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[ilovejews]

Even had one or two of them compliment my excavator once because I was being nice and offered to rough out a trench for them on a site so they didn't have to dig the whole thing by hand.

You didn't even try to give them an impromptu sex ed lesson on a bike? Wow, just wow. No wonder they hate us...

 

[Lovely Kin]

It's the second-worst kind of autism short of being a violent pants-shitting retard, it's the kind of autism that requires people to do things the "right way" without bothering to understand how anything works or functions

It's also hall monitor behavior. They stomp around the hallways, or wherever they believe to be their turf, and screech or snitch on you when they feel you did something wrong. No one takes them seriously and laughs them off to their face, or after entertaining them.

 

[Irene and 22 others]

Either way they aren't expensive, but he's bragging about how he "found a great deal". This tells me that he's a broke ass nigga since he doesn't have two Benjamins to rub together.

It's even worse when you stop to consider that he's bragging about paying $15 to haul away something the other person would have needed to pay even more to have hauled away. The trick is not listing it for free, because then people assume there's something wrong with it. Just give a price low enough to make people think they're ripping you off and they'll bite every time.

 

[08903248752]

I hate how these bikefags pretend that bike and pedestrian infrastructure are synonymous. Bikes can't co-exist with cars or with pedestrians. They want to ride at high speed, never stopping, never not having the right of way. They make walking miserable. Any "Mixed-use" trail feels akin to walking down the highway.

Good walkable cities would be bikeless. But you'll never hear these fags admit it because playing tour-de-fag and not stopping is the only way they're able to travel through "diverse" neighborhoods without getting mugged and murdered.

 

[TowinKarz]

Apparently in every European country, the standard is a car should be scrapped at 100,000 miles

Ah, the standard of American cars...... in 1977.....

Getting 100,000 miles out of an even halfway-decently cared for economy car became so commonplace by the mid 80's that odometers added a sixth digit instead of just rolling over at that point..... and it's only gotten better since then.

A car that gets all it's scheduled maintenance and is driven in a non-abusive manner has been easily capable of 200K miles since the late 90's

 

[Lovely Kin]

I hate how these bikefags pretend that bike and pedestrian infrastructure are synonymous. Bikes can't co-exist with cars or with pedestrians. They want to ride at high speed, never stopping, never not having the right of way. They make walking miserable. Any "Mixed-use" trail feels akin to walking down the highway.

It's like they turn into kamikaze pilots with their lack of regards for safety. Even when I was a kid, I remember people cursing about bicyclists speeding out of nowhere, and never staying in their lanes, especially when the sun is bright.

 

[Itchy Hemorrhoids]

A new menace arises. Why aren't you raising your kids around strangers, chud? This piece reads less like a thoughtful argument and more like a sales pitch for an elite hobby-farm lifestyle—an uncritical “communal parenting” brochure wrapped in meme leftist social commentary.

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In my social circles, becoming a parent is seen as a gigantic sacrifice. You lose sleep, time with friends, time for hobbies. You’ll probably have to move to a less desirable neighborhood to afford the extra space for your kid. If you’re the one carrying the child, you’re ‘destroying’ your body and jeopardizing your professional goals.​

But what if it didn’t have to be this way?​

An Indian friend recently told me how his parents couldn’t fathom why anyone wouldn’t want to have a child. In his parents’ India, having children is just fun. Most families live in multigenerational compounds, where parents raise their children alongside their nearest and dearest. When they’re babies, you always have someone to help babysit. Past a certain age, the kids run around with their cousins and entertain themselves.​

“It takes a village to raise a child” is perhaps the most common phrase I hear about having kids. It is, as Phil would say, an Obvious Truth. Children thrive when they are surrounded by a community of loving humans. No couple - much less single parent - can meet all of their child’s needs and their own.​

And yet very few people raise their kids in community. In the US, 71% of children grow up in single family homes. This is despite the fact that most Americans can’t really afford it: one in three home owners and nearly half of rental households are spending over 30% of their income on mortgage/rent.​

And, unfortunately but understandably, it’s making us miserable. Studies show that adults who choose to have kids are less happy during peak parenting years than those who don’t, especially in the US. And it’s something we hear all the time: parenting is exhausting and there’s never enough time or money.​

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Yes, it's hard to raise kids. As is anything that is worthwhile. But these bugpeople can't handle that. It interferes with their schedule of therapy and talking theory at the nearest kombucha shop.

