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  1. I really do prefer the system of planning permission we have here. Sure, you might only be able to do 80-90% of what you wanted, but compromise with your neighbours instead of a top-down edict from some distant elected officials feels much fairer to me. I’ve also noticed some Americans seem to assume a single disagreement just cancels the whole plan with our system, which of course isn’t true at all, I’ve seen (and I’m sure you have, too) many things get built with a small number of the locals objecting. Because their objections are not deemed rigorous enough, or any downsides they attest are viewed as being outweighed by the upsides.
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  2.  @Praxeus514  yes, that’s why I mentioned a bunch of them do better in stability and profitability metrics, and touched on warehouses, cafes, restaurants, factories, etc which operate in that way. Some do have public equity too though, such as allowing all recurring customers to also be shareholders. There’s banks that give all account holders a payout each year based on how much profit they made, divided up amongst everyone. And so on.
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  3.  @Homer-OJ-Simpson I’ve seen old parts of Philadelphia with similarly narrow streets too in some urbanist videos I’m pretty sure.
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  4.  @raaaaaaaaaam496  you both agree he’s a centrist, you just have different opinions on how good that is
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  5.  @Anonymous-df8it  everyone always says “why don’t we make wheelchairs that climb stairs?” but there’s been a lot of very good write-ups about why over the years. If you’re genuinely curious I’d recommend you check it out :) Also outdoors is very different because of the drainage camber. Even a “flat” pavement is actually tilted, and it’s hugely different compared to being indoors in a home or business! I’m not kidding when I say it’s 10x the work on good streets, and 100x the work on poor ones.
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  6.  @LordManhattan and that’s the method Musk thinks he’s so smart for using (tho I think he sells some of the stock, but capital gains tax is still way lower than income tax so it still works out)
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  7.  @computernerdtechman  I feel like if it were easier to set up corner stores, someone else could have better prices and/or more variety… plenty of places in the UK have 3 or 4 different corner stores within a one or two mile radius (10-20 minute walk), and the worst one has to change its ways or go out of business. Even the smallest village usually has at least 2 pubs and there’s always one clear favourite. But if only one can wrangle the zoning permission, you’ve got a monopoly situation on your hands, so of course they’ll try to price-gouge the (sorta) captive market.
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  8.  @tornado9419  admittedly the USSR did also build copy and pasted towns, but they at least ensured maximum variety of ways to assemble the concrete slabs so each building was unique per neighbourhood. Also every neighbourhood had a central park or plaza, and a subway entrance in that park/plaza. It’s basically a more humanist way of doing the same basic idea.
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  9. That one line can be viewed that way, but the rest of the video clearly stated that the taskforces were violent, exploitative, didn’t help do anything about the root causes and in fact made them worse. Plus I’d say calling attention to the fact the gangs started as protection against racist intimidation also agrees with what you said. I interpreted it as “the city weren’t interested in doing anything about it, and then when they finally did it was all the wrong things”. (Edited the next day because I realised I said “they” for 3 different things. Have now disambiguated.)
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  10.  @unterhau1102  I only said a bunch of states do it, which is true. Plenty of people live in those areas.
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  11. I bet that would be awesome. There’s been other great “big socioeconomic picture” narrative hiphop tracks.
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  12. Sadly having to use the rear trade delivery entrance is still all too common, even in buildings built long after the DDA (the UK’s ADA) was passed! Far too many new builds have stairs up to the entrance for no reason!
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  13. @Anti Tengu the number of ridiculously controlling and specific laws I'm told of by friends in America is astounding; the number of rando Americans online telling me they have Freedom while in Europe I'm subjugated by government authority, doubly so.
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  14.  @jerrell1169  whoa, I've never heard of that kind of thing actually happening and succeeding. Do you mind if I ask which country you live in? I've got to assume it's one which recognises aces (or is it just incidental under sexual orientation protection? Some places are like "no orientation is different than those though so it doesn't count unless the law is updated".)
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  15.  @chungonion  driving across Dallas fort worth is already kinda like that lol
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  16. As a Brit, thank you for finally a sports metaphor I can understand, hahaha. I don't even like football but you pick up enough from cultural osmosis that it was still useful, lol
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  17. That sucks. In the UK about half of the pedestrianisation schemes over covid neglected disabled parking, or had them all at the bottom of a hill 🤦‍♀️ But of the projects which did bear it in mind, and ensured disabled parking spaces were spread out around the periphery of the zone, most of them were accessible! (Well, except for all the pub owners putting their chairs and tables on too much of the width… ugh.)
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  18.  @raverdeath100 it reminded me of Oxford or Cambridge, especially in the part actually called Cambridge! (I know it’s technically its own neighbouring city, but then so is Westminster and we all think of that as part of London!)
