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[LaxerBRO]

@LaxerBRO 400 square feet is about 37 square meters, which is, oddly enough, about the footprint of my house. I have two and half floors, though, so roughly 1000 sq ft, which is what I'd consider a liveable size for two people and two cats. We used to live in a flat that was around 600 square and it was pretty nice, but definitely not something I'd consider the maximum allowable.


This is a common problem, actually. It's not (presumably) because his server was misconfigured, but because a lot of ISPs just blanket-ban most VPS-providers. I've had the same issue and I actually know what I'm doing when it comes to this shit. Microsoft still has my mail server blocked because they auto-block every IP my provider uses.


This is fucking bullshit, but it does explain why so many cyclists ignore basic road rules.

I am glad that it works out for you. My opinion is based on what I believe that I need to be comfortable as a person that grew up in Kansas. At 1000 square feet. a kitchenette becomes a kitchen albeit somewhat smaller. Additionally, living with someone that you care about or enjoy being around allows common areas to be used together. The reason why I am suspicious of these people is that because I know if they get and significant degree of power the will try to implement their ideas and when it doesn't work its going to be because the rest of the community, region, state, then nation does not think like me. They last thing these fuckers can do is to admit that they were wrong and take responsibility for their actions. Again, I don't care if people choose to live in a cube but all I want is for society not the inhibit my desire for choice.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

I am glad that it works out for you. My opinion is based on what I believe that I need to be comfortable as a person that grew up in Kansas. At 1000 square feet. a kitchenette becomes a kitchen albeit somewhat smaller. Additionally, living with someone that you care about or enjoy being around allows common areas to be used together. The reason why I am suspicious of these people is that because I know if they get and significant degree of power the will try to implement their ideas and when it doesn't work its going to be because the rest of the community, region, state, then nation does not think like me. They last thing these fuckers can do is to admit that they were wrong and take responsibility for their actions. Again, I don't care if people choose to live in a cube but all I want is for society not the inhibit my desire for choice.

Even if the numbers they threw out were true, it makes a huge difference about where you are and the community around you. 400 square feet is going to be better if you live in a small plot of land than if you lived in a noisy apartment building with people who share almost nothing in common with you, and all the problems apartments bring--dogs, loud sex, music, just stomping around, etc.

 

[Jeff_the_Thriller]

Arguably the people like Calvin’s dad are the real “carbrains” - comfortable enough in their privileged day-to-day life with their car that they dream of weekend life all the time.

"Carbrains"
I love that they have their own lingo like incels. "You're part of the problem if you think cycling is just a hobby."

I don't understand their weird obsession with thinking everyone should live in Soviet Bloc tenements. I also noticed that there isn't a second room for kids. It's reassuring people like this aren't reproducing.

 

[quaawaa]

Not to be done by Americans, here's some Eurotards from /n/ yucking it up about people they only make assumptions about.

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WTF is up with the bread thing? I've seen that exact same idea dozens of times and it makes no sense. I swear these Eurotards think all American bread is:

Ignore the Canadian packaging
and that the US doesn't have bakeries.

I wonder how much of their "fresh" produce is out-of-season stuff shipped from halfway around the world. Many stores have a backroom and don't get deliveries from every vendor every day, so there is a chance that the goods on the shelf have been in the store for several days. If you actually want very fresh produce, you have to buy it from a local farmer and you can only buy in-season foods.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

WTF is up with the bread thing? I've seen that exact same idea dozens of times and it makes no sense. I swear these Eurotards think all American bread is:
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Ignore the Canadian packaging
and that the US doesn't have bakeries.

I wonder how much of their "fresh" produce is out-of-season stuff shipped from halfway around the world. Many stores have a backroom and don't get deliveries from every vendor every day, so there is a chance that the goods on the shelf have been in the store for several days. If you actually want very fresh produce, you have to buy it from a local farmer and you can only buy in-season foods.

It’s also batshit because the car commuter can stop on any of the billions of grocery stores in the way home if they so choose.

And I suspect they never EVER consider how often their store gets produce deliveries. What’s the difference if it sits in the store before you buy and eat and if it sits at home for the same time? Maybe a slight advantage if it rots.

