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Bondi Calls Tesla Vandalism ‘Domestic Terrorism,’ Promising Steep Consequences - www.nytimes.com/.../...ism-domestic-terrorism.html

On every childhood TV show or movie featuring a bully, there would always be a bully giving wedgies… So I wonder, how did this trope become to be and is there weight behind it that inspired multiple creators to put that in their works. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Please leave your thoughts down below and feel free to read everyone else’s takes on this subject.

Just looking to see what the guys choose. Be honest.

I might be able to, for a short time, but it would be a massive learning curve.

What about you? And be honest.

Minor notes, no access to modern tech, no electricity, think cave man style existence.

Just been offered a job in this city with a similar salary and moving allocation as well as same benefits package as

but am currently in this one after 10 years of living here with a wife and house.

Cost of living is slightly lower in the top one, weather significantly drier but colder in the bottom.

What would you choose?

Hostile architecture is an urban design strategy intended to prevent behavior judged to be unpleasant, inappropriate, or dangerous. But its side effect is to sap the vitality of urban life

Once there were the social ideals of architecture: a discipline whose goal is to define the physical context in which we live and which can encourage socializing. While design disciplines can guarantee dignified living conditions for everyone, they also have to aspire to accessible and shared beauty. Among the outstanding examples of how the attention of architects (and clients) can be directed towards the whole community – and not just to a wealthy few – are street benches: masonry and stone street furniture that provided public seating, placed at the foot of the main or secondary faces of historic buildings. The principal Renaissance palaces in Florence, such as Palazzo Medici-Riccardi and Palazzo Strozzi are endowed with these public furnishings.

What is hostile architecture?
Fast forward to the 2000s and we see the spread of an architecture whose purposes seem to be the opposite to those described above. Their goal is to make a given public place inaccessible, inhospitable and hostile. The name of this architectural trend is “hostile architecture”, “defensive architecture”, or even “unpleasant design”. It is a whole series of architectural devices – objects, furnishings, accessories or details – designed to discourage certain kinds of behavior on the part of the population, and in particular some less well-off categories – especially the homeless. Studs and spikes, bollards and dividers, as well as disturbing sounds and lights: hostile architecture creeps into existing built environments and changes their connotations.

www.salonemilano.it/.../hostile-architecture-problem-or-solution

It also keeps skateboarders away & reduces property owners potential liability for injuries plus lower premiums for installing it.

I collect disability checks. I have been sitting on ass lately, but I have also been struggling with some health issues. I was fired mjd-July of last year as a software developer. The tech job market has been decimated, and I have not been able to gain full-time employment since in my industry. Meanwhile, I do have some gigs coming down the pipeline, but they haven't been given to me just yet. I went to interview for a part time campus security officer job yesterday, but I received a rejection phone call on the way back home from the interview due to my criminal record. In fact, I may struggle to find any public-facing role due to my past stalking conviction and being labeled as a predator online.

They are short on manpower, other nations cannot go in... that leaves women. Are the women trained sufficiently to use drones, missiles, guns, and tanks to fight?

There have been some female snipers and such, but they are volunteer. This would be conscription like the men were subjected to.

Report is 2500 soldiers trapped in Kursk. Where to get the forces to break them out?