@AsterZephyrIsis Building like this often look a lot better after a decade or two of natural wear.
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Sponchy
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a parking lot is better than whatever this is.
Tyler | Kenji Capital@KenjiCapital
For decades this corner in the Mission District has been… a parking lot. Now it could become 35 apartments in an 8-story flatiron-style building just a block from the 24th Street BART Station. Small site. Transit-rich location. Long overdue housing. 📍San Francisco
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@PhilipAllison @danielsultan Most of our cities don't even allow this dude
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@danielsultan I live in the suburbs for a reason - space. If I wanted to live right on top of my neighbors like this, I'd live in the city.
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Would love to see developers build suburbia like this.
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Sponchy retweetledi
You can tell NYC must be a special place because you will meet people who say “I hate skyscrapers, I hate density, I hate the subway, I hate walkability, I hate immigrants, I hate Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Staten Island. No, I would never live anywhere else.”
Kirsten Theodos@kirstentheodos
That thing is hideous. Can we all agree that luxury towers should not be erected on city owned land? The city wants to build a "600-ft.-tall apartment tower on city-owned land on Little West 12th Street in the Meatpacking District — which they call “Gansevoort Square” via @GVSHP
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@WaifuverseAI Honestly there is a Family Mart right there with a trash can, many people will litter no matter what. Especially when drunk.
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Japan will do anything except install public trash cans.
スミレンジャーZ（愛称スミレちゃん、元スラウザーです）@iijNWqUQ7i41630
渋谷の早朝にゴミ拾いをしてると、夜通し酔っ払った若者などから ｢えっ？ 何コイツら？ ヤバイ奴らがいるんだけど！？｣ と驚かれる時があります。 私達は“本当にヤバイ奴ら”がポイ捨てしたゴミを拾う 『#リアルライフヒーロー』です！！
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@OwenKeller950M3 @RVA_DOT Wanting safer roads is communist?
Go back to 7th grade and learn what words mean
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@RVA_DOT Your eyes don’t lose field of vision at higher speeds. This is nonsense.
Kick out whoever put communist units in this tweet
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@YankeeJack1923 @christopherrufo They will naturally follow nature, crossing over this bridge of green instead of the road where they get killed by cars.
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@christopherrufo Why do butterflies need a bridge?
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EXCLUSIVE: Gavin Newsom promised to build a bridge for cougars and butterflies in the middle of Los Angeles. The project has turned into another boondoggle, with broken deadlines and costs exploding to $114 million.
This is Newsom's bridge to nowhere.
city-journal.org/article/califo…
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@joshray @1curiousgeorgey @samsheffer Tech is politics, so much of our tech discussion today is about regulation and anti competitive practices, that's all politics man.
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@1curiousgeorgey @samsheffer I stopped reading that site when they started having entire left leaning political articles and adding a pay wall to everything. Its supposed to be a tech site.
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The fact that these chucklefucks always want to do this to the Sunset and Richmond, and never Seacliff or Pac Heights, lays bare that it’s always been about class and race, not density
Phil BuildTheFutureNow 🇺🇸🦅🌲💙@PhilSustainable
Why don’t neighborhoods like the Richmond and Sunset in San Francisco look more like the Upper West Side? But instead of 20–30 story apartments like Manhattan, it’s mostly 2-story houses. That’s tens of thousands of market-rate homes that could exist. Why didn’t it happen?
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@GraceCWeather @xdncolonthree @realwow_mao I'd argue it's still walkable, just not the most pleasant walk if you aren't a nearby home.
Very bikeable though
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@WeBothStink @xdncolonthree @realwow_mao Not walkable though. Really spaced out and not much to do in a lot of places
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@fintechfrank These tech booms keep causing real estate increases.
But never construction increases, I don't understand why it has to be like this.
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The AI boom is sending San Francisco real estate into overdrive.
