I thought that typical residential building codes required bedrooms to have a window. I guess there is a dorm/prison exception in CA?
Interesting hypothesis. I wonder if there are any studies on the subject, because it sounds plausible.
Houngan
2818
I also wonder if it was due to political shifts or rather just that society was built around a certain carrying capacity of good work, distributed consumerism, etc. that couldn’t keep up with the population as cities and towns changed. Almost certainly both, but I’d be curious.
CraigM
2819
Well I’m sure there are studies on aspects of it, because @Enidigm 's hypothesis would rest, essentially, on the great realignment in the wake of the Civil Rights Act of the 60’s.
The short version is, prior to 1960 ideological sorting was loose in the two US parties. There were ‘liberal’ Republicans, and ‘conservative’ Democrats. Class consciousness was greater, and organized labor stronger. Things like gun control, segregation, economic policy were not party defined as they are now.
This led to things like Eisenhower sending the National Guard in response to Little Rock, something that a mere 10-15 years later would have been unthinkable from a GOP politician.
Follow on from that sorting with the Law and Order candidacy of Nixon, add in the Moral Majority formation in the 70’s, and the marrying of evangelical voices to political ideology for power that fully fruited with Reagan, and ultimately you have the seeds of where we are now, with strong ideological sorting and the breakdown of any common consensus.
Lets not forget Reagan signed gun control laws as the Republican governor of California (in response to the Black Panthers flexing their second amendment rights) and the NRA being behind him. And today the kind of laws a GOP pol signed in the 60’s would be considered too extreme for even a mainstream Dem pol to push for.
It’s a whole thing.
Here in Burlington, VT, which as most would know is a bastion of liberal, progressive mostly affluent white people, surrounded by somewhat more conservative somewhat less affluent white people, but with a healthy (if in need of expansion) smattering of non-white, varied income folks, mostly immigrants, the situation with homelessness is proportionally on par with everywhere else. Because of the political bent of the city in particular–which is where homelessness tends to be concentrated, naturally–it runs into conflicts between progressive political values and good old-fashioned NIMBY-ism quite often.
It is exacerbated by the winters, which will quite literally kill you if you are not in shelter, and by shelter I don’t mean some half-assed tent or cardboard box camp. Even with a tiny population compared to, say San Fran or Seattle, we have yet to figure out a solution of any sort. During the height of the pandemic they provided hotel space for many homeless, to avoid the camps becoming festering hotbeds of disease, but as soon as they could they ended that. Understandable, in many ways, as the hotel operators (and there are not many up here) were sort of being held over a barrel. The net result though was a return of homeless folks back to the street just in time to start worrying about the next winter.
I seriously doubt this problem can be solved locally. Without a national effort to rebuild a social safety net (or just freakin’ build one in the first place), with mechanisms for public works or guaranteed income and universal health coverage and all that, I don’t think we will ever get anywhere. Private charity simply does not have the coordination, consistency, or resources to do it, unless say Musk and Bezos et all decide to go all Siddartha and dump their trillions into it.
There’s a new mobile waifu collecting gacha game, but instead of collecting 2d images of ostensibly real characters within some fictional context, you’re collecting 2d images of 3d models of fictional desktop figurines in what is a particularly baffling layer cake of abstraction. Is this like, peak gacha?
The first-ever 3D figurine-themed idle mobile game, Figure Fantasy has arrived in style! Here, you’ll become the figurines’ master, and experience original unboxing gameplay experience, exquisite figurines collection and casual idle training with minimal commitment.
“Experience original unboxing gameplay experience”
One suspects the people who bought this did not fully grasp the message of the show.
On the other hand, the perpetrators, unauthorized though they may have been, delivered an authentic Squid Game experience.
KevinC
2827
Yep. That got a WTF out of me.
I see that the shoot for Dune, part 2, is going well. Brilliant casting for the Fedaykin. Villeneuve, you’re a genius. Dare I hope that a musical adaptation is in the works?
Also, is the one guy in the background on the left wearing a weirding module?! I thought Lynch got too much flak for that creative addition to the Dune lore.
Djscman
2830
This is a bit of an oddity, a “What the heck, 2021?” news item.
I guess the idea of attending a corpse dissection isn’t too far removed from the Bodyworks touring exhibits from ten or twenty years ago, but…
Jesus, a crowd of people watching a guy desecrating a body, then poking at it themselves, and at best making believe they’re in the Royal Society of the late 1600s? Plus, this particular guy, whose family didn’t know this fate befell their loved one’s remains, also died of COVID, and couldn’t that possibly be another health hazard to all the ghouls jabbing at the body? WTF?
This is giving me some real Fallout-style post-apocalyptic cult vibes.
Apostles of the Eternal White?
Menzo
2832
So this is a WTF to me. Sports have rules. And if there’s no rule about running up the score, why is this a thing? Either it’s a rule or it’s not - I do not believe in “unspoken rules” when it comes to sports. Am I the weird one?
There’s not a rule that says you can’t end every play by suggesting that the parents of the players on the opposing teams are drug addicted HIV-ridden discount prostitutes. That doesn’t make it acceptable behavior.
Not running up the score when the other team is CLEARLY outclassed is considered good sportsmanship in most sports.
Well, because they’re kids, and school programs don’t produce teams on equal footing, and because the winning coach went for a 2-point conversion with a 104-0 lead. Even a professional team coach who did that would be catching hell for it.
Menzo
2835
Then they should build that into the rules. If you’re up by 50 points you win.
I mean, what score would be acceptable? And should the team winning simply stop playing when they achieve it?
