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Clark Nova posted:building "walkable cities" means having public restrooms and if you take all of those away in order to punish homeless people they aren't going to magically stop making GBS threads I think in france it's mostly dog poo poo, haven't ever seen something that's definitely human looking (except when someone had left a bunch of used toilet paper in a bush by a beach in the UK). fairly certain that human poo poo on the sidewalks is more of a USA thing (for the reasons you say)
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I once saw a ladies dog drop one on a beach and she just kicked some sand over it
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two guys at work just had a half-hour conversation about the problems with traffic, parking, people dropping off their kids at school causing long lines on connecting roads, drive-thrus backing up into regular traffic. at no point were "cars" ever brought up as the cause of any of this lol
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https://twitter.com/zhang_heqing/status/1519898637744156672?s=21&t=oL9NLWsG8GYs3psnzTI27g looking at the date I’m sure this was posted back in april but every 6 months it’s good to remember that we need more Giant Bulge infrastructure
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plz enjoy my video god bless https://i.imgur.com/zUrhsUD.mp4
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Didn't find any. If I were homeless I'd just piss in the bushes. You can piss in the bushes now. No need to be homeless.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I will say, selfishly, that I really appreciate EVs from a noise perspective. Highways are just as loud, whatever, but they don't noise pollute neighborhoods nearly as much. My neighbor's EV makes an odd whistling UFO sound. I guess it's for pedestrian safety but it drove me crazy for weeks before I realized what it was. You could hear them coming even with all the windows closed.
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Soup du Jour posted:https://twitter.com/zhang_heqing/status/1519898637744156672?s=21&t=oL9NLWsG8GYs3psnzTI27g always lol at the bus and also big rig
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actionjackson posted:plz enjoy my video god bless was chating "SHOW THE DOG" the whole time and then u did BRAVO
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Horace posted:roundabouts!!! Lol this made me realize I have one of these near me but it's somehow even more convoluted
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mystes posted:Lol lol it's so thuggish "ey Louie grab me an extra license plate from the evidence room, I forgot my EZ pass at home... And make sure it has a handicapped tag"
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:lol it's so thuggish its vintage cop poo poo and it makes me lol
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i was a cocktail party last night and somebody was getting heated about the city colluding with trash companies to create monopolies and price gouge and i was like man u cant even get pissed about that. its as american as apple pie
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Smythe you lead a truly charmed life
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Pryor on Fire posted:A little paint isn't so bad compared to stealing someone's license plate to avoid tolls and tickets quote:Schulz and three other officers in the narcotics unit were placed on paid administrative leave for months while the city retained the Denver-based Investigations Law Group to investigate the narcotic’s unit workplace environment. Another officer had accused Schulz of using an epithet used against homosexuals to describe the way the officer looked for wearing a mask to protect himself from the COVID-19 virus, records show. Except it's real.
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One of the most evil things about America is that our cities were redesigned around cars and cars only forcing millions of people to purchase vehicles at interest for years, the money spent fueling, repairing and insuring them as well. How much money do Americans spend on auto related issues over a life time? I remember I asked my father a few years ago how much money did he estimate he's spent buying and maintaining cars over his life and I swear he just about shortcircuited thinking about it. I think that's how we should approach the issue getting people to think about the expense involved with cars and then asking them about a better future where they didn't NEED a car and could get around the city or country on fast and reletively clean public transit.
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Smythe posted:i was a cocktail party last night and somebody was getting heated about the city colluding with trash companies to create monopolies and price gouge and i was like man u cant even get pissed about that. its as american as apple pie pictured: smythe 
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His Purple Majesty posted:One of the most evil things about America is that our cities were redesigned around cars and cars only forcing millions of people to purchase vehicles at interest for years, the money spent fueling, repairing and insuring them as well. How much money do Americans spend on auto related issues over a life time? I remember I asked my father a few years ago how much money did he estimate he's spent buying and maintaining cars over his life and I swear he just about shortcircuited thinking about it. I think that's how we should approach the issue getting people to think about the expense involved with cars and then asking them about a better future where they didn't NEED a car and could get around the city or country on fast and reletively clean public transit. It’s been posted in here before but it’s easily 6 figures. Maybe as high as 7 if you factor in environmental costs etc.
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Boywhiz88 posted:It’s been posted in here before but it’s easily 6 figures. Maybe as high as 7 if you factor in environmental costs etc. It depends a lot on what car you own and how much you drive because most costs scale with how much you drive (depreciation, maintenance, insurance, fuel, parking). I drive once or twice a month, so my car probably ends up costing me at least $2k with car insurance + depreciation + etc. I drop $2k on something that takes up too much room in my garage.
