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[Xarpho's Return]

Car cloverleaf bad:

Checking Historic Aerials indicates that it indeed pre-dated the cloverleaf but it looks like it wasn't built as a school, that came later (originally some sort of industrial building).

Besides, the main complaint is hand-wringing about how highways demolished all those buildings and are a "waste of space" and so on. (The complaint about pollution doesn't make sense...they worship China, but that's more polluted than anything).

Merry Christmas to all. My extended family generally is left-wing (more Kamala voters at Christmas) but no one was going to accuse my infant nephew of getting a "car-brained" Christmas gift... (the brand name is a bonus!)

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

That retarded essay about Star Wars (only the OGs and Prequels ofc) being carbrained is one of the most hilarious pieces of autism ive read from this community

People sperging that a literal farmer owns a personal transport to better service his land or get actual supplies is fucking wild, i keep forgetting these people have a constant strawman of farmers being the most privilaged carbrains in the world

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

People sperging that a literal farmer owns a personal transport to better service his land or get actual supplies is fucking wild, i keep forgetting these people have a constant strawman of farmers being the most privilaged carbrains in the world

It never ceases to warm my heart whenever leftists express contempt for the working class, the very people they claim to be a benefactor to.

 

[TORtlEMUStRaNSUS]

Merry Christmas. I hope you all take your bikes and public transit to your childless Friendsgivings.

 

[JJLiautaud]

Star Wars isn't even all that dystopian..... the good guys win, eventually, after taking realistic losses in the process..... it's a high fantasy for sure, but, it's wrapped in what I can only call a "blue collar space" aesthetic that makes it appear more realistic and grounded subconsciously than the world presented in Star Trek that was always just too clean, too neat and too lacking in nuance to really pull at least me in....

Have you seen Babylon 5 best SF tv show ever made.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd9d7GkUBEk

Road Guy Rob comes out with a video that's pretty favorable to TND .... Traditional Neighborhood Development.

 

[quaawaa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd9d7GkUBEk

Road Guy Rob comes out with a video that's pretty favorable to TND .... Traditional Neighborhood Development.

Note that Kevin’s house is only walkable to those locations because it’s literally right next to downtown Winnekta and because unlike the rest of the Chicago area, it’s a 90% White neighborhood with a median income of $250k. Using that definition, every suburb has houses that are just as walkable to businesses.

 

[LaxerBRO]

Depends if I want to head into downtown Toronto for a concert or a game I’ll drive to a Go Train station and then will take the commuter line in.

Did the same in LA and still do when visiting my sister.

Take Metrolink (train) into LA and take the Metro (tram / subway) one stop or so. I hate driving in that fucking city, there is traffic most day and night. Add to questionable streets where your car windows may be smashed.

Yeah...the Metro can be dangerous (less in the heart of the financial district / Walt Disney Concert Hall area) but that's why you carry a gun.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Yeah...the Metro can be dangerous (less in the heart of the financial district / Walt Disney Concert Hall area) but that's why you carry a gun.

I had to go to commute to LA for a bit and took the same path you had to. The advice my dad gave me was always keep your back against a wall when waiting for the subway and stay alert. Which is pretty obvious advice once you actually get to the subway and see the state of the place and all the denizens about.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Americans gooning about European infrastructure is hilarious cause it shows how detached they are from this reality and also likely their own. Like landing in Japan and going NI HAO DESU-KNEE LOLIS?, except you're in France and going "WHERE NUDE BEACH?".

A large majority of everyone i know and meet hate european capitals BECAUSE of the biking. Sure, it's a great development, but bitchy CEO tards on a bike are still bitchy CEO tards in control of a vehicle, except it's not a car. The culture is "Me first" and fuck everyone else. The police can literally, and will literally, just sit on a busy intersection and farm tickets. Nobody follow the rules and fewer have helmets on.

 

[The Jewel of the Nile]

Americans gooning about European infrastructure is hilarious cause it shows how detached they are from this reality and also likely their own. Like landing in Japan and going NI HAO DESU-KNEE LOLIS?, except you're in France and going "WHERE NUDE BEACH?".

A large majority of everyone i know and meet hate european capitals BECAUSE of the biking. Sure, it's a great development, but bitchy CEO tards on a bike are still bitchy CEO tards in control of a vehicle, except it's not a car. The culture is "Me first" and fuck everyone else. The police can literally, and will literally, just sit on a busy intersection and farm tickets. Nobody follow the rules and fewer have helmets on.

I’ve mentioned this before, but they just keep their tourist goggles on. They never seem to realize that all those charming, walkable old towns filled with golf carts and heckin walkable spaces to third places and barcades are designed for tourists, not the locals. The people who actually live and work there (with kids, doctor’s appointments, errands, etc.) can’t stand it – it eats up road and parking space and makes overtaking cyclists a nightmare

 

[Dante Alighieri]

The people calling others "carbrained" have cars living rent-free in their heads. It's so funny to me.

