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Cake day: August 23rd, 2026

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  • Would you get mad if parking spots were taken away to put up a bike lane? Would you be mad if an extra lane was taken away to put in public transportation? If you answer yes to these 2 questions you don’t hate cars enough…

    This community doesn’t want to lynch people who drive, we don’t fucking want cars to take up 100% of our space especially in cities!


  • When I think what needs to happen for this (like the whole of USA, the wealth inequality especially) to be fixed I keep thinking of the great depression. That was the catalyst for FDR and the new deal Democrats to take power and in my opinion bring on the Golden age of capitalism. When the Iran war started I was hoping it would lead to such catalyst. I still think we are heading to something like that but maybe Trump administration is able to manipulate these systems better than expected. Maybe the whole financial system is just backing him somehow?

    Anyway, I don’t see the Democrats holding power for long without Trump blowing up the economy. There is just so many people that hate Democrats. I’ve lived all over the USA, once you meet a Democrat hater, you realize nothing can change their mind. It’s quite depressing. Hopefully you can give me some hope, but this whole trumpism/fascist experiment is just beginning imo.


  • Yea I unfortunately do. It’s very annoying being forced to take the long way because there is no sidewalks. The local council member keeps saying nothing can be done since sidewalks must be installed by the property owner. When I point out that we can remove parking to make a path for pedestrians and maybe bikes, I get ghosted.

    Sometimes the sidewalk just ends and I’m forced to unprotected cross 6/7 lane road to get to the other side for a sidewalk. I know my routes now and stopped exploring.

    So I 100% agree with you, I feel like a second class citizen. Luckily I still can walk, I feel bad for anyone who is older or in a wheelchair. This city forces them to drive somewhere and if you can’t you’re stuck.


  • I think it’s so much worse these days. I read and heard a few nightmare stories of parents getting in trouble for allowing their 10yr old kids outside WITHOUT SUPERVISION. Like that blows my mind, but I might be in the minority to think young kids should be able to survive outside unsupervised?




  • I’m no expert but the “net exporter” thing is a myth. We rely on imports of heavy crude oil because we just don’t have enough domestically. We are a “net exporter” because we are able to mix the heavy crude with light crude then refine them. From the refining process we are able to export a lot of product outside of the USA. That refined product quantity number as well as the natural gas quantity total is more than the imported heavy crude oil.

    My point is non of this exporting is possible without heavy crude oil. Our domestic oil we get out of the ground can’t even be refined in our efficient refineries without heavy crude. This is my layman understanding of the oil production industry. Please someone correct me if I’m wrong