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[CFC-12]

Virgin walkable bodega:
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I used to live in an area with a fair number of these around, and they are absolutely not a replacement for a regular grocery store. Their main source of income is selling cigarettes, booze, and lottery tickets. Food is limited to soda/energy drinks, overpriced frozen goods, and shelf stable shit like canned soup, ramen, potato chips, and other goyslop. Maybe you'll get lucky and there'll be a coffee machine or soda fountain or something, but few have prepared food and none of them sell fresh produce. Closest you'll get is maybe a box of fruits at the counter. It's handy if you're drunk at 2am and want some Doritos or something, but it is nowhere near an adequate source of food and even if there was one right next door you'd still need to go to an actual grocery store once a week. The economics of shipping fresh vegetables and meat and shit to these tiny-ass stores every single day just doesn't work in practice.

I don't know WHY urbanists get such a hard-on for bodegas. They're essentially just gas station stores but without the gas station.

 

[JJLiautaud]

This chart is kinda funky (aside from citing from Wikipedia).

• Why is there a sizeable dip in the Obama era?
• Why does the chart go back to pre-2007 levels during the pandemic when the lockdowns should make casualties drop significantly because of work from home made people drive less?

1) Number of deaths by traffic did decline and that decline did reverse itself starting in 2016
2) mainly black people

 

[S.C.U.D.]

They're a lot less popular than they used to be. The stand up electric scooter is what's cool now amongst college students and urban bugmen who never grew up.
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That reminds a couple months ago I saw a guy riding one of those the wrong way in the bike lane with no helmet. Every single (well-adjusted, adult) normie I speak to absolutely loathes those things. They're a menace. Given how many normal people seem to hate them it's a wonder they're still everywhere.

 

[Midwit]

or as an intermediate stage, 125cc motorbikes

They're reasonably popular in the UK too since you don't need a full bike license for them, I see a few of them (bikes and scooters) about between the cars and full bikes.

 

[DavidS877]

Why does the chart go back to pre-2007 levels during the pandemic when the lockdowns should make casualties drop significantly because of work from home made people drive less?

In my area it appeared that fatalities went up because without the high amount of traffic the speeds on the roads went up and made fatal accidents more common. Usually the people getting killed were just the ones doing stupid passes to get around a 45mph RV/tourist, but everyone else was not going fast enough to get killed. With lockdowns everyone was able to go much faster.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Project 2025 will throw every electric Lime scooter into the ocean

 

[Yamamura]

I don't know WHY urbanists get such a hard-on for bodegas. They're essentially just gas station stores but without the gas station.

I was going to make a joke about them being childless weed smoking man children who eat nothing but junk food, but I might not be that far off.

 

[jalopy]

What is it with the politically poisoned and not understanding the difference between inflicted acts and population wide accidents? How many of these are drunks crashing into a tree? How many are pedestrians who weren't at fault? How many are vehicle failures?

These same people will ignore that to keep trains safe they constantly are delayed or cancelled. While the personal vehicle allows some to buck the danger of an inch of snow or pot holes in the road.

Why is there a sizeable dip in the Obama era?

Unemployment meant fewer people on the road. Which will tell you it's people getting in accidents in rush hour. Which returns to the previous point, adding a lane would reduce fatalities as it would allow traffic to proceed in an orderly manner. Oh, wait, we can't do that because that would mean those damn dirty car-brains would have a win.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Project 2025 will throw every electric Lime scooter into the ocean

When I lived in Austin I always fantasized about taking the Lime scooter that was always blocking the sidewalk on the way to work and tossing it to a watery grave in the Colorado River, but it was on the other side of downtown.

I was going to make a joke about them being childless weed smoking man children who eat nothing but junk food, but I might not be that far off.

Given that AOC even talks about it, I'm guessing it's just "I sleep in a racing car, do YOU?"-style cope.

 

[Midwit]

They're a menace. Given how many normal people seem to hate them it's a wonder they're still everywhere.

Technically they're not even legal in the UK, ebikes are only allowed to go up to 250W before being classed as a motorbike.

"I sleep in a racing car, do YOU?"

"I sleep in a big house with my wife."

 

[Free the Pedos]

Pardon me for using stupid tankie vernacular - but how very white colonizer of them. They want to eradicate my people's indigenous traditional lifestyle of driving beat up mid-sized sedans to Quiktrip to get chilidogs & scratch off lotto tickets.

