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azimir

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  • What's your perfect hotdog with toppings?

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  • Costco polish dog (from the freezer aisle, since they stopped selling the real ones at the counter). Mustard, catsup. That'll do great. Oh, but make sure to grill it! Yeah, now I'm hungry.

  • 3 people in Madhya Pradesh, India, died while stuck in a THIRTY TWO hour traffic jam along an intercity highway.

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  • Given the size, wealth, and density of India, I expected the list of underway and upcoming train projects to be much longer and ambitious. Of course, the hyperloop project is... special.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_rail_transport_in_India

    I also expected there to be more high speed rail going on. There's at least one actual HSR route being constructed, but a very long list of "maybe nots" built up. Once the single route goes into service, India will have 300km more HSR than the US does (which is zero):

    https://themetrorailguy.com/high-speed-rail-projects-in-india/

  • Which Distros Are Doing Best Currently?

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  • Sample size: 1

    That'll do! Let's hit the pub.

  • And they think the LA Metro is dangerous 🤔🤔🤔

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  • Top 3 for adults. Top 2 for children.

  • Volksbegehren "Berlin autofrei" ist zulässig

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  • The downtown Wien area is gorgeous! They've got a good transit system to start with, so there's no reason more of the city can't become pedestrianized. I haven't been there for a while, but I hope they're making progress on turning the city into a better place for people.

    A quick search turns up at least some efforts:https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2024/05/15/mariahilferstrasse-pedestrianized-street-vienna/https://www.wien.gv.at/english/transportation/road-construction/kaerntnerstrasse/

    The city does score well on urban mobility:https://www.oliverwymanforum.com/mobility/urban-mobility-readiness-index/vienna.html

  • What's the smallest laptop that runs Linux and is actually usable?

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  • I had one of the 10" eeePC machines for years. That thing was a tank. It did everything I needed it to, especially weird networking configurations. The battery also lasted over 6 hours. I mostly ran Crunchbang #! Linux on it.

    I don't think I could live on a 10" screen anymore, but back in the day it was a dream machine.

  • Toronto is considering raising parking fees and lowering transit fares during concerts and sports games to encourage people to take public transit rather than their car

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  • That's a phenomenal idea, and one that many other cities have used to make their venues usable for big events.

    We used to ride the MAX train into events in Portland. Trying to drive to a huge stadium and park is just a huge mess for everyone involved, including the surrounding city that's impacted by it.

    TriMet would run extra trains at the start & end of the event. Back then the stadium was also in the Fareless Square area so you didn't even have to pay. Yes, the trains were packed, but that's a good thing. Over time they would run more and more trains, and now the area has trams as well. Downtown event arenas are 100% doable with modern public transit.

  • Volksbegehren "Berlin autofrei" ist zulässig

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  • To sum up: the referendum to make the core of Berlin largely car free is proceeding past court challenges. If enacted, it would make Berlin the largest pedestrianized city area in the world by a long shot.

  • Germany: Immigrant education levels at new high

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  • Nice. Germany has some good visa programs for skilled workers. If you've got the credentials, the consulates will work with you on immigration and it's not a very onerous system.

  • What was the worst hotel you ever stayed at?

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  • The hotel itself was nice, and the balcony had a great view. The problem was the mattress. It was so soft that it provided zero back support. No other options were available.

    The net result was both my wife and I ended up with month long back muscle spasms. It taught us a lot about how to resolve back issues, but it's not a lesson I wanted from a relatively expensive hotel in Leavenworth, Washington.

  • Rust Belt Voters Are Sick of Both Parties

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  • I'm already on the road ahead of you.

    Spent 30 years campaigning, calling, sign waving, writing letters, donating to candidates, causes, and groups. Even ran for office a couple of times. Every year it gets worse and I've got kids. They don't need to live in a dystopian place so we're on the road. Headed to a developed nation. Greener pastures,.but it's worth a try.

  • Bucharest plans over 550 km of new bike lanes under Velo Masterplan

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  • Germany is actually doing reasonably well on biking infrastructure growth. They haven't hit NL scale overhauls,.but the rate of biking there is climbing fast.

  • Should Toronto build affordable housing on under-used parking lots?

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  • Very few of the pots in my city are city owned. They're all private. They refuse to build anything else since using it as a parking lot has very low taxes so the profits are good, plus the land value goes up so just waiting makes them millions.

    Tax them like crazy or all you get is downtown Houston in the 1980s.

  • Should Toronto build affordable housing on under-used parking lots?

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  • Every city should be repurposing every above ground parking lot.

    Housing, open plazas, parks, transit systems, 5+1 housing everywhere.

    If you want a parking lot in a city it should be below ground and taxed out the ying-yang.

  • No words

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  • I ran into a guy driving a F650 as his daily commuter when he was going for coffee at Starbucks. He made sure to tell every person behind the counter how great of a vehicle it was.

    He had to jockey it to get into the parking lot.

    While the F250 is less common than the F150 we're still faced with a plague of oversized, dangerous, and ecological driving disasters on our roads.

  • [Video] Iran bombs IDF military base next to hospital

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  • Helsinki opens new bridge for trams, cyclists and pedestrians

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  • Show Toronto how Paris built 13 tram lines in the last 20 years. Make sure to do it in Parisian French too.

    Of course my city is delaying the construction of a fucking BUS line to 2030 because the freeway build out (which is about 3 miles away from the someday bus line) is delayed. Why these two are connected, the public isn't sure. Given my city's ineptitude, at least Toronto is trying at all so I can't throw any bricks.

    Edit: but we did declare a downtown parking garage a historic building and put it on the historic register so we have that going for us.

  • The Number of Unhoused Young Children Is at Crisis Level. It’s Set to Get Worse.

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  • The dumbest part of the US's "fuck you poor people, die in the gutter" approach to homelessness is that it's more expensive than using a system to provide homes to people:

    "A further study of Finland's Housing First program found that giving a homeless person a home and support resulted in cost savings for the society of at least €15,000 per person per year, with potentially even higher cost savings in the long term.[7] These cost savings for society are in part a result of reductions in usage of emergency healthcare, police, and the justice system when homeless people are given a home."

    [7]"London wants to eradicate homelessness. Here's how Finland is doing it". cbc.ca. Canadian Broadcasting Centre (CBC). 28 January 2023. Retrieved 10 January 2024.

    (From Wikipedia)

    Children are especially vulnerable and costly to not provide housing to. The US is, at its core, an essentially a selfish and heartless nation. You can removed all you want about that stance, but a budget is a statement of your values. Those values don't include helping people and they don't include being cost effective, so what is being achieved here except paying more to be cruel to children and their families?

  • Bad Arguments Against Free Buses

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  • I'm not convinced of the author's details and models on fares vs taxes. The overall concept seems on track, but there's differences between direct fees (bus fare) and general funding (taxes).

    The US has a long history of not understanding just how valuable and efficient shared resources are, even with the overhead of government administration. In fact, government administration is usually much more efficient than private corporation administration of the same kinds of services so we get a lot more bang for our buck.

    The author does leave out the libertarians of the world. They do want every bus ride (even school busses), even police, fire, and library service paid for via contracts with the person receiving the service. It's completely infeasible and never works in practice, but they're out there.

    The vast majority of public transit systems that go to a fully (or nearly fully) non-fare based model do great. People use the busses, trains, and other resources. They make better transit choices and have more money to spend in the local economy. The author hints at this, though I'm not sure they really made it clear in their writing.

    To sum up: make the transit paid for by the community at large because the community at large benefits from it, even if they're not actually riding the bus. It gives us freedom as a community to have free public transit and our economies are healthier.