|
new favorite alt history https://twitter.com/Roycesheibal/status/1496263420022341634 or is it https://www.researchgate.net/public...s_Civil_Defence quote:Though suburbanization in the United States during the 1950s is a well known story, scholars still consider postwar prosperity and basic desire on the part of the American people to move further away from problems of the inner city as its primary causes. While it is true that various factors contributed to phenomenal growth of the suburbs between 1945 and 1960, historians have thus far paid little attention to policymakers' fears of atomic attack as a significant factor in population dispersal. This article examines how sociologists, scientists, and other experts considered the reduction of urban vulnerability a Cold War priority, and worked to encourage dispersion of people and factories as a civil defence measure. https://www.treehugger.com/why-sprawl-was-caused-nuclear-arms-race-and-why-matters-more-ever-today-4854403 quote:It is important to remember why cities were building highways through the fifties and sixties; why the federal government was promoting low-density suburban development and why companies were moving their corporate head offices to campuses in the country: Civil defense. One of the best defenses against nuclear bombs is sprawl; the devastation of a bomb can only cover so much area. Shawn Lawrence Otto wrote in Fool Me Twice: lol i'd
|
# ? Feb 26, 2022 09:06 |
|
|
# ? May 27, 2024 22:32 |
|
|
# ? Feb 26, 2022 13:26 |
|
Gotta get my Strava in
|
# ? Feb 26, 2022 13:46 |
|
SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:new favorite alt history "problems of the inner city"
|
# ? Feb 26, 2022 17:28 |
|
gentrification is the new frontier of anti-ped/anti-cyclist carbrain activists latching onto legitimate issues and completely loving muddying the water to get what they want. just like how they will tell you that removing any parking whatsoever hurts accessibility or how cyclists are actually all privileged. it sucks.
|
# ? Feb 26, 2022 19:10 |
|
|
# ? Feb 26, 2022 21:28 |
|
Oh yeah people buy parking spots for investments. It's complete lunacy. Another reason we'll never get rid of cars/make cities walkable
|
# ? Feb 26, 2022 21:59 |
|
that feeling you get when you can't throw a block party in your chicago neighborhood because saudi arabia said no
|
# ? Feb 26, 2022 22:23 |
|
leftist heap posted:gentrification is the new frontier of anti-ped/anti-cyclist carbrain activists latching onto legitimate issues and completely loving muddying the water to get what they want. just like how they will tell you that removing any parking whatsoever hurts accessibility or how cyclists are actually all privileged. it sucks. yeah, it's the same logic as saying "well of course we can't close the carcinogenic refinery in this part of town, it would spike property values and gentrify the last affordable neighborhood in the city."
|
# ? Feb 26, 2022 22:30 |
|
- love, Trump thread.
|
# ? Feb 28, 2022 07:11 |
|
Absolutely incredible
|
# ? Feb 28, 2022 19:09 |
|
mazzi Chart Czar posted:- love, Trump thread. why tf do the wheels hardlock when the motor is non-functional? love too make my car impossible to move when it breaks We went for a walk yesterday and a tesla whipped through a busy crosswalk, missing us and a few other pedestrians by inches... I'm curious if it was in autopilot and/or if the driver was just being a huge rear end in a top hat. Teslas should have a giant blinking light that's visible to everyone outside the vehicle when they're in autopilot mode Polo-Rican has issued a correction as of 19:30 on Feb 28, 2022 |
# ? Feb 28, 2022 19:27 |
|
Polo-Rican posted:why tf do the wheels hardlock when the motor is non-functional? love too make my car impossible to move when it breaks yes, a giant blinking sign that says "I am an rear end in a top hat"
|
# ? Feb 28, 2022 20:03 |
|
Polo-Rican posted:why tf do the wheels hardlock when the motor is non-functional? love too make my car impossible to move when it breaks better locked up and immobile than rolling away on a slope?
