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Vincent C. (iOS Dev/北米勢打ち師)
@VincentC_Dev
UCSD '24・iOSエンジニア・言語学オタク・北米勢ヲタ芸チーム@TeamSanFlare 所属・イラストレーター・ https://t.co/Zy1juNfaRe ・Apple SWE Intern '22
Santa Clara, CA Katılım Ekim 2021
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This isn’t a critique of Tokyo, not in the slightest. It’s a critique of urbanist myopia.
Tokyo looks nothing like their beloved 18th century European postcard urbanism. Tokyo has SFH next to gigantic office towers. Alley-sized streets next to stroads. Magnificent rail transit and elevated urban highways. Pedestrian zones and pedestrian bridges. Tokyo is a great city, and urbanists are right to love it.
So, then why do urbanists try force one-size-fits-all Amsterdam/Copenhagen-style solutions on American cities?
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Urbanists: “Wide streets ruin cities. Road diet everything. Complete Streets”
Also Urbanists: “UwU I love Tokyo.”
Tokyo: Stroads, giant intersections and pedestrian bridges.
Alexander Lacherbauer@lacherbauer
Urbanists: “Highways ruin cities. Tear down the freeways.” Also Urbanists: “UwU I love Tokyo.” Tokyo: 200 miles of elevated highways.
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@jek747 @Noahpinion Of course. “Savory” doesn’t mean “salty” directly, but it does denote the concept of “overall this is more salty/umami/spicy than sweet”
Food establishments also like to market salty dishes as “savory” because people tend to interpret the word “salty” as “too salty”
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@VincentC_Dev @Noahpinion No saltiness is denoted by "salty". We already have a word for that.
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Americans just replaced the word "savory" with "umami", without ever thinking about what either of those words mean
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Vincent C. (iOS Dev/北米勢打ち師) retweetledi
@LinkofSunshine NYC might grow by like 30% but the Bay would quadruple in population given how insanely constrained our housing supply is relative to demand
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@lakshyalark @thecsguy No it has the SoC but likely less RAM and barely any storage
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@thecsguy Hate that Studio Display XDR could run macOS better than the MacBook Neo.
Apple just chose not to.
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Crazy that a screen can be more powerful than a laptop.
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@giappopazzie @ggmorrow @JustPlants31 This only makes sense when the art is actively being distributed
Discontinued content makes zero money, and region locked content makes zero money in excluded markets
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@ggmorrow @JustPlants31 art is a mean to express yourself AND make money in the process, but money is also the way to pay respect to the creators.
Art is not a "pure concept": it is the result of a job or a hobby for many. Illegal distribution is eventually seen as bad and it is indeed from their pov.
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The reason why western otaku culture relies so much in piracy is pretty simple.
Early otaku culture in the west almost completely relied in piracy since only a few series made it here and if you ever wanted to watch anything more "niche" you had to look for pirated vhs/videos.
二日ゆに🧣@エヴァフェス全通@yuni_hutsuka
エヴァ新作短編だけど。 正直、チケット代は高かったけどそこは別にいいんだよ、体験としてすごい良かった。 ちゃんと見たいって人多いから無料公開でも全然いい ただ、作ったものに対してなんの対価も払わないことになんの罪悪感も抱かない人間が海の向こうの主流なんだ、ということがただただ悲しい
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@D7c9k7fwr @380kmh and allowing homes to be built 2, 3, 4, or 5 stories instead of just 1 in most places and sometimes 2
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Japan also chose suburbs over commie blocks, yet didn't become paranoid as a result. American paranoia is more a cause than a consequence of American suburbs, and its origins lie elsewhere.
Deterio 🦍🇵🇸🔻@NxtDeterio
North America chose suburbs over commie blocks and became antisocial to the point of being so paranoiacally distrusting of their neighbors they ushered in constant surveillance with ring cameras and threaten them at gunpoint to protect gaudy ecologically unstable lawns. Curious!
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@smo841603557184 @theErdTirdMans @danyay @lacherbauer Find me a single city in North America where introduction of walkability isn’t kneecapped by zoning red tape
And logistics would actually be un-strangled if public transit becomes nicer and more available, so that less cars clog up the highways
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@theErdTirdMans @danyay @lacherbauer Strangling logistics is a major facets of the global progressive omnicause in North America, Europe and Oceania, along with cancelling electricity, mass migration etc.
Progressive planning has transformed so many once thriving cities into walkable doom looped shitholes
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Urbanists: “Highways ruin cities. Tear down the freeways.”
Also Urbanists: “UwU I love Tokyo.”
Tokyo: 200 miles of elevated highways.
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Vincent C. (iOS Dev/北米勢打ち師) retweetledi
@nocontextmemes Just because you don’t like to think before you communicate doesn’t mean I don’t.
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Vincent C. (iOS Dev/北米勢打ち師) retweetledi
For the smooth brains out there following the US/Israel vs Iran war. A simple explainer:
Fall of the regime: Good thing
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dying: Good thing
85 little girls bombed & killed by US / Israel: Bad thing
Starting an illegal war: Bad thing
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@Nihonpolitics CDP→DIY is true lizardman's constant
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This chart says it all: young CDPJ voters in the 2025 Upper House election were more likely to vote for even the LDP or DPFP instead of the new CRA that the CDPJ itself created and joined.
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Vincent C. (iOS Dev/北米勢打ち師) retweetledi
@tsuredure9393 比例では与野党伯仲してるので「小選挙区制だから」に尽きるでしょうね。
x.com/solar1964/stat…
仲俣暁生（『栞と羅針盤』発売中）@solar1964
比例では与野党が互角なのに小選挙区では自民がほぼ総取り。
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Vincent C. (iOS Dev/北米勢打ち師) retweetledi
@tsuredure9393 立憲に創価パワーが入って票が逃げた。
自民党から創価パワーが消えて票が戻ってきた。
本物のリベラルは散り散りになった。
中道を名乗っているから「ほなリベラルやないな」ってなったｗ
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@Noahpinion @brostoevksy sanae ran on a platform of immigration restriction, china hawkishness and social conservatism and sanseito also 6xed its seats, you're the idiot
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Japan is one of the world's most liberal democracies, and yet one party almost always wins, because that party is simply very very good at responding to what the people want.
由仁アリン Arin Yuni@Arin_Yumi
The LDP has secured 64.5% of the seats in the House of Representatives. This is the best result in the party’s history.
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Vincent C. (iOS Dev/北米勢打ち師) retweetledi
@LuiselioYobare @gaijinthoughts what "opposition coalition"?
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@gaijinthoughts so it's mainly up to JCP, DPFP, Sanseito, Reiwa and Mirai to uphold the opposition coalition?
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I still think the LDP will win a comfortable majority. If they underperform the polls, I doubt it will be due to the CRA. It will more likely be because parties popular with middle-aged and younger voters, such as the DPFP, Sanseito, and Team Mirai, overperform.
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Vincent C. (iOS Dev/北米勢打ち師) retweetledi
Zero-sugar soda is like Ozempic. People on the internet *really* want it to be bad for you in some way despite all evidence to the contrary because they assume everything good has to have some hidden catch. Sometimes free lunch is real, guys.
🇵🇱@kurisu_armpit
it's crazy that they made a soda that doesn't kill you and still tastes good and people still don't drink it somehow
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♪ロストワンの号哭 / Neru
「黒板のこの漢字が読めますか」
盛り上がり凄かったな～！
南海界隈と会場の皆様、ほんとにありがとうございました！！
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