i don't really know the general consensus around here but my take is that vehicles are massively useful tools but that personalized vehicles are causing and have caused massive problems. the vast majority of people don't need them (if public transportation wasn't terrible) but i wouldn't expect firefighters to take the bus down to a burning house for example
Increasingly more people in Hong Kong are having mental issues. Lots of them live in stressful life, partly due to the crazy work culture, but the overcrowding with tiny apartments does not help.
It's not like children could use a lawn to play on or anything....
And our Public transit system is totally ready for nobody to have cars.... Our GDP totally won't fall to 10% is what it was before once nobody can go to work.
A lot of people are pro-apartmemt before living in one, so here are some fun facts:
Apartments usually have a maintenance cost, that covers as little as possible while still costing a lot. You never really own the flat, the building company does.
You often have a communal garden; it's looked after by the lowest bidding contractor. Not all flats have balconies, so you are unlikely to have your own.
Fear of fire and flooding - if someone else messes up, your stuff is toast/soaked. Insurance companies love that extra risk, it gives them an excuse to charge more.
No flat has good sound proofing - the baby screaming downstairs at 5am and the thunder of the morbidly obese person upstairs going to the bathroom at 1am will denote your new sleep schedule (i.e. disturbed)
I hope you're in for deliveries - apartments have no safe spots to leave things.
You will not be able to afford a flat with the same floor space as a house. I'm sorry, welcome to your new coffin.
Good luck drying your laundry (spoiler, your living room is going to have a laundry rack).
Good luck owning a bike (it's either the bike or your laundry, take your pick).
Vocal intimacy becomes a community event.
Living in a flat is a pile of little miseries grouped together.
As someone who makes ok money I'd like people to understand that there really isn't lower, middle and upper class. There's people with "Fuck you" money and people without "Fuck you" money. $250k is not "Fuck you" money.
$250k in cap gains represents about a million dollars of gain. That's not enough to retire for most Canadians and is definitely attainable by a lot of workers.
Well, there IS an upper class here in the UK. It's the people who own the country for the last thousand of years. Everyone else is a peasant in their eyes, no matter how much money you have.
A very interesting thing to consider here (looking at the upper graph) is interoperability between car journeys and public transit.
Closing larger cities off to private vehicles essentially means closing them off from people living in less populated areas. As a person in this category, I'd love to be able to conveniently switch from car to public transit once I reach areas where that is feasible.
I used to do that for a while, but recently they added parking fees at our commuter station, and thus it really isn't possible to justify the huge loss of time and flexibility that public transit represents.
Strasbourg (France) is a good example in that regard. City center is closed to traffic, there are large parking facilities just outside the center, and the day-parking including a day-ticket for the Tram.
Yep, that would be ideal. In areas with sufficient population density to support public transit, you facilitate connections with other modes of transportation.
I'm concerned about the definitions of some of the terms in these rules
What does it mean to be kind? Do you have to agree with everyone? Are you allowed to say the fuck word?
What does it mean to attack other people? Are we talking ad hominem, or is making an argument with a stern tone of voice an attack?
Where is the line between opinion and action drawn? Is it okay to attack people for driving cars? That's not an opinion, it's an action, and it kills people, but I have a feeling certain people would say no anyway
What is a double post? Do you mean repost or crosspost?
I've done photography most of my life, and it's the first time I'm hearing about "bent photos". Tell me more, I'm interested what it is and how it affects scale.
Sure. So have a word with downvoter, who is pretending he can’t possibly imagine what bent means, when used to describe an image, and seeking to belittle my comment with a fallacious appeal his expertise as a life time hobbyist photographer.
I literally have no idea what it means. You can bend a stick. How do you bend a photo which is a 2D plane. Some warp tool?
There's nothing going on in this photo, except for photographer standing closer to the truck, and maybe a cheap tilt-shift effecr, but that doesn't even mess with the perceived size.
Since you stated that the photo is "bent", like an expert, I've addressed you like an expert.
Show some doubt sometimes, especially when you have no idea what you are talking about.
I am an IT with photography as a hobby, I only really picked it up seven years ago, and even as someone who is not well versed in photography I have never heard the term "bent" to describe a photograph
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