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    17 小时前

    Her: so what are you interested in?

    Me: Mostly how car dependent suburban development has eroded all forms of social capital and has torn our communities apart so completely that it’s functionally impossible to even call or neighborhoods and towns “communities” anymore. … But, uh, what are you interested in?

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        "Did you know GM had electric car technology in the 60s? And instead all the Boomers got lead poisoning from cars, which society has been suffering under ever since, while the gas and oil companies actively worked to undermine a better way of life across the entire country.

        Imagine if you could just jump on a train and get from Boston to DC in 2.5 hours instead of almost 10 hours.

        Or San Francisco to LA in 2.5 hours. Or Chicago to Nashville.

        That’s the time it takes to train from London to Paris."

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        16 小时前

        Me: I promise I won’t go on car dependancy rants tonight

        Walks one block down the street

        Me: Okay! Listen can I just point one thing out…

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    Ah, the wheel of “Why I have nothing to talk about at family gatherings”

    “You like history, why can’t you just talk about that?”

    All of history is political, both inherently and especially when dealing with fundamentalist right-wing Christians.

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    Property is theft

    Are we missing a word like “taxes” or something in that one, or is there some sort of double-think going on?