Democratic establishment wring their hands over the Republican reaction to a democratic socialist winning a primary.
The big political news stories about the overt fascists taking over the United States rightly get all the attention, but stories like this indicate that American culture is rotten all the way down.
The fact that the Democratic Party cares more about internal politics than the good of the country is part of why we're in the situation we're in now.
Yes, mathematicians first encountered equations which could only be solved with complex numbers in the 16th century.
Bernie's the only politician of national stature who's even talking about shortening the work week, and this framing sounds like common sense to a lot of people. If the idea gets into the national consciousness, then we can move further into the work week we actually deserve. Let's not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Oh dear! Democrats better take the hint and move more to the right, so that MAGA won't hurt their feelings by saying bad things about them! /s
TL;DR: We can't hold them accountable for their crimes, because they might try to hold us accountable for the same crimes.
Also, to be fair to Jefferson (whether or not he deserves it), he was deluded enough to have a vision of a pastoral America, in which each family would have a decent-sized plot of land to live on and farm. (I say "deluded," because even in his time the actual, urban U.S. was taking shape, in the form of big cities like Boston.) You can see a concrete example of this in his township-and-range system, which was the basis of the Public Land Survey System which has shaped so much about U.S. geography. At least in his reckoning, future Americans would have had a lot more control of their lives by owning a big chunk of land that they and their families could fuck off to and make a living independently, should the political situation become disagreeable.
Also, pertinently, the distribution of voters was supposed to be a lot more even among the states. (Which means they should've scrapped the Constitution already in 1807 once the Lewis and Clark expedition reported back to him about the landscape of the interior.)
That's why electroconvulsive therapy uses pulses of about a millisecond. But, then, it's not actually turning the power off, ECT is more of a warm reset of consciousness.