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If they're going to make people ride bikes and scooters in traffic, then it should at LEAST be legal to do the Snow Crash thing where you use a hook-shot-style harpoon to catch free rides from cars.
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2023
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I've never been to Amsterdam, but I am always skeptical whenever someone claims to me that any city isn't a shithole.
Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, New York City, New Haven, Paris, Toronto... hard pass. Being that close to that many other people is fucking gross.
Antisocial people existing doesn't mean that cities should be planned to cater mainly to them...
So don’t live in a city. But for those of us who do, and enjoy doing so, our cities shouldn’t be built to cater to you, they should be built around catering to those of us who enjoy living in them.
Edi: Blah, replied to wrong comment.
How much "space" does one person, or even a family need? When you were in those cities, where did you stay? There is a big difference between visiting a downtown core and living in a near-to-downtown neighborhood. Still not everyone's cup of tea, sure, but if we all lived in an acre property we would collectively go bankrupt from infrastructure costs alone.