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Except, perhaps, if you live in a village. Frederic Laloux, author of Reinventing Organizations, and his wife moved their family from Belgium to an eco village in upstate New York. On the stress of modern parenting, he says:​

“Here’s what I’ve discovered: much of that strain is self-inflicted. The dream of individualized lives, of the nuclear family as the basis of modern existence, is not conducive to joyful parenting. For hundreds of thousands of years, children were raised within multigenerational family structures. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors, and other members of the tribe or community watched over the children and interacted with them. Not everything depended on the parents!”​

The eco-village where the Laloux family lives, from Frederic’s Medium post

For years I’ve been seeking out friends who are choosing to raise their kids in some form of community. On the whole, the parents seem better rested and their children better adjusted than my friends doing the standard nuclear family life.​

My co-author Phil and his wife Kristen have shared their experience in this Supernuclear post about Radish, their cohousing community in the Bay Area:​

“People talk about the first year of having a kid as extraordinarily challenging. I feel like a bit of a jerk for saying this, but it’s been much easier than advertised for us. And we think our living situation plays a huge role in this.​

Of course, it took a lot of upfront work to make this year easy. Building a community is hard. None of this came for free. But the payoff is there.​

We’ve had to give up very little in our life to make room for our kid. We still eat dinner with friends every night of the week. We go out on a whim. And our baby girl has a whole clan of admirers.”​

Phil and Kristen’s daughter Rae walking up to their neighbor's house to demand a popsicle through the window

Then there are Priya and Andrew Rose, founders of the Fractal network in New York (and previously Rabbithole). They welcomed their baby girl last May and started experimenting with ‘baby coworking’.​

Read the whole thread!

By making baby-raising a communal project rather than trying to do everything alone, Andrew and Priya have found parenting to be less stressful than many of their peers. In Priya’s words:​

It turns out that taking care of a baby is much easier and more fun when other people are around. When you’re alone with a newborn, even going to the bathroom can be stressful since they must always be watched. As babies get older, they become more independent but also need lots of stimulation and play. If they’re surrounded by many people, that stimulation comes naturally.​

Since I live near friends, I am almost always caring for my daughter with other people around. That means baby care is easy, and I still get to socialize as much as I did before I had a baby. It even makes it easier for me to read and do traditionally solo activities. If I’m reading in a room with my baby alone, she gets bored and wants to play with me. But if we’re in a big group of adults, she gets lots of attention, and doesn’t mind if I read!​

Since my friends see her so often, they’ve developed relationships with her. This makes them excited to babysit her, and in fact, a few of our friends babysit every Monday so that Andrew and I can have a date night.​

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At Feÿtopia, a creative commune in France, I’ve had long conversations over dinner with friends as their baby monitor lies on the table. If the baby stirs, one of the parents can be back at her bedside in a minute - but in the meantime the parents get to enjoy whatever dinner, salon, workshop, or party is going on in the castle.​

Babies at Feÿtopia are known as Feÿbies. Photo by Etienne Rastoin

During the work day, the parents sometimes ask other Feÿtopians if they can watch the baby when both parents need to get work done, and someone always volunteers. Like Tyler describes in his post about baby coworking, it’s a joy to spend an hour with a kid - and it’s often hard for non-parents to access this joy if they don’t live near or have family.​

In our intro survey for Supernuclear subscribers (please fill it out if you haven’t already!), many of the responses to ‘why are you interested in coliving?’ centered around childcare. Some are from parents who want support or an easy way to hang out with friends while raising kids. But a surprising number are from child-free people who long to be involved in raising the next generation, regardless of whether they are their ‘own’ kids. For example:​

‘As someone who isn’t having kids and isn’t connected with her extended family, I find I’m still craving the “group project” energy that comes with the rhythm of domestic family life. I just want to share something with others. The treadmill of deciding what I individually want and then acquiring that desire has lost its meaning. Sharing feels like an antidote.’​

I’ve experienced this myself: last year at Casa Chironja, my coliving community in Puerto Rico, I sent my friends on a date night with the promise I’d keep an eye on their kids, who were sleeping one floor above me. I was working on a deadline for my accountant and knew I wouldn’t be leaving the house so it took no effort from me. My friends were effusive when they got home: they said it was the first time in three years that they felt like they got to be adults and not just parents. How many times do you get to feel like a hero when you’re doing your taxes?​

A couple days later, on the last night of their week long visit, I wanted to go out with my friends. I encouraged them to ask in the house chat if anyone was willing to ‘watch’ their kids like I had. My friends resisted: they felt they couldn’t impose on the community, many of whom they’d just met. I pushed them, and sure enough multiple people volunteered. We had a great night out while our housemate Matt occasionally poked his head in their apartment to make sure the kids were sleeping soundly.​

A few months later I learned that my friends had sold their apartment in Brooklyn. In January the mother wrote me:​

