@SR_eth @SukritGanesh Those cities are where the fucking jobs are you idiot. People want to live where the jobs are.
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Comrade Cabbage
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@SukritGanesh This isnt Marin. This is the Santa Rosa plain and the Petaluma wind gap.
I'm from here. It's the most anti-development place in the world. You're not a serious person if you think this can't or shouldn't be developed.
Densifying shitty cities is not going to do anything.
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How to fix California:
- Implement 1910s building laws (zoning, permitting, etc.) on 50% of all urban land. Basically unfettered YIMBYism.
- Remove Prop 13.
- Abolish CEQA
- Uncap home insurance rates
- Eliminate corporate income taxes
- Adopt urbanism as state policy
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@AK_Organizer @TsaiMeLemoni Yes true too! It just sucks that you never ever really truly get to own your own land anymore it’s sad
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It's an apartment you own instead of rent
reduced cashew milk@anvyrd
I still don't really understand what a condo is
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@rudy_betrayed The war was over in 1920 and it was becoming its most gruesome in 1916. They probably didn’t look back fondly at all.
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When mustard gas was deployed, the only way to survive was to piss on something and hold it on your face and hope the ammonia from your piss was enough to dispel the gas
ww1 soldier conditions are honestly not worth reading about even if you like history. Too nasty and terrible
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“Do you think people in trench warfare watching their shot friends get eaten by rats because there was no way to bury the dead, and supply lines were so poor that soldiers ate in the dark because it was easier to consume rotten food if you couldn’t see it, preferred the years before the Great War”?
Yeah buddy they probably did
Braindead Bird App@tragicbirdapp
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@lymanstoneky No I’m sorry that’s stupid. There’s no reason to think that a family can’t live in a condo if it’s near jobs and schools. Shared walls are not inherently anti family.
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we do need housing of that type! people in temporary stages of life need housing too!
but making a society-wide shift towards ever more of that housing is kind of just admitting civilizational defeat
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there is a whole darn lot of California in relatively short commute range from jobs way less dense than this which could be made this dense (however this would cause traffic; to keep commutes short you'd need a lot more buses/trains):
Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban
I mean, California really does have very little land left where you you can do single-family sprawl in desirable areas near jobs. Luckily, there's also very high demand for the image on the right.
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@TastelessAlex @cigaretteorgasm Leave the homes we built? In the city that we love?
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California needs to adopt a simple state wide zoning code and if cities aren't building enough housing, they lose zoning and permit approval control and are forced to adopt simplified state zoning.
Alex Armlovich@aarmlovi
California's zoning systems are probably too path-dependent to fix, but the bonusing and "multiple" approach is a fundamentally crazy & opaque way to control growth The only residential zones a city truly needs are NYC's R5, R6, and R12 (+ mixed-use equivalents)
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@cigaretteorgasm @TastelessAlex No. Wrong. Stupid. Fuck you.
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@TastelessAlex Bad take. Local communities should decide what happens in their community. Its one of the basic principals of democracy and self determination. If you cant afford it - Leave.
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@Rodrigolealre @jasonjosephlee @MayorToddGloria If you think there is is public transit/bike/anti car lobby that has a lot of money to spend you should be deported to the sun
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@jasonjosephlee @MayorToddGloria They wont change this. The transit/bike/anti-car lobby is too deep in his pocket for that.
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The worst decision the city of San Diego ever made was taking away all of the street parking and putting bike lanes that no one uses in several urban neighborhoods. What were you thinking @MayorToddGloria? How do we fix this mistake?
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@jasonjosephlee @thmsonline @MayorToddGloria Because they get people where they want to go instead of storing vehicles. Most roads are empty 99% of the time too.
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@thmsonline @MayorToddGloria Every time I walk or drive by (often) they are always empty.
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@jasonjosephlee Shut the fuck up retard parking should never be free
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@Crime_Penguin @procrastixote It happened because Americans are stupid and preferred drive throughs to walking. That’s the reason. Americans like being studied fat hogs that spend 20 hours per week in their cars.
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@procrastixote I’m not anti-city, it’s just tedious that American Urbanists insist upon ignoring the real reasons for American urban decay and also seem incapable of grasping that sprawl wasn’t something that just randomly happened because the heroic planners weren’t there to stop it.
