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pointsofdata posted:https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1457792590573490180?t=KRosNDWy8ElYM_bky5gQvg&s=19 if those minority neighborhoods didn’t want a freeway interchange built through them they should have attended the community commentary meetings at city hall (30 miles from said community Monday and Wednesday (only) 3pm to 4pm attendance limited to ten individuals speaking time limited to one minute per individual)
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actionjackson posted:my state's DOT is having sessions on the re-thinking I-94, and I was laughing pretty hard at "English with Karen translation" because I did not know Karen was a language in SE Asia It's kind of funny that they resettled a bunch of them in Minnesota of all places. Not the climate they're used to!
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Fitzy Fitz posted:It's kind of funny that they resettled a bunch of them in Minnesota of all places. Not the climate they're used to! yeah, same with our communities from Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and our Hmong population. Pretty sure it had to do with some religious organization helping bring them over as refugees. I assume many of the Somali's came over in the 90s when the government collapsed
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Mr. Sharps posted:if those minority neighborhoods didn’t want a freeway interchange built through them they should have attended the community commentary meetings at city hall (30 miles from said community Monday and Wednesday (only) 3pm to 4pm attendance limited to ten individuals speaking time limited to one minute per individual)
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Cugel the Clever posted:Ehhh, "neighborhood meetings" on development are pretty trash. Though they were set up in response to the loving egregious bullshit that minority communities were subjected to as highways were pushed to intentionally destroy their neighborhoods, what they are today is an even more direly undemocratic veto point where anyone who hates change (especially well-off white Boomer homeowners) will come out to oppose sidewalk improvements, bike lanes, removal of street parking, and construction of new homes. I think you agree with the poster you're quoting. I watched PDX's richest suburb city council vote down an exploratory survey for a pedestrian bridge that would already be paid for because they were worried about the poors invading their neighborhood. The bridge itself would have been so essential in connecting the city together but they strangled it in the cradle. It seems the only people the city council really listened to were the ones who owned riverfront property Jokerpilled Drudge has issued a correction as of 03:04 on Nov 9, 2021 |
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ArmZ posted:car makers determined to make cars the worst possible thing 
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I think I need to read this Nice writeup. Though I'll say that blowing-up a pipeline needs to be part of a larger goal, otherwise it will be rebuilt very rapidly and the government will easily aborb the economic impact while down-playing the social call for action that such an event would trigger. quote:Perhaps the “most extensive property destruction” occurred a generation ago in Nigeria: activists relentlessly resisted the oil companies ravaging the area, “moving swiftly on boats through the creeks and swamps to blow up pipelines, strike vessels, overpower offshore platforms, assault offices, kidnap oil employees.” The Nigerian resistance nearly caused Shell and Exxon to pull out of the region. Note that this is the most extensive campaign or targetted violence, and the result was "nearly" causing global capitalism to temporarily no doubt, retreat from the region. But ultimately it accomplished nothing. Also: (It is worth noting that, other than quoting a journal article from 2005 — “Pipelines are very easily sabotaged. A simple explosive device can put a critical section of pipeline out of operation for weeks” — Malm doesn’t actually teach readers how to blow up a pipeline.) Confirmed, Malm is a lib. ate shit on live tv has issued a correction as of 03:40 on Nov 9, 2021 |
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put it on the execs in minecraft instead
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maybe stop talking about things you're not supposed to talk about
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SKULL.GIF posted:Toronto is car-infested as hell. The subways and streetcars are nice but you'll be dodging cars left and right if you go out in the city hmm could be. I visited in 2007 and had a good time without a car, but my lasting memories are the utter absence of any overweight people and the easiest, enjoyable conversations I could have with literally anyone. Also a Whopper cost $9 at the time
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lil poopendorfer posted:hmm could be. I visited in 2007 and had a good time without a car, but my lasting memories are the utter absence of any overweight people and the easiest, enjoyable conversations I could have with literally anyone. Also a Whopper cost $9 at the time toronto is an incredibly aloof place and canadians in general hate talking to strangers, making friends and a social circle after moving there is not that easy. the downtown core is fine for being car free but rents and property prices have gone out of control so you can't afford to live there. anywhere outside the core is car blighted hell. probably the only place left where you can get a decent car free life but affordable in canada is montreal, but i think they're starting to run into affordability issues as well. plus the winters are awful
