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The grocery store problem is actually a perfect argument for walkable cities, not against them. When you rely on driving, the store becomes a logistical burden. You’re forced to shop in bulk, hunt for parking for 20 minutes, buy extra refrigeration, and meticulously plan weeks of meals to minimize the number of times you have to endure that trip. When you live in a walkable neighborhood, that friction disappears. I used to live walking distance from a market, and we stopped planning meals entirely. It became an experience: we’d wake up, decide what we were in the mood for, and walk over to pick up fresh ingredients for dinner that night. A 10 minute stroll to get fresh ingredients is just better living.

Settle a debate I'm having. Can you count having visited a country if you never left the airport?

Thats a horribly inefficient waste of time. You probably end up spending close to 5 hours just in grocery stores every week if you do this (nevermind the extra hours spent walking there and back as well), when you add up shopping+waiting in line. I'd rather just do 2-3 weeks worth of shopping at once in <2hours, drive my groceries right to my front door, and then not have to go to a store again for a few weeks There's a reason no one who gets a license ever uses public transit or walks anywhere ever again if they dont have to - its way worse in every way. Society should be more accommodating to cars, not less. Bike lanes for example, should be illegal

Nigga Joe Biden literally told a crowd of black people that Romney was going to "PUT YOU ALL BACK IN CHAINS"

I didn't want to let Paxton's massive win in the Texas runoff pass by without doing some reflection on the status of the Republican Party. So here's an attempt at a scorecard for grading party health.