Comments by "pongop" (@pongop) on "City Beautiful" channel.

  1. Lol Jesse Ventura, the strongest mayor! And then he was governor. And then he made a conspiracy theory tv series lol. Interesting guy. In my youth, I visited Minnesota and saw the capitol building and Ventura's office when he was governor. I also saw Garrison Keillor. What a nerdy kid.
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  2. Mr. Fischoeder kind of owns part of a town, right?
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  3.  @cryptbeast3222  Semantics. It sounds like it's not the kind of place for you, so good thing you don't live there. You can start a co-op where people don't have to have kids. Also, guess where people without kids can live? Practically anywhere else. Co-ops are not the same as HOAs.
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  4. Interesting video! The Fulton Mall was cool. It was stupid to re-open it. Let's go backward in time! That will work! I hate Fresno's leaders and planners. They have always been the worst and still are the worst. They don't care about preserving historic and meaningful buildings. They are gentrifying the city. Fresno actually looked really cool back in the day, with beautiful Victorian buildings downtown, and a classic looking City Hall. Everything nice got destroyed, was not maintained or preserved, or whatever else. The renovations and new buildings have been crap. Driving around here is nuts. The curbs are too high so the car door gets stuck. Near the highway entrances and exits, there are so many damn lights and intersections that only a few cars can fit within each section, that it backs up like crazy. Even if there is no traffic at the time, you have to start and stop over and over because one light turns green, you start speeding up and going, then the next light turns red so you have to stop immediately. The only true visionary was Forestiere. The city would be much d the city would better and we would be happier and healthier if we built underground. His underground dwellings and gardens are so unique and amazing! It is a model for sustainable and more bearable living in hot places in the world.
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  5. Awesome video! Power to the People! A friend's dad (4th generation San Franciscan) once mentioned that freeways didn't really go through the city, but that's all I knew of the story. I didn't even know there was a story. It's cool to learn the whole story.
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  6. Awesome video! Thanks for more great content. Hopefully we'll see more car-free streets in the near future. It would be so cool to see a video on floating cities and seasteading! You would make it a great video.
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  7. Fresno!!! Love the shout out. Fresno being a role model is a laugh, too. The city and government have always been so backwards and public transit isn't great still. We're finally making some good changes, which I've noticed because of watching this channel. More bike lanes, day lighting, marked or painted crosswalks, etc. We've even got a couple ecovillages. Come visit and check out Dakota Ecovillage and garden, Chinatown underground tunnels, and Forestiere Underground Gardens!
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  8. Those of us with running water in homes, especially drinkable running water, are so fortunate.
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  9. Interesting video! Property is theft. Borders are stupid. Land should not be owned. Decolonize and Land Back! The US needs to finally adopt the metric system.
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  10. Anyone who likes the sameness of suburbs and developments needs to read and/or watch The Giver.
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  11. Yes! Arrested Development! Sometimes I think we have the same interests as each other.
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  12. Thanks for another great video! I would love to see a video on floating cities and/or seasteading. Busan, South Korea is planning to host the world's first floating city by 2025.
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  13. @Zaydan Naufal Great point! You're correct and thank you for pointing that out. There are floating communities and cities all over the world, communities who live on the water. Borneo is amazing. I hadn't heard of Kampong Ayer, but the name makes sense. I looked it up and I'm going to check it out more. Thank you!
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  14. Lol I love the pun counter! I missed them at first, so I appreciate it lol.
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  15. I wish so badly it were still around so we could see and appreciate it! It looked like such a unique and beautiful city.
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  16. We can't forget about the grass roof cottages!
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  17. Please do a video on Stars Hollow from Gilmore Girls!!! It's the quintessential small town. Also, Mystic, CT.
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  18. The Golden Gate bridge is also privately owned (or operated?) and the toll has gotten pretty expensive: $8-9+.
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  19. Universal Design for Learning is an important and essential concept in education (one that is under-discussed and under-implemented), so it is interesting to know the concept is extended to street and city design as well.
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  20. Great video! It's important and helpful to see how other places do it so we can learn from them!
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  21. Yes, Parks and Rec!
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  22. Awesome video! Congratulations on your research getting published!
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  23. I loved visiting Vancouver. It's so culturally diverse and there are lots of great restaurants. I stayed with someone in what seemed like a condo. It was fancy and on a higher floor. Vancouver is also where I saw my first sex worker and was offered shrooms.
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  24.  @darkeu0r  I mean I guess you go to the places where they usually work? I wouldn't know. She had a really short skirt and tried pulling it down when cops drove by. Since moving to the city I live in now and working and hanging out on the poor side of town, I see sex workers all the time.
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  25. Great video! I love Catan!
