Sure. I agree with all of that. But I live in a suburban sprawl of a US city that is just dense enough to have lots of cars, but nowhere near dense enough to have decent public transportation…unless we as a society decided to bulldoze this entire vast suburban landscape and start over with density as a goal. It’s hot here too. Nobody is riding their bike 12 miles to work in 95⁰ weather (35⁰ for our metric homies).

Maybe within the next few years the Netherlands will let me and my family in as refugees so I can bike everywhere on a 72⁰ summer day.

But I like where your head’s at. Hopefully you’re young and can make a difference.

To be fair, you have a 1 in 95 chance of dying in an automobile accident.

Based on modern safety standards for everything else, that’s unacceptable.

If I offered you a job and said you have a 1 in 95 chance of dying from working this job, you would refuse. The most dangerous job in the USA is logging, with about a 1 in 1000 chance of dying. More lumberjacks die driving home than die working their extremely dangerous job.

Not only should we have self-driving flying taxis by now, but we should also at least have level 5 self-driving cars so people aren’t constantly dying driving to get groceries or pick up their kids.

I’d really like to at least see humanity fully switch to clean energy in my lifetime but I’m losing hope.

I should already be able to take a self-driving flying taxi to work. I should already be able to vacation on the moon. We shouldn’t be burning stuff to power all our modern tech.

I grew up on 80s/90s scifi. I hope humanity can get it’s shit together and that the current anti-intellectualism phase we’re in is just part of a larger cycle.

Calling anything about beauty a standard.

Obviously fake anything. Boobs. Lips. Butt.

Trying too hard in general. Just be you.

I get we’re not perfect and we all have insecurities. Why are they called love handles? But people are just people. We’re all human.

People who don’t drink water make me unnaturally irritated. It’s just so crazy. “I don’t breathe air because don’t really like the taste”.

I know I sound like an asshole. It shouldn’t matter to me what you do. It’s your body and your life.

Still…c’mon, like what? It’s water. It brings life. It’s the original thirst quencher. It’s what your body needs. Just drink it.

As a working class adult you have to start applying time management skills to your life or you’ll be overwhelmed.

One of those skills is budgeting time for recreation and hobbies. If something is important to you, put that time on your calendar.

I have teenage kids and a busy life. We plan for game nights on the PC, usually Tuesday and then one other night during the week as long as there’s no sportsball practices or whatnot.

Unfortunately the old “I’m bored, time for gaming” won’t work anymore. You have to assign value to your activities. Doing nothing on the couch can be an activity, gaming can be an activity, doing the dishes can be an activity. If you don’t assign values to activities and schedule them then you’ll get overwhelmed because you won’t have time to do anything.