Urban vs. Rural; What's to be done?

[Okeefenokee]

It would be like saying Atlanta is a safe city if you don't count the metro area.

That USDA chart uses the word metro.

One of the metrics of urban/rural that I've seen uses commute distances, so farmers who have no commute are considered urban.

[kybkh]

When you disrupt a couple million years of evolution with feelings, shit happens.

[Speaker to Animals]

Cities are evolutionary behavior too.

For most of the paleolithic, humans were probably only kin-bonded (sort of like wolves). We evolved the ability to trust strangers which allowed for more complex cultures to form.

Everything about human behavior has an evolutionary component, and evolution happens at a sufficiently rapid pace to even be a historical phenomenon.

[brewster]

I was thinking about this. Are the spun off cities new states or independent countries? We have not let the one city-state in the nation have statehood for partisan political reasons, why would you create dozens of new blue states? So if the answer is expelling them from the Union and creating new countries, then they owe no monetary fealty to the rump USA.

[Speaker to Animals]

I was thinking about this. Are the spun off cities new states or independent countries? We have not let the one city-state in the nation have statehood for partisan political reasons, why would you create dozens of new blue states? So if the answer is expelling them from the Union and creating new countries, then they owe no monetary fealty to the rump USA.

Ideally, we'd break up into sovereign regions joined together in a confederal government. Somewhat closer to the Ancient Greek model than the Roman model.

I think cities should govern themselves. We are all still Americans, but we need to go back to being Carolinians first, for example.

if you mess with any of us, you mess with all of us, and we'd still have a combined army. Instead of imagining the evil CSA, imagine something more like the colonies in BSG if it makes you feel easier. The word confederal gets a bad reputation because of the slavers in the 19th century.

[Speaker to Animals]

As far as our military might dwindling, I think that would not happen. As it so happens, all the Anglo nations are effectively a combined force for self-defense right now. We might not belong to the UK, but if somebody attacks the UK you better believe they will be hearing from us. The same is true of Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Yet all our nations have drifted far enough apart that we differ significantly in values and politics. You don't need a Beast controlling everything to provide a strong defense for all.

[Fife]

It's easy to see how our defensive capabilities could be enhanced, or at least adequately maintained.

Empire-maintenance capabilities, however . . .

[PartyOf5]

This kinda fits here.

California finishes LAST in quality of life.
http://www.businessinsider.com/californ ... ife-2018-3

[K@th]

This kinda fits here.

California finishes LAST in quality of life.
http://www.businessinsider.com/californ ... ife-2018-3

Not sure I can agree with their metrics. Hawaii comes in 36? Ever hear someone say how much it sucks to live in Hawaii? Mississippi comes in at 6?

Color me skeptical.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

I believe it.

California is mostly rural spaces and ag land, and those filthy, toothless hayseeds hate their lives, and rightly so.

Eat shit bumpkins, cities rule!