Moving to another country is a lot of work. Europe is stereotypically seen as having a lot of practical benefits like walkable cities and generally sane culture around stuff like healthcare. America is a big country though and blue states offer a lot of the same benefits.
I wish public transit were just free, I'd rather just pay taxes and not worry about cards. I think there's some amount of "but what about homeless people", and some amount of "but we can't lose money on it" sentiment. At least we've got it though and we're expanding it.
I live in a "walkable for the US" area. The best way to get to stuff is along a busy stroad that's not fun to walk along. I can cut through neighbors' yards to get to nice quiet backroads that are much more pleasant, and they don't seem to mind, but it'd be nice if I didn't have to.
It's a sort of Gambler's Fallacy. His bad luck is building up if nothing bad has happened to him yet today and might strike at any moment so it's best to be far away from him when it happens.
A lot of the ethos here is captured by the Gemini protocol, basically a return-to-roots web 1.0 thing. Here's a portal to gemini and other similar protocols I posted a while back:
Disable user-select: none; (and variants) on body to be able to select text again. I like the idea of a blog post that calls out something annoying and demonstrates the annoyance inline, though
The most loving, gregarious dogs seem to get down to their basic instincts pretty fast when you reach for their food bowl midmeal. (For a real thrill, try reaching for it in slow motion. Dogs love the sensation that their food is being stalked.)
I started playing with this tendency in dogs, and it just sort of evolved into the grizzly bear cartoon seen at left.
Yeah, some people want to take the easy out and blame the youths. I think it's interesting to consider what should happen though. People want to get ahead in life and you can't really blame them. Do we need to burn it all down and go fully automated luxury communism, or is there a way to fix it?
Elite overproduction is a concept developed by Peter Turchin that describes the condition of a society that has an excess supply of potential elite members relative to its ability to absorb them into the power structure. This, he hypothesizes, is a cause for social instability, as those left out of power feel aggrieved by their relatively low socioeconomic status.
This is an earlier comic of his, 1980 (copyright date on top right) is shortly after The Far Side was started and the art still kind of resembles his earlier strip Nature's Way. Here's another Nature's Way strip to compare:
How are you viewing them? With an app or with a web browser? I haven't changed the way I've been posting them recently. Someone else messaged me recently about an error, but it turned out to be an issue with their client parsing the post wrong.
Why Belize? Anything in particular that draws you to it?