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[Midwit]

/r/fuckcars mods are still protesting reddit's API changes. Their latest idea is to only allow posts about CityNerd (a knockoff of the lame idea other subs had of only allowing posts about John Oliver):

I hate Reddit so much.

 

[Aegir]

I don't want anyone from Nashville or especially Memphis anywhere near the Smokeys

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Alan Fisher is seething over the fact that Democrats in his state aren't going fast enough to ban all cars in the country, so he's crying about them and thinks that they're secret Republicans or something like that. I just wonder why he would support democrats in the first place if he's supposed to be a leftist and democrats are according to him and his fellow leftists "A right wing party".

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his fans are just as seething as well.
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Yet these people insist that their goal is "non-political" despite espousing general left-wing thinking.

They don't know even know Democrat constituents work anyway. Got news for you: most Democrats drive, and the biggest highways and largest highway funds go toward the Democrat-run cities anyway. When mass transit comes to a vote, it usually reflects what people already use and what people are willing to pay (so it's the rich who don't care + poor people + retards who think choo-choo is good vs. everyone else), including suburbanites who get no services but have to pay into the system anyway...yet these rational thinking patterns become "voting against their interests!" and "muh oil industry!".

But then again, I'm talking about people who will argue "mass transit is better because it fits more people" AND "I want to relax on mass transit, look out the window, and tard around on my Nintendo Switch", which are diametrically opposed to each other. If you're able to spread out, relax, and look out the window, you aren't winning in the "more people is more efficient" category.

 

[Markass the Worst]

But then again, I'm talking about people who will argue "mass transit is better because it fits more people" AND "I want to relax on mass transit, look out the window, and tard around on my Nintendo Switch", which are diametrically opposed to each other. If you're able to spread out, relax, and look out the window, you aren't winning in the "more people is more efficient" category.

Like many other urbanist contradictions, they mean they get to be the ones tarding out on their Switch while the plebs have to cram together like sardines. From the OP, here's Jason Slaughter traveling on a first class train:

source (a)

 

[quaawaa]

From the OP, here's Jason Slaughter traveling on a first class train:

The hilarious thing is that the seats in the Porsche are far more comfortable. They’re hyper adjustable, heated, cooled, and massaging.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

The hilarious thing is that the seats in the Porsche are far more comfortable. They’re hyper adjustable, heated, cooled, and massaging.

The condition of those seats looks pretty run-down (bodies rubbing up against them rubs off the outer coating/discolors them) for a "first class" experience.

 

[quaawaa]

The condition of those seats looks pretty run-down (bodies rubbing up against them rubs off the outer coating/discolors them) for a "first class" experience.

Compare the “first class” train to a first class plane:

 

[Yamamura]

But then again, I'm talking about people who will argue "mass transit is better because it fits more people" AND "I want to relax on mass transit, look out the window, and tard around on my Nintendo Switch", which are diametrically opposed to each other. If you're able to spread out, relax, and look out the window, you aren't winning in the "more people is more efficient" category.

They don't realize the only reason they have so much room to play their switch is because they're living in a country where people have alternative ways to travel. If everyone was forced to take the train then it would look very similar to how they have to cram people into the train like in Japan, China and India.

Also I notice that most of the time the trains they're riding while playing their switch are mostly empty. This might be come as a suprise, but I actually ride public transportation a lot (I just happen to not be austically against cars). These redditors aren't showing 90% of the times where you have to stand when it's packed and you can't play your Switch.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

The diffrence between KF and Reddit is that KF is still small enough that a bitch fit will draw the attention and ire of Null himself. Reddit on the otherhand is the internet equivalent to urbansprawl so protests in the smaller parts of the site isn't going to get the attention of the head admins, instead getting policed by local jannies.

KF is the high-densitry walkable urban forum they CLAIM to want, whereas reddit is the car-filled suburbia where they ACTUALLY want to live, and bitch about.

 

[quaawaa]

Speaking of /r/fuckcars love for CityNerd, apparently he's an English major who used to be an urban planner for Portland, OR before his YouTube channel took off.

I don't need to watch any of his videos to know that he sucks at designing good cities. His work speaks for itself.





Source (WARNING: LinkedIn)

 

[Midwit]

From the OP, here's Jason Slaughter traveling on a first class train:

Here's a First Class train cabin from 100 years ago, this stock used to run on the London Metropolitan line

Compare with current Metropolitan line stock.

Bit of a downgrade init?

