The hat rivalry with Guinan would've been intense.
This is important, but unfortunately off-topic in this community. (As far as I can tell, the "most of the people who ‘did what they could’ just kept driving their cars" bit that's presented as a quote isn't actually in the linked article, and nothing else about it talks about cars, car dependency, or land use topics themselves -- the closest it gets is mentioning fossil fuels.) I encourage folks to crosspost it far and wide to communities other than this one.
I hope Europe is scrambling to launch new satellites to pick up the slack. (For their own sake, not the US', of course.)
Not fewer roads (It's still important to have good street grid connectivity and small block sizes), but narrower roads and smaller parking lots.
cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/23117884
Tone (2025-07-06)
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Really, any noise other than hatred or complete lack of interest should not be allowed.
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Inflation makes investments rise too. It's the people without them that are screwed by it.
I was so confused until I got to the edit.
It's not even a very big house. It looks maybe 40' or so wide and somewhat less deep, so I'm guessing it's maybe 3000 sq. ft. total. I would almost hesitate to even bestow the status of 'McMansion' on it.
I'm sure they are. They have to be, unless they're steel inside instead (which is unlikely), because you can't make real stacked-stone masonry that skinny and have it be stable.
And that's my problem with it: it's fraudulent. Not even in an intentional "flouting the rules to make a modernist point" kind of way either; just out of ignorant and lazy design.
I mean, I own an old SUV myself (a real one, that I got specifically for off-roading and backcountry camping). I'm just not so anti-social as to daily-drive it in the city.
And because of the implication also that nuclear reactors produce extreme waste of building materials (e.g. Greifswald, ran for 26 years, dismantling in operation since 35 years and projected to last till 2040 at least
Ah, yes, the good ol' "force plants to close way before the end of their design lifetime due to anti-nuclear hysteria, and then use that truncated amortization as an excuse to dishonestly claim they were too expensive" argument. Works every time!
Be careful what you wish for.