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  26. Better fund the fire department and EMS and defund the police!
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  27. Great video with some real talk! Adam Ruins Everything also does a good video on the jaywalking scam.
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  28. The Central Valley heat is AWFUL!!!! And the winters are still cold! At least have mild/warmer winters if the summer is unbearably hot. I'm not from here, and I'm not staying, but I've been here 13 years now. Every summer I tell myself, "This is the last summer I will endure here. I'm moving!" There are tons of trees ("Tree City USA") but it's still horrible and unbearable. I hate the heat so much. But a good job is here, and it's somewhat affordable, and everywhere else I would want to live seems unattainable. I know you moved to the Central Coast region, which is my favorite part of California, and where I have my eye too. Good for you for getting out and to the coast! I also miss the Pacific Northwest. Trees are so amazing and important! And usually the wealthy are the ones who get trees and the nature. In my city, the wealthier parts of town have beautiful old trees, are shady, and cooler than the rest of the city. The lower income areas contain asphalt, concrete, and empty, dusty dirt lots. Anyway, great video!
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  29. LOL Parks and Rec!
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  30.  @bootleg0012  Fresno because it's in the center of the state. Or North Fork, which is the actual center.
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  31. Olympia, WA! It's kinda similar to Madison, although smaller. It's home to a smaller progressive/hippie college (public though) and known for this. Students also settle down and start organizations and businesses in town, so the school's influence and scope expands beyond campus. It's also the state capitol so there are politicians, lobbyists, and conservatives, as well. Also, the school (The Evergreen State College) is basically Hogwarts.
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  32. Why anyone would want to live an identical yardless box that is right next to their neighbor and the house looks the same as every other house in the neighborhood is beyond me. I hate housing developments and suburbs. They're soulless and god awful.
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  33. Fresno has an amazing history but nobody talks about it. Some of my favorite places: Forestiere Underground Gardens, Chinatown underground tunnels, Zapp Park, and Tulare Lake.
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  34. Awesome video!
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  35. Central Valley!
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  36. Excellent video!
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  37. Today I was playing Geoguessr and one of the places I landed was easily recognizable as Russia because of these Soviet-era buildings.
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  38. Information and fun video!
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  39. Lol @ that person that took up four parking spaces. Yard House has great vegetarian food!
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  40. Yay SLO and Corvallis!
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  41. I thought of Barcelona too. I'll have to check out that Vox video. Thanks!
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  42. Antigua is so nice! I think I was right next to that plaza in the photo. I am remembering seeing it from across the street at ground level, so it's interesting to see the overhead shot. And now I understand the similarity in architecture among Latin American cities. In a previous video when discussing porticoes, it reminded me of Antigua. Your videos help me make all these connections and see the world in a different way now. It's so cool! I'm not even a planner or anything like that. But I love this channel.
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  43.  @PaulFisher  Sounds interesting. I looked him up and he seems pretty cool. Thanks!
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  44. Old Fresno Water Tower
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  45. I'm kind of surprised that Russia has romantic comedies. I thought it was an American thing. Maybe British too. But mostly American movies filmed in the UK or starring British actors. This Soviet movie seems kinda Kafkaesque as well.
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  46. Capitalism is crazy and property is theft.
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  47. I was in southern Germany. Beautiful place. Interesting to know that it's very organized.
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  48.  @teddycooke8145  Policing and incarceration were intentionally increased around the nation and in Compton during the 1970s and 1980s despite the decrease in crime and drug use. So you've got it backwards. The police are there to lock up poor people of color, disenfranchise them, use them for cheap labor, and to enrich the prison corporations. Mass incarceration is current stage of white supremacy in this country, a continuation of Jim Crow before it, of sharecropping before that, and slavery began it all. Policing in America developed from the slave patrols. Today cops are modern day slave patrols and lynch mobs. The whole system is based on white supremacy. But don't believe me. Do your own research -- white supremacy, racism, mass incarceration, prison-industrial complex, prison abolition, The New Jim Crow (book), Angela Davis, white privilege, Black Lives Matter.
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  49. I think its busy days were the 70s through 90s. I went to the Fulton Mall from around 2009 (after moving here) to a few years ago when the city re-opened the streets. I did shopping, eating, hanging out, biking, music shows, etc at the Fulton Mall. It wasn't super busy, but people still went there, and there were several businesses, restaurants, and food carts. You could get good deals there. There was an indoor swap mall with multiple vendors with booths. It kind of reminded me of shopping in other countries. It was pretty cool. Since they re-opened the streets a few years ago and some of the older businesses closed, I don't go anymore. I hate indoor malls so I don't go there either.
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  50. We would love to see something on floating cities!
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