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Yes, we literally are the UNITED STATES that together form a country. I don't know what point they're even trying to make, I guess a picture of a street without a sidewalk means the country doesn't function.

Well, it was either that or "All of America looks exactly the same" (it doesn't). For both streets and highways, every metropolitan area is built and functions a little differently. In Houston, roads with a turning lane (no median) really isn't that common until miles out towards the suburbs, even in roads that were upgraded later, and even then, most roads have wide, raised medians. Dallas used Bott's dots for years on most municipal roads (now not so much and many have been replaced). All of Texas has sideways-style stoplights (most of the country's are vertical) except for San Antonio and the area around it.

Even if you're a basement-dwelling homebody, these can be seen by exploring Google Earth and other stuff. You can learn that Amsterdam (and by extension, most of Europe) has eight-lane highways just like the United States does, too.

Remember, most of the experiences of these people is just YouTube videos and meme pictures.
 
Well, it was either that or "All of America looks exactly the same" (it doesn't).
idk man most american suburbs kinda blend together in terms of style when you keep seeing the same designs for mcdonalds, holiday inns, and starbucks as well as the same housing designs. people insist on ranch style homes in like every state despite looking out of place 90% of the time
 
Jason Slaughter is still reading the tweets of and replying to a child grooming pedophile $100k grifter notorious for sneaking HRT to children behind parents' backs.

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Notice how he's blatantly trying to shoehorn himself into being relevant to Lucas' tweet too. "Lucas says he's going to buy milk? Oh why don't you watch a video of mine about how buying milk sucks because MUH STROADS or whatever."
 
Jason Slaughter is still reading the tweets of and replying to a child grooming pedophile $100k grifter notorious for sneaking HRT to children behind parents' backs.

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Notice how he's blatantly trying to shoehorn himself into being relevant to Lucas' tweet too. "Lucas says he's going to buy milk? Oh why don't you watch a video of mine about how buying milk sucks because MUH STROADS or whatever."
He's also an "electrical engineer" who doesn't know that grid electricity is fungible:
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Paying a power company extra for "renewable energy" is a scam. You're getting the same power from the same sources as you would if you didn't pay the extra fee.
Power companies are being forced to move to renewable generators by their government, and they use all customers' funds to do so, not just the people who opt-in to "buy" renewable power. Bragging about paying those fees is bragging about paying more for power because they gave you some Good Boy Points.

I wonder if Jason has an up-to-date license with the Dutch regulators or if he's in the same situation as Chuck.
 
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He's also an "electrical engineer" who doesn't know that grid electricity is fungible:
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Paying a power company extra for "renewable energy" is a scam. You're getting the same power from the same sources as you would if you didn't pay the extra fee.
Power companies are being forced to move to renewable generators by their government, and they use all customers' funds to do so, not just the people who opt-in to "buy" renewable power. Bragging about paying those fees is bragging about paying more for power because they gave you some Good Boy Points.

I wonder if Jason has an up-to-date license with the Dutch regulators or if he's in the same situation as Chuck.
typical soy move with their "look at me paying premiums for something I can virtue signal about, anyone who can't or chooses not to is part of the earth killing nazi woodwork I whine about"
 
I want to like Adam Something, I really do. But his 24/7 seething about Elon Musk makes him insufferable. The tweet is wrong because it implies the "full quote" is the source when it's only making a reference to the common phrase.

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It's even more hilarious when you realize the "original" quote is a condemnation of democracy and was later used by the Whigs in support of democracy. And the very quote ITSELF indicates that the phrase is MUCH OLDER than the quote. What idiots. They do the same mistake of assuming the first written reference to something is the first time it occurred. Such colonialism. Such appropriation. Such destruction of indigenous peoples.

It's literally an old Latin proverb from the time of the pre-Roman empire.
 
/r/fuckcars discusses creating a political party to advocate for banning cars:
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They admit that only a very small minority of people share their opinion:
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And the most upvoted comment: lie about wanting to ban cars:
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A Twitter user posts a graph showing that banning cars from Melbourne's Central Business District caused a dramatic reduction in the number of people who visited. /r/fuckcars blames this on covid, but if that was the case, the number of people visiting in 2022 should be higher than in 2019 (after all, no cars means more business, or so they tell me...):
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In Portland's defense, it isn't just the bike lanes that keep people away from downtown. It's also the crazy homeless people.
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More support for vandalism:
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This amused me, in the sense of what sane individual would WANT to walk around Chicago.
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It's the top post on /r/fuckcars and is pinned by a mod:
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Dude won't say what suburb he lives in, probably because it actually is walkable, as many wealthy suburbs of Chicago are (e.g. downtown Naperville or Highland Park). A lot of suburbs there used to be small independent towns with walkable Main Streets until Chicagoland expanded to surround them.
 
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Not Just Bikes made a video claiming that suburbs have no "Third Places" (this is typically defined as a place to hang out without paying, but NJB drops the "without paying" part) and that things like neighborhood barbeques are cope for not having said places.

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Most of what he says about third places is true (except for an investment banker hanging out at the same pub as a mechanic; he literally cites Cheers as proof), but he mistakenly believes that suburbs don't have coffee shops, bars, or even parks. He also believes that "No Loitering" laws are applied to people hanging out in a park or coffee shop instead of just criminals and hooligans and that urban businesses don't have similar signs. He also claims that an indoor suburban mall isn't a third place because it attracts people from all over, but at the same time he claims that an open-air mall in a dense city is a third place despite also attracting people who don't live nearby.

