Sukrit Ganesh πΊπΈ π₯ π²π©οΈ
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Game developer. Interested in tech, cycling, piano, DIY, aviation, urban planning. Student pilot. @SantaClaraCity BPAC. YIMBY. Anti-populist. π²π π₯π°β’πΉπ©οΈ
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Joined November 2021
Lesson 31: Remedial lesson #2 and exam retake. Iβm just going to say one thing: I am officially ready to fly solo! The final stage of my flight training - cross country flying and checkride preparation - has begun. Look out skies of California, a new baby bird is taking flight!
Lesson 30 was my first remedial class after the midterm. Practiced landing approaches at San Martin Airport (KE16), a busy untowered airport, as well as stall recovery and go around procedures. How did it go? No major faults :)
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@LibsSuckaBigOne @CrimeInNYC They don't get that free lol. They're only offered the most basic accommodation possible (basically a cot in a large room), and most end up moving out. They're not eligible for most welfare that citizens are entitled to. Most work blue collar jobs after getting work permits.
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@StopAntisemites This isn't antisemitism though, they're not tearing down posters or saying anything bad about Jewish people. It isn't antisemitic to say "free Palestine" or criticize the Israeli government's tactics.
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@RealDianeYap And the same "hostile architecture" also makes life far more difficult for people who do ride the bus. SF could put every homeless person in a room (not just a shelter bed) for a fraction of what they're spending now. Won't fix drug issues, but it will get people off the street.
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Why on earth would a grocery store fight against new housing near them? Isn't having more customers living nearby a good thing?.
High-end supermarket Erewhon suing under Californiaβs environmental laws to stop a neighboring 520-unit apartment complex in Los Angeles
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California cities are beyond broken. A developer proposed a high-rise on a vacant lot in San Jose. Though it isn't located in a residential neighbourhood, locals are furious. But most egregiously, the city only plans to hold meetings on this project in 2026 - 2 years from now!!!
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@nycfreethinker You live in Manhattan and are complaining about high rises? This is a parody. Also nobody is moving out because of construction - in fact the places in the US that are growing (Miami, Dallas, etc.) are building a ton of housing. Cut the red tape and let developers build!.
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@Melanie_Vogel_ @TerryReintke Funny this is coming from a politician from a country that gets most of its power from nuclear. Germany has to consume dirty coal and imported petroleum, while France remains mostly energy independent.
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@ChrisBHaynes Take Curry off the list. He opposed a housing development near his multi-million dollar Atherton mansion over petty aesthetic concerns. People like him are why the Bay Area is so expensive.
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@EricaJSandberg lol low birth rates are a feature of industrialized nations. Tower blocks - where families with kids tend to live, btw - have nothing to do with low birth rates. Stressful lifestyles & stagnating wages play a much bigger role.
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@DavidZavac They shouldβve set the Phantom Menace 3 years before Attack of the Clones instead of a decade before, and Anakin shouldβve been 18 instead of 9. Wouldβve fixed a lot of issues with the plot, including the frankly creepy β romanceβ with the much older Padme.
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@CityOfLasVegas In other words, youβve invented the subway. London has been doing it since 1863.
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@Charlie12635375 @ahvancouver You realize young people donβt want to settle for a dumpy cockroach infested room in a bungalow 40 miles from town, right? Government regulations are responsible for the housing crisis.
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Can someone explain the logic behind rust belt towns opposing new development? Like, shouldnβt they strongly support every single new apartment complex, office tower, or factory? Otherwise their tax base will continue to shrink and jobs & people will continue to move elsewhere.
Alderman Hopkins has announced his decision to block a proposed development that would have brought 500 new apartments and a grocery store to Old Town Chicago. The tower was projected to bring in $2.5 million per year of property taxes for the City of Chicago. It would have 400
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Much of San Francisco was completely rebuilt - buildings and infrastructure - just 5 to 6 years after the 1906 earthquake and fire completely devastated vast swaths of the city. In 2024, the planning process for a single large apartment complex or water main can take as long.
How long is it going to take to get LADBS to permit, inspect and rebuild thousands and thousands of homes?
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@maiamindel She then described milking cows on a homestead while pregnant. I donβt know about you, but a cushy office job that pays $75k a year with health insurance and a 40 hour work week is far better than subsistence farming β¦.
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@JoshLekach These would be so much nicer as bungalow courts with paver stone driveways, ample trees, and walking paths. The parking could be in the rear of the property, accessed by an alleyway. You could even throw in a few apartment buildings here and there to mix things up.
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Your daily reminder that thereβs a 3-mile long stretch of beachfront condos selling for under $400k located just 5 miles from one of the best job markets in the US. Chicago remains unparalleled for its combination of good jobs, mass transit, and affordable housing.
