Chuck Norris (the real life dude) died recently,
The post is referencing a well-known song titled “The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny”, in which Chuck Norris (as a cartoon character, the whole song is animated) descends from the heavens, beats up Indiana Jones, kills Batman, but ultimately loses to a bunch of characters ganging up on him, including every single Power Ranger. In the end of this bloody battle, only one was able to come out alive: Mr. Rogers, in a blood-stained sweater.
Warning: This is a guess, don’t take my comment as fact! :3
I think it’s a relic from the past, because computers do images from left-to-right, top-to-bottom, so, since your mouse cursor is an image, the top-left corner is the origin. Maybe it was too much of a hassle to center the crosshair on the origin, and instead developers or designers came up with the arrow shape.
Since the arrow works fine, it became what’s most commonly used nowadays. The crosshair and dot have a different meaning, for example there’s a cross when resizing or dragging, and drawing programs usually use a dot or a tiny circle instead of the arrow.
It’s there to solve your “This is boring” issue without having to do all of the system configuration stuff manually*.
I was able to package a nightly AppImage as if it were installed normally like an app, and I could reinstall the system if I wanted to, and it’d still be there. NixOS is the opposite of manual dependency resolution, it’s dependency heaven. You can have unstable and stable repositories side-by-side, living in a utopic egalitarian society. You can write a configuration file that does everything. You can do anything with NixOS. NixOS is the one true god, all hail NixOS—
Ah, I see why you may not want to use it.
I haven’t even told you about nix-comma or nix helper (nh) yet. May the, uh, flake be with you.
*You do have to write the config files, though you can just adapt someone else’s configuration.
Make the city government responsible for sidewalks instead of the property owner. As of now, the sidewalks are all uneven and often sloped, horrible for accessibility. With enough money they’d be convinced to do that. I’m not sure if this is the case because of state or federal laws or if it’s a city thing, I live in Brazil.
Help people in need of housing and financial stability. People should be able to pay their own bills instead of stealing water and electricity from who-knows-where.
Make the local electricity and water infrastructure public. Basic services shouldn’t be for-profit. Maybe even end these bills entirely and make these services included in tax, it could work out.
Move people out of areas prone to disasters, like landslides. People need good, safe housing.
Make nice tiled streets that aren’t full of holes. I think tiled streets are better than asphalt, except in highways.
Fund a better draining system because streets here get flooded when it rains a lot. Tiled roads would help also, I think.
Make the transit of more touristy areas mostly separated from resident areas.
Separated bike paths. Bikes should avoid contact with car routes when possible.
Free buses for everyone.
Help new businesses in areas which didn’t have businesses before.
Spend a lot, and I mean a lot on funding education and school lunches.
Investigate corrupt politicians, at least on the local level since that’s the premise of the question.
Any controversial changes, or changes that would take a lot of construction (like fixing the sidewalks and housing) would come with campaigns and be spread out over time for gradual change. Free buses on the other hand could come instantly because I’d have millions of dollars.