The Springfieldian

@aaron_lubeck Wood siding?

A healing world looks like this. Moser Kelly #Design Group

You can bash the climate change story all you want, but we are still trapped in a lifestyle that is too expensive to last.

@nypost "Approaching women" is a relatively recent phenomenon. Through most of history community handled the introductions. The contemporary Western woman is more like barracudas or cobras now - and good for her! She made it.

The young and the dateless: Why Gen Z, millennial men aren’t approaching women anymore trib.al/KKIwhjr

@CollinRugg Her looks make me want to dismantle whiteness too.

NEW: The mom of Mamdani's aide, who said owning a house is a weapon of "white supremacy," has a $1.6M house in Tennessee, according to the New York Post. Office of Tenant Protection Director Cea Weaver thinks NYC should be able to "seize private property." She also bizarrely claimed back in 2019 that "private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy." According to Weaver's own logic, her mom, Celia Applegate, is fueling white supremacy, considering she has a $1.6 million home in Nashville, according to the Post. The house was purchased by Applegate and her partner for over $800,000 in 2012. It is now worth about $1.6M.

Looking in the mirror made her want to abolish whiteness. She is the face of white supremacy.

Finally Cambridge might stop feeling so dinky. So many other parts of the city that could use this.

@OnlyInBOS What's the actual height?

Cambridge is getting its first true skyscraper. 121 Broadway, 37 stories and 439 apartments, will be the tallest building in the city.

@alexandershulan @dmtrubman Of course the rest of us have to live in places that are MOSTLY parking lot. Visits to Manhattan are mostly an escape from parking lot.

@dmtrubman Good urban design and healthy city living is not synonymous with “built out to max capacity”. It is not intrinsically a good thing to completely saturate an unparticularized urban space with housing.

If I didn't know better I would assume a lot of the people claiming "New York City is built out to max capacity" have just never walked around NYC. This parking lot in Chinatown is one block away from a subway station (J and Z trains) and 2 blocks from another station (6 train).

@alexandershulan @dmtrubman Exactly, we need ugly and underutilized stretches of asphalt.

@dmtrubman @NYCSanitation @NYC_DOT wait is it rich or first world? 10x the cost to build a mile of track? It's only rich when you buy imports - thanks to the dollar.

One of the problems with NYC's incredibly labor intensive trash removal system is it collapses whenever there's a holiday. A rich first world city like NYC shouldn't be so fragile.

Tell me why addiction, overdose, recreational use etc. rates are all minimum 3x in the US compared to the OECD average - not to mention more traditional countries.

@dmtrubman @MTA And those at those ugly blank walls to the left and right

I'm always taken back when people claim "NYC is full" when single story buildings literally on top of a subway station are shockingly common. Even in Manhattan! Southwest corner of Lexington Ave and E 116th St, including an entrance to the 116th Street station

@MAGA_YIMBY was that mess made by conservatives?

@OnlyInBOS Is it to be more like Europe?

Did the city give us an explanation as to why they removed all the green space in Copley Square?

@uncriticalsimon @cityaestheticss Well, in major cities. Plenty of terrible consequences, but everything is a trade-off. It also resulted the destruction of our historic downtowns. It's still incredibly difficult to persuade Median Man to relinquish what the system gave him.

@nelsfrye @cityaestheticss This alas resulted in getting anywhere being less than quickly.

Why did we stop building towns like this?

@gamingontheleft @MarkIsmail_x But I get it. That meme says all there is to say about your world view and your understanding of other human beings and your own relative intelligence. You’re at the top. Good work.

@nelsfrye @MarkIsmail_x Yes, because your personal experience is represented in the entire U.S......

@gamingontheleft @MarkIsmail_x I live in a poor neighborhood and the poor here live better than in most of the world. I’ve lived in rich neighborhoods too. The rich in most countries live like the rich here. The poor live much worse materially. Spiritually and socially the poor elsewhere are better off, yes.

@CompletedStreet At least tell me the buildings were mostly wood in Houston.

Houston could have been a bigger New Orleans if it wasn't destroyed with highways and streetcar removals.

@gamingontheleft @MarkIsmail_x I seem to see middle class people all over the place, living to a standard that is inconceivable in the most of the world. Actually the poor too. Whether it “works” is another question, but ordinary people here live damn well from a material standpoint.

@nelsfrye @MarkIsmail_x It has only ever worked for the rich. This place was set up that way from day one.