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coffeetable posted:this is spectacular  Pinterest Mom posted:weekend at parents' status: my mom wants me to set up a pinterest account for her
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Jun 14, 2015 14:48
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FMguru posted:
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Jun 14, 2015 15:27
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Snapchat A Titty posted:fishmech why are you against pedestrianism, idgi what idiocy of yours makes you think I'm against it? i'm just pointing out that the only reason that place in whatever europe it was has that particular area restricted from cars is because its so drat old and cramped that it was already impractical. you're not generally going to find that in the heart of an american city, where there's been nice wide streets since the 1800s, well before cars were even a madman's dream why were you going to horrible city SF. also why are you so upset that sidewalks are normally made out of concrete lol
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Jun 14, 2015 16:46
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idk it just sounded like you were, sorry but its not like you cant copenhagenize a city with a street grid
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Jun 14, 2015 17:27
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the english ambassador to japan once visited hiroshima and asked why the streets were so regular compared to the rest of japan the japanese official said "well we had some help from america with that"
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Jun 14, 2015 17:45
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Snapchat A Titty posted:idk it just sounded like you were, sorry you kinda can't in general, because the shopping areas and the like simply aren't laid out in a way that would make sense to do it, and furthermore no one really wants to risk trying to move to a purported new shopping area for such a project. hence why actually pedestrianizing efforts tend to show up in places in cities where the street grid breaks like for example times square (which also had horrible traffic patterns before they made it so it was 90% pedestrian, due to all the weird angles.
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Jun 14, 2015 17:53
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oh my god oh my god kill these people
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Jun 14, 2015 18:09
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coffeetable posted:said Gay Butler, an interior designer out for a trail ride on her show horse, Bear. come on
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coffeetable posted:said Gay Butler, an interior designer out for a trail ride on her show horse, Bear. this can't be real
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coffeetable posted:this is spectacular they've also found that conservatives use more electricity too, particularly when told that they're using less than their neighbors In a study published last month on the National Bureau of Economic Research website, Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn concluded that providing feedback on energy use can actually backfire with some conservatives. Costa and Kahn merged utility data from 80,000 homes with corresponding voter registration and donation records. The economists found that a Democratic household with green bona fides -- paying for electricity from renewable sources, donating to environmental groups and living in a neighborhood of fellow liberals -- will reduce its consumption by 3 percent in response to feedback. Meanwhile, a Republican household that doesn't adhere to environmental behaviors will actually increase its consumption by 1 percent. The households that received home energy reports reduced their consumption by about 2 percent overall, but the Republican subset of this group reduced their energy use by 0.4 percent. The economists speculate that some conservatives may react angrily at being told to save energy, while others may realize their energy use is lower than average and increase it to match perceived norms. Other tactics may be needed to get conservatives to conserve. "One solution is to tailor messages to different groups," Costa said in an e-mail. "But another possibility is that at some point we may need to make the hard choices of taking costlier actions to lower electricity consumption." lol forever
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Jun 14, 2015 18:33
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coffeetable posted:this is spectacular xeriscaping is brown and ugly    xeriscaping is brown and ugly idiots
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Jun 14, 2015 18:35
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Moist von Lipwig posted:this can't be real that's when I triple checked the url because I couldn't believe it wasn't an onion article
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Smythe posted:xeriscaping is brown and ugly Where in those bushes am i gonna lay flat on my belly and flail about, huh?!
