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Have you thought about making your own Richard Scarry book? It'd be fun to read. I want to know why the cities fund the water systems next.
To deliver the mind control fluoride, duh. Or wait, that's too wild. To monitor the viral load of the sewage to justify freedom destroying lockdowns.
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That’s funny. Do you have kids? That picture is quite cute but reality is different.
Your misconceptions about reality and kids are sad and badly misinformed. Bakfiets are quite common and extremely popular in the Netherlands, and people carry their kids around in them all over the place all the time. They even have transparent hoods and windshields for the rain. And the kids and parents absolutely love the delightful experience of safely biking all around the beautiful parks and ubiquitous well main…
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Your misconceptions about reality and kids are sad and badly misinformed. Bakfiets are quite common and extremely popular in the Netherlands, and people carry their kids around in them all over the place all the time. They even have transparent hoods and windshields for the rain. And the kids and parents absolutely love the delightful experience of safely biking all around the beautiful parks and ubiquitous well main…
You seem have written that I am misinformed what you have written is a bunch of nonsense and what sounds like leftist drivel about electing better leaders. No, the point is kids have meltdowns and do not behave in these idyllic ways as depicted in these cute pictures.
Trump tried to strangle Secret Service agent in attempt to reach Capitol on Jan. 6, aide testifies:
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/tr...
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In my experience this was multi-fold (and nothing to do with helping the poor) - Housing would be built w/o appropriate ratios of schools being built in the same zone (poor city planning, and over reliance on connections vs rule of law) - You could use connections to get to a well-rated public school w/o living in the zone, but at the expense of a local student being pushed out of zone. Note, this usually favors the…
I'll never understand why kids have to be brought to school. I went by myself, on foot, bicycle, or bus/subway. Nothing bad happened. Why does it seem to be mandatory in large parts of the US?
Today, this would be illegal where we live. From what I understand, it would also be enforced and child-services would get involved. It is hard to get an answer on what the cut-off age is when kids can be left alone, we have not received an answer from any place we've asked.
While I appreciate the spirit of the law, and while we're well off enough that we dont need to worry about things like this...I do feel kids are quite coddled these days.
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I'm a life-long New Yorker, born and raised. Even I gave up on the city and moved out, despite all the desire to live with low carbon-impact and live a moderate lifestyle w/o cars. At some point, the pain factor becomes too much. I'll give you some examples - Approximately 5-6yrs ago the transit quality in the outer-boroughs (not Manhattan) became so bad that you could spend 2hrs hours switching multiple trains if yo…
> as if I could jump on a ride-share bicycle with two kids. So while this is rather tangential to the post in general, The cargo bike is the exact solution to this problem[0]. Just because your city is terrible at bicycle infrastructure doesn't mean it's a problem inherent to cities. And honestly by your post it sounds like New York is just terrible about infrastructure in general . [0] https://www.babboe.be/media/we…
On a side note, observe how none of the 5 riders have helmets!
poor-man's market research: Would you (not your belief about others) be interested in co-working / co-living locales, in different countries (think Costa Rica, Tenerife, Zanzibar) with excellent maintained QoS connectivity, and (higher tier offering) where your right to work (local work visa) for your home-country employer / clients was looked after by the company hosting the network of sites? Goal: to liberate you t…
I personally would be in the target market, however I've typically rented AirBNB's in different countries and worked from there. So there would have to be some kind of upside over that for it to be worth it. That said, biggest problem with "working from a different country" for me is self control. It's hard to actually be productive when the weather is beautiful, lots of interesting things are going on, and the beach…
• I love the articulating of tbe hard-to-be-productive-because-beacb problem. I definitely hit that in coastal Zanzibar earlier this year.I actually think that's a really worthwhile problem to solve, probably by siting a co-working / co-living community more inland.(Like, there's a reason why Obama wrote his book in inland Ubud of Bali rather than coastal Denpasar).
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> as if I could jump on a ride-share bicycle with two kids. So while this is rather tangential to the post in general, The cargo bike is the exact solution to this problem[0]. Just because your city is terrible at bicycle infrastructure doesn't mean it's a problem inherent to cities. And honestly by your post it sounds like New York is just terrible about infrastructure in general . [0] https://www.babboe.be/media/we…
Thanks for sharing this, this looks great. I'm thinking this would be even better for local groceries if this existed in Brooklyn. On a side note, observe how none of the 5 riders have helmets!
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> as if I could jump on a ride-share bicycle with two kids. So while this is rather tangential to the post in general, The cargo bike is the exact solution to this problem[0]. Just because your city is terrible at bicycle infrastructure doesn't mean it's a problem inherent to cities. And honestly by your post it sounds like New York is just terrible about infrastructure in general . [0] https://www.babboe.be/media/we…
That’s funny. Do you have kids? That picture is quite cute but reality is different.
I'm sure where you live a bakfiets is a less viable option, but claiming that therefore using them anywhere is unrealistic is myopic.
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I don't find suburbs boring. I find them soul-less. I grew up in rural France. Small village have shops, bars, services like post-office, hair-dresser and whatnot. It's not a dichotomy between things and absence of things. Suburbs would be fine in my own personal book if they were offering basic services and a sense of comunauty.( not in warehouse operated by large chain, but by people living there and earning a live…
> I grew up in rural France. Small village have shops, bars, services like post-office, hair-dresser and whatnot. It's not a dichotomy between things and absence of things. Ah, comparing France of 30 years ago with US today. Reality: France has changed. I mean, this model hasn't totally died, but it's in it's last spasms.
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I don't find suburbs boring. I find them soul-less. I grew up in rural France. Small village have shops, bars, services like post-office, hair-dresser and whatnot. It's not a dichotomy between things and absence of things. Suburbs would be fine in my own personal book if they were offering basic services and a sense of comunauty.( not in warehouse operated by large chain, but by people living there and earning a live…
> I grew up in rural France. Small village have shops, bars, services like post-office, hair-dresser and whatnot. It's not a dichotomy between things and absence of things. Ah, comparing France of 30 years ago with US today. Reality: France has changed. I mean, this model hasn't totally died, but it's in it's last spasms.
The spasms I see are good ones in my book. Yes, that will be bumpy soonish. But I see life there as many fold more agreeable than in rural US ( that I only now superficially; one short decade )
But that’s only me; and I’m culturally very French so no surprise in my preferences either