dakaradana.bsky.social
Artist, Philadelphia Supremacist, Lego maniac, and occasional film buff letterboxd.com/DakarA/ #DTWD
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Those red light cameras and license plate readers are "AI" too. They're not gonna be feeding images into ChatGPT, it's gonna be a mix of automatic image processing, OCR, and maybe some sort of machine learning trained on images of license plates. It's what this stuff is good for
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Hopefully they'll quickly up enforcement of illegal plate covers, fake temp tags, and otherwise obscured tags, because those are a common thread of the absolute worst drivers in Philly
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Kinda deeply funny that conservatives turned brand boycott virtue signalling into a thing and never materially harmed their targets (heh), but it happens one time in the other direction and it tanks the stock price
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That first shirt is clearly AI-generated and should not be included with actual local artists' work
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Planes keep crashing, because no woke
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Narrow streets are literally the secret sauce to having an amazing city.
No one visits for your wide boulevards, it's the small streets that sell a city.
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"Tesla, engage full self driving"
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They have too much cultural cachet built up, so actually seeing what's going on requires you to be A. well informed beyond their coverage and B. tuned in enough to have detailed knowledge of their coverage.
Wayyyy too high of a bar for anyone who isn't a freak to clear, unfortunately š©
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Me when I have to destroy my soft power & global hegemony because of woke
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I'm not religious, but if I was I'd maybe take this as a sign
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"This is the best coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, and we were after Coen from his first chat"- Shad Khan, in about 2 days
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Jared Goof to the bitter end
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I did enjoy the magic of the old Prima guides as a kid, along with the various errors that worked their way in!
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www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/uninsurabl...
As this great essay points out, this is the tension of our times- we're at the end of the road of post-war suburbia, and the political moment is the reaction against that reality
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Yep. Lived in a college town for the past few years, off a stroad that had sidewalks & a bit grid. That was the extent of what I'd consider a "city", and anything more spread out is immediately a problem
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Everyone wants a free lunch, and have convinced themselves that rent seeking doesn't actually harm anyone, so why SHOULDN'T you make the world worse for an easy $50 a day?
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I'm sympathetic to the last commenter, having lived in places like that. But that's definitely not an urban area! It's almost definitionally suburban
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Soapman-ing? It's like a straw man, but squeaky clean (and equally not real)
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it is, effectively, a view that nothing should be done to solve any problem if there might be a trade-off somewhere for someone who you could code as āmarginalized.ā it is just anti-government conservatism with a different aesthetic!
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At least the headline is honest- NIMBYs fighting to stop change
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The light was too perfect for this shot
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It's also, I feel, a logical fallacy that trips up a lot of online leftists:
IF billionaires are the problem
AND problems caused by them will continue until they go away
WHY do anything incremental to improve things?
...and then you have leftist orgs that are just glorified book clubs
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It can also be an easy way to couch NIMBYism, as in "why does [exclusive neighborhood with million dollar homes] have to change when it's BILLIONAIRES who are causing the problems?"
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Think this is incredibly salient & I am sure I'm gonna get a lot of mileage out of this screenshot
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Well yeah, that's why it's a systemic problem. It's patriarchal thinking, and it's not really something that can be "undone" by an individual because it is reinforced internally AND externally.
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Fully disagreed, it's a lot more complex than that and down to ways that men are socialized & what gendered behaviors are enforced, actively and passively, for, by, and to men
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(correction, added one too many zeroes. 9 busses can carry 720 people, not 7200)
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Addendum: once you extrapolate beyond just residents (guests, events, work), the required space for cars expands almost exponentially. The reason we are in a housing crisis is because American cities have tried to defy this simple math for the past 70 years of building.
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The math is clear and unambiguous- cars are too space-inefficient to work in cities. They can be tolerated, but should never be prioritized. There will NEVER be a time that everyone can live in a city, drive everywhere, and find parking. It just doesn't add up!
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Furthermore, SEPTA's Nova LFS busses have a capacity of 80 passengers, and 9 can fit in the same space.
Where 22 cars have a max capacity of 110 people, 9 busses can carry 7200 people per block! Across the corridor, that's 360,000 people, or 8.8x the # of residents!
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Not to mention bikes make people healthier, streets safer, and are better for business: sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
You can also take a bike up stairs or inside a building. If you try the same with a car, you're making the local news!
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And that's with no visitors, contractors, cops, or any non-local uses of the lanes.
There simply isn't enough space in a city for cars & on-street parking.
And considering you can fit about 15 bikes in the space of one car, the math is DRAMATICALLY better
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22 spots per side, per block * 25 blocks * 2 streets with bike lanes = 1100 parking spaces
1100 spaces/41,000 residents @ 1 car per resident = 2.7% of residents can use the streets for parking, assuming no bike lane + perfectly spaced parking