 

[quaawaa]

The people calling others "carbrained" have cars living rent-free in their heads. It's so funny to me.

We don’t need parking lots because we can park our cars in urbanists’ brains for free.

 

[x3firehexx]

It's also as if this guy didn't know about about Tokyo subway gas attacks and the Daegu subway fire either. A Japanese cult was needed to kill about a dozen people and injured thousands, while a Korean man who was trying to self-immolate himself killed almost 200 people and injured over 150 other people instead (he survived, but later died from illness) by setting a subway on fire.

And then the same retards will start barking on about how we need to ban guns, even tough in both attacks guns were not involved. On a seperate note, another mass murder that happened in japan was the kyoto animation attack, where 35 people died and this many more were injured, and all of this was done by a single guy with a lighter and fuel both from the local gas station for like 30 something dollars.

So by that logic we should ban fuel and lighters, or atleast heavily regulate them ,requiring special permits, licences and tax stamps and what have you.

Also also the gun that killed shinzo abe was made with literal trash. The most expensive part there was the battery. everything else you can scrap from old electronics.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

The people calling others "carbrained" have cars living rent-free in their heads. It's so funny to me.

Carbrained: to perceive travel freely without following bus schedules and defending yourself from hobos

 

[Yamamura]

And then the same retards will start barking on about how we need to ban guns, even tough in both attacks guns were not involved. On a seperate note, another mass murder that happened in japan was the kyoto animation attack, where 35 people died and this many more were injured, and all of this was done by a single guy with a lighter and fuel both from the local gas station for like 30 something dollars.

So by that logic we should ban fuel and lighters, or atleast heavily regulate them ,requiring special permits, licences and tax stamps and what have you.

Also also the gun that killed shinzo abe was made with literal trash. The most expensive part there was the battery. everything else you can scrap from old electronics.

The point to highlight is that the only limiting factor in anything is down to determination and will. One could say a ban of anything might filter out the lowest effort individuals, but the question is it worth it to inconvenience the rest of the population.

In lockpicking if someone finds an exploit it's up to design engineers to work to find a better method to prevent it. Only mouth breathers would think banning lockpicking sets will do anything. The reality is that true security is an illusion and bad actors always exist. People have free will to do things, as they should and it's immoral to punish normal people for what someone might do (and which the ban probably won't stop anyway).

 

[Xarpho's Return]

And then the same retards will start barking on about how we need to ban guns, even tough in both attacks guns were not involved. On a seperate note, another mass murder that happened in japan was the kyoto animation attack, where 35 people died and this many more were injured, and all of this was done by a single guy with a lighter and fuel both from the local gas station for like 30 something dollars.

So by that logic we should ban fuel and lighters, or atleast heavily regulate them ,requiring special permits, licences and tax stamps and what have you.

Also also the gun that killed shinzo abe was made with literal trash. The most expensive part there was the battery. everything else you can scrap from old electronics.

I'm of the opinion you can't ban your way to a good society. Allowing firearms in Japan will likely cause nothing significant in crime rate, because the Japanese just aren't the type of people to cause firearm-related violence.

If you think that you CAN ban "bad things" in order to create a good society, then by extension you should forgive the 100+ nations that banned and "regulated" Jews over the years.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Banning can make sense when you have something that is deceptively dangerous or societally harmful - banning ice fishing before the freeze is strong enough, say, as it endangers rescue crews and lets you arrest idiots.

Banning involving children and the retarded also makes sense (see banning kids from consenting to tons of things).

Which is why I’m perfectly fine banning cars, guns, and more from anyone who chooses to live in an urban area.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Banning can make sense when you have something that is deceptively dangerous or societally harmful - banning ice fishing before the freeze is strong enough, say, as it endangers rescue crews and lets you arrest idiots.

"Societally harmful without any real benefits" is the key. Shitting in the street has no real benefits. But when it comes to "societally harmful", you could make an argument for banning cars, guns, and Jews, but you could also argue that there are benefits as well.

 

[Kiska]

I had to go to commute to LA for a bit and took the same path you had to. The advice my dad gave me was always keep your back against a wall when waiting for the subway and stay alert. Which is pretty obvious advice once you actually get to the subway and see the state of the place and all the denizens about.

Didn't know LA even had a metro but never stayed more than a day there. I remember taking the MUNI N, later M lines back when i was in SF growing up and it was pretty chill on the most part. The only like crime that I witnessed in them was the fact that literally no one pays to use it, they all don't tap on when the train stops on the road or where the trains run underground they all just hop the barriers to the point that why would muni even bother enforcing a direct fee to use it.