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[Non-breath oblige]

Having said all of that, if that train line can go to Waikiki (lol doesn't even get to the mall yet) it's a route that will skip most of the worst traffic since realistically it will never go to Hawaii Kai because muh transit never goes to neighborhoods like that.

Imho it was doomed from the start because it doesn't to go to UH. Where the most of the traffic comes from.

Also the Kapolei station isn't even walking distance to the nearest shopping mall, unless "20 minutes" is considered walkable.

They are unironically the worst minority in America and it's not close.

If it wasn't for BLM burning cities and their own neighborhoods down, and normies sucking their dick more than Native Hawaiians, I'd say yes. Annoying as they are, their protests, gang violence, and chimping out is nowhere near as bad as the mainland. Bishop Estate has its political grifting, but at least they provided Bishop Museum and real estate of value instead of George Floyd memorials and meaningless crosswalk paintings.

 

[Itchy Hemorrhoids]

I used to commute from basically next to UH, by the bottom of the Pali to downtown and it wasn't bad at all. I don't know what it's like now, but in those days, the roads to the Windward side and the road out to Hawaii Kai were bad (they had to reverse the lanes to HK), but not as bad as trying to drive from there to the airport or god forbid up to Pearl City, which is where it looks like that trainline goes. This was before there was much at all on the west side of Pearl Harbor. Is there a lot of commuting to and from Manoa now? I worked at UH for a while but don't remember that being much of a problem, even when I lived in Kailua. At least when I lived there The Bus was usable, mostly because Asian people are civilized.

Mokes definitely have the WE WUZ KANGZ attitude, except 99% of them weren't and, as I mentioned, could be killed in a painful way just for looking at those that were, almost all of whose descendants are mostly genetically white and big Republicans now lol and don't look like Brudda Iz.

I can see your point about other minorities, it's just I can't think of a single thing a moke has ever contributed to society except kalua pig. Total Moke Death. They will never accomplish anything except possibly discovering Type 3 diabeetus (because le bad white man forced them, forced them I tell you, to stop eating their perfect noble savage diet).

For people who don't realize how retarded these faggots are and how willing people are to go along with their retardation, I knew people who would not use the H3 (a new faster route to the Windward side) because it was haunted because it went near some sacred Hawaiian site (according to them, the whole place is sacred so this is tautological). Great, less traffic for me, niggers. They would say it cost a lot of money so it was bad! (As if it wasn't Inoyuebux from the feds.)

I don't know if it's 13/50, but all of the Hawaiian Homestead places are full of gun violence, drug abuse, rape, child abuse, sloth, and everything else. Just like you know who, the worst neighborhoods (at least before we started importing their cousins) of course were Nalo, Waianae, and anywhere else full of those faggots.

 

[Womble of Wimbledon]

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:
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I inadvertently rode in a first-class carriage on a GWR train in England and holy shit, the fact that some idiots paid triple the normal price for that just floors me. It is honestly no different from any other seat except it was maybe slightly wider and had a different upholstery on it.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Urbanism is to city planning as Linux is to Windows and Mastodon is to Twitter. The alternative (urbanism/Linux/Mastodon) may be better in some cases but you're not winning anyone by refusing to admit its faults.

As a LinuxFag I partially disagree, but there is merit here. Open Software like Linux is about letting users choose and have full control, which "Urbanists" are quite obviously against given how their solution is to straight up force people to all adhere to their "walkable" cities and public transport instead of allowing the choice between cars, trains, walking or planes.

However I would be lying if I said they didn't sound like some of the more pie-in-the-sky Linux zealots who take the concept of FOSS to 11 and far FAR beyond any reasonable point to a platonic ideal that cannot be achieved in reality.

Basically the equivalent of Linux people who think telling a normie who has issues with Windows to go straight to using Arch / install Gentoo and are shocked it doesn't work and only makes people clown on them. Who can't comprehend that no, not everyone can compile their own code or take the time to learn how to work out the specific little nooks and crannies of the rolling distro newest release to fix it themselves. Who think the response to someone saying they use Mint or Ubuntu is to make fun of them for not being "in" on the bleeding edge instead of congratulating them on having made the change.

 

[UNSC ONI]

Oh, don't worry. The whole "charge at home" thing will die. You'll be forced to use a "safe" charger at a place that just happened to be a gas station before. Only a bunch of hackers will be self-charging in the future. It will be like having a Pinephone or a gas pump at your house.

Because as you say, we have neither the transmission, the grid capacity, or the last-mile infrastructure for everyone to have an electric car that actually has any range and can charge in less than a month.

