Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
29d ago
Most aren't quite that big, and only one that I would walk to instead of taking a 5-15 minute drive. But they all easily exceed the "many nice, varied trails that you can wander in deep enough to smoke a joint in total seclusion" standard that I have in mind for Central Park. The biggest is twice the size of Central Park, and it's extra nice because I can walk all the way from the museum at the front and end up in my best friend's backyard 4 miles away.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
29d ago
Sunlight was worse.
This seems crazy to me. Maybe in a choice Manhattan skyrise. Most of my experience was Brooklyn on the 14th floor and sunlight was about as rare as integrity in a congressman. Being high up isn't a boon when all the surrounding buildings are even higher! Most people don't get to live on the top floors.
There was nothing to do. I hated it.
This I'll give you. For certain categories of "to do", NYC can't be beat.
But, Brooklyn and Queens have a ton of green spaces.
This I disagree with. I'm a walker; I feel claustrophobic if I can't go for a walk for a few hours every few days. The weeks I spent in Brooklyn felt cramped and dismal, cloying and choking.
Manhattan is marginally nicer. Central Park is fine. But my small town has multiple comparable parks in easy distance, and just walking down the street feels closer to a "green space" than a city. Admittedly, it helps that I'm in what is basically an old colonial suburb, not some Arizona step-and-repeat.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
29d ago
Apartments have better sunlight and ventilation than SFHs because they sit higher up.
This is emphatically not the case for every NYC apartment I've ever been in. The dismal, exclusively artificial lighting and contant stench of foul, artificial scents are the two biggest reasons I would cite for never wanting to live there. I married a NYer, and the time I spent either visiting her or with her visiting family were just horrid on that regard.
Have you ever actually spent time in a decent house on a decent lot with actual trees? This might be a "fish doesn't know what water is" situation. I've literally come home from day trips to NYC blowing black snot.
You make some good points, but I don't think it quite addresses the, as you say, unseriousness of the anti-gun left. They used to lean much more deeply on the crime angle, but there are too many fatal weaknesses to that take for it to be effective in a less controlled/favorable media environment. The normies get upset about spree-killings, but not in a way that obviously and naturally leads to blaming the tool. One can easily imagine a slightly different world where the mass media blame was displaced onto, say, SSRIs, possibly with a "greedy, overprescribing pharma companies" angle. But the pattern for sprees is something hitting the news bigly once every 2-3 years, with maybe a few copycats in the following weeks, and then most everyone goes back to not caring. That doesn't translate into political will.
The reason there are safety people at all seems much more driven by outgroup dynamics. Gun are red tribe totems, and attacking enemy totems is always a fun time.
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