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@kentlind @NopaPeakRiders @KCGrock That was only commuting data. Far more people use bikes to go to school, visit friends, etc. I see young kids (under 13) of all races on bikes all the time. Also very popular with college students. Just because you don't commute by bike doesn't mean you don't ride often.
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@SeanEcom This is more due to LAβs inability to build anything. They tried spending $5 billion to add a lane in each direction to a stretch of freeway, and even a single underground parking garage runs over $100k per spot. Paris builds new subways for around $400 million/mile.
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@RealDianeYap I meant temporary housing, not free permanent apartments, and the easiest way to avoid perverse incentives would be for the state to provide homeless housing as opposed to the city. Drug & mental health treatment is much easier to administer when people aren't homeless.
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@_BarringtonII If those slave owners were actually "kind" to their slaves, they wouldn't have slaves in the first place.
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The Silicon Valley should be filled with magnificent tall buildings, a world-class train system, futuristic infrastructure, & public spaces that will blow you away. Instead we got bland office parks and 70s tract homes that are priced like luxury penthouse condos. Thanks, NIMBYs.
still thinking about the skyline of San Jose, the tech capital of the world. I was expecting futuristic utopia vibes and instead got, like, Plano Texas vibes
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The entire Bay Area waterfront should legit be flooded with high-rise condos like Edgewater, Chicago. The reason you can get a large waterfront condo for under $300k there is because developers put up high-rises with wanton abandon next to single-family homes in the 60s and 70s.
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@AlecStapp Isn't a lot of this simply because people walk far less? For instance half of kids walked to school in the 60s, but now it's like 10%.
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@samosaur The real issues are the driver who killed him and the terrible road design that forced him to bike in traffic. Riding in bike is hardly a "punishment" - it has been my primary mode of transportation for the last few years. Safer road design should be a top priority.
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@BBCWiltshire Meanwhile much of South London still lacks rapid transit, including bus lanes, and numerous railways in the UK are single-tracked. Fix those things instead of building an expensive road tunnel under dome fields.
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Tokyo's affordability amazes me. Here's a newly built 1-bedroom apartment (not a studio) with a balcony located less than 30 minutes from Tokyo Station by transit that rents for a little over $1k/month. Good luck finding something like this in SF or NYC for three times the price.
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@WarrenJWells It's not bedrock or soil conditions or wind or anything like that. It's because of zoning. Midtown and lower Manhattan got tons of tall buildings because they're central business districts, but the area in between has very strict height limits.
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@wanyeburkett Case in point: this was the Empire State Building shortly after it opened β¦
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I'm convinced every issue facing America is 0% technical and 100% political. We have a feasible solution to virtually every single problem in our country, from housing costs to energy shortages, but alas, squabbling & NIMBYism prevent those solutions from being implemented . .
BREAKING: Veto is in now. Hochul cites local opposition. Says wind companies need to build positive relations with host communities.
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@EricaJSandberg lol you think Iβm not a US citizen? I was born and raised in the Bay Area. I envision a wider variety of skyscrapers (like the Chicago Loop, Miami, or Tokyo) rather than copy-paste towers (though tower blocks are also great). Most buildings will be mid rise (5-7 stories) though.
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Just a reminder that your normie California-to-Texas mover didn't leave because of politics, vibes, weather, or culture. They left because a condo that cost over $750k in LA is under $300k in Houston.
Californiaβs high housing prices are pricing the middle class out of the state entirely and sending 300 people *a day* to Texas, an 80% increase since 2012.
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@reason This is probably the worst example you could have provided. Erie is a tiny town of 1,000 people with just one grocery store. If that store (and the nearby city-owned St. Paul Market) didn't exist, residents would have to drive nearly 20 miles to Chanute or Parsons for groceries.
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Every fire department in the US should get these trucks. Cheap to maintain and easy to operate due to its small size and tight turning radius! It's time to retire the gargantuan and ultra-expensive custom-built trucks used by fire departments across the country.
Our 1st electric fire truck!.Coming in 2023:.- less noise for residents.- less width, tighter turns.- less $$$ maintenance.- better firefighter health.- better ergonomics .- same capital cost.Canβt wait to see this on our #Vancouver streets. @DeputyTMoore.
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This picture shows how out-of-touch California politicians can be. Opposing new apartments while standing in front of a mansion that likely costs over $1.5 million dollars? Come on. This whole post reeks of elitism.
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@sweatystartup @nikitabier Is this because your gargantuan truck with a 36-gallon gas tank won't fit in any of the parking spots?.
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@elonmusk Traffic as we know it only became a major problem in the 20th century. And I think humans figured out a way to defeat it in the previous century .
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@lecternleader @TheRabbitHole84 Roe v. Wade happened in the 70s, and "hookups" are hardly a recent phenomenon. The real issue is economic, not social.
