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by trgn 5y ago
I 100% agree with you on this But no matter how well you teach that toddler to be careful, there are few places in the US where it would be safe from inattentive drives to send them out on an errand. That's the problem.
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by trgn 5y ago
It really is. Because it's man adapting to the measure and not the other way around. The 5 year old isn't going to drink that beer. It's gangly teenagers up to no good. The shopkeeper should totally give the wine bottle to th
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by trgn 5y ago
Yes, of course. It's and/and. Should also teach that driver to slow down, and be prepared to come to an emergency stop at any given time. Or have streets that naturally slow down traffic by their design, if that's too hard fo
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by trgn 5y ago
It's not. There are a ton of comments about people reminiscing about doing exactly that. The problem is the corner shop no longer exists. And if it does, it's a chain, and the rotating staff won't recognize the toddler as bei
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by trgn 5y ago
That's really it. The stranger danger is a dodge. The real reason people don't let their young children outside is because they might get killed by an inattentive driver. It's the most tangible, innately felt thing out in Ame
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by trgn 5y ago
Great, thank you for all the links, looking forward to dig more into it. > Emotional intelligence is just as important as being able to reason +100 Side-note wrt. McLuhan, I think we'll look back at the 70s as a time when we already
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by trgn 5y ago
100% agreed. Turning a parent a few years ago, has completely changed my personal experience of car-dependent cities, from a more intellectual curiosity into why it came to be, to something that I feel innately as a great malevolent force.
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by trgn 5y ago
Sad this is getting downvoted hard. Probably because it feels gauche to bring this up in context of this article. Sort of every time a child accidentally gets shot, you cannot bring up the fetishization of guns as the underlying condition.
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by trgn 5y ago
Absolutely, where is this narrative about the bubble not bursting, and cheap money this, and market irrationality that coming from? It totally did burst. Growth stock got killed early this year across the board. The market has punished Covi
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by trgn 5y ago
I'd say any city in the Netherlands and Flanders; expensive, not tourist traps, desirable for their job markets and not just their history: Leuven, Delft, Amersfoort, on the smaller end, Ghent, Amsterdam on the bigger end. At night, it
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by trgn 5y ago
Picture the ballroom of Beaty and the Beast. Avatar perhaps. Or anything else, dimly, but gloriously lit. No high-tech beams of light, that's just gross, but a mist of light. Not threatening at all. Already some walkable cities already
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by trgn 5y ago
> neighborhood residents complain about speed Damn right they should complain about speed. Cars at high speed are just plain dangerous, and should slow down. Streets are so dangerous here for non-drivers. There needs to be much uch ore c
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by trgn 5y ago
> they didn’t push the button I absolutely can't stand beg buttons for pedestrians. Nothing indicates more to pedestrian that they are second class road users than having to push a button to ask permission for the gods of traffics t
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by trgn 5y ago
> , like slow or calm traffic. Perhaps that depends on the context a little. My city has removed some lights in my neighborhood, in favor of 4-way stops, and traffic is much calmer. No more the gunning it to try to make it through the in
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by trgn 5y ago
> You could fix this by capping the number of jobs so that increases in population would be forced to distribute more evenly through the country Interesting idea. But wondering how this would work in practice. The Federal government ofte
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by trgn 5y ago
> If it were taxed only when realized, that would make sense. The tax man does not like this. They like wealthy people to always pay something, each year. Hence, property taxes, so it can siphon off something at least. Also, why we have
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by trgn 5y ago
lol! Point taken.
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by trgn 5y ago
That's it. Tons of homeowners are letting at a loss in the superstar cities. They're banking on appreciation, or see inherent value to stake a foothold in their city, possibly for generations. The cost of renting in the most expen
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by trgn 5y ago
> there is nothing inherent in the nature of being a landlord that implies offering such services. I get what you're saying, but it reads like sophistry. Yes, _technically_, a landlord, can delegate all services. In practice, there&
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by trgn 5y ago
>If I have .75 acres with a single family home and 30 years later the area around me is developed I think this is exactly the framework. The idea is that that person right now is benefitting from increased community wealth (which would b
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by trgn 5y ago
Thanks, I'll look into it!
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by trgn 5y ago
> a working-class family wishing to buy a home to live What people picture is owning houses. Landtax will not meaningfully make that more affordable. It will make holding on to land more expensive, therefore really putting pressure to ex
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by trgn 5y ago
> providing no service Landlords are not parasites and provide a valuable service. I think a land tax would be great to curb speculation. Buying property, not providing any service (neither by renting nor capital investment in improvemen
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by trgn 5y ago
We were replying at the same time and crossposted. You said it better. As a reader, I would have loved to have more examples.
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by trgn 5y ago
Great comment. > I always hated how much teachers would drill symbolism and literary device analysis into you in school but then I come across threads like this I wonder whether we aren’t focusing on it enough. I feel, the inability to t
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by trgn 5y ago
We'd always eat frozen bread at my grandma's. She'd buy a new loaf, pull an old one out of the freezer, and put the new one in. I don't think we ever had a fresh slice of bread there. I love this memory for some reason.
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by trgn 5y ago
> more, higher throughput highways Please not. But maybe underground, then yes, sure why not. > removing a major thoroughfare, essentially to spite drivers) I don't really know the particular situation. I hope it was not out of
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by trgn 5y ago
+100 > the gradually growing criticisms of modernism and the fraying of the postwar political order go hand-in-hand fwiw - I think the growing criticism of modernism are a good thing. The alternative, a more humanistic attitude to life a
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by trgn 5y ago
Thanks for that link. I don't know about his personal thoughts, but just judging from his work, LC's architecture certainly had a fascist tinge, in the sense that through that kind of architecture man submits to authority. A-tower
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by trgn 5y ago
tbf, I do agree with you. For sake of argument, "big housing project", is just another name for "big apartment building". And I agree that many places do "big apartment building" quite well. But "big apar

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