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Perhaps we can increase my "50" years to "200" years. For the vast majority of history, having less men was considered eugenic and a good thing.

Things like suffocation, drowning, and fire are a bit harder to understand... but I believe they are derived from a high-risk mentality that men have gained as a result of this protector status.

Ignoring the radical changes that we've seen in the last 50 years, if we sent women to war, we wouldn't have any children. Any nation that did that was wiped off the face of the earth rather quickly.

Personally, I never decided that we should put up with this. I don't recall a vote.

Sadly, whichever side is in power, nothing seems to help reduce the homeless problem...

And, regardless of whether it's a secret or not, the populist BULL TSLA!!!! crowd is largely ignorant of it.

So sad growing up here. I imagined I would live life as an artist in a cheap flat. It was safe, beautiful, fun, and cheap.

Then Portlandia aired and the worst of the worst came to the city flooding out the local residents.

Growing up, I never understood why being poor was considered a problem. People in our city were poor, but we were decent people. I was one of them.

At some point, I realized that the new poor coming to our city on a dream fucking sucked. They shared none of my ideals and seemed to want everything for nothing.

edit: not to mention the gentrification.. holy smokes, it was a mix of these terrible people with no impulse control, and extremely rich playboys that would overpay for everything. Caused rents, restaurants, and everything else to glamorize. Even after a tech employer gave me a chance, I struggled to afford much here. I'm now happily living away.

But, that's like, almost all of the biggest cities?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

I'm sure there's some cities on that list that occasionally vote for the other party, but I think cities inherently become democrat-leaning because the people inside cities tend to be poor.

NYC seems to be doing alright because they had extreme hardass policies in the 90s (kicking out homeless, literally) but that probably won't last much longer.

Urban ghost towns require billions of dollars every single year: https://detroitmi.gov/sites/detroitmi.localhost/files/2018-1...

NYC was also kind of a bad example for me to use because actually, it's a really clean city. When I visited in 2016 I couldn't believe how much cleaner and safer it felt than my hometown (Portland Oregon).

I went to all areas, manhattan, brooklyn, the bronx, harlem, queens, and I just didn't see the sad human decay (Giuliani kicked them all out I guess).

Imagine those green spaces looking a bit more like this (pardon the crass title, it's the first one I could find): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWEdjiEJg0U

edit: this article also has some really nice aerial shots https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/07/opinion/sunda...

https://allthatsinteresting.com/san-francisco-poop-patrol

Who wouldn't want to enjoy the fine scenery while stepping around HIV-infected needles and fresh poop? Ah, this hamburger tastes so much better when I get to interact with the local people while eating it - they are so quirky, they always ask me for a dollar with a threatening gaze.

HN seems to have greatly differing opinions on where the responsibility lies when it comes to private businesses, ie: Volkswagen scandal, Uber scandal, et al

There's not enough money for two reasons. The city overspends on everything due to contract corruption and misled ideals. The money doesn't go where it needs to go, and when it goes to the wrong place, it's like a black hole.

The second reason is because large cities offer many more benefits for the poor. People who cannot afford a car simply cannot live outside of city boundaries and bus lines. With increased crime, corruption, and decay, the taxpayers leave (NYC).

Cities cannot fix this. If there will be any solution, it must be a national one. The problem of taxpayers leaving and net-drains arriving can never be solved at the local level.

I agree with your approach... we need experts, who will NOT bid to one company, who will NOT accept one-sided terms.

These are fat government contracts we're talking about... the company should have to take 100% responsibility to deliver a working website at cost.

If companies mismanage and fail, they should go out of business, and another company can try... instead of us paying for it, incentivizing bad behavior.

Unfortunately, personal responsibility has gone down the absolute shitter in the USA, hence why they are limiting our liberties - those only work in a society of nice people.

https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/capitol-mob...

I don't mean to offend, I don't mean to say that whoever is downvoting is unintelligent, but it clearly won't hold.

This upsets the 10% very much.

Citation needed, see Oracle, many companies have grown that large on the backs of taxpayers by employing the best "Sales" techniques in the biz.

I have to assume malice rather than negligence when it comes to "journalism" nowadays.

How naive and stupid are these government people? They've been swindled like this multiple times before, it was on the national news with the Obamacare website.

They're supposed to be the best we have. They won a vote after all.

There have been thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of invasions, and probably hundreds of genocides in the last 10,000 years.

We've forgotten about this in modern times because the big bad US "takes care" of us with their aircraft carriers, but the time may come where our fate more closely resembles Syria and other places that the US doesn't favor.

Criticizing a country for invading is a bit hypocritical imo, since every country border that exists de facto exists because it's government conquered that land.

Or is this like the housing situation in San Francisco? "Fuck you, got mine".