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had you ever considered that the problem might be you, wanting to go to the wrong places?
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buses loving suck yes let me sit in traffic in less comfort than my car surrounded by other people trains are p good tho
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Jan 4, 2015 12:47
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counterpoint: buses are pretty good.
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fart simpson posted:counterpoint: buses are pretty good. maybe in some bullshit hippy save the planet kinda way but as a means of transportation they blow
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Jan 4, 2015 13:25
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Soricidus posted:buses are good, but lol if u think anyone who is not poor, old, and/or minority ethnic will ever get on one maybe in lovely cities with bad buses this is the case, in places with functioning transport networks they provide high frequency services between places which are not directly connected by train/tram lines
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Jan 4, 2015 13:35
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EVGA Longoria posted:maybe in some bullshit hippy save the planet kinda way but as a means of transportation they blow idk i often ride the bus to work and it's more comfortable and more convenient than the subway, because there's a lot more stops everywhere and i nearly always get a seat, and it only takes me about 15 minutes. an actual car takes 10 minutes so it's not really a big deal. also i ride the bus to my girlfriend's apartment and it takes about 25 minutes, wheras a taxi or a car takes about 20 minutes, plus that bus only costs like 50 cents
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Jan 4, 2015 14:02
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if I was Google I would make the employees ride literal school buses. like yellow school buses. the man children would love it.
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Jan 4, 2015 15:01
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rjmccall posted:no number of hov lanes will make 101 through the valley not suck. it would probably still be overcrowded if you literally made it a double-decker all the way from 880 to redwood city I35 through downtown Austin does this. it is an absolute clusterfuck at the places where the the upper and lower decks start and stop because of dumbasses trying to cut across the entire highway to be on the other deck or make the next exit.
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Jan 4, 2015 15:30
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did this guy just quote and agree with himself
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Jan 4, 2015 15:42
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edinburgh has a good bus network, but then that "city" is rather tiny and oh god drat it you jerks you have me missing edinburgh again. why is "it's not ugly" literally the best thing that can be said about the aesthetics of any american city. i guess i could say that about boston. living in new york and i'm surrounded by loving filth everywhere. don't get me wrong i mean i moved to ny for a reason, and i have a career and some sort of social life now, but ugh its eyesore-ness makes me feel kinda miserable.
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Jan 4, 2015 15:50
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As a Millennial I posted:did this guy just quote and agree with himself once (i do not remember where) i saw a poster disagree with their own post they quoted
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Jan 4, 2015 15:56
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EMILY BLUNTS posted:once (i do not remember where) i saw a poster disagree with their own post they quoted besides fishmech???
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Jan 4, 2015 16:06
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Subway supremacy. Live by a subway stop, never go anywhere that isn't Subway accessible. Reclassify all urban roads as strictly for buses, commercial delivery, and maybe taxis. gently caress cars, gently caress car culture, gently caress our terrible cities
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Jan 4, 2015 16:37
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rjmccall posted:but since this is silicon valley, we can achieve an equivalent measure of social value by carefully determining the peak usage hours and rigging the upper deck to collapse lots of people died in the 1989 earthquake when a double decker freeway pancaked
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Jan 4, 2015 17:03
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and the replacement bridge is quickly turning out to be a poorly-manufactured piece of garbage, I feel safer using BART to cross the bay than drive
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Jan 4, 2015 17:11
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The hov lanes around bay area are pointless because you can just get a leaf and use em whenever you want so everyone buys leafs to the point that the lanes aren't much faster than regular traffic. But hey mission accomplished on getting a bunch of people to buy electrics Also traffic is terrible because housing is miserably expensive leading people to live more remotely. I have a few coworkers who are making bank on two programmer households and they still live in south sj in order to afford a house and kids so long commute it is. And if you're making the median income or less I dunno where you go maybe Tracy lmao
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Jan 4, 2015 17:37
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i saw ads for random "saga" games and some random civ type games on TV when I was at my parents' house for Christmas and it was so confusing. is there any particular reason why the freemium app market hasn't imploded yet?
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Jan 4, 2015 17:48
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Shifty Pony posted:i saw ads for random "saga" games and some random civ type games on TV when I was at my parents' house for Christmas and it was so confusing. is there any particular reason why the freemium app market hasn't imploded yet? it is imploding, the fact you're seeing ads means they're desperate the thing is that 2 days of revenue is equivalent to a national ad campaign
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Bloody posted:Subway supremacy. Live by a subway stop, never go anywhere that isn't Subway accessible. Reclassify all urban roads as strictly for buses, commercial delivery, and maybe taxis. gently caress cars, gently caress car culture, gently caress our terrible cities i live right by a subway stop and they're constructing a new subway stop even closer, right outside the lobby of my apartment building. i also live near like 5 or 6 bus stops within a 5 minute walk, and those open me up to even more transportation possibilities. basically what im saying is if i were king i would outlaw private car ownership. shenzhen's starting to take baby steps toward that now, actually. last year the city government promised they'd never have private car registration caps or anything, and this year they're already implementing them and banning cars from other cities, who now need a special permit or something to even enter the city limits. next step is hopefully the seizure of all privately owned cars to be repurposed as public taxis with a voucher system for residents to get a certain number of free taxi rides per month, or something
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Jan 4, 2015 18:07
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hot drat
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it's me, i'm the person raising a family in a loving apartment but hey at least i can take the subway to work!
