Yeah, they did keep cutting the price to try to get us. The last offer was half the price of the one before it, which just made me think "if you can offer this, how much of a rip-off must the original price have been?"
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I'd look at Japan as an example of how this can be well done. I spent a short time in a pretty rural Japanese suburb (like walking distance from farmland), but the place I stayed was a 10-minute walk from two 24-hour convenience stores along with several restaurants and other shops.
A big part of this is zoning - even in the most restrictive residential zone in Japan, you can build multi-family units and small shops, unlike in the US where most zoned land is single family housing only. Here's a great video that goes into more detail on Japan's zoning.
They get so mad lol. I did this once, and when the guy realized we never intended to buy, he said "Never come to one of these again". And I was like, "Stop sending me free vacation offers then!" (at least that's the comeback I came up with a few days later)
To answer the question in terms of things you personally can do, I think the boring and realistic answer is to research organizations who align with your goals and who you think have effective methods, and get involved with them.
Personally I like represent.us - They're specific to the US, but their idea is to put anti-corruption laws into place that help remove the influence of money on the government. This would help get laws passed that favor everybody instead of just the rich. Their approach is to begin at the local level and get enough momentum for a national movement to have some power.
Here are a couple of videos they made, first about what the problem is, and second about how they are trying to solve it:
I think the premise is questionable. After a quick google search it was easy to find studies showing that internet access is beneficial to health.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9218541/
"The results indicate that access to the Internet significantly improves the average health condition and alleviates health inequality."
https://www.fcc.gov/health/SDOH
"There is increasing evidence demonstrating a strong relationship between broadband access, Internet adoption, and health outcomes."
I've seen the word homomisia and the general suffix -misia used to reflect that a lot of "phobias" really mean hatred and not fear.
Japan: the lowest screen time in Asia and Oceania (also the world)
Also kanopy.com lets you make a free account with a library card or university login, and you can watch movies for free.
So bread is toast I guess.
It's pronounced like the g in high.
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