If I’ve missed your point, it’s because you haven’t made it very clear. It’s obvious I read your comment, my reply to it was almost entirely quotes from it.

Ok so I’m confused, were you just lying when you said oil companies are to blame?

We blame oil companies because, as you yourself said (see my previous comment where I quoted you), the oil companies are to blame.

Ok but

people insist on buying and driving cars

because of

oil industry lobbyists … making cities more car-centric

I hear you when you say

look how much of a stink suburbanites raise any time a city wants to get rid of some car lanes to put in a bike lane. Look at the fury when cities introduce congestion pricing

However, it’s important to understand that those people are absolute donuts, and their complaints should not be taken seriously or reflect on the rest of us.

No, it’s about the Teflon too. Teflon becomes chemically unstable around 400-500F, temperatures well within the reach of a modern home oven or range, and releases polymer fumes that are damaging to your health.

Yeah I feel like people who say that about ceramic haven’t cooked on well-seasoned cast iron. Both of my cast iron pans are nearly as nonstick as Teflon, and eggs slide around like you said. Cooking runny-yolked eggs on my ceramic is a pain without an egregious amount of oil though.

Usually those middlemen don’t open up your mail, read what you wrote, then serve you ads based on that.

“High density” doesn’t just mean high rise apartments. Your example of a small, walkable village with combined/mixed-use space necessarily has high density housing. High density housing just means housing options that reduce sprawl and make public services easily accessible, usually by foot.

So we agree that sprawl and specialization are the problems, which is the important bit. I was being hyperbolic when I suggested we knock down all the suburbs, but I do think that suburbs are a terrible way to plan a community, and we should stop building them now and convert the ones we have into denser, more walkable communities.

High density housing comes in many forms, and all of them suck way less ass than suburbia.

Suburbs ditch all the convenience of a walkable, urban environment and replace that with all the transportation woes of living out in the boonies.

Lmao tells me to scroll up and blocks me because they can’t read the username on replies, how embarrassing

You know what, you’re right.

We should knock down the suburbs and use that land for sustainable energy generation, food production, or let it re-wild to support conservation efforts!

That sounds incredible

The fuck are you talking about? My first interaction with you was a reply to your several-sentence-long, multi-paragraph comment, not a “three word observation”. Are you ok?

Oh, you must be confused then. See, we’re not trying to make friends. We’re trying to prevent fucking fascists from ruining the country.

I agree that we have a responsibility to improve things, I’ve said that multiple times now. Are you even reading my replies? If you were, you wouldn’t be putting all those words in my mouth. You’re literally making shit up to create an adversary to argue against at this point.

My dude you can’t just gloss over the “we only meant white people” bit in an effort to support your claim that the system was set up to accept everyone’s input from the beginning lmao.

Feel how you wanna feel, but you won’t make me feel guilty for the outcomes of a system I had no hand in setting up.

our country was founded on the principle that we would get a say in what it does no matter what.

Eh, there are some pretty good arguments against that being the case, but even if it were, that principle hasn’t really been in effect since before most of the people on Lemmy were even born.

I think it’s fair to say we’re responsible for improving the system if we don’t like the way it currently works. But I don’t think it’s fair to say we’re responsible for the actions of the system, if the system was stood up before we had any way to influence it.

I’m sure you’ll find something

Carrying a grudge? “This long and vocally”? Who? How?

And I’ll say it again - it isn’t toxic entitlement for users to expect to receive support on the platform they’ve been told to use to receive support. I’m not sure how you can argue differently, unless you twist words to the point of meaninglessness.

I meant it’s not “toxic entitlement” like the other commenter I replied to claimed. Edited my original comment to hopefully be clearer.