@clairetuley@sinister_aura@BigMeanInternet Great! Sounds like they resolved their issue (in this case, leaving your business potentially liable for injuries) without needing to ban children
@tjl@mattyglesias I’d completely agree on the latter point , but I guess what I am wondering is why you don’t see the upswell of negative sentiment and negative media as inevitable parts of that same system
@tjl@mattyglesias I just don’t see how it’s possible to pin any kind of mass social anxiety that developed between 2010 and 2026 on a legacy media that has steadily lost power, funding, and influence over that same period
@tjl@mattyglesias Structural explanations work both ways (The Media is trapped by their own incentives)
Personally I feel that negativity was all downstream of “move fast and break things”
this is what all that regulatory arbitrage and social engineering got you … seeding the ground
@bobby_on_mars Yes because there aren’t movies about things that are “in the air”.
They’re not making cutesy Pineapple Express style movies about drinking alcohol because drinking alcohol is just something people do
@Urban_Connector this is the problem with the whole concept IMO
it’s a well planned community, walkable and person-level and foundational
if it existed in the city it’d be perfect urbanism, but it can’t exist in the city . You don’t get to start things from scratch in the city
@olgakhazan Clearly people would rather endure the horrible, eternal, not-at-all cohort-bounded shame of still living with their parents than strive for the honorable path of indigent Cheesecake Factory waitress. If it doesn’t work for you that sounds like some shit you gotta work through.
@dougnagy Admittedly would be better for the city’s businesses and economy but a part of me still shudders at the thought of Atlanta becoming a finance Mecca