I disagree, rooftop solar + local storage are rapidly advancing. To the point that power companies are becoming concerned with a death spiral effect as residences no longer need the grid and cut themselves off to avoid connection fees and industry is shitting themselves that residential users will no longer subsidize the transmission infrastructure they rely on.

I'm sure fuel stations have the wet dream they can monkeybar their way into charging centres but I don't see it happening outside the highway roadstop ones that service long distance travelers.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I inadvertently rode in a first-class carriage on a GWR train in England and holy shit, the fact that some idiots paid triple the normal price for that just floors me. It is honestly no different from any other seat except it was maybe slightly wider and had a different upholstery on it.

What you're paying for in first is a guaranteed seat, free food, no crowd, and access to the first class lounge at major stations. No standing travel allowed. Pleb class can also have reserved seating, but there's no guarantee you'll even be able to get to your seat at peak times because the entire train is crammed with commuters. Even if you do get there, you'll have to contend with the mob leaning over you for your entire journey.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

I can see your point about other minorities, it's just I can't think of a single thing a moke has ever contributed to society except kalua pig. Total Moke Death. They will never accomplish anything except possibly discovering Type 3 diabeetus (because le bad white man forced them, forced them I tell you, to stop eating their perfect noble savage diet).

Don't they, along with other Polynesians constantly beat the drum about how they were the world's first expert sailors? That's like their main source of pride. Otherwise it sounds like your description makes them out to be water niggers.

 

[quaawaa]

I disagree, rooftop solar + local storage are rapidly advancing. To the point that power companies are becoming concerned with a death spiral effect as residences no longer need the grid and cut themselves off to avoid connection fees and industry is shitting themselves that residential users will no longer subsidize the transmission infrastructure they rely on.

That is a serious problem, only it's the solar panel owners who are being subsided, not the power companies. It's the same reason why net metering does not work. The problem is that practically every house with solar panels generates sufficient power only on good days and on bad days they draw from the grid that they haven't been paying for. The power company doesn't care about the 100% off-the-grid guy as he costs them nothing, but 99% of people with home solar systems could not have reliable power without the grid. Grid connection fees and charging the market price of energy at time of use are ways to get home solar guys to pay their fair share.

 

[Itchy Hemorrhoids]

Don't they, along with other Polynesians constantly beat the drum about how they were the world's first expert sailors? That's like their main source of pride. Otherwise it sounds like your description makes them out to be water niggers.

Yes, but they literally forgot everything and had to "relearn" it from Micronesians a while back, which is fucking hilarious. WE WUZ SAILORZ.

 

[Itchy Hemorrhoids]

I disagree, rooftop solar + local storage are rapidly advancing. To the point that

I'm not an expert here, but my understanding is that you can't have one of the really fast chargers at home without getting a higher voltage connection that the normal 240V. So if you want to charge at home overnight, sure. But for this to work at all, people are going to need to be able to "fill their tank" in the same order of magnitude as they do now.
To be able to charge up two long-range EVs anytime you want I imagine requires a lot more solar than people have, which is usually less than 10kW.

 

[DavidS877]

I'm not an expert here, but my understanding is that you can't have one of the really fast chargers at home without getting a higher voltage connection that the normal 240V. So if you want to charge at home overnight, sure. But for this to work at all, people are going to need to be able to "fill their tank" in the same order of magnitude as they do now.
To be able to charge up two long-range EVs anytime you want I imagine requires a lot more solar than people have, which is usually less than 10kW.

The fastest Level 2(240V) charger is 80A which gives you a 19.2kW charge rate. Provided your vehicle accepts it. AC 'chargers' are really just fancy electrical outlets and rely on the equipment in the car to charge. So if your car only accepts 10kW then that's all you'll get.

The biggest battery looks like the upcoming pickups at around 200kWh and 400 miles or so of range. Which I suspect few people would deplete in a day.... unless they use it for work and tow a work trailer and reduce that range significantly. So about 11 hours to charge. The problem is that if you drive all day and deplete the battery then you go home the solar panels are only going to be useful for a couple hours before the sun vanishes.

Now you're stuck back in having a secondary battery at home assuming you have enough solar to fill it or being grid connected. And that second battery for a 200kWh car is probably going to cost $100k or so.

It's probably going to be cheaper to just buy 2 cars and swap them every day. Or, you know, drive a Diesel.

 

[Itchy Hemorrhoids]

Now you're stuck back in having a secondary battery at home assuming you have enough solar to fill it or being grid connected. And that second battery for a 200kWh car is probably going to cost $100k or so.

