One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

Can you believe that we used to allow cars free run of this incredibly obvious people-first space? So many people out today after the Pride Parade.

"It's not fair when you prepare for war after we repeatably signal we want to attack you and your allies"

Coming back to the thinking in this thread, I really wish there was some academic work on what this would mean and look like for investor-owned firms if it was a broad, mandatory policy measure. Would firms end up better capitalized, or would they compensate in other ways?

i had the most cyberpunk experience ever while i was waiting for a chicken wrap and there was a very loud recorded announcement about how McDonald’s does not tolerate antisocial behavior and some guy in a balaclava and hoodie was hectoring me about how i should buy him ice cream

"What if we made an epic, slow-burn, high-minded sci fi concept with a 8-digit per episode budget done by the same guys who did Breaking Bad and the entire marketing spend is just a branded donut truck outside of San Diego Comic Con"

Easily one of my favorite stories about the production of #YoungFrankenstein. #TCMParty

If they had also proposed building out solar power in the state to provide the energy this facility needs and were willing to compensate for water use by recycling and investing in regional conservation, this whole project might have garnered fewer objections.

Temu fascism

This is a stupid idea.

If your socialism isn't concerned with expanding and improving our urban centers, and instead wants them to remain the decaying museum of an America long past, then get it the fuck out of my face. Your bourgeois obsession with "neighborhood character" over livability and accessibility sucks.

Druid, Circle of Awebo! Some cute fun art for myself to get back into the swing of art-making

While it might have been a bit austere, it's a shame Legalism didn't get married to Mohism instead of Confucianism historically.

Mamdami has to find a position in his admin for this guy just to do stuff like this to trigger the NY Post readers

>they made Curtis Sliwa an honorary furry how did I get here

Looner lander!

Look, we should be glad that there are so many cishet guys and gals out there to carefully explain to us queers how we're supposed to be ourselves.

Has everybody adopting AI forgotten about pilot programs? You know, give something a spin on a small scale before hanging your company’s entire fate on some overhyped tech or process? Or were they so worried that failing to adopt AI immediately would lead to their failure because AI go brrrrtt?

Historically, a lb of beef cost way more than 1hr of *median* wage let alone minimum wage. In mid 18th century France, it would have been like half a median daily wage (there was no minimum wage, obviously) and by the time of the revolution it was probably over a days median wage for a lb of beef.

Look, it's been a hot minute since I studied the French Recolution, but I'm pretty sure a French peaseant would've been estatic if the price of bread went up that little at the time compared to what actually happened.

How much beef does this person imagine the average sans-culotte ate in a week? Or a month? This is a trick question.

Chicago can never be allowed to have this technology

One of many things this would allow DOGE / the federal government to do is track every single thing that you do on the internet if you go to a government website once We specifically made it illegal for the government to do that. That’s just for corporations lol Jokes aside, this is worse

Some gays are just button down and boring, actually. Once again the point of liberation is that you get to be openly gay without being punished for it, and how you express your sexuality is entirely down to *you*. That is freedom.

I feel like this is like cursing your car to eventually wreck in a lake.

Wait... we all know that gentrification is when turn a road into a pedestrian area with outdoor dining right?

Wait... we all know that gentrification is when you add apartments to Los Altos (median home price $4M) right?

Won't someone please think of the millionaires?

Apple TV doesn’t do marketing? Do the whispers of a blind prophet in the Kabul market not count? The petroglyphs depicting the Morning Show found in the Forbidden Tomb in Giza? I personally learnt about See from a statue in Rome that spoke in the voice of a long-dead child.

This was really an excellent episode, even by the standards of a generally excellent podcast. The damage done by pseudoscientific pop traumatology is serious

The American szlachta is doing a Sarmatism? 😱

it is honestly mind boggling that a not-insignificant population of American liberals is troubled by activity that in other countries is part and parcel of being a political party like say what one will about the DSA but things like meetings, debates over party structure, etc are very normal!

I've embraced being a liberal because explaining how I'm a social anarchist is different from ansoc and how my political theory beliefs are different from my beliefs about politics in practice doesn't matter bc there are bigger things to worry about lmao

This is the only way to stop them from waging war. They don’t care about their soldiers, but they do care about themselves. If the west won’t enact sufficient sanctions – and they haven’t – then Ukraine will. It’s justified self defense.

Why else would I be posting about a public hearing in the land use committee on this, the day of Seattle's biggest pride celebration?

I’m in a virtual worldwide linguistics program right now where we have a bunch of Russian academics and based on what I’m currently hearing straight from those people on the ground the FSB is much feared but the people are done and done.

I've noticed this for decades, and no one exemplifies it more than Trump. Any sign of human decency is automatically suspect and assumed fake, because they just can't wrap their minds around people caring about other people, the country, the planet, and humanity more than their own selfish greed.

The thread running through all of MAGA is distrust Distrust of people Distrust of institutions Distrust of neighbors Distrust of strangers You signal credibility to them by openly distrusting everything

The universe is sending increasingly heavily-handed metaphors in hopes of getting through to the stragglers. I think we are going to need outright skywriting though to be honest.

A lot of my DSA affiliated friends sorta fall back on the smol bean defense for their organization and you guys run the biggest city in America. That is at the very least a moderately large sized bean accomplishment.

DSA playing pro ball now but is still managed like a farm team is the cause of like 90% of its problems imho.

You could say he's a real light-bringer.

This sort of political confidence is so appealing.

Ahhhh after 10,000 years I'm free!

Currently advising Lukashenko to avoid tea and stay on the ground floors of any buildings.

We all have bad ideas and get taken by hype from time to time, but an unwillingness to even entertain perfectly reasonable, practical questions is indicative of someone incapable of recognizing that fact.

Whatever the merits of current forms of AI turn out to be in historical perspective, it's fair to say that the shocking level of irrational groupthink and total incapacity for critical thinking among today's corporate executives will probably be worthy of historical note and careful analysis.

Some people might be surprised Ford did something as catastrophically stupid as "firing engineers and replacing them with chat bots" but anyone who grew up in Michigan between 1980 and the early 00s cannot be shocked by Ford continously shooting themselves in the foot with a belt fed machine gun

Never a good thing when you start getting Nicholas II vibes from your elites.

If we made a mistake this expensive and disastrous, we might have trouble keeping our jobs or finding new ones. But alas, we live in an age where people don't even care for their own self interest in a decadent assumption that nothing bad can *really* happen if there's no one to demand competence.