Wars, genocide, reparations, religion, etc (split from recruiting forum)

[Christian Lowe]

Oops wrong thread sorry

 

[SlipKidVol]

On December 29, 1890,

the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry surrounded a band of Ghost Dancers under Big Foot, a Lakota Sioux chief, near Wounded Knee Creek and demanded they surrender their weapons. As that was happening, a fight broke out between an Indian and a U.S. soldier and a shot was fired, although it’s unclear from which side.
A brutal massacre followed, in which an estimated 150 Indians were killed (some historians put this number at twice as high), nearly half of them women and children. The cavalry lost 25 men.
The conflict at Wounded Knee was originally referred to as a battle—the Army troops involved were later rewarded with Medals of Honor—but in reality it was a tragic and avoidable massacre. Surrounded by heavily armed troops, it’s unlikely that Big Foot’s band would have intentionally started a fight. Some historians speculate that the soldiers of the 7th Cavalry were deliberately taking revenge for the regiment’s defeat at Little Bighorn in 1876.
Whatever the motives, the massacre ended the Ghost Dance movement and was one of the last major confrontations in the Indian Wars. America’s deadly series of wars against the Plains Indians and other Native Americans.

Wounded Knee Occupation - Wikipedia

 

[SweetasSoda]

Exactly..."we mad cause you didn't get more players we wanted, so screw you Heupel"

Hey, McGill, just heard something on the radio about “15 minute cities” where if you go farther than 15 minutes from your house you will be fined. Think it was Oxford where they said they were going to start one. I immediately thought of you and people like you that like to travel. I can’t imagine how stir crazy people would get.

 

[Big Sun]

Hey, McGill, just heard something on the radio about “15 minute cities” where if you go farther than 15 minutes from your house you will be fined. Think it was Oxford where they said they were going to start one. I immediately thought of you and people like you that like to travel. I can’t imagine how stir crazy people would get.

Traffic filters will divide city into six "15 minute" neighbourhoods

 

[NMVol]

Hey, McGill, just heard something on the radio about “15 minute cities” where if you go farther than 15 minutes from your house you will be fined. Think it was Oxford where they said they were going to start one. I immediately thought of you and people like you that like to travel. I can’t imagine how stir crazy people would get.

How quickly we forget that the freedom to travel is a Constitutionally protected fundamental right.

 

[thistime]

Hey, McGill, just heard something on the radio about “15 minute cities” where if you go farther than 15 minutes from your house you will be fined. Think it was Oxford where they said they were going to start one. I immediately thought of you and people like you that like to travel. I can’t imagine how stir crazy people would get.

 

[bcmbvol]

Hey, McGill, just heard something on the radio about “15 minute cities” where if you go farther than 15 minutes from your house you will be fined. Think it was Oxford where they said they were going to start one. I immediately thought of you and people like you that like to travel. I can’t imagine how stir crazy people would get.

Fits in with the “circular economy” and the “you’ll own nothing and be happy” WEF smart cities. I think there are plenty of people who could be convinced of it necessity, and would content to let it happen.

 

[NMVol]

Fits in with the “circular economy” and the “you’ll own nothing and be happy” WEF smart cities. I think there are plenty of people who could be convinced of it necessity, and would content to let it happen.

Gonna make it hard for a lot of people to make it over to Neyland Stadium on Fall Saturdays.

 

[VolzMan53]

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[Vols And Bruins]

Hey, McGill, just heard something on the radio about “15 minute cities” where if you go farther than 15 minutes from your house you will be fined. Think it was Oxford where they said they were going to start one. I immediately thought of you and people like you that like to travel. I can’t imagine how stir crazy people would get.

Husband is an urban planner so just sharing what I was told, but a 15 minute city is an urbanist plan where communities are designed so that residents are able to access all daily needs (work, grocery, hospitals, school, etc) through a fifteen minutes walk/bike/public transit commute. If implemented with fidelity it would make so many communities more functional, but is never supposed to be combined with any kind of punitive action or fine for leaving the "15 min" radius!

 

[SweetasSoda]

Husband is an urban planner so just sharing what I was told, but a 15 minute city is an urbanist plan where communities are designed so that residents are able to access all daily needs (work, grocery, hospitals, school, etc) through a fifteen minutes walk/bike/public transit commute. If implemented with fidelity it would make so many communities more functional, but is never supposed to be combined with any kind of punitive action or fine for leaving the "15 min" radius!

