well mostly its not need on account of running water and all.
there are tons of smart kids making cool stuff here, and there is a ton (relatively speaking) of support for their creativity and their needs.
your statement almost feels like misplaced nostalgia for a time that never existed
bitter sweet joy for me. the world still owes so much to africa, and yet we’ve left so many countries mired in colonial and post-colonial debt.
it’s great to see kids being kids - being able to be kids - anywhere. and more than the kid, that kid has great parents.
it sucks to know coronavirus there will ultimately probably be much worse than here in the states precisely because of the problems the us and the west caused.
my two cent plan: radically increase the number of states. give all our territories and all the native nations a voice in congress, split up the big populous blue states into several smaller blue states.
this ridiculous lock that the gop has on the senate and the presidency will vanish overnight
I wonder about that. In many ways the U.S. response has been horrific, with numbers that are clearly much higher than those being officially reported. Yes, Africa in general has long been heinously preyed upon, but its people may well avoid some of the pitfalls fallen into by the U.S., and end up with lower fatality rates.
Slavery fetishists always talk succession when they don’t control the federal government (when they do they still talk shit, but seek to crush actual State authority when they can). Californians grumble occasionally, but they’d never give up Portland, Seattle, Austin or New Orleans, much less all the National Parks scattered through the red States.
I don’t think it was an attempt to solve the problem of running water so much as to make it so you don’t touch the tap or soap dispenser. In the US we usually do that with optical sensors and solenoids. I like his solution better.
I’m sorry you were not impressed by the kid and his invention. I thought it was delightful.
The Californian secessionist group to keep an eye on is the “State of Jefferson” movement. It’s basically a bunch of disgruntled rural folks from Northern California (and a few from Southern Oregon) who want to secede from their respective states to form a new one where they won’t be beholden to the godless big-city progressives who control most of the state.
It’s a potentially dangerous movement not because it has a realistic chance of success (it’s an idea that’s been kicking around since the early '40s without gaining any real traction) but because the movement is largely comprised of well-armed MAGA-hat-wearing types who are basically the Neo-Confederates/Bundy family of the West Coast. They have a lot of local support too, most of the counties in the proposed state broke for Trump in a major way in 2016.
Spoilers: you might end up having a easier time finding the staples you want from your local indie grocery store and smaller regional grocer chains over walmart the next coming months
They sure killed a lot of people to do it. Obviously their response hasn’t been as bad as the US (although is seems more accurate to say that their national security structures are not as decrepit as ours), but until recently their deaths per million was actually worse. We’ll blow them out of the water before long, if we haven’t already, but that’s no cause to break out the schnapps…
If I would get one euro each time I hear or read iterations of “you cannot do this forever” or “how long do you want to do this, until next year”, I would be rich enough to pay the psychotherapy sessions I will soon need if I keep hearing and reading this.
(Disclaimer: noone will give me those euros, but I have health insurance, so there’s that.)
In politics, when the person who started it all says “slow [show action here]”, it usually means “stop the shit that I started”. “Slow” is less of an admission of stupidity.