 

[quaawaa]

/r/fuckcars user wants to destroy a major throughfare in Chicago and cherry picks an image to try and show that Chicago is "carbrained":

OP wants this because the sound of cars is drowning out the Bluetooth speaker he uses to listen to music while riding his bike:

Spoiler: Why OP's design makes no sense

Lakeshore Drive only touches the water in the very small spot shown in the OP's screenshot.
The entire rest of its ~15 mile length is parks:


Even their screenshot area has enormous public spaces on the water:

He's literally complaining that that 3000 ft strip of a multiple mile long park that doesn't have vegetation.

Light rail is useless because there is already a parallel heavy rail line for much of the park:

The bike lanes and pedestrian walkways are also useless because the park already has them:

They're even visible in the OP picture!

This is what that part of LSD looks like from street level:

Note the massive bike trail and pedestrian walkway to the right.

Also, in all the anti-LSD posts, they never mention that the rail lines and yard for the El train takes up more space and has fewer places to cross than the road:

The football stadium should give you an idea of the size of the park. It is massive. The island in the top right used to have an airport on it but it was illegally destroyed by a corrupt mayor. They should be applauding Chicago for this massive pedestrian area, not hating on it for still having roads.

They literally want to reduce a road capacity to hurt drivers, not to help non-drivers. There are also pedestrian and bike tunnels/bridges/crosswalks to cross the road. This part of Chicago is exceptionally well designed, but it's never enough for these car-haters.

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[FILTH Tourist]

WTF is up with the bread thing? I've seen that exact same idea dozens of times and it makes no sense. I swear these Eurotards think all American bread is:
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Ignore the Canadian packaging
and that the US doesn't have bakeries.

I wonder how much of their "fresh" produce is out-of-season stuff shipped from halfway around the world. Many stores have a backroom and don't get deliveries from every vendor every day, so there is a chance that the goods on the shelf have been in the store for several days. If you actually want very fresh produce, you have to buy it from a local farmer and you can only buy in-season foods.

Yeah I don't get it either. The supermarkets back by me when I lived in the states had a bakery built in, so if you time it right you can get a warm soft loaf of bread right out the oven. Besides that there are a wide variety of flavors and quality of bread on the shelves too.

It’s also batshit because the car commuter can stop on any of the billions of grocery stores in the way home if they so choose.

And I suspect they never EVER consider how often their store gets produce deliveries. What’s the difference if it sits in the store before you buy and eat and if it sits at home for the same time? Maybe a slight advantage if it rots.

Buying in advance has two advantages:

• Save money and time
• Plan and synergize meals

One of the best skills you can learn is how to utilize left over ingredients for later meals to reduce waste and save money. And the way you do that is looking at what you already have at home and write a grocery list for what meals will be for the next few days. You can't do that if you are just buying things on impulse every day.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Yeah I don't get it either. The supermarkets back by me when I lived in the states had a bakery built in, so if you time it right you can get a warm soft loaf of bread right out the oven. Besides that there are a wide variety of flavors and quality of bread on the shelves too.


Buying in advance has two advantages:

• Save money and time
• Plan and synergize meals

One of the best skills you can learn is how to utilize left over ingredients for later meals to reduce waste and save money. And the way you do that is looking at what you already have at home and write a grocery list for what meals will be for the next few days. You can't do that if you are just buying things on impulse every day.

Maybe I'm being too harsh to Europeans, as they do have stores, even large ones (Carrefour, Auchan, etc.) that they go to, and the "walking home from the market with a baguette sticking out" is just a fantasy. Besides, spending 30 minutes walking and another 15-20 minutes for just a few meals isn't very efficient.

I've never been to Europe, but I can also imagine that the tiny grocery stores aren't exactly clean, either...all the NYC "bodegas" look grimier than the 7-11s around me and must be a miserable existence having to use one of those for your normal shopping habits.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Jason boosted disinformation spreader and lolcow journoscum Taylor Lorenz.


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(Link to related discussion in Taylor's thread)

At this point it's almost like he's deliberately finding and boosting the shittiest takes possible. I can't possibly imagine how he would think what Taylor said would make any sense whatsoever.

