@b541bfe5 Indeed. In Toronto, council has cautiously been moving towards allowing alcohol to be consumed in parks. One of the arguments against it was that restaurants would lose money. As if the spending of $ sanctifies an activity.
Same argument goes for supporting gyms to open early in the pandemic vs making it easier for people to walk and bike outside. Without money, it loses prestige.
How is it that driving is viewed as a symbol of freedom and independence, and walking as dependence, when it’s literally the opposite?
When you drive, you depend on the infrastructure supporting it (roads, parking lots, traffic lights, snow clearing, gas stations, car purchase & maintenance & insurance & gas,…). When you walk, it’s just you and your feet, taking you in any direction you want.
#Urbanism #VisionZero #WalkableStreets #WalkableCities #PedestrianSafety #CarDependency #TheWarOnCars
@b541bfe5@c5dffaf5 A good test for whether a term is really gender neutral is to use it in the phrase “I like to have sex with…”. A hetero man who uses “guys” or “dudes” as a gender neutral term would still be unlikely to say “I like to have sex with guys”.
@30700d9a My ex, who played jazz among other things, liked to read books about chess strategies before going to bed. And it seemed to me at the time like there’s a similarity between the two disciplines, in terms of immersing enough to become fluent in sequences which one can then draw on as needed.
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