> 4. Pretty much have to own a car in most places.

Hey, electric scooters are not the worst ever (although I got hit by a truck while riding one and decided to get a car just because I don't like getting hit by trucks)

They aren't, but I live in a hot, humid climate where it often rains. So a scooter is not the best there. And then my workplace is right on a highway - I can take lower-speed roads to get there, but even the slowest path involves 35 MPH roads (~55 km/h), and it's longer.

Goretex...

Yeah, it’s great, but what does that have to do with my comment?

To be worn, when it rains. Even when not. There are shoes, socks, trousers, shirts, shorts, slips, sweaters, jackets, even suits made out of that, or functionally equivalent stuff. Another option would be something very light to pull over, which you carry with you at all times, crumpled or folded into a volume of maybe two matchboxes, single- or multi-use. Much cheaper than than the goretchy parts, btw.

Need faster e-scooter!

45 MPH is not the slowest ever, and actually the issue is that I was in the bike lane attempting to pass a truck and then they suddenly turned without using their signal or checking their mirror.

So actually the lesson apparently was don't attempt to pass vehicles on a scooter, more speed is bad.

Then wear a helmet, with a bright flashing blue light on top :)

free to build whatever I want on my land, as long as it follows all the rules in this really big rule book

Regarding #2 through #7: they are all true and important. I'm aware of different efforts over the years to address some of them, but they are all definitely active problems.

Regarding #1-- is it possible you have a drinking problem?

It’s possible I’m an alcoholic but equally possible I’m so used to puritanical rules that I assume one is an alcoholic because they wish to imbibe in a park on a nice day.

> Regarding #1-- is it possible you have a drinking problem?

You don't have to be an alcoholic (I don't even drink) to agree that with OP that #1 is an arbitrary reduction of freedom. Especially when walking around with a gun is totally fine. Which one has a larger potential of killing somebody?

(And before you make some other ridiculous insinuation, we're talking here about walking, not driving.)

Walking around with a gun while being 'under the influence' is bad!1!!

you buy a coca cola and walk 50 feet from one venue to the next and nobody bats an eye, but you do that with a twisted tea and suddenly people are asking you if you suffer from alcoholism

Or cigarettes/weed, for instance.