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Here's the problem: if you follow links from a page like that, you go away from the page, never to return. We need pages that ... concourse pages ... they direct you to article after article ... and they're permanent.
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Why am I putting someone else's sponsored links on my web page? Because I'm stupid? Yes. Because I'm crazy. Yes. Because records should be kept? Yes.
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So, I did it. That's every link on that page, saved on this page. They all open in new tabs, and you can go from one to another and read all those articles, or look at all those web pages, and this page won't go anywhere. It'll stay right here, where you want it.
I'm gonna say the big problem with cities is they rely on farms in the country for sustenance. You either need to live in the country, and not have access to the city, and do farming, or you can live in the city, and then you can't do farming. This assertion is nonsensical, but it still describes a problem. Just because there's a problem doesn't mean we should do something about it, or fix it - that kind of thinking, or not thinking, leads to trouble - but it offers the possibility of something to investigate. How would we investigate something like that? I'm not sure, but investigation is something that happens in virtual reality. Some kind of on line resource for exploring the food supply, like, if you could link, from here, to a map of that supply chain ... ... ...
Massively problematic. I do not find it in myself to mow my lawn, or trim my trees. There are all sorts of actual reasons for that. I'll be accused of being contemptible, but lots of people don't find it in themselves to do such things - instead, they hire poor colored people to do them. Boy, that Amex site was incredibly white. And they wanted my e-mail address. What for? And then I'd get to watch some "mentors" talk for 1 minute at a time. Is that really useful? But, they do have money. I guess I'll come back to this subject, how I'm gonna get my landscaping done, later. This is how I say magic works: you write your thoughts down, where you can find them again. Then what? Sorry, I'm not going to go into it any more than that, right here.
Up next: Gerhard Schmitt, How To Create Sustainable, Pulsating Cities of the Future.
Penalosa at Huffington Post.