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vyelkin posted:i can understand the impulse, one of the few things that pedestrians can do to make themselves a tiny bit safer in car hellworld is make eye contact with drivers and so i get the urge to give autonomous cars some way to visibly acknowledge the existence of pedestrians, but otoh just ban cars and the problem would be solved much more comprehensively in countries with really wild city traffic making eye contact w a driver indicates you’re aware and letting them pass, you’ve got to just go without acting like you know the car is there and hope they stop
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has anyone said that leaf blowers are the cars of landscaping
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cool av posted:in countries with really wild city traffic making eye contact w a driver indicates you’re aware and letting them pass, you’ve got to just go without acting like you know the car is there and hope they stop I once stopped literally five loving minutes for the opposite direction of traffic to do what they were legally and morally obligated to do and stop for a mother with a baby carriage clearly trying to cross at a crosswalk on a busy arterial in a thoroughly residential neighborhood. The dozens of drivers that made the choice to turn a blind eye very much pushed me over the edge from "we should improve things for pedestrians, cyclists, and buses" to "gently caress DRIVERS, WAR ON CARS, BABY!"
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Fitzy Fitz posted:has anyone said that leaf blowers are the cars of landscaping recently retired men like nothing more than running a leaf blower for an hour straight, multiple times a week. they then move onto the powered hedge trimmer, before using the leaf blower again to tidy up the cuttings
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*fumbles with tangled extension cord for 2 minutes* this is loving ridiculous how can i be expected to manicure the ecological desert in front of my house like this? someone get me a two-stroke
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If they can maintain the entirety of Angkor Wat with brooms, you can probably manage your lawn with one.
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Ban cars https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvnxmz/who-is-trying-to-save-parking-structure-3-from-becoming-affordable-housing quote:The city has commissioned two studies—one in 2009 and another in 2020—that concluded Parking Structure 3 is no longer needed. According to the more recent study, even at the busiest of busy times for Santa Monica, parking is still in excess capacity of approximately 2,000 spaces spread out across the various lots. That’s about six Parking Structure 3’s worth of excess parking. This general finding that downtown Santa Monica has way too much parking has been supported by an independent analysis using the city’s publicly-available parking data. Just blow it up already
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Fitzy Fitz posted:If they can maintain the entirety of Angkor Wat with brooms, you can probably manage your lawn with one. whatever happened to rakes anyway, isn't the whole point of those to be a leaf broom
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rake? what is this a poker game? *primes carb 30x and fires up 2 stroke to choke out the neighborhood*
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the bitcoin of weed posted:whatever happened to rakes anyway, isn't the whole point of those to be a leaf broom Blower people will go to great lengths to justify why rakes don't work and why they need their giant gas-blasting hog. It's just another symptom of consumerism and an unhealthy relationship with the environment.
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i just let the leaves fall where they may in my lawn, who cares,its just leaves
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lobster shirt posted:i just let the leaves fall where they may in my lawn, who cares,its just leaves the invisible hand of the tree market
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they have electric leaf blowers now. e-blowers you might say.
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SKULL.GIF posted:Toronto is car-infested as hell. The subways and streetcars are nice but you'll be dodging cars left and right if you go out in the city The streetcars are also constantly hampered by the fact that on-street parking is basically allowed everywhere. When there was a track issue and they sent out busses instead of streetcars, it actually improved my commute time.
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I live out in the country, my property is surrounded by state forest with no visible neighbors (two across the street) 3 out of 4 seasons. I don't get what possesses either of them to have moved to the forest to begin with because they go absolute nuts with the leaf blowing and then burning them all. Why even move into literally the forest if you don't have any respect for nature and the natural composition cycles etc
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Magic Hate Ball posted:The streetcars are also constantly hampered by the fact that on-street parking is basically allowed everywhere. When there was a track issue and they sent out busses instead of streetcars, it actually improved my commute time. Streetcars are dumb af unless they have dedicated row for almost their entire run. Otherwise just get buses, they can drive around cars!
