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HAIL eSATA-n posted:you ride a bike. drunk riding is fine and in fact fun Drunk riding is fun but also super loving dangerous. It makes you way less good at avoiding getting killed by a car. We can only drunk ride when we have driven off the scourge of cars.
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that video series is so loving cool reminds me of this classic: https://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_the_ghastly_tragedy_of_the_suburbs?language=en does the infrastructure bill even address any of that poo poo? RadiRoot has issued a correction as of 05:15 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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No way I'm gonna read that post but I'm totally down for 25kmph speeds. It's like a perfectly fine speed go like 5km or less. So now let's just let all just make the domes 5km across and we've solved it. Good job goons
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 05:13 |
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Radirot posted:that video series is so loving cool been a long time since i seen that ted talk
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 05:46 |
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Radirot posted:that video series is so loving cool i hadn't seen this before but goddamn this came out nearly 18 years ago?!
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 06:10 |
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lol I can't state how much this channel rules. this was exactly what I had to deal with in houston. sidewalks vanishing into 6 lane highways anywhere outside the very inner parts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxykI30fS54 Petanque posted:i hadn't seen this before but goddamn this came out nearly 18 years ago?! im an old millennial
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 06:19 |
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Petanque posted:i hadn't seen this before but goddamn this came out nearly 18 years ago?! When he mentioned Iraq I was like: "drat been a minute since I heard that name" Still really good and I think he has a lot of good advice. I really appreciate the scathing indictment of consumerism
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 06:19 |
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I'm reading a pretty fun book on the history of the automobile and there's some pretty choice quotes from the early 1900s. "Kind and considerate people who, as soon as they have a gas pedal under their foot, become sized by an automotive frenzy" I also learned that even race cars are bad. The first auto race ever killed 7 dogs and injured a cyclist. Leroy Diplowski has issued a correction as of 06:45 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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Leroy Diplowski posted:When he mentioned Iraq I was like: "drat been a minute since I heard that name" the advice on dead malls is still relevant. my county bought a mall from Moonbeam Capital Investments to try and develop it into something usable for once since its been mostly vacant over a decade. RadiRoot has issued a correction as of 06:58 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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Radirot posted:im an old millennial it was more a reaction of "drat this guy is spot-on and nobody learned poo poo over the past two decades. lol"
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 07:32 |
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This seems to be Stuttgart, which is the beating heart of continental car culture, and they're still 30 years ahead of the USA Lol bagual posted:cars drat dude. Glad you didn't get pasted at least
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 08:48 |
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Radirot posted:that video series is so loving cool
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 09:21 |
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To be honest, the infrastructure bill has such a high amount of road versus public transit funding, it is probably going to make things worse. That said, the good news is that trying to expand freeways at this point is so costly that the effect will be lessened.
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 09:48 |
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Radirot posted:the advice on dead malls is still relevant. my county bought a mall from Moonbeam Capital Investments to try and develop it into something usable for once since its been mostly vacant over a decade. like some have tried to repurpose malls and it's mostly an extremely expensive and failed proposition with few exceptions (i.e. some older oldschool early-1900 malls in urban areas that are fundamentally built differently). their only utility is to be torn down and repurpose land but even the land is often not in desirable nor useful locations. new mixed-use outdoor malls are doing well but it's an entirely different concept than the huge atrium anchor-store Macys type poo poo. Xaris has issued a correction as of 11:45 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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There might be some potential in very urban malls? But most of them are suburban and worthless. It's been weird watching several malls die around here. The closest one is in stroad hell surrounded by a lake of empty parking, pretty far from the city center. The only hope for it is probably turning it into its own little self-contained downtown area, like a separate town. NOT for driving to like those faux-downtown developments that are popular right now.
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 14:26 |
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bagual posted:speed freak detected this thread honeypotted one, finally
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 14:51 |
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the best part of that ted talk is at 4 min about how the intersection is so wide you can't see stuff on the other side due to the curvature of the earth lol
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 15:21 |
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my town has a suburban outdoor mall that is constantly packed and thriving and generates crazy amounts of revenue through taxes. as far as i can tell it's a unicorn
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 15:33 |
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Smythe posted:been a long time since i seen that ted talk same! totally forgot about this one kinda depressing 15 years later when climate change is catching up to us and not much has changed besides "the SUVs are even bigger"
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 15:42 |
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mastershakeman posted:my town has a suburban outdoor mall that is constantly packed and thriving and generates crazy amounts of revenue through taxes. as far as i can tell it's a unicorn The outdoor style is popular right now. I wonder if it will be dead in 15 years though when it's no longer nice and new? That's what indoor malls were at one point.
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 15:57 |
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Radirot posted:that video series is so loving cool Probably not since most americans think this is as good as it gets. it's like a mall, but instead of walking you drive your car around!
