SwingingTheLamp

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

India's cities are jammed up with car traffic. It's one of the major sources of pollution. That's what this professor is addressing. Africa is a whole, huge continent. containing many countries with greatly varying levels of economic development. The poorer ones don't even have much of an infrastructure base. And lots of people there do ride bicycles. All that considered, my question stands.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why the fuck is the nearest produce section 15 miles away? That's a major planning failure. Most trips that Americans take are less than 3 miles, so planning by population would be a lot more sensible than planning by land mass.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

risk your life (and potentially kid’s) on the street between cars

I dunno, boss, seems like a plenty good reason to say "fuck cars" to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

For what it's worth, about that age is when it started to go away for me.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

I don't actually know if this is unusual, but I can smell when people have a respiratory illness, like a cold. It smells vaguely like the rooting hormone that you can get from a garden center.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Big-time "I don't want facts, I want to be angry" energy here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You get thrown out of a farmer's market if you show up naked, though. Probably thrift stores, too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does that make the rest of the world Themians?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Each of the 50 states has a somewhat unique name, and residents of the state therefore have a unique demonym. Use those instead?

If that's too many names, Colin Woodward has identified 11 culturally-distinct nations in the US. That would actually promote a lot better understanding of why the country is the way it is. I'd be a Yankee.

Changing the collective name demonym Americans would be confusing during the transition, and for what benefit? Is this really a concern for residents of other countries in the Americas? Are Colombianos really scrambling to be called Americans?

Instead, I suggest taking Pres. Sheinbaum's suggestion, if you want to do something: Call the continent Mexican America. Everybody would know what you mean from context right away. No confusion, no need to get anybody else to play along.

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