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Shaggar posted:tell us more about what your life was like before cars. 
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lol im old but seriously our overreliance on cars has essentially destroyed our society.
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Apr 7, 2020 19:21
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I feel like anyone trying to imply past times were more safe and that kids could just run out and play all day is partially relying on ignorance I mean sure there have been periods of worse times and maybe parents have just kind of overdone it sometimes but its certainly never been great rotor posted:lol im old but seriously our overreliance on cars has essentially destroyed our society. this is true though
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Apr 7, 2020 19:22
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rotor posted:lol im old but seriously our overreliance on cars has essentially destroyed our society. like, i'd say that maybe 5-10% of my classmates got car shuttled by their parents and it was usually because the parents worked nearby this insane thing where like 80% of parents today idle their SUVs in this 400 car queue in this specially designed serpentine parking lot just to drop their kids off blows my loving mind
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Apr 7, 2020 19:24
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yeah I don't understand why we stopped using buses
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Apr 7, 2020 19:25
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Jonny 290 posted:like, i'd say that maybe 5-10% of my classmates got car shuttled by their parents and it was usually because the parents worked nearby it's loving nuts around here. we live within walking distance of my kid's school, but the parents that drive there do exactly what you describe. it's chaos. at a bunch of other schools in the area cars stack waaaay out into the street. 
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Apr 7, 2020 19:26
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lancemantis posted:yeah I don't understand why we stopped using buses 1) school of choice/vouchers 2) scary poors ride the bus!
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Apr 7, 2020 19:27
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the idea that you can't let your kids roam around outside because its too dangerous is insane
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Apr 7, 2020 19:27
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yeah I live pretty close to our school and I'm pretty sure one of my neighbors still drives their kids there; I don't think the mom even has a job so she's just driving there and home
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Apr 7, 2020 19:27
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everyone says its because of kidnappers but it's not. Kidnapping rates, modulo divorce issues, has remainded essentially static since the 50s. It's about cars, and kids getting run over.
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Apr 7, 2020 19:28
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lancemantis posted:I feel like anyone trying to imply past times were more safe and that kids could just run out and play all day is partially relying on ignorance mmm, no. it was common practice in the prior to, oh, say, mid-70s or early 80s in America.
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Apr 7, 2020 19:31
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times were literally more safe for children playing outside.
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Apr 7, 2020 19:32
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ngl kinda proud of this one im still giggling https://twitter.com/jonny290/status/1247589981515726848
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Apr 7, 2020 19:32
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rotor posted:everyone says its because of kidnappers but it's not. Kidnapping rates, modulo divorce issues, has remainded essentially static since the 50s. It's about cars, and kids getting run over. My kids live a 10min walk from school but they have to cross a bridge over a freeway with a 4-way stop everyone runs (and someone got killed there last year) so we have to do a 2 min drive to school instead
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Apr 7, 2020 19:34
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President Beep posted:1) school of choice/vouchers 3) socialism
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Apr 7, 2020 19:35
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i remember reading some article where they looked at how far kids are allowed to roam from their house. a century ago, it was like ten miles. then gradually over time parents got more and more afraid, and neighbors more likely to call the cops because of your poor child enjoying playing outside instead of glazing in front of screens
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Apr 7, 2020 19:40
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rich parents that lived outside of my school district would rent a small apartment, not use it, and legally change their address to it a week before school registration started every year, so their kids could go to the rich white school then they'd gently caress off to their lake mansion
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Apr 7, 2020 19:41
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Broken Machine posted:i remember reading some article where they looked at how far kids are allowed to roam from their house. a century ago, it was like ten miles. then gradually over time parents got more and more afraid, and neighbors more likely to call the cops because of your poor child enjoying playing outside instead of glazing in front of screens I myself as a child would regularly roam miles from home to friends houses or walking to the pizza place to play video games
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Apr 7, 2020 19:44
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i rode a lovely huffy mountain bike 12 miles each way in 102 degree arkansas heat to make my weekly probation meetings after i got busted shoplifting a 28.8k modem from walmart
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Apr 7, 2020 19:50
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man i'm talkin about when i was like 8
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Apr 7, 2020 19:57
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rotor posted:man i'm talkin about when i was like 8 Guy with the red flag would chase you out of the road
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Apr 7, 2020 19:58
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rotor posted:once upon a time we'd just toss kids out of the house after breakfast and tell them to be home for dinner, but cars have made that far too dangerous. now's definitely the right time to send them outside then!  rotor posted:mmm, no. it was common practice in the prior to, oh, say, mid-70s or early 80s in America. i was a kid in the late 80s through early 90s and i definitely got the "go out and do something, just come back before it's dark, make sure you have some quarters for the pay phone" thing. i rode my bike the 5km to school every day from age 11 on. i think canadian cities are a little safer re. cars than american ones, though.