|
# ? Feb 28, 2022 20:37 |
|
take it back
|
# ? Feb 28, 2022 21:03 |
|
DR FRASIER KRANG posted:I'm seeing lots of people straight up blowing through red lights (like everyone is stopped and they just hop into the turn lane and keep going straight) and it's freaking me out. I think it's just selection bias but i've noticed people are much worse drivers now than before the pandemic. I've almost been hit by someone several times because they completely ignored the stop sign and turned. AnimeIsTrash has issued a correction as of 03:35 on Mar 1, 2022 |
# ? Feb 28, 2022 21:04 |
|
AnimeIsTrash posted:I think it's just selection bias but i've noticed people are much worse drivers now than before the pandemic. I've been almost hit someone several times because they completely ignored the stop sign and turned. well? did you apologize to the driver?
|
# ? Mar 1, 2022 00:10 |
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwHeA9q19Mc Knowing that cities changed for the automobile, this scene hits really differently now. Even when the rant should be getting away from the car, it goes back to talk about licking a car, and a cab driver.
|
# ? Mar 1, 2022 01:49 |
|
looks safer than my commute
|
# ? Mar 1, 2022 02:03 |
|
almost got squished between a snow bank and a pickup yesterday. i moved out of the way fast enough but the drunk moron backed out of his driveway and straight into the 6 foot wall of snow. just paying zero attention whatsoever
|
# ? Mar 1, 2022 02:16 |
|
Karach posted:better locked up and immobile than rolling away on a slope? Normal cars have a parking brake for this reason
|
# ? Mar 1, 2022 03:30 |
|
cool av posted:well? did you apologize to the driver? Yep what type of American would I be if I didn't apologize for walking to places.
|
# ? Mar 1, 2022 03:36 |
|
AnimeIsTrash posted:Yep what type of American would I be if I didn't apologize for walking to places. Wouldn't need to apologize if you'd just buy a goddamn full-size truck.
|
# ? Mar 1, 2022 03:49 |
|
Polo-Rican posted:Normal cars have a parking brake for this reason americans are too dumb to ever engage the parking brake so I thank god-emperor musk for doing it for us automatically. If a car ever gets permanently immobilized somewhere, well, that's always for the best anyway
|
# ? Mar 1, 2022 03:51 |
|
i hate cars
|
# ? Mar 1, 2022 03:57 |
|
vyelkin posted:i hate cars
|
# ? Mar 1, 2022 04:02 |
|
mystes posted:If you hate them so much why don't you divorce them? take my car... please!
|
# ? Mar 1, 2022 04:07 |
|
AnimeIsTrash posted:I think it's just selection bias but i've noticed people are much worse drivers now than before the pandemic. I've almost been hit by someone several times because they completely ignored the stop sign and turned. no people are verifiable driving like goddamn animals now. carbrain mutated into an even more deranged variant
|
# ? Mar 1, 2022 05:34 |
|
maybe gettin my license wont be so hard after all
|
# ? Mar 1, 2022 05:59 |
|
leftist heap posted:no people are verifiable driving like goddamn animals now. carbrain mutated into an even more deranged variant im not gunna be surprised that the full 2021 data once it comes out is very grim. december 2021 was absolutely absurdly awful. i don't think ive ever seen so much insanity and stupidity from american carbrains before. peep the last table. almost 30% increase in first-degree murders by americans thats just fatalities too. injuries are way the gently caress up Xaris has issued a correction as of 07:09 on Mar 1, 2022 |
# ? Mar 1, 2022 07:01 |
|
AnimeIsTrash posted:I think it's just selection bias but i've noticed people are much worse drivers now than before the pandemic. I've almost been hit by someone several times because they completely ignored the stop sign and turned. its absolutely not selection bias. see above. i can go from various city data and pull out that no, americans are definitely assaulting and murdering people at a significantly higher frequency. for my own city: quote:Berkeley had significantly more fatal crashes and collisions causing injuries in 2021 than in the prior year, according to new traffic data released by police in February. for LA: https://laist.com/news/transportation/traffic-violence-surges-in-los-angeles-2021 quote:re than five years after top Los Angeles officials vowed to eliminate traffic fatalities in the city, 2021 instead marked the highest death toll on L.A. streets in nearly two decades. for wisconsin: for NYC: quote:NEW YORK CITY — More people died on New York City's streets in 2021 than any year since officials pledged to drive traffic fatalities down to zero, according to a new study. Xaris has issued a correction as of 07:16 on Mar 1, 2022 |
# ? Mar 1, 2022 07:09 |
|
usage of phrases like “automobile violence” and “injured by automobile drivers”? sounds like a commie rag to me
|
# ? Mar 1, 2022 15:48 |
|
Polo-Rican posted:Normal cars have a parking brake for this reason I know plenty of drivers who couldn't find the parking brake in their car if you paid them do you think a Tesla driver will have the presence of mind to use the parking brake if their engine fails?
