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We need more parks.

Ah, we're doing that thing where we say the thing we want, projecting its absence as the cause of something undesirable. Here's mine: We need more turn-based couch co-op video games.

I mean, yeah, usually when people want something it's because its absence is undesirable. Video games already have a system that encourages their existence; parks are fundamentally revenue-losers on the other hand, and building them is more of an act of investment in humanity than a result of economics.

Suicides are undesirable, but parks won't solve them.

I don't agree, but let's pretend you're right. What will then? No sense in dismissing the idea without an alternative.

I told you: two-player couch-coop turn based games. We need more of them.

Those are already well-incentivized. What’s the incentive for creating a park?

It's nice to have parks. They're well incentivized. As a matter of fact, I believe humanity has seen many more park-years than multiplayer-turn-based-couch-coop-years.

True (well, except for the part about parks being well-incentivized), but I bet if you draw a graph of time spent in multiplayer-turn-based-couch-coops versus number of school shootings the line goes up and to the right.

I bet if you draw a graph of number of parks vs. number of school shootings over time, that one goes up and to the right too.

Not per-capita. And anyway, the point is that people need to be close to them. It wouldn’t matter if you split the Mojave Desert into 50,000 smaller parks.

If you graph number of internet posts conflating correlation with causation and school shootings, that line also goes up and to the right.

Neither will two-player couch-coop turn based games, but both will nudge the needle in a beneficial direction.

its a larger scale than that. we need to be allowed to be human again.

At some point we might realize that maximizing shareholder value wasn’t the right way.

1. quality

2. price

3. service

You only get to choose two.

'Pick _at most_ two'; though these days we're lucky to optimize for even one, let alone any!

Tell that to the shareholders! Won’t someone think of them for a change? Those fourth yachts aren’t going to buy themselves!

For a long time investments have been promoted as the best way to save money. I bet there are shareholders right here, reading my reply. You can tell them directly how their investments indirectly enshittifies the world.

As a yellow-bellied sapsucker, the human transformation ban has caused me to consider killing myself many a time. I went to see a Avatar : The Way of Water in 3-D the other day and I had to keep turning my head repeatedly to see.

There's parks. They're mostly empty.

OK, but are most people within 1 kilometer of a park?

> People living more than 1 kilometer away from a green space have nearly 50 percent higher odds of experiencing stress than those living less than 300 meters from a green space [1]

[1] https://www.nrpa.org/our-work/Three-Pillars/health-wellness/...

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