I moved from a $900/mo 1br apartment to a $2000/mo 3br house. Sometimes I worry it was the wrong choice, but then I see that people are being asked to pay the same amount just to rent a studio apartment. It's ridiculous. Who are these for?

The first one isn't about "feeling bad" it's about reducing strain on the power grid.

>Do you expect to be alive in a year?

When people say that there are serious problems facing humanity and you somehow translate that into "I'm going to die in a year" it is obvious you are not actually listening to what your opponents have to say, but are instead just making shit up. I suppose it must be easy to convince yourself you're rational when you argue that way; ignorance really is bliss, after all.

This post sounds like it was written by an AI, which is ironic since automation is one of the issues facing humanity.

>Ignorance used to be bliss

It's very funny for you to say this. The reason "ignorance is bliss" is because you don't know about all the problems people are facing and can instead pretend everything is fine. This is literally still the case. It is the exact problem that you have.

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> I'm not really following what is so bad in the world right now

Well since everyone says that this sub is full of doom and gloom and nobody posts anything positive, a brief examination of the rest of the sub should apparently provide all the answers you need :)

>You also keep saying how no one is going to do anything about it now, who said that?

You did, when you said people shouldn't point out problems and then use a passive voice to say "they will be solved".

>I just think that a lot of the issues people speak about will be solved or at the very least will be nullified by future generations

Based on what evidence? Also, why leave it to future generations? Why not acknowledge the problems now and work to fix them?

>I said in my comment above "I think the future is gonna be fantastic" not "Bury your head and pretend things will be good when they are bad."

Based on our current situation, you have to do the latter in order to honestly claim the former. "The future is gonna be fantastic with no work required on our part" is a delusional statement.

What about it are they going to regret? Does it make one's life worse to say "we need to address systemic issues before they become worse"? Does being optimistic protect you from the consequences of those issues?

You ever tried genuine human connections? There's a reason people moved away from them.

>But would they be okay with their grandchildren marrying an android?

Already happened.

>How accepting did they think they could be in a future where they had to eat bugs instead of cow

Lots of them are probably already vegan or vegetarian, so...

>Would they be okay with a trend of eating daily pills over real food

Already happened.

Apart from a few streets Worcester isn't that bad for walking, especially since you can take the bus downtown for free.

If you're just driving straight it's fine. The problem comes when you have to swerve across traffic at high speed to get into the right lane, which is common in Providence, Springfield and Boston. In fact if you think "driving in the same direction" automatically provides good results I suggest you go check out the Saugus-Peabody section of Route 1.

>Which also makes it difficult to drive across quickly

Good. It's easier and safer to drive more slowly instead of plowing along at 65mph and then having to switch lanes to get off the highway on one of eight thousand looping exits. And we have a blessedly low number of stroads in the city itself.

Having driven recently in Providence, Springfield and Boston, I'll say Worcester's driving is way above average. Only one major highway going through it without all the insane loops and lane switches of the highways in those other places.

Mandatory sidewalks on every road.

>Oh wait, that would destroy local businesses

It's not exactly statistical data but it seems like I'm seeing "local business shutting down" pretty much every week in the T&G and at least one of them blamed the stadium for taking away parking.

Also, the reason people complain about stadiums is that the city spends a lot of money for a structure owned by private citizens in the hopes that the structure will pay itself back - which it often doesn't.

>You’ll never see that legislation passed though.

That's a funny thing to say for someone who can't stop complaining about how much taxes will increase costs. The rhetoric you're using to complain about the CPA is the same rhetoric that landlords will use to complain about legislation against them, and frankly I feel like if there was a ballot question about controlling landlords, you'd be arguing against it.

Long story short - if the landlords are the problem, blame them, not the taxes. The taxes aren't making the prices go up, the landlords are - they're just using the taxes as an excuse. The lesson is that the government should go further, not ease up.

They can because they're allowed to. If they're prevented from doing it, they can't do it anymore. That's what legislation is for. Welcome to the real world.

They'll do that because they're liars. Just like the businesses who claim times are tough while raking in record profits, or the employers who claim nobody wants to work anymore while refusing to actually hire people.

The problem here is the landlords, not the CPA. The solution is to tighten the screws on them and prevent them from getting away with their ridiculous extortion.

>Rents about to increase

Those poor, desperate landlords will have no choice but to raise rents by 50x the actual cost of the CPA. How tragic! They're trying their best!

>I don't think it's ironic or hypocritical to stereotype terminally online reddit extremists.

"It's OK when I do it."

>There is simply nothing to be gained from engaging with people that are always angry, always uncompromising, and always right

Would you say you're willing to compromise on this statement, or perhaps admit that you might be wrong? Would you say you're angry about this conversation?

>They may as well be bots.

"They're barely even human."

>You're just proving my point.

I disagreed with you on a completely abstract point - not even a real political issue, just a vague comparison of the center vs the extremes - and you're already treating me like a hostile opponent. The way you are talking to me right now is literally the way that you characterize extremists as treating people. Look at what you have written and tell me honestly that you think it sounds civil.

>reddit extremists are so pitiful

Before I say anything else, can you just see the irony here by itself?

"Extremists are the kind of people who dehumanize large swathes of people by making sweeping statements about them and their behavior! Unlike those freaks, I would never do anything like that!"

The problem centrists experience is that by defending a generic status quo they imagine they don't really have political opinions, but they do. Centrists treat extremists the way that they imagine extremists treat each other, but then conclude that only the extremists are wrong to do that.

The people that "want other people to be nicer to each other", on the other hand, are just kind of dumb. What does "nicer" mean in politics? Do you care about actions, or just words?

>KKK guys like me?

No, guys who only pretend to care about street names when those street names happen to represent any sort of conservative history. There would always be an excuse. The arguments you used to defend "Plantation St" would be used to defend any other sort of conservative street name too.

>Well at least it confirms what kind of guy you are.

I'm a guy who can recognize patterns, and in this case the pattern is that people only came out of the woodwork to care about a city issue when they detected the smell of "wokeness". You don't really care about anything else you're saying, you just see "wokeness" and you want it removed. You don't give a shit about wasted oxygen or helping the homeless or whatever. "I help the homeless once a year, therefore UMASS shouldn't be allowed to change a street name" is a hilariously incomprehensible statement and yet it is effectively the real argument you made in this discussion.

>You said that I ought to be doing something about homelessness, I am

I said "you're here on the internet complaining about it instead of helping homeless people", which is still true. The fact that you take some time out of your life to help homeless people is very admirable, but it doesn't take up 100% of your time. You have time to do other things, just like people at UMASS do. So if you accept that you're allowed to have time to do things besides help homeless people, guess what? So are they.

>So much oxygen is wasted on the whole woke thing

You're wasting it too! This is my point. You complain about "wasting time" but you are also wasting time in the exact same way. You could be helping homeless people right now, but you aren't. You're too busy wasting oxygen. People who post on Reddit frankly forfeit the right to use terms like "waste of time" because none of us actually care about our time.

>If it were something truly racist and offensive rather than a semantic dust up, who could argue with that?

Dude if it was the fucking Ku Klux Klan Boulevard guys like you would still be complaining about how it's "woke posturing" to try to change the name and how difficult it would be for the inhabitants of KKK Blvd to change their address labels.

That's very nice of you. It also, again, has basically nothing to do with the topic at hand. UMASS was not choosing between "proposing a street name change" and "doing charity".