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Cake day: November 5th, 2024

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  • Well, the idea is that you stop driving everywhere. Unfortunately, you have to make it inconvenient to drive if you want people to stop driving and we do want people to stop driving. I’m not gonna apologize for making you park a block over.

    Research and studies into street design has already proven you wrong and I got a foot halfway out the door so I’m sorry I can’t look them up right now, but nicer streets boost sales of local businesses. It turns out that when people are incentivized to walk more in an area, they tend to visit a lot more shops in that area. When a person can drive their airconditioned sofa box right up to the door of the store, they don’t shop around at neighboring businesses. Sales go down as a whole.
















  • Allow me to hijack this thread and ask why shouldn’t the government be allowed to bar me from perpetuating my defective genetics? I am disabled and consequently the government already controls a huge portion of my life, and I get very little input into things, such as where and how I am allowed to work, what I’m allowed to earn in any given field and realistically where I can live. Why should my rights start and end at my ability to inseminate someone?

    I will not have children by choice because my genetics are broken and I don’t want my children to go through this. It is fortunate that I am smart enough to have had this thought and can practice restraint despite my massive rod, but a lot of people aren’t or can’t. Why shouldn’t the government get a say, when they already effectively dictate the lives of disabled people?



  • I just disagree with the order. Copenhagen is definitely not number 2! I could be persuaded to agree with putting it in 4th place, but I don’t know what metrics were used for this list. Yes, the bicycle lanes are great, but it’s still a car-first city. Busses aren’t simple to use and are massively de-prioritized, which I think is very important for bicycling in a city as big as Copenhagen; you have to take your bike on the bus every now and then, or else never participate in any events outside your comfortable biking distance.