well, that was depressing. here am I thinking Europe has it's shit togetherregarding cars, way more then we do in Australia and they have this horror :(
As an Australian many years ago i read a thread on reddit from some stressed lady or other (I.S/ wjo said her best times were eatibg a sandwich in the car park of tje sandwhich place..and i was like, shoot me now, how can that be? it was beyond my ability to grok not going to a park, or the beach, or a lake or whatever and getting out of the shitty spot that is a a car, in a carpark, beisde a road, in front of a sandwich joint to eat a sandwich and collect your thoughts.
i often see people posting pbotos of some landscape or other and people commenting how beautiful it is.. and I'm like "there's a fucking road through the middle!"
i assume they just don't see it, like the person in a gorilla suit on the sidewalk that people don't see.. speaking of which
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/05/optical-illusions-see-world-perception
yeah, it's security theatre. we're addicited to this stupidity in Aus.
as some one who lived and worked outdoors in tropical north Austalia for 45 years, before moving much closer to the south pole, i left when i needed AC as it was getting too hot and humad.
I used to visit social centres like the library and use their AC and WiFi or just read a book on the real killer, hot days. or go swimming :)
Good home insulation makes a difference but can only hold the worst of it off.
As to making it worse, the same thing with cars, plane flights etc and not voting Greens to eneact policy change. Just have to look around to see most people are making it worse with enthusiasm every day, they just feel no guilt :)
Unlike genocide, that situations fixable by voters, we just seem content with what we have.
We could Vote Green, who have policies around higher taxes fo the wealthy and and corporations and dental into medicare, free universty etc
hell, I dont vote Green to elect the Greens per se but to move the syatus quo off the orthodoxy and allow the Overton Window to shift.
Nothing changes until voters do.
yeah, he's a functioning ketamine and wegovy addict .