• 16 homes sold for $5M+ last month, up 220% YoY
• Condo prices +12% YoY, median $1.23M
• Single-family homes +23% YoY, median $1.96M
• Rents +14% YoY, fastest growth in the U.S.
Source: wsj
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@VanyaWright @PhilSustainable Earthquakes are exactly why we shouldn't be holding on to so many old buildings so tightly.
Earthquakes are why we should be rebuilding plots of land with new, better construction techniques regularly.
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Why don’t neighborhoods like the Richmond and Sunset in San Francisco look more like the Upper West Side?
But instead of 20–30 story apartments like Manhattan, it’s mostly 2-story houses. That’s tens of thousands of market-rate homes that could exist. Why didn’t it happen?
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@xdncolonthree @realwow_mao Main difference is smaller average vehicles, narrower lanes, and much wider sidewalks.
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@goud4utah @JacksonForUtah What an ugly nothing park, no design, no real train, nothing to see, nowhere to sit, nowhere to buy a snack nearby and eat it there, nothing.
Just a big green patch to waste water
You have to drive to the park to walk?
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@JacksonForUtah I don’t think most people hang out near railroad tracks. 🤷♂️
This is a park that I walk through all the time near my house.
It’s beautiful in the suburbs.
We have yards. Nice parks. It’s green. There are trails.
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The great Utahn outdoors according to the pod-living car addicts in the comments
1 minute walk outside a large neighborhood of single family homes
Jackson Lewis@JacksonForUtah
This is where that mindset has gotten Utah Sprawl, concrete, and million dollar homes No log cabins, no access to the real outdoors, just sanitized suburbs as far as you can see
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@stargazermellu Most Google Employees drive everywhere, or take a dedicated shuttle to work, so they don't even understand public transit.
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even gmaps is useless in their own backyard!!
here's some bike rides i usually do in mountain view (google HQ) & san jose (closest major city), there's not much overlap w/ their suggestions. many of their bike routings are straight up dangerous (in red) to casual cyclists:
maddy catgirlprostate@catgirlprostate
I call this "California Software Syndrome" Most of the software we use is mostly made in Cali, so if a feature doesn't make sense there, they don't bother implementing it
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@MMeow416 @crawlings13 The idea that going to a Gym is the only way to exercise and stay healthy is also a very American idea
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@crawlings13 This isn’t the point at all. The point is that you can find time to go to the gym and not going is a priority issue.
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Americans are the only people I know who talk about being overworked wage slaves like it's a flex
here’s something@ive_arc
Dude asks gym members how many hours a week they work
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@apryl1776 @squawk_hawk @TMZ Majority of California is suburbs, strip-malls, walmarts, and massive freeways
Most of the built world in California looks identical to Florida.
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@squawk_hawk @TMZ Beautiful state, the nature part. Notice they visit but don’t live there.
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@PabloPeniche Most young people are now competing for and cramming into apartments built 100 years ago, paying insane rents for buildings that don't even have modern outlets.
It's nonsense
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We need to upscale the entire Richmond and the Sunset in SF to be 12 stories like the Flood Building on 80 Powell street.
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@CovfefeKatie Paying 200 a year for paper bags before just buying some nice tote bags that will last decades.
Are people just dumb?
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🧵California Banned Plastic Bags. So I Bought 50!!
California banned plastic grocery bags.
Plastic pollution went up anyway.
And now California families are paying $100–$200 a year for paper bags that rip before you even reach the parking lot.
So I went to Smart & Final to see what the “ban” actually looks like in the real world.
Turns out you can still walk into a California store and buy plastic bags.
youtu.be/-Bi7Q_h5baU?si…
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I have seen so many elderly people have their iPads on full volume at the airport lately and I honestly think it’s because theres no plugs anymore and they don’t know how to connect the wireless ones
Dexerto@Dexerto
United Airlines can now remove passengers from flights if they refuse to use headphones for music or movies You could also potentially be banned from flying with the airline in the future
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