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[Xarpho's Return]

Planetizen (one of the lefty urbanist blogs that links to other blogs) article to another lefty Baltimore site, The Baltimore Banner.

A golden opportunity to prove their point about induced demand with hard data (not anecdotal bullshit)—remove significant capacity on a road people use while keeping all other variables (mostly) constant. To the surprise of no one, congestion and traffic on other main routes dramatically increased. The article from Baltimore Banner (archive) does not mention the words "induced demand" at all...

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The liminal space retardation of any burb is immedietly broken once any hoilday that lets people setup decorations kicks in. Not to mention all the generic decorations niggas put up otherwise, but those are usually more lo-key. Although you never lack the guys that put up decent gardens or the whole "my son is an honor student at faggot high 2025" banners
They really try to force the distance between goods (to be fair, when it comes to some burbs that is a point of contention) as the end all be all but that is usually fixed by a basic car and driving skill, which can be dirt cheap and easy to get in america.

Have you ever noticed that when they cry about how "soulless" suburbs are it's always the newest stuff with no trees and brand-new lawns, and not after they've been lived-in for a while? It's never suburbs that are 20+ years old but otherwise well maintained. This shouldn't look "creepy" to you (and the Google Street View camera are always a bit screwy with lenses) unless you have clinical agoraphobia.

 

[Apple Porcupine]

A24 slowburn kino or slop?

Slop of the worst variety: content farm slop.

I have to wonder if Jason realizes that this will be his legacy when all is said and done: the same points over and over again formatted in a way that turns away anyone who would even give their ideas a passing thought because it's just so garish and low-effort.

 

[quaawaa]

Slop of the worst variety: content farm slop.

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I have to wonder if Jason realizes that this will be his legacy when all is said and done: the same points over and over again formatted in a way that turns away anyone who would even give their ideas a passing thought because it's just so garish and low-effort.

The two Toronto videos make me think that this guy is a leaf. It's also hilarious that he's hating on the TTC streetcar considering it is literally everything that they advocate for and has been around for over a hundred years.

Curious that so many of the big urbanist YouTubers telling Americans that their cities suck are non-American and therefore have no first-hand experience with American cities.

 

[Bonesjones]

I find it more hilarious that the modern communist movement is mostly bored rich first worlders.

That's what Marx was though, his philosophy isn't one for the people its for the petite bougies saying how awesome it is to be a layabout and have everyone else pay for your lifestyle.

The model T was also advertised as the people's car even when they were early luxury items meant for the uber rich, both capitalism and muh communism at one point agreed that the people deserved a vehicle, and not just rich cunts

Henry Ford literally did singlehandedly what socialists claim to want to do, and he was stopped with legal warfare from doing more. There's a reason he hated jews.

Ah yes, let's ban all cars that aren't a Peel P-50.

Meanwhile, here's what a good pickup truck can be.

Top Gear isn't a documentary, it's as real as Professional Wrestling. So take it all with a box load of salt.

 

[Yamamura]

Slop of the worst variety: content farm slop.

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I have to wonder if Jason realizes that this will be his legacy when all is said and done: the same points over and over again formatted in a way that turns away anyone who would even give their ideas a passing thought because it's just so garish and low-effort.

This channel is weird. It's looks like if you told an AI algorithm to recreate Jason's channel by vaguely describing it from memory

 

[Xarpho's Return]

This channel is weird. It's looks like if you told an AI algorithm to recreate Jason's channel by vaguely describing it from memory

The whole way the thumbnails are done is a direct ripoff of Jason's. In fact, maybe this literal Chinese knockoff version of NJB has no experience in Canada (much less the United States), he's just parroting all of Jason's talking points.

 

[Atypical Dog]

Yeah, but when it comes to urban planning, it's not about building a utopian society. They don't want gleaming statues of the superiority of [people group], they don't want better living standards, they don't want grandiose buildings surrounded by open space (as is typical for the old European cities). Their ideal "city" isn't Rome at the height of its power, it's 1980s Hong Kong.

My reading is that is what they think of as utopia. The logical conclusion of thinking something like "boring is good, boring means nothing bad is happening". Everything is, in gaming terms "on rails" and follows a strict schedule, allowing you to cram more people into less area since they all move in predictable and comprehensible ways.

A24 slowburn kino or slop?

Slop based on the PFP and the thumbnail reminding me of NJB, American Fietser (probably directly inspired by) or About Here (who has pretty interesting dives if with a distinctly urbanist bent).

About Here for reference, I think front yard businesses could do some work and help out a neighborhood.

 

[sum ting wong]

About Here for reference, I think front yard businesses could do some work and help out a neighborhood.

I don't get it, people live in those neighborhoods specifically because they like having a yard and privacy and not having towers built up 10 feet away from their homes. They enjoy the space and the quietness of the neighborhood. Why then do the bugmen want to force those neighborhoods to become just like a mini urban jungle? You already can live where you want, why are you trying to force your lifestyle onto other people.

Sure maybe you like the cider bar guy and he was probably chill and didn't cause much trouble besides the blocked sidewalks, but maybe the next guy to start a business isn't as chill but he's not breaking any rules and now you're stuck with some gay vape shop next door playing bass boosted music all day.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

About Here for reference, I think front yard businesses could do some work and help out a neighborhood.

There were a handful of businesses that did that in Houston and in Memphis as well, but in those cases it was in areas that mostly already saw the front road of the neighborhood be a major road, and by that time things are changing anyway and the area is naturally easing out residential.

