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Kiro

@CatchyUser4

I am interested in walkable cities, vyvanse, history, my gf, cigars, cyberpunk, caffeine, fishing, and the outdoors

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Kiro@CatchyUser4·
@Tazerface16 It's up in the air. If Iran wanted to destroy the GCC oil or desalination plants it would have been doing it already. But maybe they are waiting for the US/Israel to totally destroy their facilities, leaving the GCC attacks as a last resort
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Christopher David@Tazerface16·
I don't think most people seem to realize we're about to have the worst oil shortage in history. It's really weird.
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Pédonazi@pedonazi·
@BrentToderian Not true here, taxes on fuel cover ywice the cost of infrastructure. And if you count the (exagerated) effects, you have to account the positive ones, which are most of the prosperity. Lifespan is higher in big cities, supposedly most polluted, for a reason.
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Brent Toderian@BrentToderian·
One of the biggest disinformation campaigns ever applied to cities involves the constant claims that “driving pays its way.” It’s actually MASSIVELY subsidized, while things like walking, biking, public transit & supportive housing for the unhoused actually SAVE PUBLIC MONEY. HT to the classic Andy Singer cartoon. #UrbanTruth
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Kiro@CatchyUser4·
@RossBinkley @BrentToderian What do you not understand? The image shows several examples of subsidies. Road maintenance (which is just ONE expense of cars) isn't fully covered by gas taxes
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Ross Binkley@RossBinkley·
@BrentToderian "Cost of cars, gas, maintenance, and insurance 'subsidized' by car owners." This comic does indeed raise an important question. Specifically, "Does Andy Singer know what a 'subsidy' is?" Also, roads are paid for mostly through taxes specifically on vehicle owners.
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Kiro@CatchyUser4·
@MarkMoneyCoach @BrentToderian Transit is 20-60x safer per mile traveled than driving. 150 people are killed on public transit a year in the US, while 40,000 people are killed driving.
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MT@MarkMoneyCoach·
@BrentToderian We don’t want to share a bus with schizophrenics is the main issue. They need to make transit safe before normies ride it
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Fortissax@FortySacks·
It’s a disgrace that functioning infrastructure like roads, trains and planes are associated with leftism. 200 years ago we conquered this continent, carved territories on perfectly logical grids, mastering nature, making it our domain. Now we bitch about high speed rail.
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Kiro@CatchyUser4·
@shivmalik They don't care. They have the home and you don't and they don't care about you and have no desire to empathize with you
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Shiv Malik@shivmalik·
Dear boomers, can you afford to buy the house you live in currently with the wage you used to earn before you retired? If you can’t, then that’s the whole housing problem in a nutshell. It really is that simple to understand.
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Kiro@CatchyUser4·
@NetanYolo @NotGreatTom "Remake society" you are the one who demands the government force people to live in specific types of housing and adopt a specific lifestyle and force the rest of society to subsidize them
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Benjamin NetanYolo
Benjamin NetanYolo@NetanYolo·
@NotGreatTom The opposite actually! People are free to move to walkable cities if they want! But im not really a fan of the general leftist desire to police and remake society in their YIMBY urbanist vision. If people want to drive or walk, thats fine and there are cities suited for either
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Benjamin NetanYolo@NetanYolo·
I would guess 75% of this country deals with either freezing winters or 105+ degree summers. Shut the fuck up already about “walkability”.
Jarrett Walker@humantransit

“Walkability” is a measurable feature of the design of a community. In the US, walkable places are expensive because zoning has made them scarce. This fact makes it easy to call ‘walkability’ elitist. Real urbanists want walkability to be abundant, so that it’s cheaper.