 

[Xarpho's Return]

I don't need to watch any of his videos to know that he sucks at designing good cities. His work speaks for itself.

At least his work is transparent and believable, unlike Jason "let's just say I worked in tech" Slaughter and Chuck "i'm an engineer, trust me" Marohn.

 

[Markass the Worst]

At least his work is transparent and believable, unlike Jason "let's just say I worked in tech" Slaughter and Chuck "i'm an engineer, trust me" Marohn.

Jason did work in tech, though he always seemed to be a product manager of some sort, according to his LinkedIn, and he seems to be a freelancer at the moment so he's not naming what companies he actually works for
Chuck did used to have a professional engineering license at one point although I'm not sure what projects he's actually worked on, if any.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Jason did work in tech, though he always seemed to be a product manager of some sort, according to his LinkedIn, and he seems to be a freelancer at the moment so he's not naming what companies he actually works for
Chuck did used to have a professional engineering license at one point although I'm not sure what projects he's actually worked on, if any.

The problem is Jason was extremely vague about what he did, how he got in, and obfuscated what talent he had.

Chuck worked in an engineering firm, but I don't think he did any civil engineering work and his book is based on the premise that he was a former civil engineer, yet still makes up all sorts of terms and doesn't have a clear definition of what a suburb even is.

 

[Chuck McGill]

At least his work is transparent and believable, unlike Jason "let's just say I worked in tech" Slaughter and Chuck "i'm an engineer, trust me" Marohn.

I once got drunk and peed on the Boeing building. That basically makes me an aircraft engineer gais.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Compare the “first class” train to a first class plane:
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It's a full on office suite, something that would get ripped apart within 5 minutes on a train. It would not survive diversity, not without armed guards. Gotta put that on a HondaJet to make it even more sexy lol.

 

[JJLiautaud]

https://reason.com/2023/06/23/the-absence-of-a-carmageddon-after-the-philadelphia-bridge-collapse-doesnt-prove-highways-are-useless/

Reason talks about the lack of Carmageddon after the I95 collapse and reasonably points out that basically people chose alternate forms of travel. Also the reason foundation the think tank that publishes the magazine does do a lot of really wonkish stuff on infrastructure and transport and were one of the first people to call out the bullshit that was the Cali HSR Project.

 

[quaawaa]

https://reason.com/2023/06/23/the-absence-of-a-carmageddon-after-the-philadelphia-bridge-collapse-doesnt-prove-highways-are-useless/

Reason talks about the lack of Carmageddon after the I95 collapse and reasonably points out that basically people chose alternate forms of travel. Also the reason foundation the think tank that publishes the magazine does do a lot of really wonkish stuff on infrastructure and transport and were one of the first people to call out the bullshit that was the Cali HSR Project.

They're still cucks to the anti-car crowd though:

"There are locations where the cost of adding freeway capacity may significantly exceed the benefits to highway customers," wrote Bob Poole, director of transportation policy for the Reason Foundation (which publishes this website) in 2019. "When that is the case…the solution is to implement congestion pricing. And in some of those cases, the additional revenue from pricing may be high enough to make the capacity addition feasible."

Congestion pricing and toll roads are not the same thing. Toll roads use tolls to fund their construction and maintenance. Congestion pricing is giving up on improving infrastructure and deciding to just tax people more so that only the rich can move around freely.

These "libertarians" are either naïve or disingenuous because I've never seen any of them advocate for congestion pricing for trains like these:

There's clearly too many people on that train. We could build another line, but the cost of adding additional rail capacity may exceed the benefits to transit customers. When that is the case, the solution is to raise ticket prices for congested routes. And in some of those cases, the additional revenue from pricing may be high enough to make the capacity addition feasible.

 

[WelperHelper99]

These "libertarians" are either naïve or disingenuous because I've never seen any of them advocate for congestion pricing for trains like these:

There's clearly too many people on that train. We could build another line, but the cost of adding additional rail capacity may exceed the benefits to transit customers. When that is the case, the solution is to raise ticket prices for congested routes. And in some of those cases, the additional revenue from pricing may be high enough to make the capacity addition feasible.

Libertarians I've found smoke more weed than common sense. Would rather not have a government than have one that does its job. A buisness wouldn't build a second line. Period, too costly. Yell at the city council enough, and the ball might start get rolling. Both options suck, but one has a chance

 

[DavidS877]

Gotta put that on a HondaJet to make it even more sexy lol.

The HondaJet already has 2 first class seats:




The back is to put the kids or your friends.