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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>but for pedestrians roudabouts are way better than traffic lights. This is ignorant texbook thinking. As a pedestrian it's far easier to safely time a light, even one without a cross signal, than it is to cross through the un-broke
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
The replies to your comment would be a lot funnier if I didn't share a country with some of these people. You're not gonna "driving culture" your way around a 10:1 volume difference and only a fool would act like you cou
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
While the exact point at which it becomes "anti-american" isn't clear there's certainly a category of rhetoric in which people peddle subservience to the state (usually dressed up in obfuscating words, like they'll
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>or very specific politician/execs properties, not random people, I don't know enough about dutch politics but in my country if the blue collar anti-regulation people wanted to annoy the white collar pro-regulation people witho
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
The point of economic sanctions is to act like a several % ball and chain around economic growth so over a generation or two whoever you've applied them to is impoverished, relatively speaking, and don't have much of a surplus to
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
Nor do they have much economic surplus worth extracting so there's no reason for the .gov to throw them a bone or otherwise curry favor with that demographic.
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
A lot of the older "no vehicles over X" signage is denominated in tons.
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>we offshored all production (because it was cheaper), And why was it cheaper? Shipping things from the literal other side of the world isn't free. Cultural and language barriers to efficient communication aren't free. Etc.
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
They don't. They come in later and do their thing as normal. MEP workers have huge regulatory moats and trade groups with war chests which is why their bit of the process isn't being discussed here. If the tech isn't at a p
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
It's not just the energy sector though being big business I assume they do the bulk of the lobbying. The electrician's trade groups and that whole supply chain are also scared shitless of a future where you can't lord a meter
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
Doctors make bank they they were still happy to prescribe tons of oxy in exchange for pretty minimal kickbacks as long as it was plausibly deniable to them..... At the end of the day most of these calls for regulation are about bucking resp
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
Europe was deforested and you didn't drink from water downstream of cities long before the industrial revolution. Not that it matters to your point about the moon.
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>but my wife was too excited to try out whatever features. God knows how many millions of people could drive a car from 2004 forever, use small dumb screens and other appliances, etc, etc, if not for other members of their household.
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>so I can't really explain why HOAs go beyond the collective expenses into the draconian rules. Grass is really good at filtering/absorbing/treating stormwater so you might have to force everyone to keep their lawns lawn b
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
I find it hard to believe that someone somewhere isn't making an EV with a electric pump to supply a traditional hydraulic steering system. If I had to guess it would be Europe because they love electric over hydraulic steering.
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
Nothing that matters on "people who drive new cars" timelines. Like yeah there's probably some box with gear oil might get a little nasty after 100-200k but gears are pretty hardy and don't demand all that much.
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>If you have your own private back yard you're not allowed to refer to condominiums as "luxury". I live on .1ac in a post-industrial shithole that remains a post-industrial shithole largely because the politics of snooty p
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
Strongtowns is happy to follow the money and incentives on all sorts of other issues. Why do they just throw up their hands and say "it's the developers" on this issue? Developers don't do anything that costs money, lik
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>Why is this so important to mention here? Race baiting bullshit allows people to poo all over the discussion and avoid having to confront the actual reality of what kinds of people we make good immigrants and citizens and why, because t
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>Much like owning a home without an HOA attached, it is becoming harder and harder to meet this requirement. The near universal proliferation of owner's associations and management groups and whatnot for developments larger than ~1a
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
Their problem is they believed their own bullshit and thought they were offering people a good deal that basically amounted to "the government 1984s you more than they already do but your package thief gets arrested, maybe". Ignor
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>So Californians pay to make home insurance lower for Floridians. More like some the people in Ohio or Maine or Wisconsin pays for both. CA and FL are both natural disaster dense compared to the colder states.
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
Whatever appeal to emotion crime you want to cook up, violence toward women, unfair targeting of minorities, etc, etc. That's all already not allowed either by law or rule. Fixing that stuff by enforcing the existing rules against it
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>Why isn't this an apples-oranges comparison? Every regulation looks good or at least defensible in abstract, especially when some peddler is trying to sell it and the consequences aren't obvious yet.
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
Fiddling around the way a casual working on their own car would isn't economically viable at scale. Labor use needs to be more efficient than that. Even if you can swap the right parts fast, lots of new stuff requires "permissio
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
That's the point (like for all this stuff, going back a hundred years, not just in CA). Don't extend the right to anyone who doesn't have a bunch of wealth to lose that the state can threaten to get compliance.
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>Found their rules page: "Do not carry weapons of any kind in the car" Corporate speak for "concealed means concealed"
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
The size and scale of that problem absolutely pales in comparison to the number of people who will be screwed by a better ability to enforce unpopular or rarely enforced laws. And the sick part is how many useful idiots will go to bat for a
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
Heck, put the slaughterhouse in my back yard. I'll never have to worry about someone throwing up luxury condos full of Karenns, ever. An odious commercial use is the next best thing to no change whatsoever.

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