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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptin

Studying appetite, learned about leptin levels.

 

I can't be the only one who wondered what cytosol tastes like when we read about it in class...

[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
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πŸ”₯ 1 | Avg. Guesses: 9.8
⬜🟧🟨πŸŸ₯πŸŸ₯🟩 = 6

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🌎 Aug 19, 2024 🌍
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[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Picture #7 is peak. Trolleys and wagons, but no cars.

Peak.

[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Toronto : Eglington.. Oh wait.

 

Hi everybody.

I'm sorry if my question is really weirdly specific. It's something I've been thinking about for a long time.

You ever see those movies, where people live in this techno-future dystopia, skyscrapers and traffic clogged freeways, car - centric urban planning with no greenery, no trees, think of like Times Square NYC, hyper capitalist neolib dystopia kind of thing.

You see in those movies, the main character (a socially detached loner) depressed, part of the reason is not just a horribly atomized and superficial Society, but the other reason is the wretched urban planning and brutalist architecture.

I think there's been a few articles already on the importance of good architecture for creating a more "communal" mental effect for the people in the town.

I'm wondering if you guys found any articles or essays on the importance of specifically good urban planning (I already read about architecture). Stuff about how car centric urban planning atomizes the individual, ruins the social fabric, ruins the communal mentality, etc.. Sociological stuff.

If you do, please comment. I'd love to read.

[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago
[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Every provincial and state DOT in North America has this 1950s sprawl / freeway ideology so deeply embedded. It's crazy. They don't accept any new statistics or science.

Even in California and BC (both progressive governments currently) nobody has talked about the regressive DOTs.

We don't notice, because regressive urban planning is considered normal in North America. We're basically brainwashed by thinking its normal from a young age.

[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

I'm not actually Π‘Ρ‚Π΅ΠΏΠ°Π½, I just like the cat

[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

I'm not actually Π‘Ρ‚Π΅ΠΏΠ°Π½, I just like the cat

[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Warren Farrell and Scott Galloway went into this

[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

This is a little stupid and almost a safety hazard because of the confusion it causes.

There are tried and tested ways of traffic calming, this one isn't that smart.

[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

More renewable energy , less fossil fuels

More density, less sprawl

More transit, less cars

[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still don't understand why not USA / Canada, where cars are very common

[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Damn. I think they should still give food, but yeah he should gtfo.

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The gist of it: with each passing decade there's a growing shortage of construction laborers, resulting in large wait times for housing to be built. Some analysts wonder why the key demographic isn't showing up.

I've seen a few articles in the past few years about young men supposedly checking out of society and work, I wonder if there is a connection between that and this article here because young men tend to be the prime demographic for working this job.

Companies need to pay their workers better.

 

Todd Litman from the Victoria Transport Policy Institute (Canada) discusses some methods for creating shaded pathways to protect pedestrians from excess heat.

 

Edit: I wanted to apologize after reading some of the comments. You raise some legitimate points, I realize that there is a subtle malthusian element to this chart and some of you feel like a burden already. Furthermore, you raise a good point about corporate pollution, oil companies, and how their footprint is much greater than average plebs like us.

That's 100% valid and I don't disagree with you at all. My "compromise" I guess would be that continue to apply pressure and protest against large corporations, but in terms of ourselves, just pick a few things you can cut down on yourself, it does not have to be everything on this list.

For example, I really prefer having animal products in my diet, but I am willing to live in a small apartment , car-free, and not go on vacation much in my adulthood. In the same way, you guys can pick what you are comfortable with in reducing and what you do not want to compromise on.

All of us have different standards of living and we are flexible on some things, and some things we are not flexible. That is alright, just consider changing what you are comfortable with, but please do not think you are a burden. Your presence and your life is valuable to me. I don't like to demoralize people.

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