As we've become richer, we've bought more cars, we drive them more often, and to further locations. The amount of vehicle traffic and parked cars in neighborhoods have long exceeded the limit for how much you can have before streets become unsafe. This is why children can't go outside unsupervised anymore: there are too many cars, going too fast, and too many parked cars that are too good at hiding children about to run into the road.
You have to get rid of the cars, or limit their use somehow. Eliminate on-street parking. Get rid of monster trucks and SUVs that can only see the ground 22 feet away. More speed bumps and traffic calming.
> No one would mock people for geeking out. No one would mock people for not being good at sports. No one would mock those who struggled at academics. At least not openly.
I always hoped there was a way to avoid US-style bullying. I hadn't considered that it might be yet another consequence of society existing at too big of a scale (ex: behaviors that are accepted or even optimal in a city of 20 million people is wildly different than in a social setting where everyone knows you, your siblings, your friends, your parents, your boss, your coworkers, your pastor, etc.)
Cohorts sound like a good, if imperfect solution, for managing this at school.
The law is working exactly as intended. The copyright lobby is very powerful. If you look at the legislation being proposed since 2010, it has primarily been to strengthen the DMCA. Though Google, Reddit, Meta, Wikipedia, etc. were successful in organizing opposition to these bills, they have no incentive to lobby for the repeal of the DMCA.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90653986/traffic-devastates-loca...
As we've become richer, we've bought more cars, we drive them more often, and to further locations. The amount of vehicle traffic and parked cars in neighborhoods have long exceeded the limit for how much you can have before streets become unsafe. This is why children can't go outside unsupervised anymore: there are too many cars, going too fast, and too many parked cars that are too good at hiding children about to run into the road.
You have to get rid of the cars, or limit their use somehow. Eliminate on-street parking. Get rid of monster trucks and SUVs that can only see the ground 22 feet away. More speed bumps and traffic calming.