It's probably going to be cheaper to just buy 2 cars and swap them every day. Or, you know, drive a Diesel.

Not trying to put words in your mouth, but I (naturally I guess) read this as more or less confirming my suspicion which is people will either have a short range commuter car they can maybe charge at home or they will just have to use commercial ones. So that means electric companies aren't going to have to do last-mile work but it also means we're all going to get fucked. I doubt they will continue to make shorter range cars because they are all about getting people to switch. I wouldn't be surprised if we aren't allowed to even charge our own cars the way some states won't let you pump your own gas.

Anyway, I have nothing against electric cars. What I was getting at is that because they solve a problem (no carbon emissions at the pipe, possibly none from the source) that allows modern industrial society to continue, which is what I think the anticar faggots really want to stop because, I dunno, the world doesn't love them for their poetry or whatever reason these nihilist faggots have for wanting to burn everything down.

I'm not a total conspiritard and I don't think climate change is a hoax. What I think is a hoax is that we have to undergo some kind of Marxist revolution to deal with it. Maybe if you hippie faggots hadn't lied about muh 200 gorillion dead from Chernobyl (Helen Caldicott still quotes six figures; actual number is something like 60) we wouldn't be here. "Environmentalists" are more responsible for global warming than normie car drivers are.

Most screechy political movements are really based on wanting to be in charge because I'm special, not on solving the purported problem. The closer you get to these bald contradictions the more they seethe and the sweeter the milk.

Electric cars:/r/fuckcars::self-id:feminism

 

[DavidS877]

Not trying to put words in your mouth, but I (naturally I guess) read this as more or less confirming my suspicion which is people will either have a short range commuter car they can maybe charge at home or they will just have to use commercial ones. So that means electric companies aren't going to have to do last-mile work but it also means we're all going to get fucked. I doubt they will continue to make shorter range cars because they are all about getting people to switch. I wouldn't be surprised if we aren't allowed to even charge our own cars the way some states won't let you pump your own gas.

I've made the joke about Oregon requiring a charging engineer to plug in your car for you as we can't pump our own gas here. But anyway.

For those of us in the 1% who can buy or rent a house with off-street parking I don't think there will be much problem. With charging at night, and rarely 100% of a 200kWh battery, and massive air conditioning during the day I think we'll be ok for the last mile.

The people who will be fucked is all the poors(the 99%) who live in crappy housing like apartments which would require massive upgrades to be able to charge even 10%. Let alone places with no parking lots.

I think this is why you're seeing almost all of the electric cars also working on self driving capabilities. It's not to make it easier on the driver. It's so you can rent one and it will drive to your location, fully charged, you take it for the day or whatever, then you get back and it puts itself back in the industrial parking lot full of chargers, presumably also covered in solar panels.

This gets them a continuous money stream since you won't own them and lets cities reduce required parking in the residential areas even more. Now all you have to do is eat the bugs as the "own nothing" part is covered.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Jason complains about Youtube comments yet again, whines about supposed "brigading" by "liars, conspiracy theorists, and neo-nazis" who, according to him, don't actually want free speech, and get free access to his audience even though he pays sponsors, and tells people they need to subscribe to his Patreon if they want to talk to him.

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How much can one man seethe about people who disagree with him? The more he seethes, the more I laugh at him.
Also, however much "brigading" comes from supposed "neo-nazis", I can guarantee the brigading done by urbanists on any video dissenting from urbanism is 10x worse. Just look at the comments section of any Road Guy Rob video.

 

[ComStar]

I saw a cargo bike today. Trike configuration, long, fairly narrow wheelbase and a pretty tall cargo compartment. It looked wobbly when taking turns, and i wonder how it would handle during the winter.

I still don't know why i'd choose a cargo bike and possibly an unknown driver when i need to move shit around. If i can't fit it in my basic-ass car (with folded seats) i can just rent a van and have a faster more comfortable ride

 

[Itchy Hemorrhoids]

wow, one vehicle gets through, he totally DEBOONKED it.

 

[Womble of Wimbledon]

What you're paying for in first is a guaranteed seat, free food, no crowd, and access to the first class lounge at major stations. No standing travel allowed. Pleb class can also have reserved seating, but there's no guarantee you'll even be able to get to your seat at peak times because the entire train is crammed with commuters. Even if you do get there, you'll have to contend with the mob leaning over you for your entire journey.

The thing is that because the train was so packed, I (a pleb) was in the carriage standing because there was nowhere else to go. When it emptied out a bit I took a seat and only then realised it was first class.

