I live in a relatively centrist-ish large suburb in North Alabama, about 65k people. There aren't any stretches of sidewalk going for than a couple hundred feet, maximum. Outside of those scarce stretches, you get to walk on the wet grass with the dead armadilloes, a few feet away from certain death at the hands of Billy Bob's Ford F150.
we got stopped by police when we tried to walk from the Stratosphere Hotel in LV to an outlet outside the city (walk time approx. 30 minutes). They asked us if we needed assistance getting there, were asked why we didn't order a taxi and were genuinelly baffled by our desire to walk lmao
Naomi Klein refers to the right co-opting left phases (triggered, othered, fake news, etc) as "pipiking." I think doing the reverse is hilarious, but also imagine a future where it results in an Idiocracy-like dialect 💀
Yeah, we can basically guarantee any future dialect will sound stupid to modern English speakers, as complicated and rare sentence structures will be dropped and new ones will be imported from other languages, na mean
Bad drivers and the bike lanes are very intermittent too. The only road I regularly bike on with a bike lane (I try for smaller roads which aren't deemed busy enough for a bike lane) usually has enough cars parked in the bike lane to make it useless. The bigger bike laned roads I ride on the sidewalk.