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Jun 14, 2015 18:51
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your show horse can't run around in a garden of cactuses smythe
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hobbesmaster posted:that's when I triple checked the url because I couldn't believe it wasn't an onion article same; holy poo poo those people are utterly awful
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rrrrrrrrrrrt posted:your show horse can't run around in a garden of cactuses smythe the problem is he named it
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poty posted:come on Moist von Lipwig posted:this can't be real https://plus.google.com/103410021644822381773/about?gl=uk&hl=en
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cactus ftw
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Smythe posted:cactus ftw
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SHANGHAI—Ride-hailing app Uber Technologies Inc. is urging its drivers in China not to get involved in conflicts with authorities and has threatened to punish those who disobey. The appeal came following a confrontation Friday evening in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou between drivers from local taxi services and Uber. Taxi drivers across China have taken to the streets to protest what they say is unfair competition from illegal taxis. In two short messages sent to Uber drivers in Hangzhou and circulated online—verified with Uber in China by The Wall Street Journal—Uber urged its drivers not to go the scene and instructed those already there to leave immediately. Uber said it would use GPS to identify drivers that had refused to leave the location and cancel its contracts with them. The messages said Uber’s actions were designed to “maintain social order.” In a statement issued Saturday, Uber also said one Uber driver involved in an incident during Friday’s confrontation was licensed and had cooperated with the Hangzhou authorities. The company was strongly against any extreme behavior that could affect harmony and stability, the statement added. Authorities in Hangzhou couldn't be reached for comment Saturday. In addition to Uber, Didi Kuaidi Joint Co.—the merged entity formed by ride-fetching mobile app operators Kuaidi Dache and Didi Dache—has also come under fire in some Chinese cities. The confrontation in Hangzhou is the latest upset for Uber in China. Authorities in at least two Chinese cities have visited its offices in recent months. The company has previously described such visits as “routine.” The disturbance also comes as Uber looks to raise fresh funds for the China operation to better compete with the cash-rich Didi Kuaidi, which has backing from Chinese Internet giants Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holding Ltd. Uber’s China unit, UberChina, is set to launch a formal fundraising process on June 22.
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Kobayashi posted:SHANGHAI—Ride-hailing app Uber Technologies Inc. is urging its drivers in China not to get involved in conflicts with authorities and has threatened to punish those who disobey. good news everyone - our Syndicate-style corporate cyberpunk dystopia future is almost here
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Jun 14, 2015 20:05
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of course we got it mixed with the 1984 mass surveillance dystopian future too (moreso if you're in china but still) wheeeeeee
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Cold on a Cob posted:of course we got it mixed with the 1984 mass surveillance dystopian future too (moreso if you're in china but still) lol no people don't give any sort of gently caress in china
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Jun 14, 2015 20:07
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computer parts posted:lol no people don't give any sort of gently caress in china you mean there isn't government dictatorship and mass surveillance there? (i'm not being sarcastic i'm honestly asking)
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Cold on a Cob posted:you mean there isn't government dictatorship and mass surveillance there? (i'm not being sarcastic i'm honestly asking) most of their censorship is protectionism so they can get their own version of Facebook and the like up and running when people are angry, they protest, and they usually get better results than protests in the US
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Jun 14, 2015 20:12
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like north korea is the only place even remotely close to a 1984 system and that's only because no one wants to deal with the mess of cleaning them up after they crumble
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Jun 14, 2015 20:14
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ok, yeah i tend to forget about some of the ways china has relaxed things a bit over the last 20 years, point taken
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if i was running a government that the US considered a rival, i'd be paranoid as gently caress too
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Cold on a Cob posted:ok, yeah i tend to forget about some of the ways china has relaxed things a bit over the last 20 years, point taken you can get blacklisted as a journo fairly easily by asking the wrong questions publicly it's no picnic
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Jun 14, 2015 20:31
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maoism => mccarthyism?
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syscall girl posted:you can get blacklisted as a journo fairly easily by asking the wrong questions publicly in the U.S. it's "why don't the Jews go back to where they came from"
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Jun 14, 2015 20:49
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those water people are not good people. not good people at all.
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computer parts posted:like north korea is the only place even remotely close to a 1984 system and that's only because no one wants to deal with the mess of cleaning them up after they crumble there's a way to fix it without chaos, but it involves cloning kim il-sung
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computer parts posted:like north korea is the only place even remotely close to a 1984 system and that's only because no one wants to deal with the mess of cleaning them up after they crumble ur forgettin about london's massive surveillance system you can walk all the way across it and be on cctv the entire time the people on knifecrime island prolly need that tho
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The English truly are the lowest, most vile race upon this cursed planet.
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IMAGINE a world like america but with less room, more surveillance, a shittier housing market and all the criminals have to run around with paring knives and bike chains being all pathetic UK crime is on the threat level of a leather jacket doo wop group
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