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@futurebird every single time we make them take two months to do something they wanted to do in a week, that’s a win. That’s two months that they aren’t doing something else terrible. Every time we make them take a concentration camp apart and spend more money building another one, that’s a win.
It’s nowhere near enough, but I guarantee things would’ve gotten much worse much faster and hurt many more people by now if not for these little wins.
@futurebird At the far end of the urbanization spectrum, I did field work in the Scottish Highlands, very rural places, where the locals had bought out bad landlords and were taking over things themselves.
When I asked about the most important projects that the community trusts had taken on, a truly stunning number of responses involved public toilets. Like they're building housing, wind farms, restoring forests, opening shops. . . . but, toilets.