You have found like minded people then, there are many of us! We have !urbanism@slrpnk.net and !citylife@beehaw.org for more generic conversations on making our cities better, and if you’re a bit more upset at hour our cities are being ruined, there’s also !fuckcars@lemmy.world

That video is what brought me into the fold, realizing how bad it truly was.

I love all of these and would add only that even doing small changes can have large impacts if we all did them. If everyone are just one less meal a week of red meat farming as a whole would be so much less horrible. Replacing one weekly car trip with a bike, walk, or transit. If even half of our population started with small things like those we could make a real dent.

That being said doing more is always better!

Albuquerque was one of the saddest downtowns I’ve ever been to. We went for a couple of nights on a long trip just to see NM, stayed downtown. The entire city was empty, massive swaths of empty parking lots with the occasional few shops in between. That city honestly has a very unique culture, green chiles in everything, and has so much potential, but the city is just rotting from car culture.

It just kills me how parking laws and car-minded people think about downtowns. “There is too much traffic, so we must add parking”, which was a very naive idea because they ended up bulldozing all of the reasons there was traffic in the first place. Now tax revenue from downtown cores is minimal, downtowns deteriate, but hey you can go park there whenever you want. Just don’t expect anything to do once you are there.

The point of the article is that no matter what project your city tries to do, drivers will always feel that there isn’t enough parking in the plan. Worse, if the city wants to build something that would remove parking, drivers will be up in arms constantly fighting against that. The crux is that parking makes cities feel emptier and hollow, which then drives away the very people that businesses depend on, and we start seeing what we’ve seen for a long time in downtown cores. Tons of parking - with nothing to do downtown.

I recommend the article, and this is a great video too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNXFHpUhu8

Although fluoride is safe for dental health at low concentrations,[1] sustained consumption of large amounts of soluble fluoride salts is dangerous

Literally your link. I’m in my late 30s. I’ve only lived in places with Fluoride in the water my entire life, and both my parents and I have chosen to have regular fluoride treatments and fluoride toothpaste. I don’t need advice from Lemmy, if what you were saying were true I’d be dead decades ago.

As the other person said, everything will kill you if you have too much of it. Water can kill you if you drink too much. Either you believe some very incorrect things, or you’re a troll who is doing pretty well here getting us riled up.

I think you need to retake chemistry then, right now you’re the one spreading misinformation. The Wikipedia article is about a completely unrelated compound.

Yeah no one should be buying “pumpkin spice”. It’s like buying those bottles of “cinnamon sugar”. Just have a bottle of cinnamon and a pound bag of sugar.

This is the sort of logical take that I’m surprised hasn’t been downvoted to hell here

Personally I like Sable, it feels closer to Discord, has call support, and “just works”