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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • Finally all you fucks will work on my schedule! Night owls unite!

    I think the key is just avoiding the heat of the day. A lot of Mediterranean societies already have slow hours during the hottest times (the clearest example being the Spanish Siesta) and it makes a lot of fucking sense.

    I doubt we’d move fully nocturnal but normalizing long midday breaks would be excellent - the main impediment is probably our shitty commute oriented society… if it takes you 15 minutes to get home it’s quite reasonable to head home at lunch - if it takes you an hour and a half it’s impossible.
















  • Public transit should be nearly free - but I do think there’s one main argument in favor of keeping it from being completely free - safety. Without a token charge, and with a lack of adequate shelters, busses are one of the most reliable shelters from weather and if folks flock to it to stay cool/dry/warm then it’ll make it feel less safe especially for vulnerable folks including single women and the elderly.

    We absolutely need to move beyond this dumbass neoliberal idea that public transit should be self funding, though.