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Oh, look whose family has a roof over their head and food in their bellies! We get it, @ExtraRoulette. You're big pimpin'.

Interesting, given the decline in birth rate that seems to be the inevitable consequence of widespread prosperity. "Happiness" is one of those words that has thousands of different…

> It really is a type of growth that would be dare say impossible to duplicate without kids. Perhaps, but as a childless adult who had to take over my parents' affairs as their phy…

Strangely enough, I think I do understand. As near as I can tell, life's two greatest pleasures are 1. Love (both loving and being loved) 2. Voluntary hardship I mean, what is pare…

> Many of the parents I know are deeply and profoundly unhappy. As a childless person, I believe this is a societal problem, not a biological one. We've broken apart the tribe and …

As some point you're going to stop saying that because you'll realize that sixteen year olds are generally dumbasses.

Are you insinuating that childless people never fully mature? Because as a childless person I've noticed that a lot of the distance I felt with my friends with kids disappeared as …

what are you hinting towards??

> A core value of America is our right to obstruct any government attempt to improve our lives and I defend that stubborness. Nobody tell this guy about how the interstate highways…

Also, I just realized that the tiny path I take to get into the next neighborhood only exists because of the elementary school there.

Yeah, I think that's the part that I was suggesting should be "banned". All neighborhoods should connect with all adjacent neighborhoods via pedestrian or multiuse paths. And yes, …

> The secret sidewalks also radiate outward from the elementary school, approximately. That is awesome. City planners should take note.

True. I grew up in the country, along a busy road. I never walked or biked anywhere, and it was very isolating. Moving to a city that had quiet residential streets, wide sidewalks,…

True. Older (in the U.S., pre-war) neighborhoods actually provide kids with far more opportunities for walking than newer, cul-de-sac based suburban neighborhoods. I keep wondering…

I don't know much about what Germany is experiencing, but even Germany's neighbors in the Netherlands and France seem to be having a renaissance predicated upon getting people out …

The ghetto is that bottom 20% living in Hell, not the 79% who merely deal with things that suck. Although I was more referring to our systems more broadly (health care, education, …

Actual Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems are in place all over the world, where there are physical barriers protecting the bus lane, and transit signal priority along the entire rout…

I'm going to guess that you're a fellow American. That's our answer to everything - build a ghetto. Why make anything nice for everybody when you can make it suck for 79% of us, He…

I'm convinced that only people who have no idea how things get done in the real world can go on rants like this.

> I doubt they'd care if a democratic president wanted to do the exact same thing... Of course they would. They literally blocked Biden's student loan relief, calling it unconstitu…

I'm pretty sure there's already a popular hypothesis that relates to evolutionary biology, but I don't know the name of it. Essentially, as hunter-gatherers every group of humans n…

Yeah, I just realized there are two very different ways to parse the statement. I initially saw it as "Experiences shape thoughts in predictable ways." But the other way to interpr…

Just because something is objectively a great idea, doesn't mean it's a great idea FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION. In fact, I've definitely been a part of an organization whose biggest prob…

Yeah, last I heard Idaho still has traffic signs and signals. Commit to the bit, Idaho!