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[Xarpho's Return]

At 100 sq ft per person, you'd do something like quintuple the density of fucking New York City. That's like twice the density of the Kowloon Walled City.

It's actually batshit. It's insane. It's less square footage than some semi truck's sleeper cabs.

I know KWC is often brought up and everyone forgets that it was a massive shithole (conditions awful, a slum) but there's no way that Kowloon Walled City wouldn't have burned down or collapsed by now. British Hong Kong literally saved the lives of thousands of people by demolishing it.

 

[Nod Flenders]

Something that these idiots don't understand is that "mass transit" is expensive as fuck for the taxpayers, and most people prefer to drive.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

I know KWC is often brought up and everyone forgets that it was a massive shithole (conditions awful, a slum) but there's no way that Kowloon Walled City wouldn't have burned down or collapsed by now. British Hong Kong literally saved the lives of thousands of people by demolishing it.

Dude imagine if KWC was still around for the SARS outbreak that would've been a nightmare

 

[Bonesjones]

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The urbanist dream apartment.
This concept was supposed to cost 100 bucks a month, which tbh is a great idea for cities and students and such.

Like I said, their end goal is everyone in prison cells

 

[quaawaa]

Exactly as I predicted, New York plans to enact congestion pricing now that the election is over and they can't be voted out over it:

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I wonder what all the urbanists feel about all the hate mail they sent the governor even though she was always on their side.

 

[Atypical Dog]

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The urbanist dream apartment.
This concept was supposed to cost 100 bucks a month, which tbh is a great idea for cities and students and such.

Same energy as these:

also, I noticed the maximum headroom of the shower is 190 cm (6'2") and the headroom of the upper deck is 160 cm (5'3"), so I guess anyone in the Netherlands or Nordic countries who gets crammed into one of these things can get sciatica or go fuck themselves

And sure, that stuff could be okay in theory for the shorter crowd, things hanging from the ceiling, false ceilings, or construction tolerances could quickly make this even more cramped.

I do not like this at all.

Dude imagine if KWC was still around for the SARS outbreak that would've been a nightmare

Would've been the world's best biolab, lab rats pay for their own storage.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Would've been the world's best biolab, lab rats pay for their own storage.

I'm not even sure the best selling point of KWC (~$5 a month) is even close to attainable anymore. $5 USD in 1988 Hong Kong is definitely not $5 now (especially with HK having no minimum wage, so the wage was still a good portion of someone's monthly salary). In 1988 in Houston, you could buy a 3-bedroom house for less than $70k (which was affordable) and I'm sure that even in California the prices weren't that different.

In Manhattan, a cubicle of a hotel room (literally a cubicle, your feet are too small for the bed, there's no window, no amenities beyond a tiny mirror, and just lattice for a ceiling) is over $80 a night.

The thing about Manhattan is that even if you went "mmm yeah" for this sort of building, this thing would be illegal to build nowadays because of fire code, ADA, and all sorts of others.

 

[JJLiautaud]

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The urbanist dream apartment.
This concept was supposed to cost 100 bucks a month, which tbh is a great idea for cities and students and such.

What unit are the numbers in non of the SI units make centimetes make it a box 3.2x2x3.6m which seems very small.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

100 square is just ten feet on a side - 3.2m sounds about right.

You can do an awful lot in it, but it’s a tiny space. Sailboats and small camper vans are some of the best examples

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

Great video by Mileage Mike. Although it's mainly about express lanes on the Georgia 400, he destroys the mass transit people on way trains won't work in the Atlanta area.

This video is very interesting to me because it reminded of Tallinn, Estonia's experiment with free bus lanes. It turned out to be a failure. The goal was to reduce car traffic, but the bus lane ended up bleeding money while car traffic increased. Its an excellent example of the economic concept of inferior goods. MARTA is just another example of this.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

This video is very interesting to me because it reminded of Tallinn, Estonia's experiment with free bus lanes. It turned out to be a failure. The goal was to reduce car traffic, but the bus lane ended up bleeding money while car traffic increased. Its an excellent example of the economic concept of inferior goods. MARTA is just another example of this.

