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by rglullis 1y ago
> Most American cities are built on a scale designed around human driving. That's absolutely not true. It only became true in the post-war when there was a push for suburban sprawl, lobbied by GM and all the auto industry [0] >
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by rglullis 1y ago
Way to miss the point, or are you trying to strawman the discussion? The argument is intra-municipalities, not intra-country. The argument is that people that live in the suburbs of a city end up costing more and paying less than the city
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by rglullis 1y ago
> it's hard to see how expanding transport more is going to fix that when they don't care for what we have now. Improvements in public transport could be made simply by having more frequent buses on a route, for example. Or lon
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by rglullis 1y ago
> What's stopping people from voting for "cyclist Joe" The corporations who are lobbying and funding the campaign of "Trucker Bob" and "Soccer Mom Susan".
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by rglullis 1y ago
Plenty of people who live in the suburbs of Berlin and also do not have a car - because here even the suburbs are not car-centric. I can even tell you of a friend who works in Berlin and prefers to make a 50-minute commute by train over h
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by rglullis 1y ago
No, I did not. I understand that right now you might prefer to use car because you can not rely on public transit and you don't feel safe. My question is the sense of "are you doing anything to change this reality, or are you ju
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by rglullis 1y ago
Are you campaigning with your city council to favor more/better public transit options? Are you discussing with your neighbors about changing zoning laws so that small business and shops can be located closer to you?
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by rglullis 1y ago
The amount of people living in the countryside compared to the rest of the population is so small that it is completely irrelevant to the discussion.
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by rglullis 1y ago
> For us having a car is not a luxury, it's a necessity if our kids ever want to see their grandparents. This is absolutely no reason to justify owning a car. People can still rent a car, people can still do car pools, people can
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by rglullis 1y ago
> There are plenty of groups which could be considered a negative tax burden Most if not all of these groups are minorities or have a clear need for the tax relief. This is not the case for wealthy suburbanites.
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by rglullis 1y ago
> Even with no cars, we'd still need roads. But you'd need less of them. > The majority of the wear on them isn't from passenger vehicles. Correct, but irrelevant. The I-93 around Boston does not have 4-6 lanes each w
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by rglullis 1y ago
"Aren't those laws being lobbied by corporations who only fund the politicians that promise to keep things in their favor?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOttvpjJvAo
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by rglullis 1y ago
You are looking at the cost in your pocket, not the aggregate. Add the cost of the gas needed to power all these cars, plus the cost of the land allocated solely for parking, plus the costs of the roads, plus the costs in healthcare assoc
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by rglullis 1y ago
> because of style of community they want to own their home in? No, I do not care about their choices, provided they are willing to bear all costs from it . The problem is not living in the suburbs. The problem is affluent people that
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by rglullis 1y ago
> they want me and the millions like me to move to some distant gigantic city and make that even more gigantic. No, we want you simply to pay the full sticker price for all the things you are consuming and exploiting. It's simple as
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by rglullis 1y ago
I don't know if there is any published study. The video is relaying the work from https://www.urbanthree.com/services/
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by rglullis 1y ago
> When things start becoming "privileges", you get a privileged class who cares less and less about the quality of life of those in lesser classes, shaping society to benefit their lifestyles at the expense of others. I'll
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by rglullis 1y ago
> I made different choices, and I am being taxed for those. No, you aren't. - Suburbanites are being subsidized by city-dwellers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI&t=19s - The gas for your car is he
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by rglullis 1y ago
You are already grasping at straws if you refuse to see something that could quickly give you the information that challenges your preconceived notions. The video I linked to talks precisely about the study done by a consulting company sh
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by rglullis 1y ago
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by rglullis 1y ago
No, suburbs cost more per capita than people living in the inner city, generate less tax revenue and end up becoming a net negative to municipalities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI The whole series of videos f
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by rglullis 1y ago
> why did you end with such intolerance for people who live in the suburbs? My hostility is towards people who claim to prefer to live in the suburbs, but do not want to pay for the privilege. Show me people that say "Yeah, I won&#x
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by rglullis 1y ago
My mother lives in suburban Massachusetts. She always said that she never imagined how it was possible for me to live with two small kids without a car in Berlin. She came to visit for one month. After the first week she was already comfort
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by rglullis 1y ago
No city simulation game properly models the real cost of parking and car-centric infrastructure: https://humantransit.org/2013/05/how-sim-city-greenwashes-pa... >Now with kids, I understand why "Americans
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by rglullis 1y ago
> it is just too cheap to own a couple of cars. It's only cheap because they are heavily subsidized. And then we go back to a discussion about policy. If you remove all the subsidies or make car-owners pay for the externalities, thi
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by rglullis 1y ago
> are you saying that you are able to use Linux because all you are using is the browser? No, I am saying that the browsers provide a fallback for the applications that I need but do not have a native counterpart, and therefore I am no
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by rglullis 1y ago
MurenaOS? Runs just fine on the Fairphones.
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by rglullis 1y ago
(2) reads like "to be free, first you need to submit yourself to the Overlords". I will take the minor inconvenience of having to run web apps over the dystopia you are willing to subject yourself to in the name of "optimizat
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by rglullis 1y ago
I don't know if you are serious or just trying to evade the discussion. Two questions: 1) What is the primary OS for your desktop ? 2) Would you sincerely make the argument that a world where everyone submits to a single design (Apple
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by rglullis 1y ago
I am not so sure. Both Pottering and pjmlp are German.

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