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  • Actually in France we have both design!

    The second one is rarer but you can see it on the “Tarot de Marseille”

    It’s a different set of cards, in this form there called “lames” (blades) or “arcanes” (arcana)

    The set is divided in 4 colors also called family: “épée” (sword), “coupe” (cup, but think of it as the same type of cup as the saint grail), “bâton” (club) and “denier” (it’s an old coin)

    This compose the 52 “arcanes mineurs”

    In addition there also 22 “arcanes majeurs” called “atouts”

    And it is usually recognize because it’s the base of the Tarot use for divination

    But now it’s generally used to play the eponymous game of “Tarot”, a very good and very old game that me and my friend played a lot at uni


  • It’s also really weird because discussing a topic like this is heavily impacted by where you come from. For exemple the discussion about nuclear energy cannot be the same in France, China, USA or Russia and I see almost everyone here talking the thing like the choice between Nuclear Energy or not (because it’s should never be about Nuclear Energy or Renewable Energy) was the same everywhere on the planet.

    So here we are, a lot of people talking to themselves instead of talking with each other, hammering their idea on the topic without even once considering that others living in others places and living in others conditions will approach the subject differently (and than it should be normal and comprehensible)


  • I’ll accept that maybe my vision of the suburbs is biased by films and TV shows 😅

    I live in a city where temperature could realistically go to 110° F (that’s about 40~45° C for me) in summer but here bus and tram have AC and there is water fountains (decorative and drinkable) everywhere + the city try to maintain vegetation despite heat waves. So even if it’s hot outside, felt air temperature is actually way cooler.

    I’ll admit this is very dependent of where you live, the climate around you, water availability and other things, but certainly it’s doable in some places of the US. For others places, in between accomodations can be found. Walkable cities are not a black and white sets of solution there’s levels, hierarchical implementations, etc


  • I don’t live in the US so maybe I’m mistaken but in my opinion a possibility could be :

    Wait for a small group of houses in the suburbs to be available (preferably towards the center) and transform them in convenience stores, schools, office space, etc

    Next you can link multiple suburbs like that with train/tram or metro for exemple. And you can even leave roads connecting zones for delivery or for people needing to go to another town or things like that

    Couple that to a good public transport system overall and now you’re living in a space were there’s less danger due to car circulation, you don’t need to drive multiple km to do groceries, kids can walk(or commute via PT) to school, etc

    Edit: Naturally this would not be feasible in a year or two but I can easily see this implemented in 5 to 10 year time