Chronic lower back pain cost the US $100 billion annually directly and two or three times that if you include indirect costs like loss of labour. However simple walking for about 1.5-2 hours daily reduced the risk of developing it by 23%. The cost reduction for society encouraging us to walk more and drive less are potentially huge (not even starting to count all the other health positives of walking). Why not start with encouraging the building of walkable mixed high density neighborhoods and towns that was the human norm for thousands of years? And make them walkable. We know from studies on campuses and theme parks that even Americans are happy to spend far more than 2 hours on their feet if they can be distracted by alluring or interesting surroundings.
RT @VincentGGraham@twitter.com:
Absolutely! The USA too! Regrettably, land use policies outlaw building these types of places while fiscal and transportation policies favor dehumanizing, automobile-scaled settlement patterns which, in addition to being incredibly costly, isolate, alienate and lead to a fear-thy-neighbor syndrome. As Pogo said, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Absolutely! The USA too! Regrettably, land use policies outlaw building these types of places while fiscal and transportation policies favor dehumanizing, automobile-scaled settlement patterns which, in addition to being incredibly costly, isolate, alienate and lead to a fear-thy-neighbor syndrome. As Pogo said, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
What is this? Can somebody explain?
Massie is literally the only based king in all of Congress.
@sickburnbro Maybe this accounts for a lot of the "millenials are poorer than boomers" phenomenon and nobody doing that discourse even realizes it. Millenials had their resources and jobs transfered to browns, boomers mostly did not.
So the real question, is whether this guy was unique in some way.
Have they already replaced him? How many versions of him are there at a given time..
Have they already replaced him? How many versions of him are there at a given time..
Dallas is catching up.
“In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb.
‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’
I am tempted to reply:
‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night.
In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation.
This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs."
- CS Lewis
‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’
I am tempted to reply:
‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night.
In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation.
This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs."
- CS Lewis