It felt like it ended kinda suddenly with the African American neighborhood and really didn't go into the impacts of this kind of design on minority families. I'm not sure the rate of car ownership in African American families in the 1950s-60s but I suspect it was lower making suburbs, even if some were designed for African American families, predominately white.

I think this also did a lot to ruin the cultural and regional cuisine of many parts of the U.S. leaving us with a generally bland substitute for what should be good food. It also imposed the ideals of one person or group on the rest of the country in regards to what is good food and what isn't. That gave rise to the mass processed food we have today because only big companies could assure the taste standards that the USDA was promoting.

Wasn't this the eclipse featured in a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court that some how lead to time travel?

These remind me of those anti-manspreading chairs. Hostile Design sure is interesting.

Probably the worst thing is we're going to see someone get a tatoo of this and it will be posted here. However on a lighter note it is reminiscent of Princess Mononoke. Which in the end we learn that guns won't solve this problem but instead bring about the birth of nightmare gods and demons. http://gph.is/2gOgOvf

It's great to hear that they were able to clean up the pond and make use of it. Of course there is always the worry that the tourist will make the pond dirty again.

It is sad there aren't more happy stories like this about uber and lyft.

She's much more upbeat that I picture an evil queen but does seem to be having fun.

I can only see it ending in inflation and prices going up. I think this kind of thing only worked in Star Trek, which a lot of these ideas seem to be modeled on, because there was a garuntee of food, shelter, and clothing outside of the need to buy it. Perhaps looking into meeting those basic needs would be better than just a chunk of cash for everyone.
I am familar with similar programs in Alaska among the native peoples there who receive free housing, a basic income, and healthcare from their tribal corporations. However, it comes with strings attached. No Alcohol, no drugs, and harsh punishments for crime. Many natives choose to leave their villages to find places they can get their vices. On the other side many of the folks recieving the basic income spend their days doing very little but watching TV and playing on the computer. Perhaps if there was a garuntee of employment and a need to work attached it would be better but overall it seems like flawed system. (Most of the money comes from tribal investments which seem to do well and some native groups are able to really help their communities as well)

It's an interesting essay but I'm not sure that I agree with the whole of the argument. Yes since the industrial revolution we have progressively turned away from imparting cultural wisdom generation to generation and instead rely on that to be imparted through school, literature, media, and other information. Perhaps more what we have lost is the time to stop and think about what we have just heard come to understand to ponder it out and to make a decision. Yes perhaps we are a new kind of barbarian horde which rushes from new thing to new thing. However in other ways our babarianism has broken many social conventions, though it has not triumphed, we are not as racist as we once were, or sexist, or homophobic. Yes we see that on the rise again but only against the back drop of a society that can see how far we've come. Perhaps it is sad to have lost the wisdom of the past but I see hope in a bright future. If we're willing to work for it.

"Don't be Gandalf" Quote of the video

I'm not sure on his claim that he didn't touch his facial hair for a year. There are a few shots there where it looks like his sideburns get trimmed and his goatee. However I'm not him so I'll trust what he posted.

This is tragic but often represents what so many refugees have had to do in the face of extinction. They leave behind their homelands and their ancestors to find a place to live. While I cannot imagine it was easy it was better to live. I think recognition for what was done is important but I think restitution of the stones is likely impossible.

I haven't read the article but there is a part of me that wonders if it is a warp due to our vantage point of perception? Or could there be something between us and the stars warping them? If not what is warping the galaxy?

This sounds a lot like some more experimental psychologists of the 1960s and their journey into psychedelics. It seems that the hardest part of this journey is getting beyond madness or surviving long enough while mad to be considered sane again.