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“it’s illegal to not buy this car” gives big “Coke Mandatory” energy
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yes, there is the cement and the land and whatever. But let people enjoy things.
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Interesting, I feel like there is not a high percentage of freight traffic on this road. Maybe I am going at the wrong times.
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I’m always a bit shocked when going through the Rainier Valley and the train *stops at a damn stoplight* like it is a bus
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just kidding, no one bikes on this death trap of a bike lane, they all take the sidewalk. Also, I think this is the only eight lane arterial I’ve seen - they usually top out at six.
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I wish I could say this is the worst bike lane I’ve seen
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“Sorry I’m late to Cafe Chichi to make your latte, the 3 hour long bus ride from New Poorswarehouseville was delayed again”
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I think we tried this in the past, it went very badly
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What was that one Hyperbole and a Half blog where her dog kept eating its own vomit in a perpetual motion machine of ick?
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Right, you’d write into the street standards that you need 80% canopy coverage of all paved right of way or something. I suspect it would do something like this.
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They have canopy coverage requirements for parking lots in the Sunbelt. Is this something you could put into street standards?
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this also has parallels in US history, such as pre-Civil War concern about the balance of free and slave states tempering expansionism a bit. Democratic countries don’t want assholes in some other country voting for their president.
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also, *gestures around at everything*
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*society must not collapse
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There is this idea—which I fully reject—that cities need to have places that are dangerous, polluted and alienating so that poor people have a place to live and marginal businesses have a place to survive. Unfortunately, that’s how America is…but not how it needs to be.
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this, but with Cascadian plants. You could do some really good things with a proper combination of regular architecture and landscape architecture
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bonus points for the “e” on the end of words (Towne Centre?) - each superfluous letter represents a deepere circle of helle
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can LLM make someone who knows what they’re doing more efficient? Of course.
Can it turn someone with no experience into a competent, say, structural engineer? You won’t know until the first building collapses.