Fuck cars

  • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Can’t get houstonians to care about shit. Same thing with the flooding. Every time someone proposes doing anything about it it dies out

    . There’s a Japanese city that floods really bad and they built this awesome drainage system that Houston talked about learning from and that was like half a decade ago now probably?

    This city is just gonna go under water at some point with all the problems we’ve had the last 20 years and more still perfectly In tact lol

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      The Houston mentality is that if things are bad you suffer though it. And if they're really bad, you buy something to fix it. And if they're really, really bad you move.

      No community in this town. Everyone's just passing through.

      • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        That’s Texas in general for the most part. Just hunker down and get through it, and definitely don’t go to an organization bigger than you and your immediate neighbors/family to deal with it

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        This is what I hit into head first every time I've tried unionizing or organizing in this place. There's no solidarity at all. If you hate your job, get a new one. Hate that one? Get another. Everyone I know changes jobs once a year and if they still can't figure it out they move.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          3 years ago

          Something I discovered entirely too late in life was to change jobs every three years rather than ask for a raise.

          Nobody knows what anything is actually worth and they'll pay a contractor $300/hr to do a job staff was doing for $50, because that gets the staffer off their books.