I thought your indigenous folkways led you to Sonic?

 

[LaxerBRO]

Cars are worse than 9/11:

Let's talk about medical error.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

When I lived in Austin I always fantasized about taking the Lime scooter that was always blocking the sidewalk on the way to work and tossing it to a watery grave in the Colorado River, but it was on the other side of downtown.

These are my pet peeve. I hate them so fucking much.

 

[Kiska]

When I lived in Austin I always fantasized about taking the Lime scooter that was always blocking the sidewalk on the way to work and tossing it to a watery grave in the Colorado River, but it was on the other side of downtown.


Given that AOC even talks about it, I'm guessing it's just "I sleep in a racing car, do YOU?"-style cope.

I remember being on a school trip in downtown seattle a few years ago and seeing "rideshare" bikes that were thrown off into the breakwater Lmao

I don't know WHY urbanists get such a hard-on for bodegas. They're essentially just gas station stores but without the gas station.

May be related to the same people that fetishize japanese convenience stores "konbini-"s, i genuinely believe most of them actually reduce the quality of the food you get in an area since it takes up potential business for an actual quality grocery or department store with the perceived convenience of being able to be sold literal slop, cancer water, or ciggys

 

[DavidS877]

May be related to the same people that fetishize japanese convenience stores "konbini-"s

The difference is that the food in a konbini doesn't suck. Nice selection of prepackaged stuff like currys and rice and a bunch of prepared stuff too. Sure they had some 'fast' food but the majority of the available food was pretty decent.
Also the 7/11 had the easiest ATMs to find that worked with US cards.

 

[Kiska]

Nice selection of prepackaged stuff like currys and rice and a bunch of prepared stuff too. Sure they had some 'fast' food but the majority of the available food was pretty decent.
Also the 7/11 had the easiest ATMs to find that worked with US cards.

Iunno maybe i didnt go to the bougie lawsons or familymarts but for the most part my experience was they mainly had decent pastries/snacks, not many things that were like nutritionally sustainable especially as far as drinks went compared to supermarkets. Also 711 atms didnt even take my visa, but yuucho bank ones did

 

[TowinKarz]

That reminds a couple months ago I saw a guy riding one of those the wrong way in the bike lane with no helmet. Every single (well-adjusted, adult) normie I speak to absolutely loathes those things. They're a menace. Given how many normal people seem to hate them it's a wonder they're still everywhere.

Every generation has apparently gotta have it's Segway.

Just as every generation has to learn the hard way that communism doesn't work......

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

Funny meme I just saw

 

[Eventide]

I don't know WHY urbanists get such a hard-on for bodegas. They're essentially just gas station stores but without the gas station.

I'm sure this has been suggested here before, but are many of the Bike-autists actually just raging alcoholics? 'cause generally the only people who love walkable locations to purchase liquor are, well, raging alcoholics with suspended licenses (& like I said in my previous comments, I'm native - so I know a thing or two about alcoholism).

I thought your indigenous folkways led you to Sonic?

It leads me to many places. Sonic, Quiktrip, sometimes Braums if I want an ice cream. But always by car.

 

[The Jewel of the Nile]

I always fantasized about taking the Lime scooter that was always blocking the sidewalk on the way to work and tossing it to a watery grave in the Colorado River

We had situations like these in Poland

https://ikc.pl/elektryczne-hulajnogi-utopione-w-wisle-to-bardzo-powazne-zagrozenie/

"Electric scooters cluttering sidewalks and obstructing pedestrian movement are no longer the only serious issue. It turns out that many electric scooters are ending up in the Vistula River. It’s unclear whether they’re being dumped as a joke or out of frustration, but the batteries in the water pose a significant environmental threat.

'We will be expecting swift action from scooter operators to address this issue,' announced the Deputy Mayor of Kraków."

https://gazetawroclawska.pl/chlopcy-wrzucili-elektryczna-hulajnoge-do-odry-nie-spodziewali-sie-ze-stana-przed-sadem/ar/c1-14317645

"The incident took place on one of the embankments along the Oder River. The woman who reported it informed the police that she could see four boys throwing an electric scooter, belonging to one of the rental companies, into the river's current."

https://imginn.com/h8lime/

There are at least 4 pics of those lime scooters in bodies of water