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by occz 5y ago
>Because the vaccins 'overwrite' the wider protections of the immune system it is not very wise to vaccinate healthy people for this fast mutating virus. Bullshit. Stop spreading misinformation.
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by occz 5y ago
>Nothing is stopping anyone from building denser infrastructure, I'm in favor of lifting the often absurd parking requirements seen. That's the thing though - single-family zoning, parking minimums and highway-like standards fo
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by occz 5y ago
I don't think anyone goes on vacation in cities explicitly because they are more expensive - the appeal is that there's a lot of fun things you can do in cities.
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by occz 5y ago
Stroads are more expensive to build than the alternative, and hence this entire argument can be dismissed outright.
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by occz 5y ago
With mountain biking already being quite popular in these places, it's not unthinkable to see some cycle commuting being done.
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by occz 5y ago
I do know what I'm talking about - and we can conclude on the basis of your statements on renewable energy production that you either don't know what your talking about (willfully ignorant) or that you're attempting to willfu
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by occz 5y ago
>Another tax on the middle class, because they don't have enough of a fiscal burden already, in the goods they need, in paying gas when they drive to work (no, not everyone has a very green public transportation that gets them to wo
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by occz 5y ago
>have this pet theory of mine that planting trees could also mitigate rising sea levels since trees Contain water. Is that dumb ? Unfortunately, we would likely have to cover more land than there is on the entire surface of the earth to
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by occz 5y ago
>It also helps that the country is old enough to have developed before the automobile. Kinda hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube when you've designed entire cities around support the automobile. I think this is a misconcepti
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by occz 5y ago
Exhaust from ICEs is hardly the only negative externality that cars bring, though.
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by occz 5y ago
>Induced demand is nonsense. It's been shown to be real in studies upon studies - what are you trying to say here?
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by occz 5y ago
Luckily, basically everyone who advocates for bicycle infrastructure also advocates for public transportation, which as I understand it in the U.S is more utilized by less privileged groups. I find it hilarious that anyone would ever try to
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by occz 5y ago
>The truth is there isn't that much demand for high density housing and walkable neighborhoods. Real estate prices for high density housing and walkable neighborhoods disproves this statement outright. As for why this type of housin
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by occz 5y ago
It's illegal to build them under most zoning laws in the U.S.
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by occz 5y ago
>But they choose not to. US population is roughly 1/2 suburban, 1/4 rural, and 1/4 urban. Which backs up my point. With single-family zoning being the norm in the U.S, it would be unfair to call this a choice. The supply o
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by occz 5y ago
> We value this calm so much that we refuse to admit shopping or even multi-family housing to them, for fear of disturbing it. With single-family zoning being the overwhelming norm in the U.S, it would be unfair to call this a refusal -
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by occz 5y ago
The fact that you're trying to make anyone think that the two are comparable is ridiculous.
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by occz 5y ago
Good. With that out of the way, time to build some trains.
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by occz 5y ago
The podcast Well There's Your Problem has an episode covering this incident: https://youtu.be/34rdxDgpaaA As it turns out, when you have highly radioactive stuff in your buildings, you should probably clean that radioa
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by occz 5y ago
You need to consider the price of road infrastructure in the total cost of buses. If that is not considered, then you could just as easily just calculate the cost of trains by excluding the rail and signalling-cost (and you would be just as
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by occz 5y ago
Flying is highly subsidized by the simple fact that their externalities are allowed to simply be pumped out to the atmosphere. Rectifying that makes electrified trains a lot more competitive.
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by occz 5y ago
If car use and infrastructure wasn't so heavily subsidized, then trains would likely fare a lot better.
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by occz 5y ago
And they are arguably right. Proof-of-work is the technical equivalent of rolling coal, and it's time to cut out the nonsense. We have an ongoing climate disaster to deal with.
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by occz 5y ago
>and 0% of the multiple trillions in stimulus that was funded with debt. Yes? What does that have to do with anything? Did you think that the pandemic-related stimulus package should have gone to defense spending? If yes, please do motiv
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by occz 5y ago
>Also, the Canadian healthcare is not exactly stellar. For some reason, dental care in Canada is "only cosmetic" and not covered by insurance. This is the case in at least some western european countries as well - for example,
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by occz 5y ago
Google is big enough to have both promoters and detractors of Flutter, and everything in between. They don't even need to choose one alternative either, they can bet on all horses in the race.
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by occz 5y ago
Great! It was never a sensible choice to use foreign-looking design on iOS. Now, if only every other company in the world would do the inverse and stop using iOS-style design on android, which I consider to be a much more prevalent issue.
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by occz 5y ago
> Like the 300+ lives aboard a train are worth nothing This is a really strange take - security on airplanes was introduced due to hijackings, in which case the airplane can be used as a very lethal weapon to attack most anything, really
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by occz 5y ago
On the other hand, there's this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU showing some sweet bicycle action in Finland, where it is indeed very cold during the winter.
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by occz 5y ago
> This anti-car shit is already way beyond tiresome, especially from some L.A douche. L.A. is a COUNTY, not a city. It's not fucking Amsterdam; it's a sprawling geographic region with no public transportation to speak of. Build

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