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People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities—Until They Live in One (www.wired.com)
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[–] 47 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I feel like this is people about most things. Most people aren't very imaginative.

They're kind of stupidly in favor of how things are, but once it changes they're like this is great I don't know why we didn't do it before.

Like imagine if free public libraries didn't exist and someone tried to create them. Conservatives would shit their pants hating it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not just conservatives.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yah, Plenty of liberals shit them selves when you suggest giving an unalloyed good away for free.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Might be a fun social experiment to propose a public gun lending armory. Like a library, you can walk in and check-out an AK-47 for a day or week for free. But just like the library charges for printed pages, you would have to pay for the ammo.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I think there should be libraries for all sorts of things. For example, everyone on my street has their own lawnmower, trimmer, etc. And very rarely do people mow their lawns at the exact same time. It would be a lot more efficient if there was a place to check out the lawnmower to mow your lawn and put it away for someone else to use.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    My city has a tool library program that sounds exactly like this (I haven’t tried it yet, not sure how well it works in practice). Would be especially nice for one-off sorts of tools you don’t expect to use often.

    The downside is you’d need to line up your project with their hours, and hope no one else is using it when you need it. But if you have the flexibility to plan ahead, could be a nifty resource.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    That's a neat idea.

    Of course, conservatives would oppose it. They'd probably say that it's socialism and thus axiomatically bad.

    And that it's simply impossible to keep those shared tools in good repair while actively sabotaging the program.

    Some people are just anti social.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    IMO part of the fix for that is liberating psychedelics. There has been some research finding that if someone takes psilocybin (shrooms) before they reach the age of 35, they are significantly more open minded for the rest of their life. Though I’m not sure how they controlled for the question as to whether the drug makes people more psychologically flexible or whether they are more psychologically flexible in the first place if they are willing to try it.

    Either way, it seems to naturally follow that conservatives proportionally tend to avoid psychedelics. It’s anecdotal but my fellow psychonauts are all liberal.

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