The problem is that the urbanist "idea" is that these will "fix" a subdivision by forcing more commercial development into it; the reality is one of two things:

1) The change in traffic patterns means it is no longer desirable for residential anyway and sooner or later the houses will give way to new development
2) It's de facto commercial zoning and you'll ease out residences from it.

Commercial buildings want to be near traffic, it's what drives business. Car traffic usually, foot traffic if conditions are right. What will end up happening is that you'll end up with something like this, it's about a long block in Houston not far from a major road where the houses all got turned into low-impact commercial, like veterinary offices, by-appointment salons, law offices, that sort of thing. Residents got driven out and the yards converted to parking lots.

That's not to say you can't run a business out of your house (under certain conditions but a couples operation is usually totally fine). The only time people even complain is when it starts to being a problem with customers coming in all the time or being too noisy or smelly. If you're bottling homemade hot sauce that gets sold through mail order and at local farmers' market, that's usually fine. If you've got half a dozen employees and bringing in barrels of vinegar every day, then probably not.

 

[quaawaa]

Why won't you let us steal your land?!?!?:










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You're a pussy if you're scared of riding transit in the middle of the night:










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Big tough guys are scared of their neighbor's parked cars though:








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[The Grimace]

I love the shitlib rhetoric of how "homeless people are just trying to heckin EXIST" when they seem to conveniently forget that these aren't 1930's traincar hobos, but usually literally insane people, violent drug addicts, or both. They're usually homeless for a reason, and it's not because "conservatives took away their ability to get a house."

 

[Dante Alighieri]

I love the shitlib rhetoric of how "homeless people are just trying to heckin EXIST" when they seem to conveniently forget that these aren't 1930's traincar hobos, but usually literally insane people, violent drug addicts, or both. They're usually homeless for a reason, and it's not because "conservatives took away their ability to get a house."

Total homeless death

 

[Yamamura]

You're a pussy if you're scared of riding transit in the middle of the night:

This motherfucker is in SWITZERLAND. Yeah I wouldn't be afraid of the non existent bums and thugs either. Easy to say when they live in a high trust society. I hate how disingenuous these European fuckcars users are by acting as if this is even comparable to riding the subway at night in NYC or Chicago. Which are the places most people are describing when voicing their concerns about safety, not fucking Switzerland.

 

[Lovely Kin]

I love the shitlib rhetoric of how "homeless people are just trying to heckin EXIST" when they seem to conveniently forget that these aren't 1930's traincar hobos, but usually literally insane people, violent drug addicts, or both. They're usually homeless for a reason, and it's not because "conservatives took away their ability to get a house."

>Homeless people need compassion! Arresting them is cruel!
>Let that methhead harass you and your children daily, bigot.
>People set on fire or pushed into railways is normal.
>Let them camp outside of your homes and schools.
Or how they try saying homeless is "biased language" and that you should totally say unhoused. or houseless. Most of these vagrants don't want help, they are only thinking about shooting up meth.

 

[LaxerBRO]

You're a pussy if you're scared of riding transit in the middle of the night:

Of course it's Zurich of all places.

 

[Retarded Weeb]

Or how they try saying homeless is "biased language" and that you should totally say unhoused. or houseless. Most of these vagrants don't want help, they are only thinking about shooting up meth.

I fucking hate this shit where faggots try to make new euphemisms that mean the same thing as what it's trying to replace. There's nothing inherently insulting about the word "homeless", it's a perfectly apt neutral description, and "unhoused" or "houseless" means literally the same thing. If homeless sounds like an insult it's not because it is, it's because they're being talked about by someone who's sick of crack addicts and unmedicated schizos making nuisances of themselves in public, and what word they're using to collectively describe them isn't going to change that.

 

[Yamamura]

Big tough guys are scared of their neighbor's parked cars though:

Didn't mention this in my other post. But word to the wise, if you want to live a peaceful life don't fuck with your neighbors, don't shit where you eat.

Fuckcars users are probably too naive to realize even if you try to make it seem like it was some random person and claim deniability. It's super obvious when the person messing with you is the one living next to you.

 

[Meriasek]

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This motherfucker is in SWITZERLAND. Yeah I wouldn't be afraid of the non existent bums and thugs either. Easy to say when they live in a high trust society. I hate how disingenuous these European fuckcars users are by acting as if this is even comparable to riding the subway at night in NYC or Chicago. Which are the places most people are describing when voicing their concerns about safety, not fucking Switzerland.

Seriously. I live in a rather safe large city in Germany, and yeah, I have zero trouble taking the subway in the middle of the night.
But I also know how the homeless in San Francisco are during the day and in the better parts of the city, can only imagine how it is during the night and so on. I rode the subway from the airport into the city and it was fine since it was empty, but holy shit the quality of homeless crazies is completely different in the US compared to most places in Europe. I'm a reasonably big dude and usually don't get accosted, but damn, I think I wouldn't feel very comfortable on the NYC subway at night.

 

[The Real Slim Shady]

The only asshole thing is parking across the side walk, otherwise, what a sad reddit faggot you have to be to post something like that.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Do they even have homeless in Switzerland? Seems like the kind of place where you either are just given a home in some flophouse due to typical European softhandedness or the cops pick you up and blackbag you for vagrancy since they need to upkeep the national image of prosperity.