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  • jaywalking is not illegal in Europe

    It’s illegal to walk on motorways in the UK. I suspect that’s true in other European countries too. But except for that, in UK cities and towns, a pedestrian can cross the street whenever it’s safe to do so. And the carnage that would result of the US did that doesn’t happen here. It’s just another case where Americans allow themselves to be micromanaged in ways that seem bizarre to the rest of the world.








  • So that’s an urban density test, with added cartwheel fun.

    When selecting a place to live last time I moved, I set up a balanced scorecard (as one does). One of the highly-weighted criteria was “how many places can I sit down and have a beer within a 20-minute walk of my house?” The answer for the place I moved to was 34. Other places I considered scored even higher than that, but lost out on other criteria. For the previous place I’d lived: 3, though if you expanded to 30 minutes, it was 8. Still not bad if you have a bicycle. English (and many other European) cities are far more concentrated than those in the US. In the US, the closest you’d get are San Francisco, New York, Boston and a few other eastern cities.

    The ironic thing is that I quit drinking beer a couple years ago. Luckily, other services like cafes, restaurants and coffee houses follow a similar pattern.




  • The appropriate way to take care of Reddit is to shut it down, sell all its assets and donate the proceeds to blind dogs, imprison every paid member of staff, put their families into foster homes (if any of them aren’t incels), bulldoze their dwellings, salt their fields, and systematically delete anything online that they ever uploaded.

    Then dunk the shareholders’ heads one by one in a bucket of horse piss, duration of dunking in proportion to the number of shares held.

    I know it’s milder than they deserve, but you gotta start somewhere.