@otter_blues I've read that people moving into new subdivisions mostly plant trees that are smaller, less robust, but which will grow to maturity much faster than, say, an oak.
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Good and bad ideas are fairly equally distributed across the political spectrum. Erect a strawman in my replies, you get blocked.
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@avidseries How did you draw the conclusion that people do not plant large shade trees anymore? I’m biased to believe otherwise, because my state is the largest exporter of young shade trees in the country. Sales have been booming for years.
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This is satire, but it gets to an important point.
Most newer neighborhoods that look like the one in the top photo will never get around to looking like the neighborhood in the bottom image because most people do not plant large shade trees anymore.
So what is it exactly that people expect from a house these days? Don't they want to look out their windows (or step outside) and engage with beauty or something of interest — whether it's mature oaks, or mountains or rolling hills in the distance, or a skyline or compelling urban vista or a block filled with historical homes?
I don't think this figures into most homebuyers calculations. But it's figured into every one of mine. With the exception of my first home, every house I've owned has strongly connected to the natural world, even though I've lived mostly in metropolitan areas.
I've made my homebuying decisions based primarily on this, because there's nothing that can quite pick up my mood like a glance through a window at beauty. There's a reason a friend of mine calls my house "the good mental health place."
I can't imagine any circumstances under which I would ever willingly put myself in an environment as bleak as the one in that top image. Life is too short, and some things matter more than square footage.
Mason Home Builder@bankertobuilder
Bottom image if a maintenance nightmare (leaves all over the yard, tree sap falling on cars, thousands of pests hiding in the trees) I much prefer the top image
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@SBelleofAL @EndWokeness Google it. Ask an AI.
Cooking equipment and wiring are the leading causes of church fires, which have been declining over the past two decades. Arson is responsible for about 15% of church fires today.
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BREAKING: South Bushwick Church in NYC just burned down. 173 years old. Cause not known.
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@ShadowyZephyr It makes no difference. I can't bring myself to look at them.
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@avidseries What do you think about trans people who pass well? At least at a glance?
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I'm almost certainly in a minority on this, but, for me at least, the thing about these people that's the biggest problem is that they're physically repellant. I find it difficult to even look at them. It's almost spiritually annihilating to do so.
It's a reflexive physical disgust I've had since I first saw a photo of a transexual as a child. I can't bring myself to pretend to feel otherwise. It would be inauthentic and fatiguing for me to try to "cure" myself of this disgust. At any rate, I doubt any therapetic mechanism would work.
I'm of course not advocating that anyone cultivate a physical disgust based upon a pre-existing ideological or moral position, and I'm not arguing that policies or laws should be crafted based on this disgust. In fact, I feel strongly that they shouldn't, at all.
I'm just saying that my brain immediately identifies these people as being in violation of something fundamental and what I then instantly feel is an aversion to even looking at them.
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@avidseries arguably, the trans rights movement managed to gain traction partly because a lot of our interactions have transferred online, where this natural disgust instinct is muted.
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@avidseries Is this to all trans people or only the most obvious and transgressive looking ones? Like I can agree that these examples are horrible, but a transswoman who is slightly clocky doesn't really give me the same feeling
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@JeevesReginald1 There was a tweet circulating recently containing a video of Musk's trans kid. I felt the same visceral disgust.
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Republicans were good, decent folk, but then Obama was mean to Mitt Romney and said nice things about Trayvon Martin, so Republicans were forced against their will to elect Trump and burn down America.
Stephen L. Miller@redsteeze
Oh buddy, fuck off. His campaign's treatment of John McCain and Mitt Romney is exactly why the right decided to go with The Joker.
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@avidseries I could see these sorts of arrangements becoming increasingly common as social trust continues to erode
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"Normalize arrangements that are associated with less developed societies."
Mountain Cabins@cabinsmountain
Normalize buying land with your siblings and closest friends and building a place where your families can grow together. Modern isolation isn't how people were meant to live. A few generations ago, extended families often lived just down the road from one another. Meals were shared, support was always nearby, and childcare wasn't a constant concern. Bring back the village.
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@CaveNewton The Arabs, I think, are better at influencing institutions (like universities and think tanks) than the government.
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@avidseries And, the Arab states have learned that they too can spread money around to influence our politics.
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Most of the time a black guy starts out a sentence with "I'm a black man in America," you just know that whatever follows is going to be either ridiculous or self-serving, or both.
Thomas Hern@ThomasMHern
Jamaal Bowman is something else. "I'm a black man in America. The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the n word directly or indirectly every day."
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@FrancosGhost The purpose of art isn't to be "pretty and nice to look at," and hasn't been for over 150 years. Thanks for proving my point.
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There still exists significant numbers of people who believe high openness is important and anything that art exists to challenge norms and not that art exists to be pretty and nice to look at.
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Bottom line is that when it comes to art and design the American right are hicks. They have either bad or retrograde taste in almost everything. Anything new or challenging or innovative or relevant to the zeitgeist terrifies them. It's the curse of low Big 5 openness.
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