I never thought I'd see a city with worse traffic issues than Los Angeles until I visited Austin, TX.
If you like spending a LOT of time in your car, sweating your ass off in summer and freezing it off in winter AND having to deal with major homeless issues - move to Austin.
You'll be happy as a pig in shit. Which is what Austin has become - shit.
The summer of 64 AD was a hot one in ancient Rome, and the evening of July 18th was especially warm. The air was dry, and harsh winds blew fiercely throughout the city.
So, when a fire broke out that night in the Cirus Maximus district, weather conditions were perfect for a major conflagration to spread rapidly. And that’s exactly what happened.
It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political. Stir them up. Set one against the other. Divide and conquer. That’s the way to soften up a democracy.