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Ensign Expendable posted:Because then you can't sell them an enormous high interest loan that they use to buy cars. It is pretty nuts how about many Americans are: working full time, are making good money, don't even have outrageous spending habits, and are essentially in life-time debt servitude.
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thats just good old fashioned racism, the cars are secondary.
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Milo and POTUS posted:thats just good old fashioned racism, the cars are secondary. like a codependent relationship, car culture enables the racism and racism enables the car culture
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Jun 29, 2023 14:32
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that's because city boundaries are still drawn the same as in the 1950s, you have to look at "metro area".
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SKULL.GIF posted:that's because city boundaries are still drawn the same as in the 1950s, you have to look at "metro area". yeah thats the car culture
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Real hurthling! posted:yeah thats the car culture bingo
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These cities would've expanded over time even without cars, no city (Kowloon excluded) experiences strict infill
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I don't think anyone is arguing against that
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SKULL.GIF posted:These cities would've expanded over time even without cars, no city (Kowloon excluded) experiences strict infill Pennsylvania passed a law in 1907 specifically to prevent Pittsburgh from expanding via annexation after the city annexed the north shore area. City proper has been 54 square miles since then. lmao
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It is very hard for cities to grow and improve when the state and federal governments have a boner for punishing them because they aren't sufficiently volkish
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Pennsylvania passed a law in 1907 specifically to prevent Pittsburgh from expanding via annexation after the city annexed the north shore area. City proper has been 54 square miles since then. lmao But the flip side is cities like Toronto that annexed all their suburbs and keep electing city governments full of people who hate the very concept of cities.
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Weembles posted:But the flip side is cities like Toronto that annexed all their suburbs and keep electing city governments full of people who hate the very concept of cities.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Pennsylvania passed a law in 1907 specifically to prevent Pittsburgh from expanding via annexation after the city annexed the north shore area. City proper has been 54 square miles since then. lmao Colorado had an amendment passed in 1974 that hosed with Denver's ability to annex out into the surrounding counties. The lady who drafted it said it was to prevent the city from "abusing it's status and size", but it was most likely about preventing Denver from pulling in suburban school districts and desegregating them lol
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Greatbacon posted:Colorado had an amendment passed in 1974 that hosed with Denver's ability to annex out into the surrounding counties. The lady who drafted it said it was to prevent the city from "abusing it's status and size", but it was most likely about preventing Denver from pulling in suburban school districts and desegregating them lol Allegheny County has around 1.3m people. These are all the separate local governments in the county  These are all the separate school districts  We love our fiefdoms, folks, don't we
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Allegheny County has around 1.3m people. These are all the separate local governments in the county intranational borders like this caused the French Revolution
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Allegheny County has around 1.3m people. These are all the separate local governments in the county Holy Roman rear end polity
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Greatbacon posted:Holy Roman rear end polity
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Gripweed posted:intranational borders like this caused the French Revolution insh'allah e: i appreciate the correction Doc Hawkins has issued a correction as of 20:42 on Jun 29, 2023 |
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Doc Hawkins posted:in sh'allah I know you mean well, but it's two Arabic words, insha' and Allah, so if you're gonna put in a space, it should be after the auditor m apostrophe, corresponding to a glottal stop, or ء. The full phrase is إنشاء الله Anyway, for that polity to be truly holy Roman, it needs some good old sovereign dudes. But I guess rich people are above the law, and also above school districts, so that works out I imagine.
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I grew up outside the Pittsburgh city limits but my address still said Pittsburgh cause the post office correctly knows the whole county is Pittsburgh but the stupid city government doesnt
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you can put "the moon" for your city on any US address, as long as you have the right zip code for the street address. it doesn't matter
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I wouldn't mind being able to get someone at the post office to answer the phone, but I assume they're always understaffed by design
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3 car accident just outside my house on a 30mph road. First car was slowing down to turn left, another car behind it was also slowing down, 3rd car rammed full loving speed ahead. didn't even slow. I was outside when it happened. love how great drivers are. This is the 2nd time already that exact situation has happened --- just this year. I only heard the previous one and confirmed later from seeing the ambulances. Really cool to have 4 lane roads in residential areas with lots of turn offs into neighborhoods. Its almost like it should be made into a 3 lane with a center turn lane and bike lanes banking it.
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Gosh sounds like you need some extra lanes for safety
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:you can put "the moon" for your city on any US address, as long as you have the right zip code for the street address. it doesn't matter Ive had mail delivered that only managed my name, my street name, and zip code so this checks out.
