Roger Puta was a prolific railroad photographer and railfan. He was born in 1944 and grew up in Chicago. He worked for railroads and lived in DC and San Francisco. He photographed trains and streetcars all across America, Canada, and Mexico. He and his partner ran a bus touring company. His photos are very distinct, with a more muted color pallete and pictures that sometimes almost appear painted. He took more than 5,000 photos of trains during his lifetime. He often goes unsung as a gay railroad photographer, and is not as recognized as he should be. He died in 1990 at age 46. Discussing his death at a young age was off limits. Puta died of AIDS, a disease that was purposely ignored by the Reagan administration. Puta deserved to live, and was taken too soon.
Please go view his works. I will be posting many more pictures to c/urbanism but I'm including some links here to his work.
More on Roger:
His longtime friend Marty Bernard (who uploaded the pictures) discussing Roger
The Twitter thread that inspired this post
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Fun fact: in 2020 school shootings accounted for .001% of all firearms related deaths in America. That's more or less why I don't take gun control advocates seriously, and I don't think the Democrats are acting in good faith. If they actually wanted to save lives they could fund mental healthcare programs and save thousands of people who commit suicide every year. Or fund schools and neighborhood centers and save kids by proven methods that reduce street violence. They don't even focus on pistols, which are used in far, far more firearms homicides than any kind of rifle, let alone the AR-15. If they actually wanted to stop violence and save lives there's all kinds of things they could do. Instead they hyperfocus on one very rare issue that has the maximum emotional impact, and one type of firearm whose boogieman status is mostly symbolic. And then they play a confidence game in the political arena to make it look like they're moving heaven and earth to "Stop the violence".
They're not even focusing on the greatest danger to children. 7,000 children were killed by firearms in 2020. 70 were killed in school shootings.
Because senselessness and randomness hits different. Additionally, singular systemic deaths don’t interact with individualism. They don’t compute together
Imagine following scenarios:
A) doubling domestic shooting numbers
B) doubling deadly vehicular incidents
C) doubling shop stealing
D) doubling preventable diseases deaths
E) doubling mass shooting events
F) doubling police deaths
G) doubling people killed by the police
Which would lead to mass media interest? And reforms?
Fairly certain there's evidence of gun control lowering the amount of suicides because people don't have easy access to guns that make suicide really easy. But it's in countries that didn't already have 9 trillion guns per person.
Agree with the content of your post, but 2020 is probably the worst year you could possibly use cuz that was the eLearning year
obviously you should never trust democrats, but it is a horrifying thing to see 10 times every year. the underlying causes aren't purely gun access, but liberals are never going to actually try and tackle a systemic issue, so gun control is going to have to be what they go for. and they treat it with the same urgency they treat healthcare or police violence, so it's not like you need to worry about anything happening on that front.
yeah but the news doesn't do widespread coverage on kid shootings done outside of schools so I don't care