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Nemo

@Nemo@midwest.social

I like American music. Do you like American music? I like American music, too, baby.

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Nemo ,

True roguelikes are not. Oldschool sidesscrollers as well. Any game that starts you from zero.

But less pedantically, it's a genre name, not just a description. Also known as the "numbers get bigger" genre.

Nemo ,

Subbing this muni got me back into AdVenture Capitalist.

Nemo ,

If margins are so thin, how do they afford all those restaurant critics?

Nemo ,

I had no idea soulseek was still around. Found some great music that way when I was using it two decades ago in college.

Nemo ,

You make it I'll join it.

ajsadauskas , to Fuck Cars
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What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?

A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.

Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I'm not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.

How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?

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Nemo ,

I have everything but pharmacy, post office, cinema, and university. The pharmacy is within a 15-minute bike or bus, though.

What I feel is lacking is a hardware store. I really wish I had even a small hardware store close by. There used to be one.

Also missing from the list, but I have: a bakery, a swimming pool, and a coffeeshop.

Nemo , (edited )

All the time. They're open 24hrs and sell milk, cat food, cat litter, batteries, condoms, and dishsoap. For a second shift worker, something that sells small necessities in the middle of the night is a huge boon.

Plus I have deal with my neighbor to use his snowblower if I gas it up, and you can't take cannisters of liquid fuel on the bus.

Nemo ,

No, it's an insignificant portion.

Nemo ,

Or take public transit, or a taxi, or just not go to a bar at all?

Nemo ,

autocorrong

Nemo ,

My neighborhood has corner stores / bodegas as well, but they don't stay open all night.

Nemo ,

You pulled that number straight outta your ass.

Nemo ,

First Cookie Clicker, then AdVenture Capitalist (which I'm surprised to learn is still around!)

I've played a few others, most recently Sixty-Four.

Nemo ,

That'd be great, yeah. But scope is the issue.

"All Chicagoans have the right to public transit." Sane and doable. Not done, not currently, as any map of the city will show you, but both possible and desirable.

"All Illinoisans have a right to public transit." I'd love to see it, even if it's just once-a-day trains to Springfield, to St. Louis, to the Region, to Milwaukee, to Rockford, to Peoria, to Chambana. But that's a lot more train lines than we have now, and that means land for stations and RoWs, it means manpower and materials for maintenance, it means working out the logistics of scheduling and fare pricing for the communities being served. And it still won't cover everyone unless augmented with bus lines, which also need logistics, manpower, and maintenance. Still desirable; not very efficient, especially for a perpetually cash-strapped state like Illinois.

"All Americans have a right to public transit." At that point it'd be empty words, doing more harm than good.

"All humans have a right to public transit." At this point, purely aspirational rather than descriptive.

I'm beginning to come around to anarchism, got any reading suggestions?

I'm digging anarchists' more hands on, pragmatic approach to politics. I finished The Conquest of Bread a couple of weeks ago and I'm currently working my way through Bullshit Jobs. Any suggestions about theory, praxis, mutual aid, etc. would be appreciated

Nemo ,

I just read this: https://slrpnk.net/post/9405230

and the OP (though not the pamphlet author) sent me here.

Specifically, with a question. The author mentions offhandedly that in an anarchistic society there would be no need for lawyers. But in a society governed by consensus and consent, wouldn't professional advocates be more useful, not less? Any insight?

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