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Oh yeah, there's plenty. The stops are very frequent to accommodate the elderly and disabled.

Maybe my perception of time is exaggerated, but I think a bus stop near me has been shut down for weeks for no apparent reason. As of a few days ago there's a fence around it and a large vehicle, but there's still no work being done??

I think so long as reigns exist there will always be opportunists ready to take them.

Psychopathy, or psychopathic personality, is a personality construct characterized by impaired empathy and remorse, along with bold, disinhibited, and egocentric traits. These traits are often masked by superficial charm and immunity to stress, which create an outward appearance of apparent normalcy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy

Is it a slur when it's being accurately used to describe a personality type and isn't even a real disorder?

I'm almost positive this is my problem, but my local health system won't let me see a psychiatrist.

There's a YouTube video of a guy who I guess he and his wife did life blogs or something (I didn't watch their content, so I don't really know). He's got his recording going about the start of his day, talking about how she's sleeping in again, and then he goes to wake her, but she's fucking dead. It's like the most human thing I've ever seen on film, and I really appreciate that he posted it, even though I don't fully understand why I feel that way. It just feels important to me.

Yes, hostile architecture does sound exactly like the "solution" they'd go for. I hope I didn't imply the wrong thing; I think fences in conjunction with adequate crossings is the answer.

Thinking more about it, I don't think we actually have jaywalking laws here, or at least they aren't enforced in town. I should hope there's some kind of rules about being a hazard in busy traffic, but everyone walks in the street in town when cars and bikes aren't coming, right in front of police even, and I think that's very reasonable. Many streets are only open to buses, taxis, and delivery vehicles, so it's quiet and safe.

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It doesn't matter to me whether there was ever a mystery because that wasn't the interesting part. "What are they working on?" doesn't need to have an amazing answer; it could just be accounting for all I care. What matters is who the characters are, what they have done and will do and why. And more importantly, the way it highlights issues with corporations by drawing interesting parallels within the story. Maybe people in real life will be inclined to question their own conditions and be inspired to protest for better lives.

Depending on which Native Americans we're taking about, some of them drove entire herds of bison over cliffs. Our European ancestors hunted the mastodon to extinction, I think? In Australia and New Zealand a bunch of reptiles and the moa birds were wiped out by humans.

I don't think most humans are ever thinking about genocide exactly (probably some are/were), but that they're focused on feeding and defending their communities and not considering the balance of the ecosystem.

But if the crosswalks are unreasonably far apart then pedestrians are being encouraged by the state to engage in unsafe behavior. As I said, they could erect a small fence to prevent unsafe crossings. This is a failure of the state to serve its people.

I'm not sure how to feel about the driver not being charged, but one should drive with the expectation that unforeseen hazards will pop up at any moment, especially children. I would not be shocked to learn that he was driving one of those enormous American cars that makes it impossible to see short adults, another failure of the state. Or that the speed limit was too high. These things would make me feel the fault is more on the state than on the driver. (But it definitely isn't on the parents.)

As for your dog, just keep it on a lead. It's the safest thing for everyone if all dogs are secured properly while going about town.

e: Also his age. How good is the vision and reaction time of this 76-year-old man? How often are they re-testing drivers?

Even if someone merely has a rank, you still have to listen to them if they've been assigned authority over you within a system that coerces your compliance under a threat of some kind. What phrase would be better to describe this kind of authority?