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ArmZ posted:they have electric leaf blowers now. e-blowers you might say. "too expensive, not powerful enough, can't hold enough charge boohoohoo"
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500excf type r posted:I live out in the country, my property is surrounded by state forest with no visible neighbors (two across the street) 3 out of 4 seasons. no respect. only subdue.
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lobster shirt posted:i just let the leaves fall where they may in my lawn, who cares,its just leaves It's better for your land, destroying/disposing of leaves is just another way people break the natural cycles of the earth for stupid pleasures
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Mayor Dave posted:It's better for your land, destroying/disposing of leaves is just another way people break the natural cycles of the earth for stupid pleasures it is very funny (in a bad way) that people will bag and throw away grass clippings and rake leaves out of their lawn and then also spend money on fertilizer. like bro its right there!
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why hasn't this been posted here yet??? https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1458134940218966016 The Waller County district attorney’s office said in a statement that a teenager who drove his vehicle into bicyclists training for a triathlon, hitting all six riders and sending four to the hospital, has been charged with six counts of felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon — one charge for each cyclist hit on Sept. 25. The teen, who has yet to be publicly identified, was not charged or cited by police after the incident, despite accounts from victims and witnesses that he deliberately antagonized the riders. That course of action by the police set off a backlash from critics and bike safety advocates, who described the crash as “egregious.” Many in Waller County pointed to the case of Victor Tome, who killed two riders in 2017 when he intentionally plowed into a small group of them. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole this year after he was convicted of capital murder.
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mila kunis posted:toronto is an incredibly aloof place and canadians in general hate talking to strangers, making friends and a social circle after moving there is not that easy. the downtown core is fine for being car free but rents and property prices have gone out of control so you can't afford to live there. anywhere outside the core is car blighted hell. This isn't wrong but in my experience Toronto is one of the better North American cities in terms of allowing you to maybe actually live car-free. I'm sure there are better places on this auto-addled continent, but don't think there are that many. Totally correct about the core being unaffordable. The outer-ring+exurbs are also the worst kind of car-centered development, with the associated political dispositions that thrive in car-centered developments. Of course this is just getting back to the main complaint that cars ruined every city built after they became popular and many pre-existing ones too.
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Nocturtle posted:Of course this is just getting back to the main complaint that cars ruined every city built after they became popular and many pre-existing ones too. city fatally struck by vehicle
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lobster shirt posted:it is very funny (in a bad way) that people will bag and throw away grass clippings and rake leaves out of their lawn and then also spend money on fertilizer. like bro its right there! I actually had to break my partner of this over the past few years. Always leafblowing, bagging, and raking in the fall, mower has (had lol) a bagger, then also spend lols of dollars every fall on seed and fertilizer like what the gently caress. She has such a boomer brain from her father that it is some times impossible though she has gotten much much better about it
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well folks u may remembver me talking about my bootleg diy ebike that would go 30 mph strapped on to a 30 year old walmart bike project. that was pretty cool. it finally arrived from china and i got to assembling it. i got to the brakes and the old brake lines were incompatible with the modern brakes from the ebike kit so the motor cutoff worked, seems important. well i had to order that poo poo and it was getting dark and cold so i chained it up where it has been for the last uh year or something unmolested. u can c where this story is going. long story short someone broke my chain and stoled it. it had the motor front wheel bolted on, and i had stripped the shifters, brake levers, brake lines, chains, and grips. anyways now the that the hub motor is gone i think i have to rebuy the whole kit unless i find the motor that they jacked for sale on fb marketplace or maybe another hub motor that someone else jacked. pretty annoying. gone in under 48 hours of putting the hub motor on it. lasted over a year in its old form. i didnt clean it or nothin. it was filthy and covered in spiders. i think someone saw me tinkering with it in my courtyard and came back to jack it. so dumb. sooo dumb. maybe renters ins can cover. idk i drove around hunting for it and saw one billion bike parts in many "encampments" (proto shanty towns due to the collapse of this great empire) around the city. sux. leave these bikes alone ppl. drat.
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sum1 stole my bike so im becoming a reactionary chud. thats life.
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