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There are entire neighborhoods of single-family houses in San Jose that are overflowing with cars. It's very clear that 2-3 households with upwards of 8 people are crammed into 1000 sq. ft. bungalows. Somehow, we've managed to create tenements with single-family homes.
I'm trying to rent out my 3BR house in a very working class part of LA and could not understand how all these houses go for 3300$/month. Then I started getting applications. Three families living together to afford the housing here. One household had 10 people in it.
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@KevorkAlmassian Maybe Germany shouldn't have gotten rid of their nuclear reactors. And perhaps they should take the housing crisis seriously and let developers build enough housing to meet demand. Many Western countries are facing these exact same dilemmas.
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@RezaC1 Um . yes? So instead of only consisting of $2m+ mansions, this neighborhood will get some condos that sell for a fraction of the cost. Jobs for construction workers, additional housing supply, and more tax revenue sound like a win to me. You're a classic limousine liberal.
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Marin County makes no sense. It's a sprawling car-dependent suburb filled with old, large, energy-inefficient homes built on forests or wetlands. Yet, its politicians claim to be "environmentalists" and oppose new apartments to "protect the environment" . .
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California doesn't have a transit cost disease; it has a cost disease period. From $11 billion to REBUILD a 20-mile, 4-lane highway to $1 million/unit to build affordable housing to $12 billion for 6 miles of subway, CA can't move forward unless it gets costs under control.
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@KeenanPeachy UCs don't even have affirmative action. In fact, the practice has been banned since 1996! I'll take things that never happened for 2000, Alex.
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@Trey_Explainer Modern LEDs can also change their color temperature, so the whole debate over "white light vs yellow light" is completely moot.
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@EricaJSandberg @sfchronicle Edgewater, Chicago did exactly this in the 60s and 70s - replacing mansions on the waterfront with high-rise condos. Those same condos can be purchased today for $250k. Let's do the same for the Bay Area. Abundant housing is the way forward. Stagnation isn't.
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@rnoonrivers @BikeLaneDiary What families do you think could live in those multi-million dollar single family homes expect the uber rich?.
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@cafedujord @angelaswartz Lol, Curry is worth 9 figures, yet he wants the city to pay for taller fencing to "block sight lines" onto his family's property. He doesn't even want to put up a fence on his own property!.
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@TrueSlazac Can't track it anymore. Maybe they landed in some remote dirt airstrip so Assad can board a truck and drive to the coast, where he'll then hop on a boat to Russia.
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If it takes several years to get building permits for a single apartment complex in a commercial area, we're cooked. We're not meeting our housing goals. This fenced-off lot has been an eyesore for years, and not a single market-rate project broke ground this year in the city.
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Sorry to inform you, but legalizing ADUs and duplexes, while a step in the right direction, will hardly make a dent in the housing crisis. You've got to legalize 6-8 story single-staircase buildings without setbacks everywhere and hand out building permits like candy.
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@AaronGuhreen @Kounkuey And whatβs the point of this program? Iβve seen used food carts for under a thousand dollars. Itβs hardly the biggest barrier street vendors face! They should fix the ridiculous permitting system instead.
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@pseudnonymus Much of San Francisco actually consists of mass-produced suburban houses and apartment complexes, not beautiful Victorians. Absolutely nothing wrong with replacing them with towers, especially when it will result in massive GDP growth & bring housing costs under control.
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@AlpacaAurelius That's probably because he walked a lot instead of driving everywhere. It's not rocket science.
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@thehill This isnβt βoversupplyβ, itβs just supply, and more of it means prices go down.
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Unpopular: we should be taxing the life out of construction in fire zones, if not banning it entirely. Dangerous construction practices like this cost our state billions in fire damages and are arguably responsible for our current insurance crisis.
California Republicans have introduced a half-billion-dollar bill that would give tax credits to homeowners if they live in fire zones. Also it's non-refundable. Also it has a welfare cliff. And a marriage penalty for parents.
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@lydia_kou Perhaps you should compare the median home prices in Austin & Palo Alto before talking. And if you're really concerned about "trickle-down" housing, where's all the outrage when old single-family homes are torn down and replaced with new, ultra-expensive single-family mansions?.
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@TXTanoStan99 Lol if Ahsoka Tano were a real person she'd vehemently disagree with most of your policies . .
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@lilyblahaj This skyscraper is legit 10x better than all the decades-old buildings around it. Wraparound balconies, modern insulation & amenities, a massive roof deck, and magnificent views of the Pacific Ocean? Absolutely stunning.
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@dr_beckers Uh, people can keep their houses. They will also have the option to voluntarily sell them to developers, however, who will then build MORE houses to enable more people to live there. Is this so hard to grasp?.
