Audubon Ballroon (he/him)Oct 5
Show threadAshwin DixitOct 5

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The two main causes of people missing limbs are cars & wars which are fought for dead dinosaur fuel for cars, which are a transportation medium meant for speed over safety, and super inefficient, with a very low payload( passengers & cargo )/vehicle ratio. Most of the energy a car uses is used to haul itself, at high speed, so heavy armor is necessary.

End cars. End wars. End missing limbs.
Oil things must pass.
End cities.
Bicycles /w bamboo truss frames & solar batteries. 🌻

Show threadPope Bob the UnsaneOct 5

@purrperl End cities, for fucking real.

Population density is _the_ problem.

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Show threadJimmyOct 5
@bobdobberson @purrperl @audubonballroon Oh hurray for sprawl. So lovely to live 2 miles from the nearest grocery store.
Show threadPope Bob the UnsaneOct 5

@jhavok living 2 miles from a grocery store is an artifact of car-centric society. You are far from your grocery store because cars need to live around you.

Maybe we could fix that. Maybe you could have a grocery store within walking distance.

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Show threadJimmyOct 5
@bobdobberson @purrperl @audubonballroon People are far from their grocery stores because they go "ugh cities" and think sprawl is better. High density makes public transit practical.
Show threadPope Bob the UnsaneOct 5

@jhavok I dunno anyone who thinks sprawl -- the suburbs -- is better than cities or rural living.

The suburbs are kind of the worst way to live.

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Show threadJimmy
@bobdobberson @purrperl @audubonballroon If you put people in low density housing, you get sprawl. That's not hard to understand. Cities can be better designed, of course, there are a lot of bad zoning practices that make them less livable, but overall, they are a more efficient use of resources than sprawl. Sprawl is the result of zoning policies that mandate low density.
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Show threadPope Bob the UnsaneOct 5

@jhavok I didn't say low density housing. The solution to population density being a problem is not to put people 1 mile from their neighbors.

The problem is cramming millions of people into a very small area, instead of 100,000.

Sprawl is a result of everyone wanting their own crop of grass.

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