Drive Free or Die
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Drive Free or Die
@SprawlandDrive
Suburbia, Driving, Freedom
the world Katılım Mayıs 2008
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Customers getting a shirt should pay for it.
Customers getting a lamp should pay for it.
Customers using internet service should pay for it.
How about... 🥁🥁🥁
Customers using car infrastructure should pay for it.
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The deadly heat is all hiding in the ocean. It may leap out at any moment! Also this is why flooding is a thing now.
Robin Boardman@RobinBoardmanUK
The ocean absorbed our heat so we didn't have to feel it. 90% of it. 30% of our carbon. Decade by decade. Now it's changing in ways we can't undo. 3 billion people on its rising shores. The UN published its killer assessment this week. Governments will file it next to all the others. woa.un.org
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Just got off the phone with a friend who's a climate scientist.
Zhe is terrified, because the latest measurements show South Asian sea slugs have grown 0.1 mm since the last measurements five years ago.
These increases are unprecedented and much higher than expected.
Climate scientists are afraid to even share this information with the public for fear of causing mass panic.
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What they don't tell you is that you first have to drive to the train station, pay to park, wait for the train, travel, find some way to your destination that costs more money and then do it again in reverse
When you could have driven it yourself in the same amount of time
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@SlopHq we should absolutely spend california money for a train when you can drive the route in a few hours
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Nine out of ten flights United canceled out of Des Moines could easily be served by fast trains, but we didn’t invest in fast trains because we have planes that we canceled.
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The urbanists said it should have been a subway, but no one wants to go on vacation to be packed on a train
Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️@loganb
Enjoyed this video tour of the Las Vegas Loop. They’re building at $10M/mile. That’s 200x cheaper than Sound Transit. For the cost of Link Light Rail to Ballard, you could have a subway under literally every single street!
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@billybinion It's the trend of higher spending and taxes and new fees people have to pay like the upcoming parking permits that will probably happen. or the congestion charge
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People can & should debate tax policy. But the way Mamdani talks about the wealthy—who disproportionately fund the city's tax base—as if they are the scum on the bottom of his shoe is a terrible quality in a leader. It's childish and weak.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
If you have a second home in New York City worth more than $5M, check your mailbox when you’re back in the five boroughs — because you've got mail. Today, we sent notification letters to property owners, letting them know that our new pied-à-terre tax is coming soon. The best city in the world deserves the best parks, libraries, and schools in the world. That's only possible when we all pay our fair share.
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@Car_Free_USA It's not really the tax but the trend. Keep raising budgets and new taxes and revenue sources every year
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Regardless if you agree with taxing the rich more, the schadenfreude tone of this message is another reason to make wealthy New Yorkers leave the city.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
If you have a second home in New York City worth more than $5M, check your mailbox when you’re back in the five boroughs — because you've got mail. Today, we sent notification letters to property owners, letting them know that our new pied-à-terre tax is coming soon. The best city in the world deserves the best parks, libraries, and schools in the world. That's only possible when we all pay our fair share.
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@Blueelectron4 @_fat_ugly_rat_ Whole Foods in Brooklyn had solar over their parking lot 20 years ago and permitting is so hard that no one else bothered to do it
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@_fat_ugly_rat_ New York is such a laughingstock. They love to lecture everyone on climate change while making it illiegal to build solar and getting destroyed by Texas' renewable energy
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Genuinely incredible how well simply just building a shit ton of solar worked to strengthen the grid here.
Michael E. Webber@MichaelEWebber
ERCOT set a peak demand record exceeding 90 GW. Incredible. But batteries are still charging and prices are low.
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@_fat_ugly_rat_ AOC been talking about he green new deal for years but Texas got it done
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Drive Free or Die@SprawlandDrive
AOC, here is your green new deal in MAGA red Texas Why is Texas and half the MAGA red tiny western states with more cows than people making more renewable energy than the blue states that keep talking about it
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@Middleton330W @aaron_renn I've seen suburban elementary schools that are larger by area than many urban high schools
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@aaron_renn One huge advantage of the suburbs applies to youth sports. Both of my children do competitive sports (yes, I know there are drawbacks) and the facilities that are offered in the suburbs are simply miles ahead of urban areas due to availability of space, cost, etc.
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This is why suburbs are in fact more efficient than cities in some way. You need fewer, more centralized facilities to provide coverage vs. the need for more, distributed facilities in the city. Applies to many things.
Dion@2024dion
The suburbs are replacing neighborhood amenities with regional amenities. It’s cheaper per capita and they can give them higher end features, but something is lost when you can no longer walk/drive a couple minutes to get to your local pool, soccer field, etc. a world less child friendly
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@aaron_renn This is a thing in older suburbs with no HOA's. No real need for smaller pools. Larger HOA's will have their own gyms, pools, etc
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Some cities on the left side are growing the budget faster than inflation every year and aggressively raising taxes and revenue.
Makes you wonder if they are a few years behind Chicago and the cities in the bottom right
Stuart Loren@StuLoren
For comparison, I compiled pension data for top US cities and plotted funding ratios against unfunded liabilities as percent of city operating budgets and GDPs. No surprise: Chicago scores quite poorly! And that doesn't even include the teachers pension. Not sustainable...
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If you believe some people then this is happening because cities are somehow subsidizing the suburbs
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Plenty of room for people to park and extra lanes to drive by
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@jeffwilcox NYC condos/co-ops been flat for almost a decade while rents surged. the demographics are against urban property values
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My Seattle condo is now at its 2007 valuation according to the King county appraisal... ouch.
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@unusual_whales Some people should learn to cut their own grass, plant their own flowers, and fix some things around the house by themselves. Might save some money
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BREAKING: Foreclosures hit highest level since 2019, per YF
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@RedWavePress Why is it that you rarely see homelessness outside the big blue cities?
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Drive Free or Die@SprawlandDrive
NYC and LA spend $80,000 a year PER HOMELESS PERSON and there are more homeless than ever
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NEWS: Los Angeles continues to fall apart under Mayor Karen Bass’s failed leadership, with homelessness up 3.4% citywide and the number of people living in their cars rising 7.9%.
Fox & Friends: “Karen Bass is up against socialist city councilwoman Nithya Raman in November’s general election.”
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@big_pedestrian Electrification and renewables are great except for the part where electricity prices are rising at double digit rates and grid capacity is falling in some places
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Having a gas stove carries risks similar to living with a smoker.
I put a NO monitor next to our gas stove and one in a bedroom. The exposure near the gas stove—where our faces are—was thirteen times higher. Induction isn’t just safer. It’s a better technology for cooking.
Sammy Roth@Sammy_Roth
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-sto…
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WTF is it with city people waiting on lines all the time?
Are the practicing for socialism?
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