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  19.  @decibellone696  funny how city planning is literally his job
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  20. Maybe it’s just because my brothers introduced me to Biggie and Flash albums at a really early age, but I hadn’t realised that was unusual! (Perhaps there was less racial stigma over hiphop in the UK though? IDK.)
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  21.  @kansasthunderman1  disabled people are sick of being exceptions and afterthoughts
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  22. All discretionary charges are like that, really. A thing to invoke if the officer feels a need to, for whatever reason. And since so many people denounce bias-awareness training as some kind of socialist brainwashing; obviously their existing biases about "who looks like trouble" and who doesn't will come out in the data.
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  23. I’d highly recommend reading up on all the startups developing battery recycling technologies. (Which are better than just burning them and ending up with lithium slag.) Thankfully once they’re too used up for cars they can still provide home backup power for another few decades. So there’s plenty of time for the R&D, which is already progressing at a great rate. Some are projecting 90%+ metals extraction, which can be used to make brand new batteries again.
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  24. That pink door thing is soooo annoying!
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  25. That’s why most high power chargers have their own battery underground or nearby and they trickle charge from the grid. Even when the capacity is there they still do it because it lands them lower peak usage fees from the utilities.
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  26.  @unterhau1102  if you mean about the water rights, I’m 100% serious. It’s terrible. Look up “rain collection illegal USA” if you want to find out more
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  27.  @peterbelanger4094  absolutely. Honestly at this point, despite the common refrain of city cars, they’re far more functional in rural areas. Tons of rural houses already have a weatherproof socket or three on their outside walls, for various garden implements. If they don’t wanna bother with a faster home charger (just going to shops etc), they can just plug into that. Plus it’s much easier to get rooftop solar in rural areas, and then you get almost-free charging when it’s sunny. With even 150 miles of range you get 100 in winter, and most cars are coming out at 200 or even more anyway, and adding heat pumps which reduce the winter penalty by a huge amount too. And in a rural area it’s more out of your way to go refuel, so refuelling at home (by the sun or no) and only ever needing to visit a specialised facility on longer trips is very appealing to a lot of people who sometimes spend 20-30 minutes each way to go refuel. Some folks I know who previously resisted the idea of EVs because they don’t like driving automatics, when I mentioned always driving away with a full tank, that’s made them eager for an EV to come that fits their needs and budget. And a lot of potential candidate purchases are coming out in the next few years. In all; I think with another 5 years of battery improvements and more used cars entering the market, rural and suburban households basically have things sorted out already. All of the challenge lays in the city (dwellings and businesses) and for the highway fast chargers. Especially since half of everybody lives in cities right now and that’s expected to only increase. We’ve absolutely got to have adequate charging infrastructure in cities. And right now in most countries it’s extremely patchwork on a county by county basis.
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  28.  @리주민  that works well for electric scooters and motorbikes but with these skateboard chassis for cars, you’d have to like undo a bunch of structural bits just to get to it, and stuff. So they’d have to be specially designed for it; whilst electric motorbike used a relatively small standard shape battery anyway. And then there’s the question of who designs that standard for cars, multiple proprietary battery swap techs would be worse than waiting at a standardised plug IMO. If, say, EV adoption had been pushed hard in the ‘90s as originally planned, and they could’ve worked out a standard ahead of mass adoption, then it could be a great idea. But we’re arguably too late for it, at this stage. Though commercial fleets (vans, taxis etc) may yet take advantage of the technology, since they’ll have a lot of identical vehicles anyway.
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  29.  @Zeyev  indeed! Every time I’ve experienced it the staff have been apologetic and given me freebies or money off, but it was still humiliating to have to use the deliveries/fire exit each time (especially as it’s often only barely wide enough for my chair but not wide enough to push normally!) The regulations clearly need to specify THE entrance rather than AN entrance having level access. Like, it’s one thing to have 3 actual entrances for customers and only one is level access… it’s annoying to go round to the other one, but it’s not humiliating. But it’s another thing entirely when there’s only one official customer entrance!
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  30.  @_Aemse  I wasn’t already familiar with that, so I just read the Wikipedia page, but as far as I can tell, that’s simply a standard private company? If they did even light measures like a simple equity option, I didn’t see it, but I may have missed a paragraph. May I ask what basis you said this? If you read something that made my worker-ownership thing sound familiar to you about them, I’d like to read it, as it would be interesting for a holding company to operate in that way. Most practical examples so far are in manufacturing, restaurants, retail, and things like that. Although there’s one or two who run their own financial institutions too.
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  31.  @TapOnX  even prior to the industrial revolution, large cities often had long lines of identical housing stock built out of clay or brick. Even going back millennia in some cases! I guess it’s just a thing human brains like to do. “Well I know this works so let’s just… do a lot of them.”