In my experience, as long as you go to the same place on a regular schedule, the staff and other regular guests will recognize you, regardless of how you traveled to get there.

He also doesn't mention the most popular Third Place of all time: the Church.
 
A Twitter user posts a graph showing that banning cars from Melbourne's Central Business District caused a dramatic reduction in the number of people who visited. /r/fuckcars blames this on covid, but if that was the case, the number of people visiting in 2022 should be higher than in 2019 (after all, no cars means more business, or so they tell me...):
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Urbanists: "It's cars, it's always cars, cars are the root of all evil, there's no other explanation, what's a confounder"
Urbanists when their policies might be bad: "It's obviously a confounder, our policies never suck"
As usual there's one standard for their argument and one standard for everyone else.

He also believes that "No Loitering" laws are applied to people hanging out in a park or coffee shop instead of just criminals and hooligans and that urban businesses don't have similar signs.
Urbanists? Having deluded takes about crime? No way!

He also claims that an indoor suburban mall isn't a third place because it attracts people from all over, but at the same time he claims that an open-air mall in a dense city is a third place despite also attracting people who don't live nearby.
Why does he even do this? This makes the definition and usage of "third place" seem completely arbitrary and meaningless. Like "stroad".
 
Or they could just get an unit with laundry hookup and save the grief of a laundromat.
As someone in a 4 unit building with no shared machines or hookups, I somewhat sympathize. Anywhere around here with either was either out of price or no vacancy and time was running out. Close to where I work though. But anywho, the closest laundromat is a 5 minute walk but with steep terrain. And even if I was in a flat area, fuck walking with all my laundry stuff when it's cold. And god forbid I have a larger than normal load or bedsheets or something. I could probably get away with a cargo bike or something but fuck that. I'm in a small town connected to a 55mph divided highway
 
Not Just Bikes made a video claiming that suburbs have no "Third Places" (this is typically defined as a place to hang out without paying, but NJB drops the "without paying" part) and that things like neighborhood barbeques are cope for not having said places.

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A place nearby that isn't the place you live or isn't the place you work. It's a free or relatively low cost spot to hang out and talk.
So I suppose this faggot does know that old people hang out at McDonald's in the morning all the fucking time?

Here is a fucking Reddit thread about it. Furthermore, what's the difference between a pub and an Applebee's?

It's basically them same thing except that the Applebee's is corporate as well as the McDonald's so it's bad. Perhaps they are hipster enough for him. None of those place violate the third place definition.

Further on into the video the guy suggests that those living in the suburbs don't really have third places because they cannot abuse alcohol (getting shitfaced).

Finally, he points out that even if restaurants and pubs do exist in the suburbs then it's not a third place because different groups don't come together and learn the trust another.

One issue I have with his points is that perhaps people don't want to abuse alcohol. Furthermore, since his audience is progressive perhaps an Applebee's is more of a comforting environment than a local pub where everyone gets drunk. How does he know a few of his viewers or their friends are not Muslim or recovering alcoholics?

Another issue I want to address is the criticism of isolating oneself among their own social / economic group. Personally, I don't have an issue with that.

About 10 years ago, I used to work in Los Angeles county and lived in Ventura county. While working in Los Angeles we would get calls about thefts from Third Places with couple times a shift being ordinary. Cell phones, laptops, tablets, wallets, etc. were among the things stolen. Another common call was about homeless or drug addicts barricaded inside the bathrooms of these 3rd places bathing in the sink or even worse cooking drugs / shooting up. Not only does the smell of homeless body odor mixed with cheap commercial soap make me gag, significant hazards are presented with drug use either through the fumes left behind or the most dangerous sharps.

Next, the topic of trust is addressed. He mentions that people in cities with third places trust each other more but that can be meaningless. Social desirability bias is a major factor that could have colored results. Other possibilities are that persons in urban areas are poor judges of the safety of the community. Finally, one needs to consider that those living in suburbs could be older or have more to protect (kids).

Honestly, the video seems less about finding a community space rather it appears to be on to try to get people to move to the city and be woke faggots.

Stabbing at third place where people could get shitfaced.
 
Why does he even do this? This makes the definition and usage of "third place" seem completely arbitrary and meaningless. Like "stroad".
Because that's his only tool, he want's to paint all suburbs as complete desolate wastelands but he can't because lo and behold, normal communities have more than just households so Adam has to twist terms so much as to be completely arbitrary and meaningless, just so that he can claim his opinions as superior
 
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Wow these people are scraping the barrel. Oh no, a couple of redditors are depressed, rip down these suburbs NOW NOW NOW NOW. Redditors are definitely bastions of mental health and positivity, if they're depressed something must really be wrong!

Here's a hint you human cockroaches, you'd be every bit the depressed piece of shit you are now if you lived in your heckin' dense walkable community, only now people are now literally forced to deal with your dumb ass. Which I suspect is the point. If there is literally any way for someone to avoid you they will usually take it, so you must deny them any ability to avoid you. You're just a few jumps in ideology removed from incels, congrats.

Imagine being so insufferable that you alter infrastructure to force normal people to interact with you.
 
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