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Kiro@CatchyUser4·
@NetanYolo @A320ne0 @Koji_Vu @grok Why do you think GDP is more important than quality of life? How is that at all a legitimate argument?
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Kiro@CatchyUser4·
@NetanYolo @CharlieSokaitis Families would love to live in nice walkable neighborhoods where their kids could walk or take the bus to a grocery store or hang out in a third space. European and Japanese families do it all the time.
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Benjamin NetanYolo@NetanYolo·
@CharlieSokaitis Thats awesome for you man. Most people, especially families with children or elderly, do not want extreme temperatures and do not want to walk everywhere
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Kiro@CatchyUser4·
@dcyimbys @Commof100DC Idk why you are trying to reason with them. They don't care about logic or reason, they only care about increasing their property values and keeping their neighborhoods white and upper class
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DC YIMBYs 🏗@dcyimbys·
@Commof100DC You may be interested in this new research. While upzoning raises the value of *land* it lowers the cost of *housing*. Because you can now put more housing on that land! Lower housing costs help people stay in the neighborhoods they love. x.com/i/status/20351…
Michael Wiebe@michael_wiebe

Building higher-density housing lets you save on land costs, by putting more homes on the same parcel. But for the same reason, people are willing to pay more. Which factor wins? Data from Auckland shows that upzoning reduced the land cost to floor area ratio (THA, blue). 1/

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The Committee of 100 DC@Commof100DC·
What about more displacement citywide by raising land values, pushing up housing costs as developers, landowners get immediate enrichments. Remember, this massive upzoning is like the interstate highways that tore up DC in the 1970s. Stopped, and the money used to create METRO.
DC YIMBYs 🏗@dcyimbys

Somehow the part of the public that supported the upzonings managed to participate. As did you. Not sure why you think months of an open case record after years of feedback excluded anyone.

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Kiro@CatchyUser4·
@Commof100DC Boomers have apparently learned how to use AI but just use it to restrict housing and keep duplexes illegal
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Kidding_Man@KiddingMan4·
@CatchyUser4 @sentdefender never implied it was.... but at some point if something should happen they gotta either deal with it themselves or ask someone...
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OSINTdefender@sentdefender·
Austria has rejected U.S. requests for use of its airspace since the start of the ongoing Iran War, due to the country’s neutrality law, Col. Michael Bauer, a Spokesman for the Austrian Defense Ministry told the AFP.
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Nick Ricci@NickRicci5·
@sentdefender All foreign aid and military assistance to Austria should be stopped immediately
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Kidding_Man@KiddingMan4·
@sentdefender 🚨THIS JUST IN 🚨 Austria among the first to be told good luck when asking for help against an invading/hostile/whatever force. ye shall not receive what ye do not give yourself....
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Christopher Hooks
Christopher Hooks@cd_hooks·
Banal to say but it’s so strange that most people don’t have a sense of what the world is going to look like in a month. Really does feel like February 2020
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Kiro@CatchyUser4·
@B52Returns @schneider For a city department where you are virtually guaranteed multiple hydrants and multiple apparatus within 5-8 minutes, yes this would be adequate as a pumper
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Michael Schneider
Michael Schneider@schneider·
American fire departments: - demand wide (unsafe) roads - multiple car-length red zones for hydrants - huge fire trucks Somehow in Japan: - trucks half the size that still put out fires - tiny zones for hydrants (helped by no street parking) - narrow (safer) roads everywhere
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Kiro@CatchyUser4·
@cheese_breath @LoewyLawFirm More and more common but still compared to other forms of travel it is extremely rare
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CheeseBreath@cheese_breath·
@CatchyUser4 @LoewyLawFirm There have been 6 stabbings on Cap Metro buses in past 9 months. It is becoming more and more common. Stabbings do not always equal death, but do leave the victim maimed and with a lifetime of trauma.
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Adam Loewy
Adam Loewy@LoewyLawFirm·
UNBELIEVEABLE 🤯 City leaders now wanted *limited* parking near Project Connect hubs. I guess the thinking is everyone can walk or bike to catch the light rail? This is the absolute biggest grift in the history of Austin. #txlege
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Kiro@CatchyUser4·
@schneider Actual convo I had "I hate these (road diet changes), they slow down our response time" ""Yes but cars are much more dangerous than house fires so public safety is improved"" "Well I don't care about (traffic and pedestrian deaths) because my job is to fight fires"
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Kiro@CatchyUser4·
@schneider I am a firefighter in the US and can confirm this is a result of the cowboy culture in the fire service where feeling badass outweighs public safety and public health. If you try and reason with firefighters about pedestrian safety they just don't care.
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Kiro@CatchyUser4·
@cheese_breath @LoewyLawFirm The point is that your chances of dying on public transit are incredibly rare The reason you remember the stabbings on public transit in the news is that they are so uncommon when they do happen it's noteworthy
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