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#41

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Grey Fox - July 03, 2025, 02:28:43 PM

70s cars were has big has today's car, especially in NAmerica with our love of SUV and F150 size pick ups. 80s is when they really shrunk. There's also alot more cars today in absolute numbers.

I think the reason is cultural and 40 years of media built fear of the unsupervised space, especially an outdoor one.

I live in a neighborhood built in the 60s to the mid 90s with big lots and large streets for everyone to play in. Lots of kids roam the streets in bands like we imagine it. From what I've seen all these kids have something in common. They're not white.

#42

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Grey Fox - July 03, 2025, 02:19:47 PM

It's the revenge bill.

#43

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by HVC - July 03, 2025, 02:16:19 PM

On further thought, and maybe slightly sexist, it could also be working mother guilt. Which wasn't really a thing in the era of stay at home moms. Nearly every* instance I've seen of helicopter parenting in my personal life was mother driven. But that could just be a statistical anomaly.


*unless you count sports rage which was a equal opportunity sin.

#44

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by HVC - July 03, 2025, 02:08:30 PM

I guess you are too young to remember the boats people drove in the 70s 

I do blame cars.

Yeah, but you say that about everything

Law enforcement involvement is extreme, but with a nation of 300 million a few weird news stories a year does not a trend make.  I still say it's just scarcity of kids thing making people more hyper focused. There have been big cars in the past. Hell common children's toys were damn near designed to maim and kill kids so it's not like life is more dangerous now. That and 24 hour news built to scare people into engagement.

#45

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Last post by Zanza - July 03, 2025, 02:03:51 PM

Bill passed.

Is this the Enabling Act for the USA? I guess we will find out.

Does it give Trump any further powers that the Supreme Court did not already give him?

It sounds like a terrible bill, setting all the wrong incentives and harm those in need of protection, but I did not get the impression that it is an enabling act so far.

Edit: I think in hindsight this bill will be seen as one more step away from the global hegemony the US enjoyed the last hundred years or so.

#46

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Last post by Josquius - July 03, 2025, 01:58:15 PM

You youngins.  You have no idea what a big car actually looks like.

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/cadillac-eldorado-1976-cabriolet-vs-ford-f-350-2016-4-door-pickup-crew-cab/

Again the 70s were a bit of an aberration and though these cadillacs and other similar designs existed in NA they weren't so dominant as SUV types and increasingly pickup trucks today.

#47

Off the Record / Re: Football (Soccer) Thread

Last post by Josquius - July 03, 2025, 01:54:39 PM

Yeah, really sad.
I was just reading the other day about that case with a player dying in a plane crash too.

#48

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Last post by Valmy - July 03, 2025, 01:54:04 PM

Bill passed.

Is this the Enabling Act for the USA? I guess we will find out.

#49

Off the Record / Re: Football (Soccer) Thread

Last post by Sheilbh - July 03, 2025, 01:36:34 PM

Very sad

#50

Off the Record / Re: Facebook Follies of Friend...

Last post by Razgovory - July 03, 2025, 01:36:34 PM

The internet has its downsides.