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HansSlonzok, in Why wasn't NYC's Central Park concept copied by other cities?

Park Slonski - Silesian Park in Upper Silesia in South Poland is much better than Central Park in NY. You should see it if you come to Poland.

Snapz, in Why wasn't NYC's Central Park concept copied by other cities?

Didn’t Los Angeles have central green space (not on the scale of central park in NYC, but large) that was gradually eaten away and paved over with time?

TheDarksteel94, in Gamers who have gamed for a long time

The older I get the more I know what kinda games I’m into. So everything else I try to play just feels boring very quickly. I get bored very quickly in general if I don’t keep a game fresh for myself by, for example, mixing main and side quests instead of doing just one for hours.

I’ve also had times when I didn’t play any video games at all and just watched YouTube all day. And sometimes I felt like I played games just because I didn’t have anything better to do.

At the moment, I basically just play Cyberpunk and Battlebit, because both of those offer various ways of approaching encounters.

DAMunzy, in What are some modern bullshit jobs?

Money managers, financial management. Yeah, they make sense in capitalism but they really don’t produce anything tangible.

lorty,
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The financial industry is, ostensibly, about connecting people that need money to people that have more than they need. In practice it’s about skimming from the top of EVERYTHING in society.

Takumidesh,

I think ‘producing something tangible’ is hardly a fair metric.

A therapist doesn’t produce something tangible, but many of them provide value to their clients.

A guitar teacher (or any teacher for that matter) doesn’t produce something tangible either, but they again provide value.

xenoclast,

If the business is to produce educated people. Teachers provide the core benefit… and pretty measurable.

It’s when there’s a teacher with 7 line managers that are just have meetings to talk about the teachers “output” that causes the problem.

DAMunzy,

I’ll agree to that but still wish we didn’t have a “need” for finance people.

afraid_of_zombies,

Yeah but those aren’t groups I have to deal with unless I choose to. You really can’t get around the financial system. It’s not like I can take a 100 bucks and walk up to say a gas station and say “1 share please”. And before you say Robinhood keep in mind that you don’t actually own those stocks, they own them and you are just “managing it”.

AdolfSchmitler,

I mean most are just greedy cuz the field attracts those kind of people. You’d be surprised how many people have next to no financial literacy and a GOOD financial expert can do legitimate good for these people.

DAMunzy,

I did say it makes sense in capitalism. I too pay to use one. I’d like a world without them.

cricket97,

They provide plebs access to the complicated world of finance and pass on some of the yield. I think that’s valuable.

resin85,

What does Atwater make?

What do you mean, like, how much money does the company make?

Oh, no, I mean what do we make?

I don’t follow. We make money.

No, I know we make money. I mean, what do we create?

We create wealth.

No, no, I mean, what do we build, what do we design, you know? Because I have some ideas that could really help the company.

Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, we don’t build anything.

paddirn, in Gamers who have gamed for a long time

For the past few years I’ve been trying to go through my Steam gaming collection chronologically, in order of release date starting from oldest games. I’m trying to at least go through and have no unplayed games. After dozens of Humble Bundles and ~20 years building up my collection, I’ve got hundreds of games I haven’t even touched yet. Sometimes I’ll be interested in a game and play for awhile, sometimes I’ll play for 5 minutes, get bored and uninstall. Doesn’t matter, as long as I can check it off as “played”. Sometimes I get sidetracked by a newer game that comes out, or by physical board games, or by just life in general, but I still have that goal in mind to try new things, I at least have that if I don’t feel like playing anything else.

ModernRisk, in Where can I NEUTRALLY keep up to date about the Palestina/Israel situation?
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Honestly don’t think you can find any neutral news about it. I recommend use multiple news places to get the overall view (that’s what I do).

I feel like every news-publisher is leaning to one or the other.

Z4rK,

ground.news/…/israeli-palestinian-conflict

This site collects news from multiple sources, tells you their political affiliation, shows the difference in summary based on left / center / right news sources, and optionally shows a lot more like ownership network etc if you pay for it.

Nothing will be neutral, but I like it to get an overview.

halferect, in Why wasn't NYC's Central Park concept copied by other cities?

They didn’t set it aside, they displaced people to make a park.

KinglyWeevil,

I’m honestly surprised that they haven’t followed up by just allowing the city to gradually eat the park.

hperrin, in Gamers who have gamed for a long time

As I’ve gotten older and more busy, it’s been harder to get into games. I can’t play 4 hours a day any more, so the game has to fit into my schedule. Plus a lot of games take like 60 hours now. I liked Stray a lot because it was fun and I beat it in like 3 hours.

So yeah, I feel pretty much the same.

Illecors, in Where can I NEUTRALLY keep up to date about the Palestina/Israel situation?

I’ve found ground.news’ layout quite useful in sutuations like this.

pineapplelover,

Seems like a neat website

Maajmaaj, in Gamers who have gamed for a long time
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It’s easier when you are single and refuse to have kids.

BeardedBlaze,
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Or if you get your kids into gaming.

Maajmaaj,
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TheDoctorDonna, in Why wasn't NYC's Central Park concept copied by other cities?

We have lots of large parks in my city. Not central park sized, but we are not an NYC sized city. It’s basically a small city incorporated into the forest. Sometimes they try to capitalize some of it, but the voters reliably shut them down, we love our green spaces.

PrincessLeiasCat, (edited ) in Gamers who have gamed for a long time

Same. 100%. I don’t love it though, tbh. I’d love to get immersed in something new again.

And MP has always been toxic, but goddamn…as a woman you just get sick of some of the shit you hear. I have to straight up turn text chat off, and it’s rare that I go on mic chat even though good communication would help a game so much.

kromem, in Where can I NEUTRALLY keep up to date about the Palestina/Israel situation?

The most neutral coverage I’ve seen was from The Intercept.

It has a fairly anti-establishment bias, but that includes both Hamas, the PA, and the IDF.

They basically give a crap about civilians, but not about any of the institutional interests causing them to suffer, and spread that evenly across the various players.

littlecolt, in Why wasn't NYC's Central Park concept copied by other cities?

Check out Forest Park in St. Louis. It’s nice.

lightnsfw,

I spent a day there last time I was in St. Louis. It was really nice. There were a few museums and the zoo you could all go to for free.

MooseBoys, in Where can I NEUTRALLY keep up to date about the Palestina/Israel situation?

Just read both Al Jazeera and The Jerusalem Post and take the average.

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