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    ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

    ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Wrath Of Gnon

    I guess "lovers and friends" never need to go grocery shopping, or get three kids to soccer practice, or have jobs more than 5 blocks away, or need to commute to work when it's 90 degrees outsidehttps://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/1280032018714116097 …

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    Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon
    “Forget the damned motor car and build cities for lovers and friends.” — Lewis Mumford #GoodUrbanism #Kyoto pic.twitter.com/zGUIRmhLTW
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      2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Wrath Of Gnon

        2/ horseshoe theory: gray tribe is realistic about what people really want, and the principle of revealed preference ...but both far right red tribe and far left blue tribe refuse to think economically or analytically and instead give in to emotional romanticism >>>https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/1280032018714116097 …

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        Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon
        “Forget the damned motor car and build cities for lovers and friends.” — Lewis Mumford #GoodUrbanism #Kyoto pic.twitter.com/zGUIRmhLTW
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      3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        3/ ignoring actual costs and trade offs, and LARPing ideals without considering costs. With the left, this is pictures of 22nd century green cities, with gardens spilling off of skyscrapers, huge windmills, and beautiful domes With right, villages, timber frame, & cobble stone

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      4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        4/ Both the left and the right ideal visions are beautiful. ...but they're in @robinhanson style "far mode". There's no consideration in the left images to how much power those windmills actually generate, vs how much is required to run elevators etc. In the right >

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      5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        5/ there's hand-crafted timber frame, cobble stones, etc. I've done, with my own two hands, both timber frame construction with chisel and hammer, and platform framed construction with pneumatic nail gun. There's no comparison. Costs are SOOOOOO much higher w timberframe.

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      6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        6/ And, being in far mode, both pictures leave out tons of details. Anyway, it's just tiresome. It's that standard monkey thing of not even really making an argument, just staking out an aesthetic stance as tribal signalling.

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      7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

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        7/ 1) yes, to the point about homogeneity 2) but no to the point re Japan. Tokyo, for example, has a population density of 6,807 ppl/mi^2. It's less dense than Dallas, Detroit, Cleveland, etc. https://twitter.com/CloakedClaviger/status/1310238922325348352 …

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      8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted  🐘 Sirsfurther  🐘

        8/ I've done grocery shopping on public transport...and via car. I've commuted to work on public transport ... and via car. I'll take the car hands down.https://twitter.com/sirsfurther/status/1310241205217878018 …

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         🐘 Sirsfurther  🐘 @sirsfurther
        Replying to @MorlockP @DogmanRespecter
        Public transport?
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      9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted  🐘 Sirsfurther  🐘

        9/ This is like saying "ok, I hear you say that you prefer to sleep with your head on a pillow rather than on rocks and cinderblocks ...but that's just a challenge to make better rocks". No. The failures of mass transit are inherent to the concepthttps://twitter.com/sirsfurther/status/1310242011623182336 …

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         🐘 Sirsfurther  🐘 @sirsfurther
        Replying to @MorlockP
        Perhaps the point is to improve public transport so it is a viable alternative 🙂
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      10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Saeger Ryman

        10/ I was going to go down this route too, thanks for doing it for me! 90% of the skill of a photographer is in framing a shot: what's in frame and what's out. I've seen amazing photos that turn out to be in tedious / average locations.https://twitter.com/saegerart/status/1310243240294182912 …

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        Saeger Ryman @saegerart
        Replying to @MorlockP
        That's the scenic side of the Rinn Matsubara Takasegawa guest house/bed and breakfast in Kyoto. In front, streets and parking. Nearby, a wealth of convenience shops (including 7-Eleven), restaurants and bars. Schools, public facilitiies. And lots and lots and lots of streets. pic.twitter.com/A3tSI8a9Ra
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      11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        11/ The magic of photography is often the artist's skill at lying. The lonely wind-swept tree, seeming to symbolize wilderness and aloneness ... which turns out to be in the parking lot next to the sheet metal factory, behind the dumpster. My hat is off to folks who do this.

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      12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        12/ ...and when you see one of these NRx adjacent "perfect neighborhoods", you need to realize that the photographer spent hours walking around, and then waited until the garbage truck was gone, and the two scooters, and minivan, and found an angle w no antennae or phone lines

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      13. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Eddie, Son of Richard

        13/https://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1310246553383305217 …

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        Eddie, Son of Richard @random_eddie
        Replying to @MorlockP
        when you first posted this I didn't notice it was WoG and thought it was some new urbanist leftist nonsense horseshoe theory indeed live in a beautiful pod eat traditional bugs
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      14. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Saeger Ryman

        14/ “Not only can the camera lie. The camera always lies.” -- Malcolm Muggeridgehttps://twitter.com/saegerart/status/1310246936998547456 …

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        Saeger Ryman @saegerart
        Replying to @MorlockP
        On the flip side, there's one particular photo of a crowd of gas stations and restaurants off a highway that gets repeatedly posted to Twitter to prove that we're wrecking the environment. Go in any direction though and it's endless farmland and wilderness.
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      15. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Henry Nadsworth Dongfellow