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I want to have kids - and I want to raise them around a wealth of adults who model different ways to be successful and happy. I want them to grow up with a diverse and fun group of kids who will become their extended family. I want to inherit strollers and baby clothes from my friends, and pass them on to the next family in our community when mine have grown out of them. I want to teach my friend’s kids to sing and mentor them when they build businesses.​

And yes, I want support when life throws me curve balls. And I want to be that support for other friends when they need it.​

Writing Supernuclear has been a great excuse to research why most people in the US don’t live this way, and how we could. My hunch is that many more would live in ‘villages’ if they had clearer models for how this could work - just like my friends whose week long experience in a coliving space helped inspire them to move into an apartment building with their friends.​

We’re looking for more stories of people who are raising kids in communities. So far we’ve written about Radish, The Village, Windhover, and Open Field Coliving. Rhaina Cohen also just published ‘A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship’ in the Atlantic, which dives into several more examples.​

If you are living close to friends and raising kids, we’d love to hear about your experience: please write us at hi@gosupernuclear.com.​

An aspirational lifestyle brag, packaged as wisdom (perfect for oversocialized far left retards bred in high-end universities, no?). Nothing about childcare policy, urban planning, and the realities of single-parent and low-income households. Instead, we get sanitized anecdotes about popsicles and dinner parties in castles.

 

[TORtlEMUStRaNSUS]

God this commie comparenting shit has been tried in religious right wing and commie left wing cults. It always ends in kids being hurt and molested. Anyone advocating for this does not know their history and should be treated as child molesters.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

I hate how these bikefags pretend that bike and pedestrian infrastructure are synonymous. Bikes can't co-exist with cars or with pedestrians. They want to ride at high speed, never stopping, never not having the right of way. They make walking miserable. Any "Mixed-use" trail feels akin to walking down the highway.

Good walkable cities would be bikeless. But you'll never hear these fags admit it because playing tour-de-fag and not stopping is the only way they're able to travel through "diverse" neighborhoods without getting mugged and murdered.

All Tyrone has to do is either step in front or push them over and they're easy prey.

But really--all these "walkable" city ideas have bicycles and/or public transit figured prominently into them, meaning that being small and convenient is thrown out the window. If you're already going to be living in Megacity One, I'll keep my car and parking lots, thanks.

An aspirational lifestyle brag, packaged as wisdom (perfect for oversocialized far left retards bred in high-end universities, no?). Nothing about childcare policy, urban planning, and the realities of single-parent and low-income households. Instead, we get sanitized anecdotes about popsicles and dinner parties in castles.

Not quite in this thread's breadth, probably best to make an A&N thread on that (before @quaawaa does).

 

[Itchy Hemorrhoids]

Not quite in this thread's breadth, probably best to make an A&N thread on that (before @quaawaa does).

This is being proposed as a next step beyond urbanism.

 

[Lovely Kin]

In my social circles, becoming a parent is seen as a gigantic sacrifice. You lose sleep, time with friends, time for hobbies. You’ll probably have to move to a less desirable neighborhood to afford the extra space for your kid. If you’re the one carrying the child, you’re ‘destroying’ your body and jeopardizing your professional goals.

The don't have a kid if you aren't ready, can't afford, or are too fucking immature to have one. Christ..

A couple days later, on the last night of their week long visit, I wanted to go out with my friends. I encouraged them to ask in the house chat if anyone was willing to ‘watch’ their kids like I had. My friends resisted: they felt they couldn’t impose on the community, many of whom they’d just met. I pushed them, and sure enough multiple people volunteered. We had a great night out while our housemate Matt occasionally poked his head in their apartment to make sure the kids were sleeping soundly.

What could possibly go wrong here? You are inviting way too many people into this situation, and "just friends" don't count as properly vetted. When that group expands, how can you be so sure that your child, or someone else's child is going to be safe?

 

[CFC-12]

Except, perhaps, if you live in a village. Frederic Laloux, author of Reinventing Organizations, and his wife moved their family from Belgium to an eco village in upstate New York.

Holy shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-uH36w9xg8

Not archiving this because it's over an hour long and I don't care, but good god. This place looks like my own personal version of hell. You know the people who live here are the most insufferable fartsniffer motherfuckers you'll ever meet. Also:

womp womp

 

[quaawaa]

Alan Fisher ranted for 20 minutes about how carbrained Google Maps is (despite Google being incredibly urbanist):

YouTube (PreserveTube)

The major problem with his rant is that no one but basement-dwelling transit fans actually care about getting a clear list of every single train/bus that runs through a station. Everyone trying to actually get around a city on public transit just puts their destination in and follows the instructions.

Also, most of the data issues he complains about are the fault of the transit agency, not Google.

