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What Salt Lake lost: a thread

this is still better than 90 percent of America smh

“parking is a nightmare” means you have a beautiful, functional city that prioritizes people over cars

It’s year 2026 and Croats still don’t know what transliteration is. Even more ignorant is that they too are using transliteration (just Roman) as otherwise they would never be able to read European club names like this: Дина́мо, Παναθηναϊκός, Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ Նոա, საფეხბურთო კლუბი დინამო ბათუმი. Superiority complex kicking hard.

it’s truly breathtaking people complain about a lack of parking in downtown Salt Lake, one of life’s great mysteries

while I have you here, shoutout to the OTHER 435,000 square foot parking lot owned by the LDS Church who refuses to do anything with it so it can be used during General Conference!

Shoutout to this 435,000 square foot parking lot at the nexus of every light rail line in Utah, owned by the LDS Church who refuses to do anything with it so it can be used during General Conference. Probably one of the highest value undeveloped plots in the Intermountain West.

@deepbarot @StatisticUrban L take

@StatisticUrban Denver is a much better city than Salt Lake and doesn’t have weird Mormons or an anti social culture. Salt Lake just has immediate access to the slopes and mountain life.

SLC’s relationship to the mountains is what people who’ve never been to Denver imagine Denver is like.

amazing how a legislator feeling slight discomfort trying to make a right turn in his car leads to the state taking over Salt Lake's streets

the soviet union was producing ethnic combinations hitherto unseen in world history

This peeing on subway debate is absurd, but also depressing and frustrating. Public disorder and homelessness are huge problems in the U.S. that are especially striking when you spend any time overseas and see what an aberration it is. We are the world's richest country, and yet we have public spaces that rank in the bottom half—dirty, chaotic, and threatening. Disorder in subways should be nonexistent, not rare, and certainly not periodic. It really doesn't have to be that way. It's a choice we've made that isn't about money, but policy. NYC spends $4 billion on homeless services, and the very few people who are causing the majority of problems (they are a small percent of those who qualify for help) have options that they refuse because of mental problems, addiction, and/or both. Someone peeing on the subway is not in a right frame of mind, and isn't normal behavior, even for this population. It's a sign of distress that should cause an intervention—by police, social workers, whoever—that mandates them into an institution for a period of time, until they regain sanity. Hospital, mental ward, detox, prison, you choose, but they should not be allowed to do whatever they want. They are not sound enough to have the freedom. Someone shouting at strangers, someone shitting themselves, someone punching at the air, is also not in their right frame of mind and shouldn't—for their own safety and others—be out roaming the streets. It isn't fair to the public, especially the working people who have to deal with them on a daily basis. It isn't fair to the person themselves. The idea that it is empathetic to allow someone to roam the streets tortured by their inner demons, covered in filth, high as a kite, is so backwards and immoral that I cannot believe the activists who support it have spent any time around these people.

yep x.com/heuristicism/s…

this mentality is why public transit—and other public spaces—are often bleak af in the United States. I'll always marvel how Europe has managed to avoid this blanket tolerance of disorder

Human beings evolved to walk ~10km (6 miles) a day. Centering our entire civilization on the automobile is one of the most disastrous public health decisions we have ever made.

fucking up the alphabetic order and putting yugoslavia in the middle to play peacekeeper lmao

Hard not to think of this when seeing the Winter Olympics in the current global context. One day you can be a normal country hosting these international games and a few short years later you can be the epicenter of a collapsed state’s civil war.

love trash day. love hearing that truck. humans getting stuff done. cooperation. logistics. municipal services. civilization.

My most basic Spotify Wrapped yet

@devinzander What book is this 👀

Crumbl and Swig make a lot more sense if you study the ancient texts

There are Salt Lake Cities everywhere for those with eyes to see

Ad wraps on transit vehicle windows are not good. 0/10.