 

[quaawaa]

Jason boosted disinformation spreader and lolcow journoscum Taylor Lorenz.

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(Link to related discussion in Taylor's thread)

At this point it's almost like he's deliberately finding and boosting the shittiest takes possible. I can't possibly imagine how he would think what Taylor said would make any sense whatsoever.

You missed a more interesting tweet:

Spoiler: Image in Tweet

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Jason is in front of OLVG Spuistraat (Google Maps) and it appears to be more of a clinic than a hospital. Canada also has plenty of clinics in small buildings.

Also the wait times are ridiculous, but since he's a Canadian he probably thinks they're normal:

Spoiler: More wait times

This is what OLVG West (Google Maps), which is a full hospital, looks like:


And here's what Amsterdam's Academic Medical Center (Google Maps) (Med School/Hospital affiliated with the University of Amsterdam) looks like:


And here's St. Joseph's Hospital (Google Maps) in his hometown of London, Ontario, which looks to be equivalent to the medical center in the original post:

Look at its huge stroads and surface parking lots!

Does he never leave his neighborhood or is he being disingenuous on purpose?

 

[Meriasek]

You missed a more interesting tweet:
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Spoiler: Image in Tweet

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Jason is in front of OLVG Spuistraat (Google Maps) and it appears to be more of a clinic than a hospital. Canada also has plenty of clinics in small buildings.

Also the wait times are ridiculous, but since he's a Canadian he probably thinks they're normal:
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Spoiler: More wait times

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This is what OLVG West (Google Maps), which is a full hospital, looks like:
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And here's what Amsterdam's Academic Medical Center (Google Maps) (Med School/Hospital affiliated with the University of Amsterdam) looks like:
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And here's St. Joseph's Hospital (Google Maps) in his hometown of London, Ontario, which looks to be equivalent to the medical center in the original post:
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Look at its huge stroads and surface parking lots!

Does he never leave his neighborhood or is he being disingenuous on purpose?

I think he's deluded himself into a very view of the world.

 

[S.C.U.D.]

You missed a more interesting tweet:
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This fucking take, I KNOW I'm going to see more and more of it, that America is architecturally ugly because it's built for cars. No you idiot, America's buildings are mostly ugly because they were all built in the last 100 years. Regardless, I can take a photo anywhere in America and produce beauty if I take the right kind of picture, just as I can take a photo anywhere in Amsterdam and produce ugliness if I frame it just right.

 

[Idiot Asshole]

Does he never leave his neighborhood or is he being disingenuous on purpose?

I just assume these people are always lying.

 

[quaawaa]

This fucking take, I KNOW I'm going to see more and more of it, that America is architecturally ugly because it's built for cars. No you idiot, America's buildings are mostly ugly because they were all built in the last 100 years. Regardless, I can take a photo anywhere in America and produce beauty if I take the right kind of picture, just as I can take a photo anywhere in Amsterdam and produce ugliness if I frame it just right.

These people have no room to criticize architecture. They love commieblocks and other brutalist architecture as well as modernist crap. They also hated Trump’s executive order that mandated that all new federal buildings in DC had to be designed in the neoclassical style.

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Jason believes that poor infrastructure is the reason why people don't like biking in the winter.

Here's some Dutch cyclists proving his hypothesis and showing that if your city has proper bicycle infrastructure, biking in winter is as easy as it is in the summer:

 

[Grapefruit Soda]

Yes Jason, we don't like to bike in winter because 90% of our prairie cities, which have pretty good trails and bike paths already, get brutally cold, with an even more brutal windchill. Cherry picking then finns, who have to work a lot harder to get a license, and since they're a smaller country, its easier to enforce traffic laws. In my cold prairie land, licenses and vehicles are both easier to get, and much more useful than a bike ever could be.

Ask a finn if they would rather a bike or car, and they'd probably say car, ask a northern canuck, they'd think you're retarded for entertaining that. -35 isn't something you want to bike in at the best of times.

 

[Thorn]

Not only is wind chill a thing, but god help you if there's even the slightest bit of humidity in the air, because no amount of wind/coldproofing is going to save you. I wouldn't wish biking at below zero, hell even below 45, on even my worst archenemy.