 

[Non-breath oblige]

I used to commute from basically next to UH, by the bottom of the Pali to downtown and it wasn't bad at all. I don't know what it's like now, but in those days, the roads to the Windward side and the road out to Hawaii Kai were bad (they had to reverse the lanes to HK), but not as bad as trying to drive from there to the airport or god forbid up to Pearl City, which is where it looks like that trainline goes. This was before there was much at all on the west side of Pearl Harbor. Is there a lot of commuting to and from Manoa now? I worked at UH for a while but don't remember that being much of a problem, even when I lived in Kailua. At least when I lived there The Bus was usable, mostly because Asian people are civilized.

Without going into TMI I've been out of the state for awhile, but as I remembered traffic usually always got heavier when UH and all the big private schools (Punahou, Iolani, St. Louis, etc.) started cause they're all in the same general area, Hawaii is the state with the biggest private/public school enrollment ratio, and H1's exit layout sucks total ass around that area (quoting Wikipedia: "its design suffers from having too many on/offramps, short distanced onramps, and onramps that enter the freeway almost immediately before an offramp"). Pearl City/Moanalua was also another common traffic bottleneck as you mentioned. Also any time the Zipper lane went down was a death sentence.

Another funny fact about TheBus it was only like a few years ago did that they finally switched to a contactless smart card system like every other mainland system; for the longest time they were still using paper for everything long after everyone had switched to cards and mobile apps. They were also testing real time schedule screens at certain bus stops again long after every other system had them.

Mokes definitely have the WE WUZ KANGZ attitude, except 99% of them weren't and, as I mentioned, could be killed in a painful way just for looking at those that were, almost all of whose descendants are mostly genetically white and big Republicans now lol and don't look like Brudda Iz.

True to an extent with the whole independence movement thing, though imo I don't think they pull as much WE WUZ KANGZ out of their ass as black people do.

I can see your point about other minorities, it's just I can't think of a single thing a moke has ever contributed to society except kalua pig. Total Moke Death. They will never accomplish anything except possibly discovering Type 3 diabeetus (because le bad white man forced them, forced them I tell you, to stop eating their perfect noble savage diet).

I'd also say traditional hula like the ones you see at Merrie Monarch (aka not the touristy kine crap) is pretty badass ngl.

For people who don't realize how retarded these faggots are and how willing people are to go along with their retardation, I knew people who would not use the H3 (a new faster route to the Windward side) because it was haunted because it went near some sacred Hawaiian site (according to them, the whole place is sacred so this is tautological). Great, less traffic for me, niggers. They would say it cost a lot of money so it was bad! (As if it wasn't Inoyuebux from the feds.)

Maybe that was true when it first opened (I do remember seeing that same ghost story on a Travel Channel tv show one time) but I think that's largely been a thing of the past.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

How much can one man seethe about people who disagree with him? The more he seethes, the more I laugh at him.
Also, however much "brigading" comes from supposed "neo-nazis", I can guarantee the brigading done by urbanists on any video dissenting from urbanism is 10x worse. Just look at the comments section of any Road Guy Rob video.

I'm telling you, his impotent soy rage will end up with him paywalling all of his videos.

 

[quaawaa]

Courtesy of Andy Ngo (Archive), here's a Portland urbanist mad that the police won't arrest someone for protesting a bus lane.

His profile:

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Pepe doesn't deserve this

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He then claimed that the protestor pulled a gun on him, but the guy puts his gun on the center console as the cyclist rides up on him:

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The cyclist's statement, which reveals his real name (Garrett Miles):

The protestor's statement:

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The cops also didn't arrest the protestor, so the cyclist is definitely wrong.

He's very mad that the police didn't arrest the guy for parking in a bus lane:

I love how the bus just drives around the protest, proving that no lives were at risk.

Best part is the organizer of the protest is a bus driver:


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Randy's protest:

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One of the replies is a tolerant urbanist who respects all modes of transportation:

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Bonus soy:

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Randy's take on the crazy cyclist:

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Drivers are just better people.

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I suspect this guy may be a cow:


The video he's complaining about:

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An Angel from the Holy Land thinks that this guy is a moron:


His YouTube channel (FlowerCrow) is full of him harassing people and breaking traffic laws:

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The airhorn is the bike's not the cars':

That's literally the first video on his channel, so I'm not cherrypicking.

He also apparently wears a pressure suit and motorcycle helmet while biking:

And doesn't take criticism well:

Even if it's constructive:

Justifying blocking an ambulance:


More cow behavior:

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More soy:


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