You see this with places like Hong Kong going from "bicycle heaven" to cars as incomes and quality of life rose, and I know I saw an article where someone on the LA metro system admitted that they take the metro system because they have no other choice.

They always talk about "induced demand" but inferior goods is a concept they can't process because it admits that the private automobile is the superior form of transportation, worldwide.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

They always talk about "induced demand" but inferior goods is a concept they can't process because it admits that the private automobile is the superior form of transportation, worldwide.

I've made the comment before here, but a lot of these people are unironic commies with fantasies of being centralized planners. Their mindset of thinking they know what's best for people, instead of people knowing what's best for themselves, leads to this type of anti-car, anti-people mindset.

 

[quaawaa]

Its an excellent example of the economic concept of inferior goods.

As the article says:

 

[Xarpho's Return]

100 square is just ten feet on a side - 3.2m sounds about right.

You can do an awful lot in it, but it’s a tiny space. Sailboats and small camper vans are some of the best examples

People will tend to put up with inferior accommodations and situations if they believe it's temporary. This is why a crappy motel room is tolerable if you'll stay in it for a day or at most a week.

The problem is that the elites know this and will try to manipulate people to make the temporary the permanent (or at least very long term). See: COVID-19 lockdowns.

 

[quaawaa]

Jason's anti-self-driving car video is now on YouTube:

Spoiler: YouTube

It's just an unfocused rant and the chapter list explains everything he says in the video:

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One funny thing is that after bitching about "stroads", he uses stock footage of an urban highway in Stockholm with zero pedestrian infrastructure as background footage.

Hostile to pedestrians:

Pedestrian-friendly:



Google Maps

I hope this is his editor trolling him.

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Phoenix is the preferred city of Cars:

 

[PozzedByCoronachan]

Not really r/fuckcars related specifically, but the Traffic mod for their favourite game City Skylines 2 had a massive malware vulnerability wherein it would steal the crypto out your Exodus wallet if you had that installed.
Realistically speaking the urbanist crowd probably hates crypto with a passion, but I just found it funny.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Not really r/fuckcars related specifically, but the Traffic mod for their favourite game City Skylines 2 had a massive malware vulnerability wherein it would steal your crypto out your Exodus wallet if you had that installed.
Realistically speaking the urbanist crowd probably hates crypto with a passion, but I just found it funny.

This is the same basic concept as the bad Minecraft mod that took down that whatever forum associated with the farms. Computer niggers still can’t explain why fucking games need full read access to everything on the doggam computer.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Not really r/fuckcars related specifically, but the Traffic mod for their favourite game City Skylines 2 had a massive malware vulnerability wherein it would steal your crypto out your Exodus wallet if you had that installed.
Realistically speaking the urbanist crowd probably hates crypto with a passion, but I just found it funny.

This is the same basic concept as the bad Minecraft mod that took down that whatever forum associated with the farms. Computer niggers still can’t explain why fucking games need full read access to everything on the doggam computer.

The Sims 4 also had the same issues where mods can installer a keylogger on your computer, because TS4 mods are written in Python, and EA didn't put in any checks to ensure that mods don't run external .exe files. AFAIK, TS1, 2, and 3 mods don't appear to have this issue.

 

[Apple Porcupine]

Even in response to a compliment Jason still can't stop seething about people presenting him with words that he himself said.

Also I'm starting a new advocacy group, anyone who unironically says "skeet" (slang for BlueSky posts) gets mandatory electroshock therapy.

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[Xarpho's Return]

Even in response to a compliment Jason still can't stop seething about people presenting him with words that he himself said.

"It wasn't advice to everyone. It was advice to him."

Sounds like you're a compulsive liar and tell things people they just want to hear.