        15/https://twitter.com/Burgerpunk2077/status/1230199989399277568 …

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        Henry Nadsworth Dongfellow @Burgerpunk2077
        Oh god, I see that blackpilled "muh cabidalism" doomer morons are Breezewoodposting again. I'll keep saying it until you stop acting like leftists with Harry Potter: LOOK AT ANOTHER PICTURE. pic.twitter.com/rYIi49ZLtf
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      16. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted

        16/ yes, you CAN I used to bike commute, 12 months out of the year, in rain and snow, from the Boston suburbs into Cambridge and it was kinda fun, but it kinda sucked just because one CAN do a thing does not mean that it's as good as other things https://twitter.com/fightvemodalen/status/1310270549910859782 …

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      17. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Fun Buff Jots Shadowy Sky

        17/ this response is fairly typical, and it boils down to "I know you think you want what you want, but really all you need to do is change how you do EVERYTHING - waste more time by shopping more often, learn to not mind sweating >>>https://twitter.com/FunkyDuffy/status/1310285744745840641 …

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        Fun Buff Jots Shadowy Sky @FunkyDuffy
        Replying to @MorlockP
        If you build at a human scale, you allow enough density for smaller/closer stores. You can do your grocery shopping in smaller amounts more frequently, and it's close enough that you can comfortably walk it in the heat or snow.
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      18. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        18/ learn to not mind carrying four bags in each hand as you navigate slush covered sidewalks, realize that walking in cold drizzle is just as good as driving in a warm car, accept that you can't chain trips, figure out how to deal with groceries AND a child stroller, blah blah

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      19. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        19/ There are three arguments here: - "I like it, therefore you should like it" - "it's possible, therefore it's better" - "it works for people in my demographic and life stage, therefore it works for everyone" All of them are terrible, arrogant, and false.

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      20. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted 🅳🆁🅸🅻 🅽🆈🅴 the reply guy

        20/ Indeed. Or take a sick dog to the vet.https://twitter.com/steve_jorbz/status/1310317199404531717 …

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        🅳🆁🅸🅻 🅽🆈🅴 the reply guy @dril_nye
        Replying to @MorlockP
        or take someone to the hospital
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      21. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Conan, Esq

        21/ I appreciate the disagreement-in-good-faith; it's reciprocated! That said: - there is no "we" - no, "we" can't - no, "we" shouldn't - no, it's not a "rewind", because it was never the way you imagine it to have beenhttps://twitter.com/cavemtrismegist/status/1310322305361346562 …

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        Conan, Esq @conan_esq
        I like and respect Morlock but this is a blind spot. Not only can we rewind the accretions of modernity that he sees as making good cities impractical, we absolutely must. https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1310228468278362115 …
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      22. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        22/ In reverse order: it's not a rewind, because the amazing walkable blah blah blah urban cores you imagine were never that way there were, at best, small little corners that were that way ... and they smelled of rotting meat (bc the butchers worked there), were noisy, >>>

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      23. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        23/ etc. What people see and think "RETVRN!!!" about are carefully cultivated little sections that have been CHANGED from their original use, gentrified, made into museums. Horse dung, blood, loud noises, coal smoke, etc. removed.

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      24. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        24/ That there is no "we" should be more than clear. "We" in America can not agree on kneeling to protest the flag - or not. Can't agree on socialized medicine - or not. Can't agree on sex ed in schools or not. And yet fractious Americans are going to agree to >>>

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      25. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        25/ de facto destroy 90% of the housing in existence, increase density 2-5 fold, tear up roads, put in canals, reduce the square footage per family by 75%, etc? Pure insanity. There is no "we" in favor of this. There are like 43 dudes.

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      26. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        26/ ...and even if you armed each of those 43 dudes with a nuke (well, let's give Wrath two extra nukes, just to be sporting) to threaten everyone with... it literally can't be done. There's not enough wealth to rebuild all of our housing like this ... and you'll face revolts

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      27. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        27/ maybe 70% of people would like to live like this, if it were cost free, if they still had a 2300 ft^2 house, if they still had a backyard, if they could still get Amazon deliveries, if they could still get to work easily, without sweating. ...but bring real costs in...

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      28. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        28/ And tell people that Tokyo density requires Tokyo house sizes, and now they have to ride their bike 20 minutes to get to a train station for a 45 minute trip to their job 20 miles away. ...and, no, NO ONE wants this.

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      29. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        29/pic.twitter.com/5Rhk3vwks2

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      30. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Conan, Esq

        30/ Watched The Social Network recently. Zuck character: "if they could have invented Facebook, they would have invented Facebook" Same here: if you could've, you would've It's impossible ...but you can create a lot of third party misery as you fail!https://twitter.com/cavemtrismegist/status/1310326873210093569 …

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        Conan, Esq @conan_esq
        Replying to @MorlockP
        "We" is my ability to shift relevant social levers such as municipal zoning, building codes, etc. "We" can because I'm a good lawyer/lobbyist w relevant. practice background.
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      31. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

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        31/ HAHAHAH oh crap now I'm remembering walking up hill in the slushy snow in Ithaca NY FML, those were terrible years of my life https://twitter.com/GeoGDF01/status/1310327086956138498 …

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