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I was just looking for that video. Houston is a loving nightmare if you don’t own a car. Downtown Houston and a few surrounding areas are a bit better with light rail downtown and some token bike lanes here and there but it’s only the rich neighborhoods. I’m less than a quarter mile from a Kroger and it’s a 2 hour round trip to walk because of the giant loving freeway in the way, also literally no sidewalks to/from there so you end up walking in tall grass or having Houston drivers actively try to get as close as possible to “scare” you while driving 110mph.
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It’s not so bad if you live in Montrose and don’t leave the neighborhood for any reason. As an added bonus you never have to experience the rest of Houston that way.
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Dick Fontaine posted:It’s not so bad if you live in Montrose and don’t leave the neighborhood for any reason. As an added bonus you never have to experience the rest of Houston that way. Really depends on which area in Montrose too. Not like it use to be if you haven't been back in a while. For the curse, imagine this is a picture of words or something but Mary's is closed and the mural is gone but the building stands.
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drunk mutt posted:Really depends on which area in Montrose too. Not like it use to be if you haven't been back in a while. 
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Icon Of Sin posted:I made a joke in the elon musk thread, and someone decided to use it as inspiration. https://imgur.com/xQVHXXK.mp4
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That's actually an improvement.
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A black mirror, made to reflect everything about itself that humanity will not confront 
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Dick Fontaine posted:A black mirror, made to reflect everything about itself that humanity will not confront The CorinthElon.
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Sound on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbmtxvF8Sz0&t=193s
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I used to live in Springfield, Virginia (outside DC), and I had a roommate who lived with me and also worked in Springfield, but on the other side of town. He didn't have a car, so he had to bus it to work every day. To do so, he'd have to take a bus from near our place in Springfield, out to the Pentagon in Arlington (where there is a hub I guess), and then catch another bus back to Springfield. There was no bus that just took you across. Eventually, he worked out a deal with this neighbor who worked at the Pentagon that he would give him a ride up there in the morning so he could use the HOV lanes. I don't think they had an afternoon deal though. A weird system developed around this HOV-pickup thing in the DC suburbs where people gather in certain places, like an empty parking lot for a defunct store, and line up waiting for someone to pick them up to take HOV lanes to the Pentagon or into DC or whatever. It's called 'slugging' for some reason. It seems to have just naturally evolved on its own, which is pretty neat I think.
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just steal a hyundai or kia or whatever with a USB stick or whatever the kids on the internet are doing these days then ditch it
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RE: Houston Chat from someone just outside the Houston area. gently caress Houston traffic.
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Murdstone posted:I used to live in Springfield, Virginia (outside DC), and I had a roommate who lived with me and also worked in Springfield, but on the other side of town. He didn't have a car, so he had to bus it to work every day. To do so, he'd have to take a bus from near our place in Springfield, out to the Pentagon in Arlington (where there is a hub I guess), and then catch another bus back to Springfield. There was no bus that just took you across. 
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mobby_6kl posted:Aw man look at all that freedom! 
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Rebel Blob posted:Can't mention Springfield without this local highlight: Ah, the good ole Mixing Bowl! How I hate thee and the old Woodrow Wilson Bridge when I lived in the area. Now when I have to visit relatives in Georgia I have to go through Spaghetti Junction. 
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Framboise posted:It's not that we don't want better public transport, it's that in most of the country it's just a loving pipe dream. The continental US is loving massive-- like, a lot of European countries, in their entirety, are smaller than even some of our smaller states. And even some of the bigger countries are about the size of a state and a half, maybe? I live in Indiana, and the entire UK is about as big as Indiana and Michigan combined lol Americans think 100 years is a long time, and Europeans think 100 miles is a long distance.
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NEXT DAY BLINDS Nashville has an interchange like that called the spaghetti bowl.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Just one more lane, bro. One more lane will solve it for sure this time. Right now there's an ad exec that's thinking of how to use this in a Coca-Cola commercial.
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This might piss you off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBCNJQe6_ZQ But it does illustrate why the US is completely hosed and won't get better until there is a new constitution.
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What the hell is this nonsense other than someone’s weird foot fetish?
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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Frank Frank posted:What the hell is this nonsense? You already know, see?
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Framboise posted:I feel like non-Americans just don't understand how very much a lot of the nation is built for cars and is as unwalkable as it could possibly be, and I feel like it's 100% intentional to keep us reliant on cars and keep the automotive industry booming. its easy to think things like this if you're prone to thinking that shadowy people just beyond the edges of your vision torment you for their sick amusement but the reality is that america has had cheap rear end cars for a hundred years so we have a hundred years of infrastructure based around cheap rear end cars like in 1914 you could get a ford model t for less, inflation adjusted, than a cheap toyota goes for today. its not a big mystery why so much of america is developed around the assumption that you own a car Waltzing Along posted:This might piss you off: the real curse about videos like this is when you realize there's a whole ecosystem of low grade content creators who seem like they have big insights to share but really they're just clued in to the fact that a lot of folks like consuming content that makes them sad and upset, because feeling sick and depressed all the time is addictive its like true crime podcasts for people who dislike cars, except more likely to make you think that you're a forensic analyst because you've listened to every episode of Morbid Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 08:02 on Dec 30, 2022 |
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bossy lady posted:At my previous job my group was based in Houston and I lived in NYC. My boss and coworkers spent a great deal of time and effort trying to get me to move to Houston and one of their primary benefits was I wouldn't have to take the train or walk anymore. They couldn't fathom why I would want to live like that. "individualistic" is a polite term for "anti-social"
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Milo and POTUS posted:"individualistic" is a polite term for "anti-social"
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Murdstone posted:A weird system developed around this HOV-pickup thing in the DC suburbs where people gather in certain places, like an empty parking lot for a defunct store, and line up waiting for someone to pick them up to take HOV lanes to the Pentagon or into DC or whatever. It's called 'slugging' for some reason. It seems to have just naturally evolved on its own, which is pretty neat I think. Meanwhile here in Communist Germany we don't have HOV lanes on the Autobahn, but we do have official, government owned and maintained parking lots for ride sharing.
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nice that foot guy is open about his fetish but is still close minded because guys need to wear socks instead lmbo
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mobby_6kl posted:The suburbs as they exist aren't really conductive to any sort of public transport or walking 
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A farting mink posted:https://twitter.com/FactoryMother/status/1608637324765827074?s=20&t=AbXBaJeWAN5wgxlB2CYcyg The Squickening Fleshlight?
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The internet must have broken my brain, my immediate reaction to this photo was "TOILET PARTY!" and I'm not even sure that toilet party is a meme, could be sustained neurological damage.
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This is either an incredibly bad photoshop, or this image has the weirdest jpg compression I've ever seen.
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Dick Burglar posted:This is either an incredibly bad photoshop, or this image has the weirdest jpg compression I've ever seen. or AI.
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 Oops I pissed on the living room floor again
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Frank Frank posted:
I used to go through gallons of this stuff when my mom lived with me 
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