Guess what an idiot with a steering wheel did this time

[jersey cubs fan]

Drove to the sister in laws house today, passed a street called Windermere on the way and every time I say to myself, motherf-ing Windermere. This website has made me an idiot

[Tim]

Drove to the sister in laws house today, passed a street called Windermere on the way and every time I say to myself, motherf-ing Windermere. This website has made me an idiot

You're welcome!

[Sammy Sofa]

Want:

[CubinNY]

This morning I was traveling north on I 65 just south of Montgomery when the back left wheel popped off the car about 100 yards in front of me. The car did a 360 and slammed into the guard rail on the right. I immediately pulled over to check on the driver. And called 911. 17-21 year old kid. He had a huge knot on his head. I got him outside of the car. He called his mom and they took off before police and the fire rescue and ambulance came. I waited, gave my report and left.

[Sammy Sofa]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7g898/ ... cities-con

To many urbanites, a short commute and having your grocery shop, favorite bar, and library branch all within walking distance are markers of a higher quality of life. But recent attempts to reduce commute times to 15 minutes and make cities more walkable have led to waves of weird conspiracy theories about an encroaching police state that must be stopped at all costs.

The “15-minute city,” as this design paradigm has been dubbed, is not a city-dweller’s dream in this addled conception, but an open-air surveillance prison nightmare that is being imposed by shadowy forces.

The emphasis on walkability in cities has gained traction in recent years. With an emphasis on the time it takes to commute, the 15-minute city idea suggests cities should be reimagined so that most people can get their needs met in a 15-minute walk or bike ride. The term was coined by Franco-Colombian urbanist Carlos Moreno in 2016. In a 2020 TED video, Moreno said that because of urban sprawl, “our sense of time is warped” as we adjust to the long commutes of car-concentric cities. Moreno was in turn inspired by American urbanist Jane Jacobs, who is the reason many contemporary urbanists in the U.S. praise walkability in urban planning.

In 2020, Paris adopted the term, prompted in part by the urgency of COVID-19 restrictions. To Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, it was a way of branding a set of pedestrian-centered redesigns, including street closures and the expansion of bike lanes, actions that mayors in the U.S. also took during the pandemic. Such plans tend to be popular over time but can invite blowback in the short-term. Until recently, that opposition has come from the expected groups: people who enjoy driving, hate parking spaces being taken away, or who fear that denser urban areas will put them in touch with the working class.

But in the last few months, an even more bizarre strain of opposition has been flourishing on TikTok, Instagram and Twitter: conspiracy theorists who believe that 15-minute cities will be pretext for open-air prisons enforced by a police state, where citizens will be prevented from leaving their enclosed zone.

Cars make people stupid.

[Elon Musk]

we're really just too stupid as a society to progress much further. id say we had a good run but (gestures at everything)

[Sammy Sofa]

There's a great Turkish restaurant right around the corner from where I live, and the staff there are really friendly and cool...and I kinda also hate them because almost all of them drive cars that have ridiculously loud fartbox exhaust setups. These things sound like horsefeathering jet engines, like the commute home is through a [expletive] Tokyo drift or some horsefeathers. Once the restaurant is closed, every night, without fail, at 10 pm it's a parade of 4 different cars blasting off like they're going to the moon.