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Cake day: December 18th, 2023

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  • 43 year old American who at 10 would ride a bike over a mile to school and spent my summers pretty much going wherever I wanted on my bike or walking. But things have definitely changed.

    People have forgotten their own childhood and see kids on their own as troublemakers. Or like in this case, they feel they know better than parents.

    We’ve also given up what little walkability we had to wider streets with higher speed limits. The small town where I grew up has significantly more people and more and larger intersections. Many of the roads have also been widened.

    Finality, policing has changed. At least where I grew up officers were members of the community. They were there to uphold the law and would rather take you home or talk to your parents than charge or detain you. It would have been national news for a cop to handcuff and detain a 10-14 year old, now it is expected and celebrated. IMO policing is a profession that has lost its humanity. They are enforcers, not peace officers.











  • It’s “free at time of service” which is an important distinction. Everyone in a community contributes in some way to fire services. The fire brigade doesn’t ask for payment before they arrive at the scene.

    Health should not be tied to employment. You shouldn’t be afraid to take care of your health because you’re between jobs. I imagine that people who do visit doctors regularly have better health and as a result lower healthcare costs. If you have to worry about how you’re going to pay for it you’re less likely to go.

    I pay a fair amount to cover my family and pay a fair bit more in taxes if it meant that I didn’t have to worry about my employment to get coverage or knew that my child would be covered in the future.