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There are multiple fast good restaurants here that always have huge drive-through lines backed up into the street. I hear drivers complain about the worst one all the time, but I'd never seen it personally until the other day. Everyone in the line had politely pulled over into the bike lane to let car traffic by...
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Just parking and ordering inside is so much faster than waiting in a crowded drive thru.
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Mar 31, 2022 22:13
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Cup Runneth Over posted:what is the collective national psychosis around chick-fil-a anyway? all the randos i know go loving rabid for it like it has a vise grip on their reward pathways i'm doubly confused because if you really want to do the fast food fried chicken thing it seems to me like popeyes is noticeably better in every way. maybe you have to be raised in chick fila territory, or, maybe other people are really just looking for something very different in their fried chicken, idk
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Mar 31, 2022 22:14
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Just parking and ordering inside is so much faster than waiting in a crowded drive thru.
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Mar 31, 2022 22:21
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Just parking and ordering inside is so much faster than waiting in a crowded drive thru. but then you have to leave your car, and worse, walk
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Mar 31, 2022 22:21
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https://youtu.be/c2rI-5ZFW1E Good video, dude doing his best to explain the internal costs of car ownership Spoiler, cars suck
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Mar 31, 2022 22:26
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Gabagool posted:The Starbucks around here don't even have the cafes open anymore, just the drive thru lane. They also closed many of the locations that don't have drive thrus. Dunkin' better, anyway. Yeah a lot of dining rooms haven't reopened. Why maintain your dining room when you could use public space and let the city worry about it?
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Fat, sugar, salt, and prejudice I've never had it, but my gay, polyamorous friend from Florida swears by it.
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I took my car in for maintenance and to repair a tire. Mechanic said the valve cover gasket should be replaced, I say ok, he does it. Now my car smells like burning oil all the time despite no leaks or smoke. I take it back, he can't smell anything because of course he can't, he's constantly immersed in oil. Went all the way across town for this and came back with no result. Now that's just gonna be broken forever I guess, no more fresh air through the blower at a stop. Sure would be nice I wasn't responsible for maintaining this large expensive piece of complex machinery, and also constantly worry if people are ok with where I had to leave it, or if someone is ripping parts off of it or rooting around inside. If only instead of everyone having to keep track of their personal small engine, we all could just use a few big engines who have highly trained people looking after its maintenance and with extra vehicles to put out in case that one is broken. Norton posted:i thought the entire point of fast food was that it's fast. that's why people put up with the bad food right? when you are crunched for time at your lovely job and have 15 minutes for lunch your options are limited. that makes sense to me. so who are these psychos waiting hours for some of the lowest quality food available? is this some sort of brand worship thing? They don't know how to cook because they were raised on take out. Not only is it a huge dopamine hit, it was probably used growing up explicitly as reward.
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Mar 31, 2022 23:02
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Cup Runneth Over posted:but then you have to leave your car, and worse, walk just drive right into the restaurant
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Mar 31, 2022 23:41
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bi crimes posted:car attempted murdering a local here: biking during the day is dangerous enough, I dunno how you'd ride at night without a 360 strobe light or something. this guy must have been new to the US
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Mar 31, 2022 23:50
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https://twitter.com/BlockClubCHI/status/1509176139692097539 Finally, some good news in this thread
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Mar 31, 2022 23:56
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:biking during the day is dangerous enough, I dunno how you'd ride at night without a 360 strobe light or something. this guy must have been new to the US he had lights on the bike, and apparently (according to some people claiming to be at the scene on Reddit) the car had been tailing him closely for a while before deciding to run him over
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bi crimes posted:he had lights on the bike, and apparently (according to some people claiming to be at the scene on Reddit) the car had been tailing him closely for a while before deciding to run him over Well ok that's just homicide then. Cyclists in the US think they are seen as equal to cars but that mindset will only get you hurt. Cars want to hurt and destroy you every chance they get, and you have to ride w that in mind--or pay the price.
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Wolfy posted:https://twitter.com/BlockClubCHI/status/1509176139692097539 Near as I can tell, the argument here is that his business was entirely dependent on cars parking in the previously unprotected bike lane? And even then it'd be like 6 cars at most shared between 4 businesses? Like the streetfront of his shop is literally a big ramp that you wouldn't be allowed to park in front of anyway (not that that would stop anybody or it would be enforced) edit - the bike shop 4 doors down is probably thriving tho!