 

[Apple Porcupine]

Alan Fisher ranted for 20 minutes about how carbrained Google Maps is (despite Google being incredibly urbanist):
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YouTube (PreserveTube)

The major problem with his rant is that no one but basement-dwelling transit fans actually care about getting a clear list of every single train/bus that runs through a station. Everyone trying to actually get around a city on public transit just puts their destination in and follows the instructions.

Also, most of the data issues he complains about are the fault of the transit agency, not Google.

Was gonna say, during my last vacation we navigated through a city using public transit via Google Maps. Being in an unfamiliar area we got lost looking for the next train a couple times, but that was so much less the fault of Google Maps and much more on the unclear and sometimes misleading signage pointing us in the wrong direction.

Also quick aside on Alan, despite him saying after the election he'd be leaving Twitter and posting more on BlueSky the exact opposite has happened.

Also drinking mentioned.

 

[YoRHa No. 2 Type B]

Also drinking mentioned.

I swear all these urbanists are alcoholics.
Its one of their big selling points of urbanism too, "You can get the train home when you get drunk!"
Too bad they didn't consider people that don't drink.
To be fair, if I lived in an urban bughive I would also get drunk every night, but instead to forget that I live in an urban dump.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

The major problem with his rant is that no one but basement-dwelling transit fans actually care about getting a clear list of every single train/bus that runs through a station. Everyone trying to actually get around a city on public transit just puts their destination in and follows the instructions.

Also, most of the data issues he complains about are the fault of the transit agency, not Google.

For a self-proclaimed cartophile he doesn't seem to understand that Google Maps isn't an end-all, be-all program. Looking at my own town (I'm sure this is endemic to the rest of the system):
- It will draw random parking lots and gated farm-and-ranch trails as full streets.
- It marks trailer parks as hotels.
- It won't distinguish between operational businesses and commercial businesses linked to a residential address (so it will drop "veterinarian" onto a UPS Store, etc.)
- Search results are obviously compromised by advertising
- Many places are blocks away from they're supposed to be

You can sperg about what it doesn't have--an easily accessible database of "permanently closed" businesses, using common symbols that every other paper map has/had (marking quarries, etc.), distinguishing between if roads are paved with asphalt or dirt, and so on.

A lot of Google Maps' more annoying quirks owes to the fact it's largely a mix of computer-generated addresses and user input, neither of which are from people who actually make maps...and I'm sure there are other examples, but it seems very bugman-esque to basically abandon all other alternatives then complain about how the platform of choice doesn't meet your standards.

 

[The Jewel of the Nile]

Holy shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-uH36w9xg8

Not archiving this because it's over an hour long and I don't care, but good god. This place looks like my own personal version of hell. You know the people who live here are the most insufferable fartsniffer motherfuckers you'll ever meet. Also:

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womp womp

From the comments:

Once again I'm repeating mysefl but goddamn, people who think Europe is some kind of hippie utopia where people don't work and live normal lives should be shot. This comment is super funny because there are multiple cars visible in that video. 9 months in the Netherlands and he thinks he's an expert on how others should live. Lol, lmao even

 

[quaawaa]

One of NYC's commuter rail lines reminds passengers to be quiet:


The replies all point out the real reason for the noise:
















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[Lovely Kin]

Once again I'm repeating mysefl but goddamn, people who think Europe is some kind of hippie utopia where people don't work and live normal lives should be shot. This comment is super funny because there are multiple cars visible in that video. 9 months in the Netherlands and he thinks he's an expert on how others should live. Lol, lmao even

Nothing more annoying than an American who comes back from Europe and acts like they have been enlightened when they only lived in one or two cities, and believes they belong there. They also ignore the fact that most Europeans find the "good American" annoying as well and they get treated as "that one American." As much I wish I was able to study abroad in other countries before the initial lockdowns, and then my second study abroad attempt being canceled because of the variants, I knew these places weren't paradises, Asia or Europe.

The replies all point out the real reason for the noise:

I genuinely love how nigger fatigue is finally being spoken out about. It was always one group being obnoxiously loud when I was at university, and it certainly wasn't the Gooks or the Sandniggers. Never liked taking the bus even when I had to when in university because either homeless would be treating it as a shelter, or there would be niggers blasting music from their phones at the same time. Pretty maddening.

 

[The Jewel of the Nile]

They also ignore the fact that most Europeans find the "good American" annoying as well and they get treated as "that one American."

People like those try way too hard to out-euro the Euros themselves. Look, guys, I WALK and I use PUBLIC TRANSPORT and I HATE THE CARS, just like YOU!!
The whole world loves cars and find them useful. Even being able to afford only a half-destroyed beater puts you above carless people everywhere because of how much more convenient everything gets- looking for a job, groceries, having kids, etc. People who come to Europe/Asia and act all enlightened, as you wrote, are just making the locals cringe