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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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/ 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/ 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/ 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/ ...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/ 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/ 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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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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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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32/ Selection bias. Make it impossible for the disabled people to get out bc no cars, and no disabled people...but, my gosh, look at all the young beautiful people on bikes! https://twitter.com/mrowlitor/status/1310327518897946624 …
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33/ I said "you can't achieve this". You say "I get paid to advocate for this". You understand that we're not disagreeing at all, right?https://twitter.com/cavemtrismegist/status/1310327803850625025 …
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34/ "you doofus" I though we were having a conversation, not name calling?
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35/ Even if it's an electric car, and we're getting more and more solar? https://twitter.com/mrowlitor/status/1310268425575358469 …
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