What fact do you wish everyone understood?
4 iambateman 28 8/3/2025, 4:20:30 PM
For me, I wish everyone knew that a 2-lane road with a center turn lane has the same carrying capacity as a 4-lane road. There’s a lot of 4-lane road that could be a lot safer with no tradeoff.
What fact would you like to share with everyone to make the world a better place?
There is a financial penalty for not voting.
Those specific things have such an outsized impact that it's obvious after living there for a bit that one culture is overall better or overall worse than another.
We're fine to compare company cultures and to insist that company cultures are decisive in company success. But when it comes to national cultures we pretend that they're all comparable and all equally good. They are not.
It is of course possible to make value judgments, there are in fact good things and bad things, but people and their cultures are far too complicated to categorize that way.
We can talk about "things that frequently happen" and whether those are good or bad, but even determining why they happen or how to encourage or discourage them has so far seemed beyond modern science.
They write a song about it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9JrPLtVak0upvotes for everyone
At times, especially when I lived in Portland, I would wish people understood that not everyone likes dogs.
That humans are solving problems since the very beginning with no priests or government.
Trust your peers, your neighbour: trust even anybody in the street (even at night) but do start to doubt any 'government'
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40675527
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43187603
maybe this could help people to be more thoughtful on how they invest their attention
As an easy example, food in america is not finite in any meaningful way. There is, in fact, quite a bit of it. Making sure students in government schools aren't going hungry really isn't an issue of finite resources, it's much more complicated than that.
But how does that answer the question of how resources -- which are still finite no matter how much you insist otherwise, given that it takes money to distribute food -- should be allocated? If we leave it up to the government, or to the people who elected said government, it's irrational to expect a fair outcome.