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 16:03 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2fCofhjVfU
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 16:09 |
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the town where I grew up has this beat for "depressing light display that you have to drive around" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ4MGNrkjQ4
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 16:25 |
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Yeah learning that word helped me to define why the new development here reminds me of <literally every extraurban development in the last 40 years, countrywide>. It's because it's all stroads. kronix posted:Uh my parents live 400km away, taking the train requires 2 transfers and like 10 hours if you don’t time it right. I can drive it in 3 hours. loving lol yes of course society would just slow everything down if we made cars undesriable for transport, it certainly wouldn't cause any interest in improving rail very smart poster with big car energy Harik has issued a correction as of 16:53 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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Back in the days before the model T only the very wealthy could afford cars. They would take their cars and go ripping through the countryside killing poor folks chickens and children without really giving too much if abfuck. If you can afford to buy a car you can afford to pay off peasants. People pretty quickly got fed up and motorists in the us and Europe would occasionally face farmers hurling rocks at them as they went past. This prompted motoring publications to recommend travelling with a pistol to fend off the poor's if they object to the damage you are doing to their livelihoods Cars as the object of class resentment is demonstrated in this quote from Woodrow Wilson in 1906. "Nothing has spread socialistic feeling in this country more than the use of automobiles. To the countryman they are a picture of arrogance and wealth with all it's independence and carelessness."
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 16:53 |
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I'm trying to find a good estimate for the CO2 impact of our current transportation infrastructure but it seems... difficult. "Construction" makes up something like 38% of emissions. Pretty sure construction mostly serves cars. Then manufacturing and industry to make cars, recycle cars I bet something like 50% of emissions go to maintaining car culture
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 16:54 |
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Radirot posted:reminds me of this classic: watching this again, it kinda sucks because he doesn't mention cars at all. he just angrily shits on modern buildings and modern civic spaces and demands that we build better ones without once mentioning the root cause: they're bad because they prioritize convenience for drivers (lots of parking, wide roads) edit: well on second thought I guess the thumbnail image literally contains the phrase "The National Automobile Slum" lol... but he doesn't really mention it in the talk Polo-Rican has issued a correction as of 17:05 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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Polo-Rican posted:watching this again, it kinda sucks because he doesn't mention cars at all. he just angrily shits on modern buildings and modern civic spaces and demands that we build better ones without once mentioning the root cause: they're bad because they prioritize convenience for drivers (lots of parking, wide roads)
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 17:06 |
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Fitzy Fitz posted:The outdoor style is popular right now. I wonder if it will be dead in 15 years though when it's no longer nice and new? That's what indoor malls were at one point. its been there since 1956!
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 17:13 |
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Leroy Diplowski posted:Back in the days before the model T only the very wealthy could afford cars. They would take their cars and go ripping through the countryside killing poor folks chickens and children without really giving too much if abfuck. If you can afford to buy a car you can afford to pay off peasants. People pretty quickly got fed up and motorists in the us and Europe would occasionally face farmers hurling rocks at them as they went past. This prompted motoring publications to recommend travelling with a pistol to fend off the poor's if they object to the damage you are doing to their livelihoods One of the funniest parts in Downton Abbey is when Matthew, elated after the birth of his first child, immediately careens into a truck and dies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp_Xd8m1nzE
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Fitzy Fitz posted:One of the funniest parts in Downton Abbey is when Matthew, elated after the birth of his first child, immediately careens into a truck and dies
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Polo-Rican posted:same! totally forgot about this one SUV's, Trucks, and cars are all even bigger then they were 15years ago. My small sportscars is like 2x the size of it's predecessor. ate shit on live tv has issued a correction as of 17:43 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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The millionaires around here complain nonstop about the homeless in their line of sight, so the police started patrolling all the bike paths and bridges to scare them off. This means biking while drunk is now incredibly dangerous, as there are lots of police just roaming around on foot yelling at people and harassing everyone in sight for biking under the influence or public intoxication. They even killed a drunk college kid by cuffing him and throwing him face down in the back of a truck to take him to detox, which broke his neck. His crime was walking home while too drunk.
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:SUV's, Trucks, and cars are all even bigger then they were 15years ago. My small sportscars is like 2x the size of it's predecessor. bigger, but with none of the iconic charm of the H2
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# ? Oct 14, 2021 17:46 |
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Pryor on Fire posted:They even killed a drunk college kid by cuffing him and throwing him face down in the back of a truck to take him to detox, which broke his neck. His crime was walking home while too drunk. See, if he'd just driven himself home, this wouldn't have happened!
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the crusty old butler in downton abbey was write to hate and fear the automobile when it arrived
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Pryor on Fire posted:The millionaires around here complain nonstop about the homeless in their line of sight, so the police started patrolling all the bike paths and bridges to scare them off. This means biking while drunk is now incredibly dangerous, as there are lots of police just roaming around on foot yelling at people and harassing everyone in sight for biking under the influence or public intoxication. i got arrested for walking home while drunk once, i joke that the lesson learned is "drive drunk instead" but like... why the gently caress would you arrest somebody for walking home drunk, i was on the sidewalk and everything!
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Bigger than before
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lobster shirt posted:i got arrested for walking home while drunk once, i joke that the lesson learned is "drive drunk instead" but like... why the gently caress would you arrest somebody for walking home drunk, i was on the sidewalk and everything! on foot the probably of getting shot by a cop for fun is like 1/4 so you really got lucky
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