10. The freedoms we take for granted – political, economic, sexual, individual - were won through a combination of extraordinary struggle and extraordinary luck. There’s nothing “natural” or inevitable about them. They are in fact highly anomalous. And we won’t know what we’ve lost till it’s gone.

8. But it might not require Nazi terror for Europe to revert to default mode. We seem perfectly happy to vote or drift our way back to it. As the US might already have done.
Once you vote for an autocrat, you might find it extremely hard to reverse the decision.

If someone was walking down the streets with a machine that killed 40,000 North Americans a year, we’d definitely stop them, right? We’d definitely ban or severely limit that machine, & who could operate it? … Right?

May he rest in peace

“People not products” motto has served me well

Can’t wait for this future

I can’t tell if you’re joking, but this isn’t about hockey

Physical distance. Our small “city” was once 3 towns along a highway, now amalgamated into one, 9 kilometres between each. Over time the schools, shopping, parks & services were reduced in each former town to eliminate redundancies. Now, daily needs are spread kilometres apart in a town of 15,000

Stained glass windows in yarn! Lovely.