Re: Happy Talk
Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2022, 13:53:14
Missouri.
Large sections of the USSA look like this. They didn't look like this 30 years ago. Even small rural towns of ~2,000 people have homeless camps. When unemployment was officially around 4%, I still knew plenty of people who wanted work and couldn't get hired after sending out hundreds of job applications. I was one of them. "Now Hiring!" signs were everywhere and no one responded back or responded when follow-ups were attempted. I also know homeless people who work jobs and are priced out of rent, and the rent here is about as cheap as it gets in this country. There's a massive disconnect between what the government and mainstream news is telling us and how things actually are. People who live in their middle class burbclaves will typically never have to see it. They live in the nicer places that relatively speaking are thriving, places that James Howard Kunstler termed the "Landscape of Despair".
https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/03/cities-towns-landscape-despair/
But riding around the area made me happy. Nothing like moving 40 mph with nothing but your legs providing the thrust. Although the fact that it was 95 degrees kind of sucked because the cockpit of that vehicle quickly becomes an oven. Being stopped at red lights with no air coming in for cooling is especially brutal. Looking forward to translating a scaled version of this aerodynamically slippery body to my own custom build, so that using an electric motor I can do 120 mph on only 6 horsepower and accelerate like a car.
Maybe next time I'll show you a few superfund sites!
Large sections of the USSA look like this. They didn't look like this 30 years ago. Even small rural towns of ~2,000 people have homeless camps. When unemployment was officially around 4%, I still knew plenty of people who wanted work and couldn't get hired after sending out hundreds of job applications. I was one of them. "Now Hiring!" signs were everywhere and no one responded back or responded when follow-ups were attempted. I also know homeless people who work jobs and are priced out of rent, and the rent here is about as cheap as it gets in this country. There's a massive disconnect between what the government and mainstream news is telling us and how things actually are. People who live in their middle class burbclaves will typically never have to see it. They live in the nicer places that relatively speaking are thriving, places that James Howard Kunstler termed the "Landscape of Despair".
https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/03/cities-towns-landscape-despair/
But riding around the area made me happy. Nothing like moving 40 mph with nothing but your legs providing the thrust. Although the fact that it was 95 degrees kind of sucked because the cockpit of that vehicle quickly becomes an oven. Being stopped at red lights with no air coming in for cooling is especially brutal. Looking forward to translating a scaled version of this aerodynamically slippery body to my own custom build, so that using an electric motor I can do 120 mph on only 6 horsepower and accelerate like a car.
Maybe next time I'll show you a few superfund sites!