Yes. In Oxford they are starting by allowing people to get a “permit” to leave the city in a car so many days a year. There has been talk of fines but not sure if that is in effect yet. I live in the boondocks, and the thought of being trapped in a city having to get permission when I could leave makes me claustrophobic. Nothing wrong with designing cities where everything is convenient.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Husband is an urban planner so just sharing what I was told, but a 15 minute city is an urbanist plan where communities are designed so that residents are able to access all daily needs (work, grocery, hospitals, school, etc) through a fifteen minutes walk/bike/public transit commute. If implemented with fidelity it would make so many communities more functional, but is never supposed to be combined with any kind of punitive action or fine for leaving the "15 min" radius!

This is how real life "Hunger Games" begins,

 

[InVOLuntary]

Husband is an urban planner so just sharing what I was told, but a 15 minute city is an urbanist plan where communities are designed so that residents are able to access all daily needs (work, grocery, hospitals, school, etc) through a fifteen minutes walk/bike/public transit commute. If implemented with fidelity it would make so many communities more functional, but is never supposed to be combined with any kind of punitive action or fine for leaving the "15 min" radius!

That's sort of the way it is in Russia and China.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Hey, McGill, just heard something on the radio about “15 minute cities” where if you go farther than 15 minutes from your house you will be fined. Think it was Oxford where they said they were going to start one. I immediately thought of you and people like you that like to travel. I can’t imagine how stir crazy people would get.

Wait..what? How in the hell is that legal? That is cause for armed revolt and bloodshed....not kidding.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

How quickly we forget that the freedom to travel is a Constitutionally protected fundamental right.

This is insanity

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Fits in with the “circular economy” and the “you’ll own nothing and be happy” WEF smart cities. I think there are plenty of people who could be convinced of it necessity, and would content to let it happen.

 

[SweetasSoda]

Wait..what? How in the hell is that legal? That is cause for armed revolt and bloodshed....not kidding.

It totally has blown my mind just thinking about the horror of it! I know it’s Europe but still. You can get a permit to be allowed so many days a year and can use public transportation. Big Brother and Brave New World.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

It totally has blown my mind just thinking about the horror of it! I know it’s Europe but still. You can get a permit to be allowed so many days a year and can use public transportation. Big Brother and Brave New World.

People that go along with this are mindless sheep.

 

[UTProf]

It totally has blown my mind just thinking about the horror of it! I know it’s Europe but still. You can get a permit to be allowed so many days a year and can use public transportation. Big Brother and Brave New World.

I googled it. Apparently 15-minute cities are a concept wherein cities try to create neighborhoods where everything you need is within 15 mins (especially walking or biking) of where you live. At present there are a ton of cities that suffer from so much sprawl that you could be really far away from school, work, and even groceries.

Just as an example, I know food insecurity can be a problem in a lot of modern American cities because you have neighborhoods without easy access to full sized grocery stores or markets and large populations that have to rely on public transportation. As such you have young families relying on pagoda's and small stalls for groceries which is less than ideal not only because of selection but also because of prices (imagine doing your grocery shopping out of the smallest convenience store you've ever been in).

The concept apparently isn't new at all. Portland, Oregon developed planning back in 2012 but the idea goes back much farther so I'm not sure why it's getting traction now.

Here's the wiki entry on the concept:
15-minute city - Wikipedia

Basically, it's just urban planning. And it makes sense in today's world given that many of our cities were planned around heavy industry for so long. Back then it made sense that you didn't want the meat packing and garment districts anywhere near residential areas and so things were planned that way. Things are different today and with heavy industry mostly outside of cities it makes sense that you take a more family friendly route to planning. I'm sure like anything else it can be abused but that's the gist of the concept.

 

[SweetasSoda]

I googled it. Apparently 15-minute cities are a concept wherein cities try to create neighborhoods where everything you need is within 15 mins (especially walking or biking) of where you live. At present there are a ton of cities that suffer from so much sprawl that you could be really far away from school, work, and even groceries.

Just as an example, I know food insecurity can be a problem in a lot of modern American cities because you have neighborhoods without easy access to full sized grocery stores or markets and large populations that have to rely on public transportation. As such you have young families relying on pagoda's and small stalls for groceries which is less than ideal not only because of selection but also because of prices (imagine doing your grocery shopping out of the smallest convenience store you've ever been in).

The concept apparently isn't new at all. Portland, Oregon developed planning back in 2012 but the idea goes back much farther so I'm not sure why it's getting traction now.

Here's the wiki entry on the concept:
15-minute city - Wikipedia

Basically, it's just urban planning. And it makes sense in today's world given that many of our cities were planned around heavy industry for so long. Back then it made sense that you didn't want the meat packing and garment districts anywhere near residential areas and so things were planned that way. Things are different today and with heavy industry mostly outside of cities it makes sense that you take a more family friendly route to planning. I'm sure like anything else it can be abused but that's the gist of the concept.

