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im reached my limit. you're not allowed to use it until you've read the essay now
marathon definitely is hooking me… most interesting a shooter has been since pubg. feels like there's a contradiction at the heart of it that is generating a lot of Takes about it but the contradiction is actually a necessary dialectical engine. that's where the juice gets produced.
With so many games dependant on skin sales I'm genuinely surprised that genderswapped versions of characters are not more common. People will pay $20 bucks just to be a girl. More than that, even.
this question completely floored me lmao
it definitely ends up being that too in various ways (like being able to borrow against your mortgage is a serious advantage) but yeah it sucks.
I'm a "we can't heal as a society until we abandon roman property law" extremist and I feel like home ownership demonstrates that problem really clearly
feel like it's mostly an "investment" in that it's a way to avoid pouring your money down the drain into some landlord's pockets
if any of yall wanna play marathon with me hmu btw
i'm very bad at marathon lol
hbd!!!
yeah honestly the loop sounds so sick as a pubg liker
ive been thinking about getting it, it looks so interesting
but if we can't even get bike lanes I don't see how we ever manage to pedestrianize one of our historical streetcar neighborhoods
tbh I think the actual way you make that work is remove private cars from hawthorne entirely and pedestrianize it, which seems the kind of environment where streetcars really shine globally
like the vibes of a Hawthorne Streetcar would be impeccable for bopping around from store to store but I'll grant that the practical advantages over the 14 there are pretty slim.
idk about realism at all but in my mind the niche streetcars fill is comfortable intra-neighborhood travel. like I'm not taking the A to cross the river, but for the quick hop from downtown to pearl. feels more casual and breezy than boarding a bus.
we gotta get tolls on those bridges
it's a breezy read and not particularly rigorous tbh but the details about Marx's unpublished research notes are a fun talking point. he was going deep into studying historical eco-communes and focusing on capitalist overexploitation of natural commons and other such eco stuff.
have u read Degrowth Communism? Apparently he was moving away from this very hard in his research notes before he died
pollera dancers with swords... is this anything
it's 100% this tbh I think everyone is just burned-out and tired
The five minutes before you fall asleep is also a 10x multiplier to Thinking Time—but watch out
Both showers and public transit rides have 3x multipliers to Thinking Time. You'd think stationary bikes would be too because they're both moving and mindless but actually they're 0.5x at best. Long flights have 10x to Thinking Time but only if you're in the sweet spot of tired but not TOO tired
102nd is ripe for this. Little two and three stories with stores underneath.
oh wow yeah that would be so nice
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we've got our most progressive city council ever right now, so maybe now's the chance to fix that! 💪
Cesar E. Chavez blvd in SE portland
4 lanes of Cesar Chavez. This stroad makes me sick. Living in these houses sucks ass because the road is SO loud. It's a high-crash corridor that's taken way too many lives in the past years.
even better: what if we rezoned Cesar Chavez??? Why is this Stroad residential-zoned? It keeps killing people and we HAVE to do something about that. We could narrow to two lanes or add bike lanes! and build the whole thing out as a new commercial corridor. Kills like three birds with one stone!
A line drawn along SE 34th from Stark to Woodward
I think the first place to start would be D1 but that's not my n'hood so idk the best options.
What if we rezoned this entire stretch of SE 34th into mixed-use commercial/residential but added a series of modal filters to keep car traffic low?
got around to watching @nerd4cities.bsky.social's video on Portland's commercial corridors.
I think we all agree these are the heart and soul of Portland. I want to ask: where should we build MORE of these neighborhoods? Upzone a neighborhood? Tear out a freeway?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6uy...