3d ago

What hill will you die on?

Fancy cupcakes are 70% icing, really not that nice and a waste of money

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There should be a general speed limit of 20mph/30kmh on city streets.
Also no parking on public space for any vehicle that isn't for deliveries, emergencies, trades, or people with disabilities.
If you want to park your car at home, or want your customers or employees to park near your business, you need to buy or rent space for parking privately.
Any citizen documenting a parking infraction with photo evidence should have the option of giving police their bank details and will then receive part of the paid fine.
Of course there will be valid exceptions, like a private emergency, moving, a woman in labor, and such.
Just imagine what our cities could be like if there weren't long rows of cars parked along every street.
The freed space could be turned into bicycle lanes, wider sidewalks, outdoor seating for cafes, green lanes, urban gardens and so much more.
Car lanes could be separated from bike paths and sidewalks by hedges in most places.
Children could play and move safely in public.
- I've had to use privatized public transport for a few years, and also driven car for a few years.
  Unfortunately public transport is unreliable af. I can tolerate the occasional delay, but if you need to get a connection and miss it, it often was at least half an hour of extra delay. Plus this often happened when its either exceptionally hot or cold, while I had to wait outside. And don't get me started on strikes. Yes, workers should be paid appropriately. But if thousands of people suddenly can't get to work because their line is canceled, what else should the people do? Take there non existing cars? Take the overbooked car sharing, uber and taxis, none of which can handle the surge in demand?
  So as a first step, I'd rather start with improving public transport. Streets are owned by the state, why can't rails be? Make it so good that I prefer using it. Because unless that happens, you won't get the majority support for making things worse (even if it is to make things better overall)
  
  It's a catch-22.
  There is no room and no funding to expand public transport, cause all the room is filled with roads and parking, and all the funding goes towards road maintenance.
- Honestly, personal ownership of cars should just straight-up be illegal. Commercial vehicles are fine.
  
  I am a farmer living on the edge of nowhere; this just wouldn't work in a lot of situations.
  
  The US homesteading is not the standard in a lot of places. Loads of places put all the houses together in a little village and the farmers go out to the fields instead of living isolated at their farm. Also, you have to remember that if we actually did outlaw private motor vehicle ownership, commercial transportation would explode. Much, much smaller towns would have access to regular bus and train schedules. Furthermore, the business landscape would change and your standard stores would again be more accessible in smaller towns.
  Would there be some disadvantages? Absolutely. Would there be some advantages? Absolutely.
  I consider the advantages to be more than worth it, even in the more trying situations.
  
  Not really a fan of allowing corporations 'control over the means of transportation'.
  I bet Marx could come up with a great explanation of why its a bad idea.
  But i'm not him so i'm just gona go with Dennis Denuto's, "its the vibe".
  The Castle, The Vibe - Youtube
  
  Public transit is a thing you know...
  Also who gives a shit about what some bearded weirdo that died over a century ago thinks about problems involving things that didn't exist in his lifetime? Marxism is like a weird cult now, an opiate that's an obstacle for any positive change.
  
  Public transit is a thing you know...
  The closest bus stop to my workplace is over a mile away and has a significant hill. It also snows here. Believe me, I'd love to ditch the car if possible, but... it's just not possible in my current living situation.
  
  The town planning and public transit options would be absurdly different, were private ownership of motor vehicles actually outlawed. The bus stop would be a lot closer. There'd be more buses. There would be dedicated, protected bike lanes that got plowed immediately in the snow. The sidewalks would be plowed by the city. Etc.
  
  Colour me shocked, public transport? A thing? Gadzooks! /j
  There is a weird internet cult about him, true. But the things he said were important, adding greatly to the body of thought that makes the world we live in today.
  Its pretty flippant to disregard his words on the control of resources, just because he never sat behind the wheel of the 20th Century cart.
  
  Marx had some interesting things to say about economics, but he was a complete bonehead about politics. The works of John Maynard Keynes supersedes everything Marx did on economics, so we're just left with a boneheaded political ideology which is more of religious movement than anything else.
- This and also being paid by weight for putting trash in public bins.
  
  I see you there planning using that trash money to fund a weed growing operation! Before we know it people will be turning into glowing cyclops! cyclopi? cyclopses? (Seriously on that last part whats the plural?)
  
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