Maybe it’s making two points. Do you think you can handle that?

As if that were the reason people don’t go to Burger King

Baltimoron here - he’s definitely not the worst mayor we’ve had in recent history, and he probably gets some credit for supporting the violence reduction programs that have led to our truly historic drop in homicides over the last couple years.

Also, he has good taste in music

Brandon Scott, mayor of Baltimore, MD, USA?

There are unfortunately so many American metro areas like the one you’re describing: poor public services in city vs suburbs, more jobs in suburbs, cheaper housing. Its definitely not a natural law of the universe but a result of short-sighted, racist, classist planning and development, and it forces lots of people to live in the burbs even if they’d rather not.

I do want to push back on the monthly car cost a bit. You didn’t factor in gas, maintenance, repairs, etc in your own estimate of your car cost. Those really add up and would probably push you closer to the $1000/month/car mark.

Also, your insurance rate seems extremely low. I’m happy for you, but I think you might be an outlier.

I’d also like to add that, as far as I know, USA (and to a lesser extent Canada) are the only two states in the Americas that are still actively colonizing other places, including other parts of the Americas.

Its not a perfect term. Changing language is difficult and messy.

Do you have suggestions for something better (not meant to be snarky, I genuinely would like to find a good alternative and I bet cowbee would like input as well)?

I have some severely dedicated haters

Then you must be doing something right.

Also, I respect your insistence on using a term other than American to describe people from the US.

Growing up in the US, calling ourselves American is a hard habit to break, but I recognize how dismissive and insulting it is to the rest of the people living in North and South America.

Perhaps.

Side note - you don’t deserve all this down voting. You’re engaging in good faith and making reasonable statements (more reasonable than my initial comment deserved, frankly). Its unfortunate that attempting to bring nuance to an online discussion usually results in hateful backlash. That’s not a .ml or .world problem. Just an Internet problem.

Obviously I’m generalizing and don’t think everyone on either instance is such a simplistic thinker. But I’ve been on the receiving end of plenty of insults from .ml accounts implying that ALL Americans are indistinguishable from Jefferson Davis.

.world is full of apologists and denialists for western imperialism

.ml is full of tankies who think that ALL Americans are fascists (even those of us currently being terrorized by fascists).

FSM help you if you ever try to inject sanity into one of their “debates”

Thanks!

Legs, bus, bike, and occasional car rental.

I live in a decently large city with a typically American dysfunctional transit system, but it’s good enough to get me to and from work.

Car rental is really only for trips to see family out of state. Before selling, I calculated that I could rent a car for one weekend every month of the year and that would cost less than I was paying for just my car insurance, so it’s still a win.

It’s good for an American city of its size. But it is not good by, ya know, human standards.

Hello fellow anarcho-socialist

Jesus Christ have you learned nothing from the last year?

We need to abolish capitalism, not replace it with an all-powerful federal government.

For personal use maybe. Not for a public organization that can get sued into oblivion if caught pirating.

That’s what the hardware requirement bypass and a techie friend are for.

I manage a whole computer lab full of 3rd to 5th gen Intels with 8GB of RAM that run Windows 11 just fine.

I can see that eating into some PC use, but plenty of Millennials I know still prefer laptops or even desktops for casual use.