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silicone thrills posted:3 car accident just outside my house on a 30mph road. First car was slowing down to turn left, another car behind it was also slowing down, 3rd car rammed full loving speed ahead. didn't even slow. I was outside when it happened. I live half a block from a two lane one way road that feeds into the little raised central highway and I frequently hear the sound of screeching tires and occasionally the sound of an impact. It's pretty straight and the combination of zero traffic enforcement and mistimed lights make drivers crazy speeders and red light runners. It sucks so much living near traffic and just knowing that people are determined to kill themselves and others right outside my door is depressing. On the plus side, folks are pretty used to seeing bicycles on my street and are generally pretty patient with passing until you get farther downtown. Anyway, I empathize and it sucks
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 A tesla drove itself into a house here in the rear end end of nowhere new york last night. It then exploded and the fire razed the building to the ground Killed the driver, killed the owner of the house, gave his wife a heart attack so now she gets to suffer as an elderly widow with insane medical debt and no home cars are dumb and bad. Teslas are worse
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Milo and POTUS posted:i hope their tesla explodes I'm picturing a pickup because they're thinking the car wouldn't suffer much damage from murdering someone. I'm not sure what I would do in that situation, but I would definitely try to figure out where they parked and slash their tires if I wasn't the mayor
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Mauser posted:I'm picturing a pickup because they're thinking the car wouldn't suffer much damage from murdering someone. I'm not sure what I would do in that situation, but I would definitely try to figure out where they parked and slash their tires if I wasn't the mayor it's emeryville. definitely a tesla or a giant luxury SUV I walked past some of the center bike lane stuff they're doing on Valencia St in San Francisco earlier this week. they have plastic bollards that appear to be velcro'd to the road and zero ways for cyclists to enter or exit the lane mid-block lol https://twitter.com/LukeBornheimer/status/1674461187906637825 corona familiar has issued a correction as of 07:10 on Jun 30, 2023 |
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corona familiar posted:it's emeryville. definitely a tesla or a giant luxury SUV I honestly don't know anything about California so I'm gonna go with your answer
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Mauser posted:I honestly don't know anything about California so I'm gonna go with your answer emeryville is like a giant office park masquerading as a small city and where Pixar/stebe jobs is/was, so yes its all rich/wannabe-rich stebe jobs wanna-bes
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Some speeders reaping : In August 2021, a man was caught on a speedtrap going 111km/h on a city street (speed limit : 50 km/h) in Delémont, Switzerland. This week, he was sentenced to 1 year in jail, suspended in favor of a 2 year probation, as well as monetary penalties of 5100 CHF. His driver's licence has also been siezed for at least 2 years (administrative penalties are not public information). And another 2 cases : quote:On Sunday May 7, 2023, at 1:55 a.m., the Vaud Cantonal Police observed a VW Passat passenger car on the A9 freeway at St-Triphon in the direction of Lausanne, travelling at a speed of 238 km/h (231 km/h after deducting the safety margin), instead of the 120 km/h permitted at this location. The driver, a 37-year-old Swiss national, was contacted by the police in the days that followed. He was interviewed in the presence of a lawyer at the Centre de la Blécherette by investigators from the radar office. The Public Prosecutor opened criminal proceedings.
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It is pretty interesting to see how much Paris has changed in the last few years, admittedly I think a lot of it is just leading up to the Olympics, but at very least Paris is becoming a bicycling city which is pretty impressive for a city of its size. A lot of it is bike lanes and other infrastructure, but also I think even a modicum of respect from even Parisian drivers that doesn't exist in the US even in a "progressive" city like San Francisco. Car culture isn't just about past bad infrastructure choices. ---------- It is also pretty impressive of actually how poor for the environment a lot of electric cars work out to be, and if there is any carbon advantage, it is minimal. To make up the amount of carbon used to create a lithium battery on a Model 3 it is going to take 4 years just over a regular ICE engine. A standard Prius is going to get about 53 combined MPG versus 93 on a Model S but once you take into account the differences in battery size (and the carbon usage and eventually you will have to replace that battery) you could be driving that Model S for years and still be using more carbon. Also as bad petroleum production/refining is, Lithium mining isn't exactly a pretty picture either. I do think eventually it will make sense to gradually to move to electric cars: invest in public transportation/biking/just freaking sidewalks/anything else beforehand. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 10:29 on Jun 30, 2023 |
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Noosphere posted:Some speeders reaping : Driving over 200 kph on a public road while drunk and you lose your license for 2 years... Nobody really gives a poo poo about road safety or reducing collisions.
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