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  32.  @habib6499  driving safety isn’t a sole purview of older generations, quite the opposite, they usually have the highest incidence of unsafe driving behaviour.
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  33. I can’t believe NWA is CRT /s
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  34.  @techhelpportal7778  but highways aren't private property, they're public highways, definitionally
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  35. I wish for everybody’s sake there that the huge subsidies for roads could just be shifted-over to other forms of local transit. Or at least just remove them from roads so they can compete on an equal field of people seeing how expensive they really are against each other.
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  36. You get an activation email automatically after up to a day. (Source: this is what happened when I did it. I did actually email Nebula support anxiously and they were like “just wait a lil longer”, and they were right.)
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  37. It’s interesting how many places/things in the Vatican are named after other nations. English, French, Swiss, Ethiopian… Also, I know it’s historical, but I can’t help but feel the Catholic-only discounts and tax breaks amounts to a kind of subtle ~Catholic Privilege~ provided by the Italian state. But then I have not really looked-into how prevalent Protestant forms of Christianity even are in Italy (I know Spain nearby is still very Catholic), so maybe the majority of the Italian populace is actually totally fine with it.
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  38. Pedestrian friendly streets are usually more wheelchair and scooter friendly, given they’re usually on the level. Personally, the idea of removing the kerb is heavenly to me — no more searching for dropped kerbs that haven’t been blocked by a parked car! Although there have certainly been cases where that wasn’t taken into consideration at all, and needless obstacles were placed in the way of realising that possibility. Which absolutely sucks. Ensure there’s enough disabled parking spaces on the periphery of the pedestrian zones, and ensure there’s at least a handful of different types of disabled people involved in consultation for the design, and I see no reason why it shouldn’t work. (Of course, bad weather can still be more of an impediment, and a street certainly won’t fix that!)
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  39.  @ericBorja520  that one was especially baffling, that parking garage was uglier than any apartment block could be…. and why were those offices not apartments….
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  40.  @JeffreyLByrd  you can always sit up again when someone else approaches the bench, if all the others are taken
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  41.  @thomasdupont1905  same, I’m always adding a tiny splotch of commercial on streets in Cities Skylines so my suburbs can have a corner store lmao
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  42. Solidarity, Wolf Mama. Degenerative diseases suck. (Speaking from experience, albeit it’s more minor.)
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  43. Yeah, something I've seen people bring up about the mikrorayon was how there was green space between apartments and not so crowded as to stop sunlight getting in, with the subway station right in the centre, itself like a little park in terms of the green space around the entrance. Of course private developers are filling in more and more of that green space, and some homes are now always in shadow from a more recently built taller apartment right next door.
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  44.  @abby_ter0611  this channel has a video about why it actually has very good overall economic effects. Fiscally rational business, taxpayers, and governments should want that due to the effects. It’s one of the few tax policies that can pay itself off easily. Unlike freeways, which are free if you haven’t noticed, and cost a lot. To deny the policy solely on the basis that someone might call it communism, is cutting off your nose to spite your face. That’s not economics-as-science, that’s economics-as-religion.
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  45.  @MilwaukeeF40C  some countries actually have policies like that, and their roads are not very good.. except for a few very wealthy areas. it's not very helpful for getting where you actually need to go, and certainly hasn't yet had the effect you assert it will have in practice.
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  46. A lot of UK cities stopped collections for those at the start of covid and to my knowledge haven’t resumed :/ it’s a shame too because, as bad as CO2 is, methane is so much worse (and decays into CO2 anyway after a few decades of harm) that it’s literally better to burn it than release it.
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  47.  @pongop  it’s also one of the only times many Americans experience walkable environments with their needs met within walkable distance (or, as stated in OP, with a bus service for larger ones). When whole cities could totally be like that!
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  48.  @AleaumeAnders  quite. It looks like the train stations are in the centre now, only because of all the growth that’s occurred around them since! Many UK cities have the same situation, with 2 or 3 train stations completely disconnected from each other, usually one dealing with traffic from the north and one from the south, or one for local and one for long distance. Glasgow for instance has 2, Central and Queen Street stations. Various proposals to link them (either with new rail, or with elevated walkways, etc) never came to fruition. (Of course London has far more than just 2…!)
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  49.  @darthwiizius  that’s certainly true — and it still helps with carting equipment, small vehicles, etc up there. But I wasn’t thinking of those ex-rural now-town stations, I was thinking of places which were already big cities when the station was built but have since grown soooo much more, that what was an “outside of centre” station seems firmly in the centre by comparison!
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  50.  @MrBadjohn69  $35 is usually not what is making or breaking rent. “Stop all the Starbucks” is just like that “stop having avocado toast” trend that was going around. Even 2 years later you can’t think of a single other factor besides Starbucks!
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