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fritz posted:lots of people died in the 1989 earthquake when a double decker freeway pancaked if by "lots" you mean 42, sure. lol if you're not casually desensitized to death and aren't willing to wish it on tens of thousands of people just because some of them might be part of a social group you enjoy mocking despite it substantially overlapping with your own social circles also that bit of freeway was a classic "let's gently caress up this entire neighborhood by running an elevated highway through the middle" design, and west oakland is better off without it rjmccall fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Jan 4, 2015 |
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Jan 4, 2015 18:31
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Shifty Pony posted:i saw ads for random "saga" games and some random civ type games on TV when I was at my parents' house for Christmas and it was so confusing. is there any particular reason why the freemium app market hasn't imploded yet? they are imploding. that's why they're showing ads, the one game they had that went viral has pretty much died off and now they're trying desperately to recapture that before they collapse, shoveling out crap game after crap game and advertising like crazy in hopes of somehow getting another hit
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Jan 4, 2015 18:33
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Mr Dog posted:it's me, i'm the person raising a family in a loving apartment apartment living doesn't seem that terrible except hardly anyone actually builds apartments for families i'll probably end up doing what my parents did which is live in an apartment until the first kid is a year old and then move to a real house
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Jan 4, 2015 18:38
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Mr Dog posted:it's me, i'm the person raising a family in a loving apartment its me, im every family in new york city and the boston area especially those that are not comically rich
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Jan 4, 2015 18:40
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Bloody posted:its me, im every family in new york city and the boston area especially those that are not comically rich implying that this is somehow a desirable state of affairs i was born in the soviet union and i lived with my parents and my father's grandmother in a very small apartment (it was technically her apartment, that's why we had it "to ourselves". the waiting list for your own apartment was 30 years long or some poo poo like that) with two tiny bedrooms. my great-grandmother had her own room and the three of us got the other one. then shortly after i turned five we ptfo'ed out to england. tbf i didn't really care at the time because, like, i was less than five years old. i mean i barely remember any of it and most of this was explained to me long after the fact. so ok gj we're doing about as well as the former soviet union in terms of worker housing
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As a Millennial I posted:did this guy just quote and agree with himself lmao
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Mr Dog posted:it's me, i'm the person raising a family in a loving apartment beats living an rv
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Main Paineframe posted:they are imploding. that's why they're showing ads, the one game they had that went viral has pretty much died off and now they're trying desperately to recapture that before they collapse, shoveling out crap game after crap game and advertising like crazy in hopes of somehow getting another hit the thing that gets me about king is that they exist entirely at the whim of apple and Google. all it would take is Apple to revise the app store rules to prohibit consumable in app purchases and there goes their revenue.
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Jan 4, 2015 19:28
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the best one is the one that uses wigwam fyi second best would be boom beach and its cheerful nihilism
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Jan 4, 2015 19:33
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Soricidus posted:had you ever considered that the problem might be you, wanting to go to the wrong places? no i will not consider this, and that is why i drive a car
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Shifty Pony posted:i saw ads for random "saga" games and some random civ type games on TV when I was at my parents' house for Christmas and it was so confusing. is there any particular reason why the freemium app market hasn't imploded yet? these types of games are all starting to advertise during football playoffs too and i wonder the same thing. there are a lot of whales out there i guess 
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EVGA Longoria posted:buses loving suck Hahaha, hey, look at this really important guy who is too important to be surrounded by other people. lol
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I'm the pathological fear of other people.
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Citizen Tayne posted:I'm the healthy fear of other people.
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Jan 4, 2015 19:43
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building more roads leads to more traffic and not faster driving, this is 150% documented look at the 405 in LA, it's slower since they widened it
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buses are really good and it's a drat shame that so many people and even supposed transit "advocates" are dead set against them. there is a large group here that wants to spend $1 billion on LRT that would serve only a tiny, tiny amount of people when the same amount of money could develop BRT that would serve every friggin' exurb on the peninsula and then some.
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rrrrrrrrrrrt posted:buses are really good and it's a drat shame that so many people and even supposed transit "advocates" are dead set against them. there is a large group here that wants to spend $1 billion on LRT that would serve only a tiny, tiny amount of people when the same amount of money could develop BRT that would serve every friggin' exurb on the peninsula and then some. So, how rich is that tiny, tiny amount of people who would be served by LRT, and what are their melatonin levels?
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rrrrrrrrrrrt posted:buses are really good and it's a drat shame that so many people and even supposed transit "advocates" are dead set against them. there is a large group here that wants to spend $1 billion on LRT that would serve only a tiny, tiny amount of people when the same amount of money could develop BRT that would serve every friggin' exurb on the peninsula and then some. a real brt that would actually work would also cost a billion for dedicated rights of way. brts don't get built because they're only very marginally cheaper than rail. nobody cares about shaving 10% off of existing bus routes with special lanes or whatever
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Mr Dog posted:it's me, i'm the person raising a family in a loving apartment big deal, so are billions of other people
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