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  • brandon@lemmy.mltoFuck Cars@lemmy.caOur approach to road safety
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    2 months ago

    We don’t blink an eye when told to not stand under something being lifted by a crane, so why balk at being told to be safe around the two ton travelling metal boxes?

    Nobody is saying that you shouldn’t act safely around cars. People are saying we shouldn’t design transportation infrastructure that prioritizes driver convenience over pedestrian safety. Cranes are only allowed to operate in much more tightly controlled situations than drivers.





  • The question I am posing is not “do modern farm workers labor harder than prehistoric hunter gathers” (they do).

    Instead, the question is “should modern farm workers labor harder than prehistoric hunter gathers”.

    Farming is more efficient than gathering. That’s why we farm. So why is it the case that modern farm workers are working harder?


  • brandon@lemmy.mltoThe Internet in Ancient Times@lemmy.worldMood
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    3 months ago

    If the required labor was split up more equitably then farmers wouldn’t have to work sunup to sundown.

    The entire point of large scale agriculture is that it’s more efficient than individual peasants working a single field or whatever.

    Nobody is saying that farming isn’t hard work, but modern farming should produce more food per man-hour than neolithic farming (or hunter/gathering), right? So why should it be that farm workers now have to work harder than prehistoric people?










  • The Speaker of the House is basically in charge of proceedings in the House of Representatives (the “lower” house of the legislature). No business can get done in the House until one is elected by the representatives. This is the first time in history that a sitting Speaker has been removed from the position in the middle of the term. This is a particularly awkward time since the government will run out of funding in 45 days if Congress does not pass a budget.

    This is a result of a growing split between the ultra-far-right and the slightly-less-far-right factions within the Republican party.