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by xracy 4y ago
I get that this seems to be tesla fan-boy central... And that for some reason trains are a dirty word for Elon... > Class 8 Truck 5.3 MPG (diesel) 22 MPGe (1.7 kWh.mi) f 4.2X But if I look at these numbers, they're missing the point
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by xracy 4y ago
Article removed due to editorial conflict of interest.
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by xracy 4y ago
Open areas where people live (people's yards) are famously open to the public. There's certainly not a common acronym for what people don't want happening in their yards...
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by xracy 4y ago
Good public transit is convenient. Ask anyone in any city with good public transit how they commute. Trains and buses that run all day consistently are even cheaper and more convenient to plan around. "[A developed city isn't one
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by xracy 4y ago
I like biking/walking. Both give me time to clear my head on my way to work. One of them is like 2x faster than the other. Scooters are fine if that works for you. AFAIK all of these options fit on the bus/train. But I will also s
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by xracy 4y ago
Yeah, real estate appreciation has its own costs that we're going to pay for down the line... in particular increased costs of housing/living is causing more homelessness.
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ah, okay. My counter, if this only solves one of the problems (parking), why would we prefer that over public transit which solves 2 problems.
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What? If the law that requires an absolute minimum number of parking spaces hasn't increased, then the total number of parking spaces hasn't increased? People can build more parking spaces than the parking minimums? Also, Parking
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by xracy 4y ago
I sure hope not, but that doesn't really solve the parking issues? You need a parking space for your car permanently, and one for every place you might visit. (up to as many people as are likely to be visiting it). In a popular place t
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by xracy 4y ago
There's an ocean of cities that people like between what you're describing and suburbia. What non-US cities do most people like to visit? You can look up suburban fossil fuel usage per capita vs urban fossil fuel usage per-capita
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by xracy 4y ago
What's wrong is that I don't live on what is even the smallest per-state average of sqft for a single family home. average yard size is ~4x that. So that's 4x less open space. You're also assuming that all parts of the U
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by xracy 4y ago
Who subsidizes the roads for drivers?
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by xracy 4y ago
> but having lived it, it doesn't solve the main problem at all if private transportation is still viable. I'm having trouble parsing that sentence, could you clarify?
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by xracy 4y ago
Okay, I definitely misread this. :) That said, I suspect my misread is because... Is parking an unsolved problem? I think in most cities it's a solved problem, and the consequence is traffic. But I would be curious of your take given t
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by xracy 4y ago
It's not about shaming and shunning. It's about educating, so that people are more amenable to non-car-centric changes to public transit and their cities that will improve everyone's way of life. I think the thing about Publi
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by xracy 4y ago
lol, you even admit your example doesn't work well enough to "fix" traffic. Your private taxi cab is never going to compete with the people-moving capacity of a bus, or a train. A road with 100s of cars on it, is a demonstrat
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by xracy 4y ago
This feels like a positive feedback loop (not the good kind), where the more parking is needed, the more people feel they need to drive. And the more people feel they need to drive, the more they need parking and the more space between stor
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by xracy 4y ago
You are more disruptive to that environment in your back yard than you would be if you moved to a city. That's exactly the problem. Any asphalt and concrete you add is sustaining 1 person. Any asphalt and concrete in an urban place is
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by xracy 4y ago
I live in a 1600 sqft house on a 5600 sqft lot. If everyone in the US lived in that area, we would take up ~51,423,324 acres (assuming population of 400 million). (~2.7% of the Continental US) If instead, every person took up 800 sqft in an
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by xracy 4y ago
Except that the answer to this is public transportation?? The problem is that people need a place to store their single-occupancy-vehicles. which means that each individual with a car takes up a permanent ~100 Sqft. They also need places
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by xracy 4y ago
More than the tax prep industry being scared (which they clearly already are given the amount of lobbying that they do (I think the largest of any industry the last time I looked)), I hope that the Biden administration has the guts to actua
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by xracy 4y ago
Oh, wait, sorry, CEO of starbucks says he's not anti-union[1]. I guess he isn't anti-union. In other news wolf says he doesn't prey on sheep. [1] https://www.npr.org/2023/03/29/1166277326/s
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by xracy 4y ago
I wrote out a really thoughtful response to this, but I will instead just say the opposite of you since that's as much consideration as you seem to have put into your response. Nope, you're just anti union so you don't see nu
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by xracy 4y ago
> The current Starbucks unionization movement began in Buffalo, New York when a store voted to unionize in late 2021. Less than 2 years from your own article. That counts as newly minted. Also how many of those locations have a contract
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by xracy 4y ago
Feels like pretty clear behavior from starbucks to try and convince people they're better off not being in a union. When in actuality they probably wouldn't have changed anything for the other stores, had stores not unionized.
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by xracy 4y ago
coming off of close to 50 years of anti-union sentiment as well as fewer unions and more union busting. We're as close to black and white as we can get in any discussion about current events. Is the claim defendable, probably not, but
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by xracy 4y ago
The original case of tech startups was that if you gave people a living wage (such they were comfortable), then the fact that they're not keeping up with the Jones's becomes meaningless, and then how they thrive is about how inter
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by xracy 4y ago
The impacts are being felt now. Droughts, and Extreme weather events throughout the world are getting more extreme.
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by xracy 4y ago
I don't know why you think this random sampling of internet comments would be any more valuable than the information from the manufacturer? (i.e. All of it is equally bad/biased "data")
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by xracy 4y ago
At this point, I'm pretty convinced that anything that's coming out about renewables is just propaganda by the oil companies to try and avoid their inevitable removal from use as an energy source. It would be really cool if gov&#x

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