He's right; Americans are too stupid to be able to build a nice place.

star trek fans are like, tight, if I buy an EV I can meet Mark Twain or Captain Frasier of the starship Bozeman

the average american household uses about 100 gallons of gas per month so suspending the 18.4 cent per gallon federal tax would save them about $18 per month. so it's okay to make the j/o motion at anybody saying it's an affordability measure

We need to get carbrain added to the DSM

hate and mock them treat them the way they treat you if anyone tut-tuts you for doing it, call them a hog-lover and mock them, too

happy whacking day to those who celebrate

ChatGPT, the wonder technology: "Tell me the state regulations for e-bikes in California" [completely wrong information with references to the CVC where the sections have the wrong number of digits]

If your jurisdiction announced a project you were looking forward to, and it seems like it disappeared or is delayed until after your expected lifespan, blame a rich guy with an elected official's direct line. (or a planner who is a true believer in consensus and "just one more workshop, bro")

Unless you destroy your city's and state's nimbys, your daughter will have to move to Idaho to afford rent where they will execute her on murder charges if she miscarries. Hate the nimbys as much as they hate you. And yes, they hate you; why else would they do that to you and your children?

Kamala Harris’s husband was the lawyer who filed an environmental lawsuit against subway expansion on behalf of Beverly Hills, the wealthy and exclusionary LA enclave that famously had oil wells on their high school campus until recently. This is the first good dirt I’ve ever heard about him tbh.

Miss me yet?

We need to disbar any environmental lawyer who has defended a traffic lane against a bike lane, defended airlines and gasoline salesmen from passenger rail competition, defended fossil fuels, or defended sprawl from infill development

If farmers are so poor, why do they have millions of dollars to spend on environmental lawyers to block passenger rail, wind power, and bike lanes

down payment assistance is so fucking funny wealth transfer from the general fund to adults from rich families "here's $50k to go along with the $300k your parents will need to give you to if you want a mortgage payment you can afford while earning a wage low enough to qualify for the assistance"

Stick up for trans people and comment against the creation of another trans registry. Comment on this proposed Federal rule.

We need to hold People's Planning Commission hearings in which we hear comment and hold votes on whether or not people like Neil should be allowed to live in our communities, and whether or not their homes should continue to exist, including environmental impact studies on their continued existence

When tire swings (and whole play structures if your parks department was cool enough) were made out of rubber tires, were those special tires made just for playground equipment or scrap tires? I never got cut by radial belts, and they seemed slicker than the ones on cars.

Reported safe from the youths doing an MIA revival

Here's the thing though, farmers aren't cash poor. The median SMALL FAMILY FARM is clearing over $100K in annual income. AFTER farm debts & expenses. "But $100K isn't that mu-" They're farmers, Steve, they don't live in Manhattan

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

I would prefer a Democratic Party that loses elections every time running on doing good things to a Democratic Party that loses elections every time trying to win this asshole's vote, which he will never give them

There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.

the bluegrass scene is no joke

do it locally at your planning commission. reply to the disgusting hateful things the boomer nimbys have been saying about you for a generation in kind. they have no shame. make them ashamed.

these stupid rules don't even do anything for the public realm. A simple rule like: "Ground floor units must open to the street" is all you need to get street life, not these ridiculous rules about building planes

"Break Up The Massing Plane"-brained planners cannot tell the difference between these two buildings:

nimbys use their political power to make your life worse and keep you poor so they can extract money you work to earn You are allowed to hate them They hate you They are comfortable calling you and your children pollution on the record at public meetings It's ok to treat them how they treat you

I applied to be a planning commissioner in my town and I've been informed that the only time they can hold interviews is the middle of the day during the workweek. I wonder why the average age of a local elected official is like 700.

Small business owners continue to not beat the charges of being the dumbest people in America "all of my customers are people who drive 50 miles from an exurb to buy a whole fish as a novelty"

But this is why municipal governments in California are stuck doing nonsensical enviro analysis. Like so much in America right now, just takes one rich guy to ruin everything!

*city governance, too

In case anybody wants to know what MAGA Vision Zero looks like, it's your town needing permission from its fraternal orders of policemen and firemen to apply for FHWA traffic calming grants and SS4A grant priority for police dispatch and something called "field blood delivery"

I agree with the left nimbys in this: Cities were better when yuppies talking about FIRE meant "Finance, Insurance, Real Estate sector of the economy" instead of "FiNaNcIaL iNdEpEnDeNcE rEtIrE eArLy" oh congratulations you took your obama tech stock cashout and became a mom-and-pop landlord shut up

try telling this to nextdoor users, lol

"In housing, besides circumventing the disproportionately high elder participation in town meetings where land-use decisions are made, I advocate a progressive tax on older homeowners to incentivize them to downsize rather than retain. The longer you stay, the more you should have to pay."

"The vast majority of Trump voters are opiate addicts who have sold at least 1 of their children for drugs. On average, they read at the level of a 5th grader and nearly all of the adult males are pedophiles. Their communities are vastly poorer because of aforementioned pedophilia and low avg. IQ."

According to these maps, preservationists removed Black families from the Haight and NoPa even more thoroughly than urban renewal did in the Fillmore.

YOU present the danger, so it's YOUR responsibility to not harm anyone. If that means you need to drive really slowly down this hypothetical street you imagine, then drive really slowly. If you cannot handle that, then do not drive.

"you can't be a catholic and support the emperor over the pope" news to the ghibellines

Really shocking that people who hate teenagers on e-bikes in their neighborhood and oppose bike lanes in their community and make fun of people wearing spandex and fought against traditional mountain bikes on trails would feel this way.

the real test is when they drag the city to court (on the builder's dime) and we find out whether the judge throws them out on their ass or invalidates the statutory exemption and makes CEQA apply anyway because the real meaning of CEQA is that old people get to keep us from having nice things.

Truly wild research on the change in bike mode share in NYC, London, Paris and Berlin. Between 2000 and 2023, Paris went from 1 out of every 100 trips being on a bike to *one out of 9!* Many people, including credible researchers, would have told you that that *could not* happen.

The Federal government may be trying its very hardest to make it impossible to visit other countries, but at least the California government is trying its best to make the domestic vacation alternatives worth the overflowing inbox. I love the Great Redwood Trail! Congratulations to these planners.

I need this sweater more than anything. Please help me find this sweater. I need to be Stained Glass Core. I would also appreciate the complementary high-pile carpet vest.

I think cars can be fun and useful, but municipalities have to start enforcing laws against drivers summarily slaughtering and maiming their residents. Drivers are already the leading cause of violent death/injury in our communities, and without a serious crackdown, they'll kill/injure millions more

Wow, youtube shorts are really effective www.youtube.com/shorts/CZCg1...