We have congested into cities, not because the ordinary man likes congestion, but because great ground-landlords liked control, and great building firms liked speculation.
@SandyofCthulhu I lived in Tamaha, OK for 15 years. In Marvel's Echo Tamaha has a full-time staffed fire-station, antique shops, a skating rink... you'd think they don't even understand what ghost-town means.
@SandyofCthulhu@KirunoTheWise I've never seen a take I've agreed with you more on, The Great Gatsby is the worst thing I've ever read and I've been in a book club that purposely read horrible books.
It's the 20th Anniversary of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."
NONE of his scary predictions have come true.
Mt. Kilimanjaro still has snow and Glacier National Park still has glaciers.
Here's why we are not doomed:
At some point, you have to examine the possibility that studios are doing this on purpose so we won't object to them replacing actors with AI animation.
Pretty easy to see who started the gerrymander war. If republicans started it then democrats would have a bunch of states they could gerrymander to retaliate.
But they don’t, because they’ve already gerrymandered most of their states.