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@conorsen They do have real jobs (why else would they be graduate student WORKERS), and their pay is extremely low relative to the cost of living. Although I put the blame on high rents courtesy of NIMBYs.
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Unpopular opinion: BART should develop 100% market-rate housing on their property & use the revenue to improve service. Around the world, transit agencies make money with real estate. The city can the additional tax revenue from the new development to build subsidized housing.
See designs for hotly debated North Berkeley BART housing
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@the_transit_guy The opposition is almost entirely older white homeowners. I see this time and time again.
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We're at the point where new construction apartments in SF are renting for under $1500, utilities included. The units in 361 Turk St. are small but well-designed (the kitchens even have dishwashers). Forge Development Partners has truly reinvented the single-room occupancy unit!
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@BKuenast Green space like abandoned warehouses, parking lots, and overgrown vacant lots that nobody uses? This plan creates more green space! What is it with Austinites being so decel and anti-growth?.
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@Mr_Hobbits @ericmbudd College students are the future of this country. They will become the engineers, doctors, teachers, scientists, businesspeople, and artists of tomorrow. We should be doing everything to improve life for them, starting with lowering housing costs.
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We should be removing red tape in areas that are NOT FIRE ZONES. Newsom is right that CEQA and the coastal commission need to be limited in their ability to block development, but why should it only apply to rebuilding homes in high-fire-risk areas? Why not the whole state?.
NEW: Just issued an Executive Order that will allow victims of the SoCal fires to not get caught up in bureaucratic red tape and quickly rebuild their homes. We are also extending key price gouging protections to help make rebuilding more affordable.
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@LADOTofficial @cd1losangeles I could build something far more useful with tools from Harbor Freight and parts from the local junkyard.
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Thread: did you know that "climate-friendly" California is still spending billions to widen highways and construct other car infrastructure while public transit and rural roads remain underfunded? Here are a few examples:.1/
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Honolulu's new metro is one of the most interesting transit projects I've seen. They're building several miles of elevated rail through farmland, with the intention of developing the land in the future (lots of park & rides as well). Similar to how many NYC rail lines were built.
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@seandsweeney Counterpoint: construction costs need to drop 10-15% to achieve the same thing. Could easily do that with building code reform, banning all impact fees, allowing smaller European style elevators, and upzoning more lots for 6 stories!.
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Drugs & mental illness may exacerbate homelessness, but the #1 reason American cities have so much homelessness is because most cities don't have any living options between a studio apartment and a tent. A hundred years ago, people could rent cheap dorm rooms or even bunks!
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@alisonmartino I'd take the "new design" any day over some unremarkable, cheaply-built one-story buildings. At least the new structure will house hundreds of people!.
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@Appyg99 I feel the Europeans bashing America and Americans bashing Europe need to cool down a bit. Chances are that if you live in any developed country, your quality of life will be quite good. These countries all have flaws, but none are fatally flawed.
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@DecentralistThe @DouglasTodd @JerichoCoalitio Senakw is located on Native American land. The city has absolutely no say in what they build.
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@adrianjloewen @the_transit_guy If it's student housing, it should be in the form of apartment complexes or dorms located close to campus and amenities. It's a far more efficient use of space, and you avoid all sorts of traffic issues with students driving to college.
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@VickieforNYC Oh how the script has flipped. Democrats are now supporting deregulation and expanded property rights, while Republicans are opposing them. Zoning regulations hurt the economy and make it far harder to build wealth or run a business.
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@jordanbpeterson @AP Uh, did you comment on the wrong post? This is literally an article about Hoboken redesigning streets β¦.
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@GubbaHomestead @Savage4th Because those formulas were developed after years of research. You really think itβs ok to give a newborn honey?.
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@macsquirelera Window ACs are very easy to install. Mini-splits require a professional. New builds never come with window ACs (or even wall ACs) because it's far easier to install split ACs in new construction than an existing home.
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@SenatorMenendez That's not a bad thing. No federal money should be spent on highways in the first place. Urban highways are a scourge on cities, and highways should only be used to connect cities to each other, not run right through them.
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@nolightupstairs The CalPoly rejection is especially shocking. Like, either he got extremely unlucky (perhaps his resume fell through the cracks multiple times), or he bungled something badly. Also, many of these schools don't even use affirmative action, so that's not the reason either!.
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Imagine living in MANHATTAN and complaining about high-rises. I swear if these NIMBYs were alive in the 1920s, they would have fought against the Empire State Building. This might as well be an Onion article.
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@SANDAG Iβm convinced American traffic engineering departments need a complete house cleaning. You think this design is ok in 2023?.
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@nikicaga Probably so they can get the rich to take public transit and so they can raise more revenue? Business and first class seats generate more profit than economy class seats on planes.
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