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You “freak out” because whenever people are free to choose they choose single family homes. Houston’s development pattern is proof—they choose space and privacy and distance from others. And that doesn’t jive with your silly “courtyard urbanism” fantasies so you freak out.
Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist@UrbanCourtyard
I think people freak out about Houston because no one wants American abundance to look *like that.* Everyone is hoping that 21st-century abundance can do better than Houston-style sprawl I am so fascinated by the late 19th century and early 20th century in Europe because they were dealing with a lot of the same urban housing pressures that we are, and they dealt with them by applying a very smart building code. This code allowed builders to go up five or six stories, build to the property lines, but they had to build with masonry and they had to leave the rear part of the lot open for a courtyard. This code helped these cities to grow by hundreds of thousands over a short time span. And the buildings were beautiful and livable, and are still standing today and are accounted some of the most valuable neighborhoods on the planet
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@Crime_Penguin Over time single family homes become unaffordable. Also if all the infrastructure is based around cars it doesn’t work. Dense walkable pre war neighborhoods are the more expensive part of every major city except for the multimillion dollar mansions.
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And that’s not unique to Houston. The development of LA proved it first: people overwhelmingly choose single-family homes when they are available and affordable. Ordinary middle class people are priced out of homes in LA now, but that has yet to happen in Houston.
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@DBloom2022 @terrakei07 This just isn’t true get out of your bubble
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@terrakei07 CA on paper pays more than most, but behind closed doors and through corruption in congress gets 10X more than what it pays in. Only the poorly educated still run with that joke of a line at this point.
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嫌味とかではなく本当に素朴な疑問なんだけど、アメリカ人の皆さんはなんでそこまでカリフォルニアを嫌っているんですか？
Writing The Republic@Write4Republic
I have another proposal. We swap California for Japan geographically and leave everything else as is.
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@SpiderBATman007 @terrakei07 Lol you’ve never been have you
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@terrakei07 California is a socialist state. A financial and humanitarian disaster. The condition of L.A. is atrocious. If it were possible we would trade for Japan any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
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@drvictoriafox It’s already shitty and expensive in most places
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I think people in LA have convinced themselves that the “housing shortage” is so dire, the only way to house people is by mowing down every single family home and replacing it with a 4-plex.
This kind of deluded catastrophizing will only end with bad housing policies that make LA ugly and unlivable.
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@alt_ccc It’s literally doing that right now. They’ve been lynching people and lighting houses on fire.
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My take? No, Israel is not an “apartheid state”. If it did annex the West Bank and didn’t give citizenship to the people living there, however, it would be.
Clash Report@clashreport
Q: Do you regret using the word ‘apartheid’ to describe Israel? Gavin Newsom: I used it in this context — and I reference why I used it — a Tom Friedman article in that same sentence where Tom used it in the context of the direction that Bibi is going. And that is a legitimate concern I have, that I share — that direction, if that vision of the far right that Netanyahu is indulging leads to full annexation of the West Bank, then that’s a word you may hear others use.
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Do you really want to play “which party has less of an ability to prove citizenship” game
sean@_sn_n
me as a poll worker in a swing state after turning away 100 registered Republicans cause they lacked a passport
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@NormieUtah @PositionPicksFF @TuskedUp Density allows crowds and congestion to take up less land you fucking idiot
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@PositionPicksFF @TuskedUp Creating crowds and congestion where crowds and contesting don’t need to be.🤷♂️
Something to be avoided.
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Am I the only one to have a visceral revulsion to this?
Student housing, ok. My first post college apartment, fine. Newlyweds, sure. Grandma, maybe.
But for Big Sky Country livin’…..no way.🤮
Micah Springut@mspringut
A new city in Utah taking shape with so much potential.
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@TuskedUp High density in the expansive mountain west isn’t aspirational.
It is something to be endured and moved away from as soon as you can.
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Imagine being a working class family that just spent 30 years paying off a mortgage for a small one bed, one bath in Astoria and then you pass away and your kids are taxed 50% of the value because they’re deemed “rich” and they’re forced to liquidate the property
Exec Sum@exec_sum
NEWS: Zohran Mamdani is proposing big changes to New York’s estate tax: - Tax rate: increase top tax rate to 50% (from 16%) - Threshold: lower to $750K (from $7M) Mamdani is currently facing a $5.4B city budget deficit so this is one way he’s trying to close the gap.
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