Americans are making excuses for this the same way and for the same reasons we made excuses for the Tulsa massacre.

Our nation is built on genocide and ethnic cleansing.

@rvedotrc That's brilliant, and fascinating, and I have low-key wanted to do that ever since the labyrinths went up. Congratulations on actually doing it! Are the photos viewable anywhere?

(My sister and I did the 24-hour challenge for her birthday back in 2014, but in that you only have to have the train stop at the station, not actually get off.)

@djm4 My photos aren't online, but I believe that there are photos of the labyrinths somewhere.

It was fun – and sometimes rather tiring – searching around the network 😀

I'm stopping at 75%, partly because I'm going to London tomorrow and will get spoilers then.

I'm embarrassed about some that I've forgotten, but it's not bad given that I left London in 2017. My London Transport geek partner got 85% "because it includes all those Overground lines in north and east London which [she's] never used", so I don't feel too bad.

during Hurricane Katrina almost 2 decades ago, when they announced the evacuation of New Orleans, before the storm changed track to Mobile, the European tourists and expats showed up at the Amtrak station, expecting orderly and well-run evacuation trains.

We don’t know how to run an evacuation, either, even when we pay for the infrastructure.

Evacuating roughly the same order of magnitude of people in the path of a storm with days of notice was beyond us.

Oakland is only about 12 miles from San Francisco. It's a short trip. I like to think of myself as reasonably intelligent, resilient, and good at problem solving. If you ask me to evacuate 10 family members ranging in age from infant to 80 years old, from SF to Oakland, I think I could figure out how to do that.

But if you added the constraints that I had no fuel, no food or water, that some of those relatives couldn't walk, others were missing, and I had spotty to no cell service? Much harder.

@ellie That is already the case in California. A lot of community emergency response planning for large earthquakes works on the assumption that all major roads will be blocked by crashes or bridge collapses (enough people around San Francisco still remember 1989), so that even where you can drive you can't get more gas in. Local transit by bicycle cuts down on how many vehicles need to be run around.

This all does nothing to change @mekkaokereke's essential point above.

@michael_w_busch @ellie
I'm going to first point out that the point of the OP was that it's functionally impossible to do what Gazans have been told to do, full stop, but they are going to be punished anyways.

Basic Cop Logic, nothing new here, but it's not really a moment to necessarily come forward as solution-oriented just yet.

That said, solutionally speaking, I think horses, donkeys and possibly even dog teams are also going to figure big into the solarpunk good future.