Nothing wrong with planning this way. Now Google the Oxford plan.

 

[Nash_Vol97]

I googled it. Apparently 15-minute cities are a concept wherein cities try to create neighborhoods where everything you need is within 15 mins (especially walking or biking) of where you live. At present there are a ton of cities that suffer from so much sprawl that you could be really far away from school, work, and even groceries.

Just as an example, I know food insecurity can be a problem in a lot of modern American cities because you have neighborhoods without easy access to full sized grocery stores or markets and large populations that have to rely on public transportation. As such you have young families relying on pagoda's and small stalls for groceries which is less than ideal not only because of selection but also because of prices (imagine doing your grocery shopping out of the smallest convenience store you've ever been in).

The concept apparently isn't new at all. Portland, Oregon developed planning back in 2012 but the idea goes back much farther so I'm not sure why it's getting traction now.

Here's the wiki entry on the concept:
15-minute city - Wikipedia

Basically, it's just urban planning. And it makes sense in today's world given that many of our cities were planned around heavy industry for so long. Back then it made sense that you didn't want the meat packing and garment districts anywhere near residential areas and so things were planned that way. Things are different today and with heavy industry mostly outside of cities it makes sense that you take a more family friendly route to planning. I'm sure like anything else it can be abused but that's the gist of the concept.

The concept is good. Nothing wrong with wanting to make more things available in a closer radius to peoples homes. I don’t know how well it’ll work as that’s a big undertaking, and there are probably better uses for the money needed for this initiative, but it’s not crazy.

I find the issues that people are talking about with the Oxford situation a bit funny as well. Oxford isn’t putting anyone in a bubble and telling them they can’t leave. They are just diverting traffic around the city center instead of through it. You can walk, use public transportation, bike or whatever you want and anywhere you want, but if you want to drive a private vehicle and you want to go to a neighborhood across the city then you have to go around the city instead of through it or use a pass credit if you have one. It’s annoying to go out of the way to get somewhere and I don’t want to deal with something like that, but no one is trapped in their neighborhood and fined if they leave it.

Now, businesses in the city will be impacted negatively from this. That’s the main problem I see with it and why I don’t really like the Oxford idea overall.

 

[Glitch]

Husband is an urban planner so just sharing what I was told, but a 15 minute city is an urbanist plan where communities are designed so that residents are able to access all daily needs (work, grocery, hospitals, school, etc) through a fifteen minutes walk/bike/public transit commute. If implemented with fidelity it would make so many communities more functional, but is never supposed to be combined with any kind of punitive action or fine for leaving the "15 min" radius!

Kind of limits your employment options.

 

[Z06VolinWV]

Hell, I live in BFE, takes me 15 minutes just to get to the nearest gas station from my house. I don't see these 15 minute cities hitting WV anytime soon!! lol

 

[Pridedad]

I googled it. Apparently 15-minute cities are a concept wherein cities try to create neighborhoods where everything you need is within 15 mins (especially walking or biking) of where you live. At present there are a ton of cities that suffer from so much sprawl that you could be really far away from school, work, and even groceries.

Just as an example, I know food insecurity can be a problem in a lot of modern American cities because you have neighborhoods without easy access to full sized grocery stores or markets and large populations that have to rely on public transportation. As such you have young families relying on pagoda's and small stalls for groceries which is less than ideal not only because of selection but also because of prices (imagine doing your grocery shopping out of the smallest convenience store you've ever been in).

The concept apparently isn't new at all. Portland, Oregon developed planning back in 2012 but the idea goes back much farther so I'm not sure why it's getting traction now.

Here's the wiki entry on the concept:
15-minute city - Wikipedia

Basically, it's just urban planning. And it makes sense in today's world given that many of our cities were planned around heavy industry for so long. Back then it made sense that you didn't want the meat packing and garment districts anywhere near residential areas and so things were planned that way. Things are different today and with heavy industry mostly outside of cities it makes sense that you take a more family friendly route to planning. I'm sure like anything else it can be abused but that's the gist of the concept.

The concept is fine. It's just planning out a pre designed all in one neighborhood town. The rub comes from having to get permission to leave your 15 minute zone.

 

[Weezer]

The concept is fine. It's just planning out a pre designed all in one neighborhood town. The rub comes from having to get permission to leave your 15 minute zone.

Having to "get permission" is communist. So anti-American. I'd tell people to kiss my ass before ever asking permission to use my God given, Constitutionally protected rights.