There were shadowy conspiracists lurking in the dark alleys of Washington, and hiding from the glaring sun in the High Desert of California, but they were laughably easy prey when the Martian lizard people, the subterranean Vril-empowered mole-men, and the globalist pedophile Commies did show up.

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  • There should be a general speed limit of 20mph/30kmh on city streets.
    Also no parking on public space for any vehicle that isn’t for deliveries, emergencies, trades, or people with disabilities.
    If you want to park your car at home, or want your customers or employees to park near your business, you need to buy or rent space for parking privately.
    Any citizen documenting a parking infraction with photo evidence should have the option of giving police their bank details and will then receive part of the paid fine.
    Of course there will be valid exceptions, like a private emergency, moving, a woman in labor, and such.

    Just imagine what our cities could be like if there weren’t long rows of cars parked along every street.
    The freed space could be turned into bicycle lanes, wider sidewalks, outdoor seating for cafes, green lanes, urban gardens and so much more.
    Car lanes could be separated from bike paths and sidewalks by hedges in most places.
    Children could play and move safely in public.




  • Be mindful of pickpockets especially in Paris!
    When you travel through France by train, you often have to get off at one train station in Paris, and take the Metro to another train station to continue.
    This funnels a constant fresh supply of disoriented tourists onto specific Metro routes.
    When you’re in one of those Metros, there will be groups of professional pickpockets on board.
    And if they can’t pickpocket you, they aren’t above shoving, crowding and yelling at you to take your focus off your wallet.



  • superkret@feddit.orgOPtoStop Drinking@lemmy.worldI quit today
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    I tried to get into The Simple Method before and I disagreed on too many points for it to work. Also stopped smoking but not with The Easy Way. His basic premise that cigarettes and alcohol actually do nothing for you at all simply didn’t click with me.
    What I did take from his books was the mindset that I’m not forced to avoid the drug, I’m finally free to live without it.




  • superkret@feddit.orgOPtoStop Drinking@lemmy.worldI quit today
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    Oh yeah, I got creative with the rules.
    “Only on weekends” meant I drank the same amount, just concentrated on Fr-Su.
    “Not at home” lead to a 2-beer pit stop on my way home from work, then “going for a walk” after supper.
    “Not alone” meant getting a bottle of wine for my wife too, and convincing her to drink with me.
    And “not more than 2 beers” made me get the strongest beer available, then switch to whisky.





  • I live in this. I pay 500€ rent, in one of Europe’s most densely populated areas. I commute to work by bicycle, and I can take walks into the forest with my cats till we get too close to the Alpaka Farm, cause they’re afraid of the alpakas.
    Unfortunately, we’re getting thrown out this year, and looking at 3x the rent for something worse which is further away.








  • Einer der stolzesten Momente in meinem Leben war, als ich in einer Hydrogeologie-Prüfung saß, die als das große Aussiebereignis des Studiums galt, wegen meinem scheiß ADHS das Skript während der Prüfung zum allerersten Mal aufschlug und meinen Taschenrechner vergessen hatte, deshalb alle Formeln in Echtzeit verstehen und die Rechnungen dazu auf Papier machen musste, und mit 4,0 bestand, was mehr als die Hälfte meiner Kommilitonen nicht schaffte.
    Es ist ein verfickter Fluch und ein verfickter Segen.