Thank you! I honestly get pretty anxious, especially in my dingy little car, going the speed limit.

Completely agree around the “good drivers” fallacy. We’re all human - emotional, tired, thinking about other things.

And the risk and consequences of a crash increase disproportionately with speed while the time gain has diminishing returns. So I’m happy getting there 5 mins later after 2 h of driving safely and calmly

A likely indicator of ADHD

Yes, but the point is that scaring them now with this idea of the future may help prevent it.

They think their bunkers will be safe in X years and lots of people are going to ensure they aren’t

Ya this isn’t the argument the person I replied to was making

Ya this isn’t the argument the person I replied to was making

Explain why globally we cut back on nuclear power please? How does this fit into your argument?

Sorry, I don’t really check for notifications here. Yeah, I suppose America might have a different culture. Most other “1st world” (i.e. white) countries are relatively similar though in my experience. There seems to be plenty of diverse non-bigoted people around, even if there is a definite shift that way in the average mindset.

Sure! Big cities can be super isolating, especially if you:

• don’t drink
• don’t enjoy clubbing
• don’t drink coffee
• don’t play or enjoy sports
• live in one of the ‘less desirable’ areas, due to living costs or proximity to work.

Even when some of these weren’t true for me, people who are well established in large cities generally have well established social groups and, although they might be lovely people and very welcoming, aren’t really in the market for proper friendships. Those who are also new to the city like you are very prone to move on themselves within a year or so.

Conversely, people in rural areas are simply desperate for friends. Within 2 months of moving to the country, we had different 2 couples who made it clear they wanted to give being friends a proper go - simply because they are desperate and we seem like we’re on a similar vibe. There’s definitely much less variety in sports, especially high level stuff, but conversely (as you said) we now have much easier access to great hikes/day walks. People here are also significantly more likely to be interested in gardening, pickling, jam making, bread making - all the self-sufficiency stuff. Much less of a “grindset” which can be super exhausting. Oh! People in rural areas also seem to be more likely to like board games, which my partner loves.

Don’t get me wrong, I love big cities - the amazing food, the great public transport (I LOATHE driving), the culture and events. Everything has pros and cons though.

It might be naive of me but I think there is. It’s a lot of work but we can develop self -sustaining communities that support each other. That support can look a variety of ways too, from shopping at each others small businesses to sharing crops from gardens and farms.

There is definitely no magic country though. I just returned to my home country after jumping from job to job in Europe trying to find a place for me and my family that wasn’t awful. Unfortunately, being an immigrant is hard no matter where you go and people will take advantage of your vulnerability.

Love this. Where is this? I’m trying to convince local people that we can develop less car-centric spaces in rural areas and I’d love more examples to use

I’ve lived in 4 of the biggest cities in the world and I’ve just hit 30 and moved rural - smaller cities are best for socialising, but depending on your hobbies rural can be better than big cities. Completely agree that walkability is key, just adding nuance that I don’t agree that cities in general are great like I used to - it can be very hard to live a nice life in a major city

Yeah that’s true

Yeah it is insane how many of them have no higher education, or conversely simply got a PhD and have never worked in industry before

I mean, yes, but not nearly as much

Na they’re long - they’re sitting 2 rows back /s

Don’t worry buddy, I get it. I feel the same way about USA

This is an incredibly frustrating part of my work with startups. I do economic assessments for climate tech, and if it doesn’t work on paper then you can be damn sure it won’t magically start working in the real world. There are millions of reasons a startup might fail and very few that even give a chance for success (big VC success, not just normal profitablity or survival).

In summary I agree it’s a massive lottery, but it drives me crazy how much investment goes to lottery tickets that don’t even have a legitimate chance of success.

Yeah one of the biggest learnings for me over my career is that people are hard-wired for stories. It doesn’t matter how good an engineer/scientist you are, how well explained or robust the logic/study is, etc. People only respond to how things make them feel - we are emotional beings with the ability to rationalize, not the other way around.

I mean, you COULD just have a massive membrane area. They won’t, cause that’d be crazy, but you could.

Because exactly those things you describe (as well as some other factors/events) were reckless, violent experimenting (ideological, military, technological). And now we’re finding out. Like I’m not sure if you’re aware but the world changed ridiculously fast during the 1900s and now the early 2000s compared to the rest of history.