DelightfullyDivisive

@DelightfullyDivisive@discuss.online

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Detroit has this, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have found the opposite in rural Michigan (northern US). My wife’s family has a vacation home, and skilled tradespeople are slightly cheaper around there. The place is more than an hour from any large towns, but 30 minutes from several small towns.

  Maybe population is distributed differently here due to the way infrastructure is funded?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your favourite YouTube channels might not survive this [Minute Earth]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have enjoyed Anton Petrov, Parallax Nick, some PBS Spacetime and Crash Course, plus history content from the Austin school and other places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your favourite YouTube channels might not survive this [Minute Earth]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no body text that I can see. I am viewing via Lemmy and using the Voyager app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that is true. It wasn’t a majority. (Although that’s a nitpick, it was close enough to say that about half of all voters voted for Trump.)

  A more important consideration is that the majority of people who did vote for him are incredibly naive when it comes to politics. They think that the president sets gas prices, or that Trump and Musk are geniuses because they say they are. Most of them feel disenfranchised by both political parties, and this is a brick through the window of the established order. I don’t think most of the electorate thought this through much beyond that.

  I honestly don’t know what difference it will make in the long run, but I don’t think it is true to say that this is what most people wanted.