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if he's such a boogle fan, why even did he have a phone with LOS?

this may help that urban planner: It's a sound barrier between houses to the right and a road that's limited to 50kmh. Photo is taken maybe a hundred meters from the previous photo

my heart wants a world without cars and asphalt roads, where there's no need for sidewalks, where every path is just a desire path and a chance to bloom.

who cares?

there is one, on the residential side of the street, lining the houses, for those who need a pavement

this was the only time i was there, i can't say

there's an "official" mapped bike/walk path that joins the street 200m away. It passes through a park and a creek. From the traces what i assume is that after riding between trees and on a path, people don't want to get down to the street but just continue riding/walking on the grass (which no longer is grass).

I love desire paths but i really couldn't understand this one. I've seen more interesting ones in that area, i just need a break from the rain to have the courage to stop and take photos.

i thought i've found a shortcut but the street curves away from my commute. I may go back on a sunny Sunday.

Looks like a rich suburb that can influence decision makers to privatise the circulation by having multiple dead-ends. If a car is there, they're either lost or they live there.

Boccioni was a futurist, rather than a cubist.

The Futurists admired speed, technology, youth and violence, the car, the airplane and the industrial city, all that represented the technological triumph of humanity over nature, and they were passionate nationalists. They repudiated the cult of the past and all imitation, praised originality "however daring, however violent," bore proudly "the smear of madness," dismissed art critics as useless, rebelled against harmony and good taste, swept away all the themes and subjects of all previous art, and glorified science.

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it's a very calm dead-end street with maybe 8 houses and iirc speed is limited to 30km. You can walk in the middle of the street and you would still be safe.

There was even a hoop left in the street. If kids can play basketball there, i think you can walk safely. (i walked and cycled on the street. It was raining.)

edit: i'm on "fuck cars" too. This photo isn't about cars.

licenses mickey mouse 🤔

On January 1, 2024, the copyrights of the first three animated Mickey Mouse cartoons and their portrayal of Mickey Mouse expired in the United States, and they entered the public domain. They are the silent versions of the cartoons Plane Crazy and The Gallopin' Gaucho, as well as the sound cartoon Steamboat Willie. Newer versions of Mickey Mouse remain copyright-protected.

looks interesting but it can't "export/import events" :/

do you have any sources for infanticide?

was infant mortality higher for hunter-gatherers compared to Neolithic or even medieval times?

some information from a quick search (i'm not an archeologist or anthropologist. I was just very interested in Neolithic period at some time 🤷

After the adoption of a sedentary lifestyle with a more steady supply of high-calorie foodstuff ensured by agriculture and animal husbandry, the birth rate increased and demographics changed. Better nutrition and reduced female mobility led to shorter intervals between births, and ultimately to a significant growth of the Neolithic population. This ‘baby boom’ is also known as the Neolithic Demographic Transition. Whether a shortened period of lactation is also a factor in this development, is currently under investigation in a project led by Sofija Stefanović from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. The availability of suitable weaning foods such as cereal grains might have enabled to wean babies earlier, which led to a quicker return of mothers’ fertility.

In the typical pattern of Neolithic societies, siblings are now born in quicker succession, leaving only two to three years between births. Farming communities are known for having many children – not only because they can be supported nutritionally, but also because their labour is needed for the plentiful work in the fields. The physical toll of childbirth probably increases for the mothers, and their social position may change significantly. If they no longer go out on gathering trips as much and remain close to home, presumably with other women in the same situation, confinement and control can be one consequence.

Human hunter-gatherers, for example the Gainj of highland Papua New Guinea, have an average of 43 months between births. Pennington (2001) calculated 39 months for hunter-gatherers, taking the mean of four non sedentary populations. Three and a half to four years between children seems normal for prehistoric people before the Neolithic, i.e. the adoption of agriculture, animal husbandry and a sedentary lifestyle.

How is this child spacing achieved? Mothers breastfeed their babies for at least the first two years of life, and unrestricted breastfeeding suppresses ovulation, preventing further pregnancies. How exactly this mechanism works is still under debate – and do not try this at home: it has been shown that in well-fed, western civilisations with a limited nursing culture breastfeeding alone is not a reliable method of birth control. The continuous, around-the-clock suckling of infants produces hormones in the mother that suppress ovulation, but the energy balance of a lactating woman may also have something to do with it (Thompson 2013).

https://motherhoodinprehistory.wordpress.com/2015/08/31/prehistoric-child-spacing/

"growing population" is a sedentary problem. Hunter-gatherers didn't reproduce like rabbits.