|
# ? Mar 1, 2022 15:51 |
|
AnimeIsTrash posted:I think it's just selection bias but i've noticed people are much worse drivers now than before the pandemic. I've almost been hit by someone several times because they completely ignored the stop sign and turned. Just gotta repeat what everyone else is saying, which is that this absolutely isn't just you. Overall miles driven dropped during the pandemic, but deaths and crashes increased. It's probably a whole bunch of inter-related psychological things for drivers operating on suddenly emptier roads, but imo the central issue is that a lot of lovely drivers suddenly realized that laws aren't real and there's nothing stopping them from routinely flying through stop signs and red lights and speeding even worse than they used to.
|
# ? Mar 1, 2022 16:30 |
|
Xaris posted:it's gotten insanely bad compared to 2019. various city statistics and even nhtsa has backed up with actual data that drivers have become insane blood-frenzed psychos lol the covid jump in table two within the same season, 1.08 ->1.46, 1.17->1.49, 1.12->1.41, 1.12->1.29
|
# ? Mar 1, 2022 16:34 |
|
Electro-Boogie Jack posted:Just gotta repeat what everyone else is saying, which is that this absolutely isn't just you. Overall miles driven dropped during the pandemic, but deaths and crashes increased. It's probably a whole bunch of inter-related psychological things for drivers operating on suddenly emptier roads, but imo the central issue is that a lot of lovely drivers suddenly realized that laws aren't real and there's nothing stopping them from routinely flying through stop signs and red lights and speeding even worse than they used to. Miles driven actually went up for a certain class of vehicle (you can guess which one).
|
# ? Mar 1, 2022 16:55 |
|
Electro-Boogie Jack posted:Just gotta repeat what everyone else is saying, which is that this absolutely isn't just you. Overall miles driven dropped during the pandemic, but deaths and crashes increased. It's probably a whole bunch of inter-related psychological things for drivers operating on suddenly emptier roads, but imo the central issue is that a lot of lovely drivers suddenly realized that laws aren't real and there's nothing stopping them from routinely flying through stop signs and red lights and speeding even worse than they used to. You know that bit in Alice's Restaurant where he goes to the draft office and says "Sir, I wanna kill. I wanna see blood and guts and feel veins in my teeth. I mean, I wanna kill" And starts jumping up and down yelling Kill! Kill! Kill! and then an officer comes over and pins a medal to his chest and says "you're our boy"? I wanna do that at the police recruitment office but about ticketing traffic violators.
|
# ? Mar 1, 2022 19:53 |
|
Electro-Boogie Jack posted:a lot of lovely drivers suddenly realized that laws aren't real i dunno about nationally, but in NYC the BLM protests made cops mad and they stopped enforcing all traffic laws. You'll still get tickets for parking violations, but while your car is in motion you can do literally whatever you want. you can even run people over or smash into buildings as long as you stay at the scene and apologize when the cops show up
|
# ? Mar 1, 2022 20:50 |
|
Gripweed posted:You know that bit in Alice's Restaurant where he goes to the draft office and says "Sir, I wanna kill. I wanna see blood and guts and feel veins in my teeth. I mean, I wanna kill" And starts jumping up and down yelling Kill! Kill! Kill! and then an officer comes over and pins a medal to his chest and says "you're our boy"? 🎵 you can get anything you want at buttigieg's restaurant (exceptin' transit) 🎵
|
# ? Mar 1, 2022 21:08 |
|
|
# ? May 27, 2024 22:32 |
|
Polo-Rican posted:i dunno about nationally, but in NYC the BLM protests made cops mad and they stopped enforcing all traffic laws. You'll still get tickets for parking violations, but while your car is in motion you can do literally whatever you want. you can even run people over or smash into buildings as long as you stay at the scene and apologize when the cops show up to be fair, this was the case pre pandemic or blm or whatever
|
# ? Mar 1, 2022 21:23 |