FireRetardant @ FireRetardant @lemmy.world

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Part of the problem is traditional suburban zoning tends to be too expensive in the long run for cities to maintain due to lots of infrastructure and low density for taxation. Moving away from prioritizing suburbia and focusing government efforts more on density could spur the changes we need and build more homes from the government investment. It could add more housing while minimizing the additional infrastructure costs the city has to take on to accommodate the housing.

You'd almost need to take your front line troops after a few days/week of methed up raids and then put them into rehab backline labor positions. Rinse and repeat until you win the war or the troops hold a methed up mutiny.

They also existed before that. They were called trams and nearly every city had them.

I also wonder how much farther their war efforts would have gone had they not wasted time, men, and resources on ineffective warfare like that massive train driven cannon. Its a lot of effort and resources to set up double track rails just to miss most of your shots.

Nah they really mess with you. You're tortured most of the time except those times they clean you up, get you tipsy and send you with the honey pot. Rinse and repeat everyday until one of the methods breaks you or the honey pot falls for you for real and plans an escape.

I was so disappointed to hear he folded so quickly on the surcharge. Trump himself has said that America doesn't need Canada's energy at the start of his trade war. If Doug had a spine he would have put that surcharge on until a new deal has been signed. That deal should have conditions that the surcharge will come back and could increase if America wants to start the trade war back up.

Lets not play his game of flipping and flopping every few days and making big headlines, instead lets make a decision and follow through with it.

Your 2nd point doesn't really matter if Trump follows through with "elect me and you'll never have to vote again".

Near record low voter turn out which is proof we really did need an emergency election. It defintely wasn't a propaganda fueled power grab with a little bribe tossed in. What the fuck happened to our country.

The path we are going is just doubling down on that future. Even if transitioning and slowing our impacts won't fix things, it could help slow the changes down to a more manageable pace. Doubling down on burning more oil, and overall more consumption, could increase the rate the climate is changing at. It could overwhelm garbage and recycling capacity (this is already true in many places or sectors).

We could just be less weak with our policy and demand builders build a certain % of affordable units on certain plots. We could also start a real government supported affordable unit program. A big part of our housing issues fall on trusting developers to just build what we really need when we know they only build to maximize profits.

They could drive to a transit station then take mobility friendly transit to their destination.

8. Allowing cities to build more density and restricting urban sprawl. It may sound counter intuitive to restrict a bit of sprawl and SFH, but when applied properly those restrictions can help encourage upzoning and density in key areas.

The reduced speed limit should come with traffic calming relative to the speed limit. If a through road has a 20 MPH zone that area should have lane narrowing and at least raised crossings.

They don't have to lose full control. They could be following too closely and swerve onto the sidewalk to avoid a collision with a car and end up striking a pedestrian.

Speeders will stick out even more making them easier to spot in traffic. The reduced speed limit should also be accompanied by lane narrowing, speed humps, and other traffic calming techniques.

Higher speeds can cause drivers to lose control of their cars. People are killed on the side walks by drunk or speeding drivers frequently. Instead of blame shifting we should be taking steps to make the whole system safer.

Just as the system intends. We need electoral reform as part of the solution out of this cycle. Our politics often mirror some of the USA (2 party system, right vs left, candidates spend most of their time bad mouthing each other, no follow through on election promises) , given their current state, we should be doing everything we can to distance ourselves and our systems from theirs.

"An emergency happened and Pierre changed nothing about his plans just continued bashing the other candidates and now less people like him, this is so unfair" Danielle Smith

"I just don't see why the neighborhoods next to the school should also be school zones. Most of the kids are dropped off by cars anyway cause its too unsafe for them to walk" - a North American NIMBY

He denied any association with project 2025 despite many members of his administration writing it. He also said ukraine started their war. He also says canada doing anything except becoming the 51st state is escalating the economic warfare canada started. He calls the trade deal he signed with Canada a terrible deal and asks who the hell signed it. He knows the internet has rotted our memories and attention spans and hes trying to rewrite history to his favour with that knowledge. The scary part is, it's working.

Malls came out as a solution to the lack of community a planner/developer saw in the relatively new suburban experiment. He hoped malls would blend shopping, community, and socializing all into one place, similar to how the mixed use, mid rise neighbourhoods would feel. Unfortunately the mall fell prey to captialism and as automobiles kept becoming more popular, the mall was less about community and more about a convenient shopping experience.

The developer who made the mall regrets it, it didn't turn out to be a beacon of community like he had hoped and instead it further promoted isolation, suburbia, and car dependancy in our cities.