![]() ![]() they convinced the white upper and middle classes that public transit was a waste of money and did they really want to sit next to Those People on a trip to the park? and CONVENIENTLY built highways through communities of color and immigrant communities, neatly displacing them and gentrifying the surrounding areas in one fell swoop. The auto companies created the term “jaywalking” to demonize walking on streets, associated it with stupidity and “undesirable people”, and offered automobile ownership as the solution. any discussion abt this topic without racism front and center as the PRIMARY REASON for this change is toothless and impotent. It was racism!! it was good ole american racism!!! this cannot be forgotten. Now it’s time to do that thing again and make sure that we don’t kill our whole planetary ecosystem within the next trains are pretty much the most efficient transit system known to man and it is maddening that we chose other methods at any chance But don’t be fooled - at any point of your life you are one week of them not doing away from swimming in trash and filth with nothing to eat and nothing clean to wear. On a much smaller scale, no one ever commenta or notices cleaners and housekeepers doing their job - be it at home or at whole buildings - because they always make sure that there’s nothing to notice. We don’t talk about computers crashing because of the turn of the century, because thousands of programmers worked very hard to write updates and patches for Every Single Program humanity as a whole used back in 1999 and then somehow managed to failtest, distribute, and update every single device and system, be it an online or offline one before the midnight of the 1st january of 2000. We don’t talk about acid rain because there isn’t any more acid rain because when acid rain started happening and we learned that the cause was mainly sulphur oxide and carbon monooxide from car exhausts, countries all over the world made it a law that car companies had to produce cars that produced less exhaust with better effectivenes (burning the fuel all the way to CO2 instead of the halfassed CO) and oil rafineries to remove the sulphur from the gasoline in the first place. International cooperation is actually so effective that most people don’t even notice it happening, and then erroneously believe it can’t solve anything.įixing issues before they develop into actual disasters is such an underappreciated thing it hurts at all levels. See also START and START II, which significantly reduced nuclear stockpiles No one talks about acid rain anymore, either. ![]() And I’m sure every programmer and sysadmin that contributed the billion person/hour global effort to prevent it also remembers. ![]() “Remember when they told us every computer was going to crash on 1/1/01 and there would be chaos and then nothing happened?” This is akin all those hot takes about the 2k bug being an hoax: ![]()
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