 

[Amber the Hedgehog]

Yes Jason, we don't like to bike in winter because 90% of our prairie cities, which have pretty good trails and bike paths already, get brutally cold, with an even more brutal windchill. Cherry picking then finns, who have to work a lot harder to get a license, and since they're a smaller country, its easier to enforce traffic laws. In my cold prairie land, licenses and vehicles are both easier to get, and much more useful than a bike ever could be.

Ask a finn if they would rather a bike or car, and they'd probably say car, ask a northern canuck, they'd think you're retarded for entertaining that. -35 isn't something you want to bike in at the best of times.

As a finn, depends on the factors. Most winter bikers are kids going go school who don't have a choice but many adults winter bike too. Some because they like kids don't have a choice do lack of cars but also many choose to do so for practical reasons.

Driving during winter is bit of pain also. Mostly because you often need to do some snow clearing especially if you live in your own house with your own yard and refrorst the windows. That takes time and physical effort in the cold anyway. So if the place you are going isn't that far it might be less of a pain and faster to bike than use a car.

We still love and regularly use cars because fuck yeah heating. Unless the weather is absolutely awful biking or driving isn't seen as big deal either way.

 

[Never Scored]

He's a Canadian from Newfoundland currently studying abroad in Belgium: View attachment 4130085 Source (Archive) View attachment 4130052 Source (Archive) I wonder if he's actually tried to interact with European bureaucracy, used their health care system, or even paid income tax. He definitely hasn't stepped a meter off campus because Leuven has Canadian style suburbs: View attachment 4130106 and they also have "stroads": View attachment 4130115 Hilariously, despite being an /r/fuckcars member, he tried to get a European driver's license: View attachment 4130055 Source (Archive) Guess he wasn't able to get his €14 ticket, or he got it and it wasn't fun.

To be fair, even a typical Canadian suburb would be a bustling metropolis compared to most of Newfoundland. I could see someone from Newfoundland going to a European suburb and thinking it's an urban paradise. That strip mall you posted would be about peak density in Newfoundland. Just check out the St. John's on Google Maps/Street View.

The only public transportation in the one city is a bus with hourly routes. There's no light rail or anything like in most Canadian cities, but the reason for that is because Newfoundland is about as populated as North Dakota and the one city has around 115,000 people, not because of any lack of will or moral failing like these urban planning retards suggest. The population can't sustain anything more robust than a basic bus service.

 

[Markass the Worst]

You missed a more interesting tweet:
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Spoiler: Image in Tweet

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Jason is in front of OLVG Spuistraat (Google Maps) and it appears to be more of a clinic than a hospital. Canada also has plenty of clinics in small buildings.

Also the wait times are ridiculous, but since he's a Canadian he probably thinks they're normal:
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Spoiler: More wait times

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This is what OLVG West (Google Maps), which is a full hospital, looks like:
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And here's what Amsterdam's Academic Medical Center (Google Maps) (Med School/Hospital affiliated with the University of Amsterdam) looks like:
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And here's St. Joseph's Hospital (Google Maps) in his hometown of London, Ontario, which looks to be equivalent to the medical center in the original post:
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Look at its huge stroads and surface parking lots!

Does he never leave his neighborhood or is he being disingenuous on purpose?

Nice argument, unfortunately it's invalid because Jason specifically defines "concrete medical center" to actually mean "inaccessible by anything other than driving".


Alt text: Aerial view of sprawling medical centre surrounded by highways in Alberta, Canada
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One is reminded of Humpty Dumpty from Alice in Wonderland who says "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean." So yes, he's being disingenuous on purpose.

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Besides the unstated implication that big vehicles apparently don't exist in Amsterdam (unless there are some European vehicle regulations I'm unaware of), he says "But here in Canada" as if he's back in Canada now? I wonder why he's visiting.

 

[S.C.U.D.]

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Besides the unstated implication that big vehicles apparently don't exist in Amsterdam (unless there are some European vehicle regulations I'm unaware of), he says "But here in Canada" as if he's back in Canada now? I wonder why he's visiting.

I assume Christmas with the family, which of course he's spending bitching about cars instead of celebrating the holiday.