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    be glad you still have sidewalks, I have seen a lot of US cities that have just done away with making those.

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        I live in a relatively centrist-ish large suburb in North Alabama, about 65k people. There aren’t any stretches of sidewalk going for than a couple hundred feet, maximum. Outside of those scarce stretches, you get to walk on the wet grass with the dead armadilloes, a few feet away from certain death at the hands of Billy Bob’s Ford F150.

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    we got stopped by police when we tried to walk from the Stratosphere Hotel in LV to an outlet outside the city (walk time approx. 30 minutes). They asked us if we needed assistance getting there, were asked why we didn’t order a taxi and were genuinelly baffled by our desire to walk lmao

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    Naomi Klein refers to the right co-opting left phases (triggered, othered, fake news, etc) as “pipiking.” I think doing the reverse is hilarious, but also imagine a future where it results in an Idiocracy-like dialect 💀

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      Redpilled is also stolen from the left. In the Matrix, the red pill is a metaphor for estrogen. Anyway, I’ve taken the orange pill.

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      Idiocracy is a shit movie, language evolves, and dialects are not indicative of intelligence, which is another reason why Idiocracy is a shit movie.

      edit: oh no i angered the rabid fans of Liberal Eugenics: The Movie again

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        Yeah, we can basically guarantee any future dialect will sound stupid to modern English speakers, as complicated and rare sentence structures will be dropped and new ones will be imported from other languages, na mean

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    mad confusing to see “carcel” in an english post as a spanish speaker since that means jail

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      It’s got the same root as the English word “incarcerated”, from latin carcer - prison. Neat!

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        Bad drivers and the bike lanes are very intermittent too. The only road I regularly bike on with a bike lane (I try for smaller roads which aren’t deemed busy enough for a bike lane) usually has enough cars parked in the bike lane to make it useless. The bigger bike laned roads I ride on the sidewalk.

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          in Germany you get fined for using the side walk with your bike, if there are dedicated bike lanes. But than again we have real repercussions for unlawful driving and people could even lose their license if they endanger cyclists like that

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            As well as decent biking infrastructure out there that makes it so that it’s usable

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    Why build a city up and condensed when you can just spread it over 100 miles, add 1 rail line, and then declare yourself a great transportation hub?

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    Anythings better than dallas lmao

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    if I was better at Geoguesser I might try to figure out which part of the greater pheonix area this picture is from