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Apr 7, 2020 19:59
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Guy with the red flag would chase you out of the road dude walking ahead of you carrying a lantern and ringing a bell
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Apr 7, 2020 20:05
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Jonny 290 posted:dude walking ahead of you carrying a lantern and ringing a bell great idea, but signatures only come after your posts
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Apr 7, 2020 20:18
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President Beep posted:looking forward to when they start recommending lucky rabbits feet and colloidal silver I had a lady come in looking for something for her eyes because she had been using colloidal silver IN HER EYES
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Apr 7, 2020 20:18
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Guy with the red flag would chase you out of the road Jonny 290 posted:dude walking ahead of you carrying a lantern and ringing a bell loving lmao
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Apr 7, 2020 20:20
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echinopsis posted:I had a lady come in looking for something for her eyes because she had been using colloidal silver IN HER EYES lovely baby blues
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Apr 7, 2020 20:20
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i fell asleep drunk on the floor last night in the lounge listening to the the wall well i wasn’t really asleep i was just on the floor i guess I would have been asleep soon anyway my son came and tapped me on the foot to say turn down the music but he scared the poo poo out of me and I screamed aaaa aaa aaa before I realised it was my own child and then I tucked them into bed god I am such a mess my kids are too old now they’ll remember this poo poo 😓 never again
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Apr 7, 2020 20:26
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wait echi you have a KID? that is hosed
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Apr 7, 2020 20:30
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two boys 9&11 never forget
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Apr 7, 2020 20:46
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and god drat why do people respond that way lol like i’m sure it’s not because “oh because I didn’t think you were old enough”, I’m sure the reasons are because you think of me as a sterile clown
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Apr 7, 2020 20:50
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rotor posted:everyone says its because of kidnappers but it's not. Kidnapping rates, modulo divorce issues, has remainded essentially static since the 50s. It's about cars, and kids getting run over. So yes, no more safe or dangerous It’s all rose colored glasses and apocrypha Like I’m sure people would look through rose colored guess about my lovely village and us all roaming wild, but any fondness for that is: - conveniently forgetting the enabling of child neglect by taking advantage of our remoteness - very poor monitoring and enforcement of property crime - forgetting all the statutory rape and 40 year old townies loving 13 year olds and giving them STDs - suicides - rampant teen death from alcohol abuse
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Apr 7, 2020 20:53
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lancemantis posted:So yes, no more safe or dangerous and events like the town drunk getting hammered, shooting a gun in the air outside the school (which is k-12 in one building) and everyone going "oh that's just billy-ray"
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Apr 7, 2020 20:59
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Well more like the town vagrant, but he didn’t have a gun Hard to have a town drunk when like 90% of the population is alcoholics
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Apr 7, 2020 21:04
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We used to steal his porno from whatever abandoned house he was camping out in at the time; that was probably pretty gross thinking back
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Apr 7, 2020 21:09
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as I remember things there were always degrees of alchoholics everyone drank, but some people drank after work some drank during work and some just drank
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Apr 7, 2020 21:10
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i don't remember my home town having a vagrant problem between hud and church housing, I think anyone that needed a roof could get one there were occasionally problems with people coming in from the river, but they always went back out after a couple days
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Apr 7, 2020 21:13
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They took care of him eventually— buy buying him a bus ride out to Venice amazingly; probably fit right in
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Apr 7, 2020 21:15
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echinopsis posted:I had a lady come in looking for something for her eyes because she had been using colloidal silver IN HER EYES got an eyeshine for 20 menthol kools
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this conversation reminded me enjoy this map of households without running water https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/08/plumbing-poverty-water-access-insecurity-race-class-map/595390/ 
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