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Wolfy posted:https://twitter.com/BlockClubCHI/status/1509176139692097539 The empty parking lot in the background
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a local business said it was shutting down recently because parking was being replaced by bike lanes its own customer base pointed out the grand total of 4 on street carparks near the shop that would be affected are never available anyway, and there's a load of free parking in the nearby supermarket carpark for people shopping on that particular street business then says it's not to do with parking it's because there's now nowhere for trucks to unload products for them
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“In the late ’70s, we were dodging bullets to get in. It was a different neighborhood,” Gillman said. “But there was parking.” “Please find parking for us,” Gillman said. “That’s all.”
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Apr 1, 2022 00:14
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Wolfy posted:https://twitter.com/BlockClubCHI/status/1509176139692097539 Twitter replies point out there is both a Lowe's and Home Depot within 2 miles. But yeah it's probably the loss of 4 parking spots out front.
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Apr 1, 2022 00:16
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:biking during the day is dangerous enough, I dunno how you'd ride at night without a 360 strobe light or something. this guy must have been new to the US he was asking for it,
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Epic High Five posted:Near as I can tell, the argument here is that his business was entirely dependent on cars parking in the previously unprotected bike lane? And even then it'd be like 6 cars at most shared between 4 businesses?
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Wolfy posted:https://twitter.com/BlockClubCHI/status/1509176139692097539  Computer, can you show me the other side of the street  
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indigi posted:https://twitter.com/RazzberryYams/status/1509227291964018688?s=20&t=_EKIBQQHAhhT_pls0Y5orA this is peak "I'm an avid cyclist, but..."
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:Cyclists in the US think they are seen as equal to cars but that mindset will only get you hurt. Cars want to hurt and destroy you every chance they get, and you have to ride w that in mind--or pay the price. p sure americans are keenly aware of this
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That Gillman guy has been going out of business for years https://twitter.com/greenfieldjohn/status/1313127556724465673?s=20&t=yhMRdIrMnyxn5QjUFtZQBw https://twitter.com/greenfieldjohn/status/1313132392262111235?s=20&t=yhMRdIrMnyxn5QjUFtZQBw
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leftist heap posted:p sure americans are keenly aware of this sounds like that guy sure wasn't. otherwise he wouldn't have been run over by a car. checkmate cyclailures
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leftist heap posted:this is peak "I'm an avid cyclist, but..."
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It's too dangerous to walk across the street with bikes there. They need to take them out and add another traffic lane
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*stumbles into thread* WELL MAYBE CYCLISTS SHOULDNT PRETEND THE ROAD IS SAFE
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Here is what a safe bike lane looks like, for comparison https://v.redd.it/m2apqbxeppq81/DASH_1080.mp4?source=fallback
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car dependency and brand dependency go hand in hand because when you're driving a car, the only things you're aware of in terms of businesses and restaurants is the ones with big recognizable signs, which is often what roads and streets are designed to funnel you towards. the whole point of a road is to make you go to applebee's. it's why so many new "walkable neighborhoods!" are just designed to look walkable from your car, and the actual experience of walking around in them sucks rear end. were is the store you're looking for? who knows! all the storefronts are the same anonymous prison-architecture glass-and-steel facade with signs that can only be seen by drivers.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:car dependency and brand dependency go hand in hand because when you're driving a car, the only things you're aware of in terms of businesses and restaurants is the ones with big recognizable signs, which is often what roads and streets are designed to funnel you towards. the whole point of a road is to make you go to applebee's. it's why so many new "walkable neighborhoods!" are just designed to look walkable from your car, and the actual experience of walking around in them sucks rear end. were is the store you're looking for? who knows! all the storefronts are the same anonymous prison-architecture glass-and-steel facade with signs that can only be seen by drivers. make this the blurb on the dust jacket and you’ll sell a million copies of this book
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bi crimes posted:car attempted murdering a local here: did he get hit off camera and end up on the hood?
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it doesn't make sense how that place is basically unchanged from the 1970s
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gotta beat the tornado home lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpLL50MY9Zc
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Just parking and ordering inside is so much faster than waiting in a crowded drive thru. Leave... car?
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Dog Case posted:The empty parking lot in the background to be completely fair to someone who probably doesn't deserve it, on gearth it's blocked off by a gate. Even so, he's just whining and deflecting
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:*stumbles into thread* WELL MAYBE CYCLISTS SHOULDNT PRETEND THE ROAD IS SAFE This, but unironically
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