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Smythe you lead a truly charmed life thanks op the trick is to be stupid as poo poo
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Dr. Killjoy posted:pictured: smythe they were getting heated in a "my business is being ripped off!!!" way and also their business is landlord
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:On average owning a car costs something like $10k a year vs the $1k using public transit. So over 60 years x $10k, that's $600k car cost vs $60k bus rides. City Nerd goes into the entire cost of car ownership on the individual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2rI-5ZFW1E. Now this is the average cost, and does not come close to the cost of owning 2 cars, a lifted truck, or luxury car. Yeah, it also puts into perspective why so many working people even with theoretically decent salaries are in debt. I mean after the basics (taxes, health care, transportation, housing, food etc), how much is actually left? If anything cars like health insurance should just be considered another regressive tax on the population.
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Ardennes posted:Yeah, it also puts into perspective why so many working people even with theoretically decent salaries are in debt. I mean after the basics (taxes, health care, transportation, housing, food etc), how much is actually left?  (in 2022, all that means is two Teslas.)
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Yeah, it is hard to understate how much cheap and accessible public transportation is a subsidy to the population itself. Just think if you could replace your car with a $100 yearly pass.
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Hard to overstate just what a disaster non-london trains are in the UK. I took my in laws on a trip around the Midlands and every single train we were meant to take over the 4 days was massively late or cancelled. The ones we did end up on were packed and had broken air con etc. https://twitter.com/JenWilliams_FT/status/1579535427257520128?t=1wyxSYmEl70z3JhtdDwkQQ&s=19 e: there's a very good website you can use to see if a given train service is actually usable. Here's one of the "northern powerhouse" routes https://www.recenttraintimes.co.uk/...vAg=10&MnScCt=2 
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distortion park posted:Hard to overstate just what a disaster non-london trains are in the UK. I took my in laws on a trip around the Midlands and every single train we were meant to take over the 4 days was massively late or cancelled. The ones we did end up on were packed and had broken air con etc.
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mystes posted:Breaking the trains is step one to getting everyone to hate them so you can get rid of them and build more highways it's the UK, we don't build the highways either
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distortion park posted:Hard to overstate just what a disaster non-london trains are in the UK. I took my in laws on a trip around the Midlands and every single train we were meant to take over the 4 days was massively late or cancelled. The ones we did end up on were packed and had broken air con etc. It sort of makes sense, if the trains were privatized to make a profit (with the caveat of fixed priced increases), the way they are going to get around it is with minimal service and maintenance. It is just an insane way to run a country. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 16:38 on Oct 11, 2022 |
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Gripweed posted:https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1579664829643575296?s=20&t=--PDhW_KXGS2M-7G0qyDmQ Here's the full article: https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/a-car-put-her-dad-in-the-hospital
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:two guys at work just had a half-hour conversation about the problems with traffic, parking, people dropping off their kids at school causing long lines on connecting roads, drive-thrus backing up into regular traffic. I think this is because for most Americans they literally can't imagine none car dependent urban design, it's like how fish don't notice water
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FreeRangeHexagon posted:I think this is because for most Americans they literally can't imagine none car dependent urban design, it's like how fish don't notice water oh 100%, the subject of ire was the school, because they were asking parents to only drop off kids at the crosswalk in front of the school, which is what creates the line. If it weren't for the pesky busybody trying to keep kids from dying, OBVIOUSLY the parents would have worked out a flawless, delay-free system for dropping off their kids.
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:oh 100%, the subject of ire was the school, because they were asking parents to only drop off kids at the crosswalk in front of the school, which is what creates the line. If it weren't for the pesky busybody trying to keep kids from dying, OBVIOUSLY the parents would have worked out a flawless, delay-free system for dropping off their kids. here me out here, some kind of large yellow vehicle that all the children can ride at once that goes house to house collecting children so they can all arrive together, seems like a crazy idea but maybe we can get Elon Musk to invent it
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You could basically just coast by at 10-15mph and let the kids roll out of the passenger side. Maybe put in a bed of sand or pea gravel to help break their fall.
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They have night trains from Hamburg to Stockholm again. They're just not quite done yet. But this makes me happy.FreeRangeHexagon posted:here me out here, some kind of large yellow vehicle that all the children can ride at once that goes house to house collecting children so they can all arrive together, seems like a crazy idea but maybe we can get Elon Musk to invent it Something something yellow submarine Bobstar has issued a correction as of 20:30 on Oct 11, 2022 |
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