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Justtocheck said:
Buy guuuys I can totally walk there! Why are places like this closing? Real life is like my game of urban planning where if people can walk somewhere, they do the stuff that I put in front of them! It just so obvious!
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Ground level retail is usually a hard sell and tends to be less flexible in a recession. As far as Japan goes, I suspect that the big arcades are closing just because of changing tastes. The mall arcades disappeared but even the huge "entertainment centers" haven't done especially well even before COVID, with GameWorks, once a hyped-up partnership that was a three-way joint venture between Sega, DreamWorks SKG, and Universal Studios, filed for bankruptcy after COVID after a long, prolonged demise.

Stuff that you don't see in a city's retail mix anymore (or in greatly reduced numbers):
Waterbed shops, camera shops, television repair shops, variety stores (not dollar stores), computer stores (general specialized in computers), travel agencies, and probably others. Those large arcades are heading in that direction.
 
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Xarpho's Return said:
Stuff that you don't see in a city's retail mix anymore (or in greatly reduced numbers):
Waterbed shops, camera shops, television repair shops, variety stores (not dollar stores), computer stores (general specialized in computers), travel agencies, and probably others. Those large arcades are heading in that direction.
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Ah, no big deal. We'll just fill the cities with cafes, bars, Izakayas, weed dispensaries, and brothels. All in walking distance and in a bike-friendly town, you car-brained killer. sarcasm lol
 
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S.C.U.D. said:
He's taking the British approach to heat I see.
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the Met Office approach, to be precise; 87 °F/31 °C is typical for July or August, but every time it gets hot in summer this is now classified as a "yellow alert" or "amber alert"
given the Britbong education system, I wouldn't be surprised if they were genuinely not aware there are such things as seasons
 
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An Sionnach Seang said:
the Met Office approach, to be precise; 87 °F/31 °C is typical for July or August, but every time it gets hot in summer this is now classified as a "yellow alert" or "amber alert"
given the Britbong education system, I wouldn't be surprised if they were genuinely not aware there are such things as seasons
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One wag on twitter said of the first heat alert of the year, which was 26C this:
⚠️ ALERT ⚠️ Climate emergency. You may NOT require a cardigan before 7pm Saturday.
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An Sionnach Seang said:
the Met Office approach, to be precise; 87 °F/31 °C is typical for July or August, but every time it gets hot in summer this is now classified as a "yellow alert" or "amber alert"
given the Britbong education system, I wouldn't be surprised if they were genuinely not aware there are such things as seasons
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It's the same effect as when they started naming every single storm that came across Shannon and Rockall. It turned something that would have previously been "just another rainy day" into an absolute, mind-bending disaster that demanded immediate attention. Storms used to just come and go and blend together. Now a wet morning is a world-ending event.

JJLiautaud said:
One wag on twitter said of the first heat alert which was 26C this:
⚠️ ALERT ⚠️ Climate emergency. You may NOT require a cardigan before 7pm Saturday.
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The 24° "previous record" is a statistical cheat as well. It's been much warmer than that in July, historically, but they just ignore the older records or "adjust" the prior data until they don't exist any more.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
It's the same effect as when they started naming every single storm that came across Shannon and Rockall. It turned something that would have previously been "just another rainy day" into an absolute, mind-bending disaster that demanded immediate attention. Storms used to just come and go and blend together. Now a wet morning is a world-ending event.


The 24° "previous record" is a statistical cheat as well. It's been much warmer than that in July, historically, but they just ignore the older records or "adjust" the prior data until they don't exist any more.
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No this was back in early May.
 
Jason sees visits a boring suburban office park, but it's good because it's in the Netherlands:
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I'm not sure exactly where that picture is, but it's not hard to find "stroads" in Dutch office parks:
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Compare that walkable paradise to the car-infested office parks of Houston:
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And Dallas:
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Now, we all know Texas is the pinnacle of urban design, so that's being unfair to Jason.
He specifically said that such areas do not exist in Canada:
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Huh, what's that?

A light industrial area of Montreal, the city that Jason's fan claimed had no slow roads with bike trails in industrial/office areas.
 
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Downtown温哥华 is actually pretty nice and 温哥华 in general other than the obvious is the second most beautiful city and on the west coast after SF and was super bikable when I visited a few years ago.
 
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Maori Kiwifruit Growers said:
Where do people get these insane takes on trump? I'm no fan of him (I have facts and actions he himself has said or done that back up my beliefs) but where are these random takes coming from?
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Project 2025 is a super successful piece of Alinsky bait. It's inflammatory language and proposals that are frankly outrageous (even if you believe in them, like the massive deportation plan, which isn't feasible in any way even if you want it) that dumb people just can't help but tarding out violently, losing face and credibility.

It's literally bait, but it's clear how a bunch of top-down control freaks that want no reform, but the destruction of the car and a calculated reconstruction of entire fucking cities according to their whims would fall for it. And thus, revealing themselves to be as insane as they are.
 
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LeChampion1992 said:
Where do they get the idea that bikes are going to be banned and public transport funds will all be siphoned that already exists in blue states look at California.
In California your bike isn't banned its stolen.
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And if its not stolen, the trails and bikeways are all homeless encampaments now that it is illegal to remove because they have more rights than you do.
 
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