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9 months

The most plausible reason for teenage unhappiness

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America banned the goose that laid the golden egg. The mixed use multifamily home that we all love.

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This is what they are trying to take from you

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Is this really about safety or authoritarian control by anti-car legislators? They exude disdain for outer-borough residents who must drive to efficiently move about their daily lives. Do we think they'll stop at 20mph ... "every 5mph cut save lives".

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Washington Square Park used to be a paved road and parking lot for cars. If we decide to, we can upgrade our towns for people.

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To explain zoning to my family, for holiday dinner I’m gonna ask to put salads on one table, drinks on another, sides on a third table and the main dish in the living room. Then watch the traffic chaos as everyone tries to eat. That’s how suburbs create traffic out of thin air

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2 years

We banned the houses that fight inflation

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3 years

If you want 50mph in cities, ride subways. If you want 20 mph in cities, ride a bus. If you want 10 mph in cities, ride a bike. If you want 4 mph in cities, walk or drive a car. The average speed of a car Manhattan is 4.7 mph.

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2 years

Going car free is a immediate 20% increase in income

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A 3-year-old boy died after being hit by a GMC Yukon. “When we're talking about an SUV the size of a Yukon,” said Rollins. “That blind zone is enormous. Some trucks and SUVs have blinds of up to 50 feet where a child that age couldn't be seen.”

Boy, 3, dies after being hit by SUV in Columbia - ABC17NEWS

Police say a child was taken to the hospital after being hit by a car in a north Columbia neighborhood.

abc17news.com

Jerimiah Lee Lancaster

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When we had our third child I bought a Yukon. It’s very safe and built like a tank. We always had sedans and crossovers which have no chance against large trucks. The lives of my children are too important to risk to another driver.

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Since London started charging people to drive downtown, traffic and pollution has fallen sharply. Traffic collisions have fallen 40 % since between 2000 and 2010. 34 % drop in cars entering the area, and a 28 % increase in cyclists. Meanwhile in NYC:

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@socialaskan hes a few years away from recreating the Hunger Games

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A family has to pay $2.75 x 4 to ride mass transit from Brooklyn to Manhattan, plus a return trip. $22 total A BK family pays $0 to drive a car to Manhattan and park it on the street. NYC subsidizes gridlock.

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11 months

How do you feel about the widespread anti-car protests in your town?

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2 months

@nellen55 Please don’t shame Emotional Support Vehicles. Divorced suburban dads have feelings too, and Construction Cosplay is helpful therapy during a very fragile time.

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new findings from a University of Houston psychology study indicate that Americans who live in more rural areas tend to be more anxious and depressed, as well as less open-minded and more neurotic.

City or Country Living? Research Reveals Psychological Differences - Neuroscience News

Country living may not be as good for your mental health as previously believed, researchers say. A new study reveals those who live in rural areas may be more anxious and depressed than their...

neurosciencenews.com

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America really perfected the large-size family home and then made building it illegal

Adam James Pollock 🕊

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England really perfected the medium-sized family home and then made building it illegal

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3 years

One condo like this one saves over two square mile of wilderness from suburbs sprawl. 🌲 500 homes for well over 1000 residents in one building, vs suburbs with 500 people per square mile.

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Would you buy a $8,500 electric car? General Motors designed the Wuling Bingo EV. It goes 206 miles on a charge. you’re not allowed to buy it in the USA- it’s too affordable to sell here.

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11 months

How could pedestrians death be spiking? I can’t imagine… @NYC_DOT

Brent Toderian

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11 months

“Pedestrian deaths in the United States climbed once again in 2022, reaching their highest point in 41 years & continuing a bloody trend that shows no signs of stopping.” We know how to stop it and save those lives. They won’t do it. Via @StreetsblogUSA

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2 years

If some NIMBY can block all wind turbines from being installed a mile away from their house because they ~think~ they are noisy, I darn well should be able to block all cars for a mile around me because they ~are~ noisy.

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5 months

Maps of fertility rate and 2-bedroom rental costs

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10 months

Two car parking spots become a mini park in Brooklyn 🌳

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6 months

What if we all just moved to Buffalo, NY

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2 years

A car horn should be louder inside the car than it is outside.

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Hot take: Bicycles and Rowhomes are more technologically advanced than Electric Cars and Sprawl.

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Little Italy 🇮🇹 is booming Traded parked cars for paying tables 🍝🍷 💰

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The mystery of the missing bedrooms: as boomers retire in place, they stay alone in large 4-5 bedroom homes, in effect taking 3-5 bedrooms off the market. Multiply this by millions and get a housing shortage.

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2 years

Lukewarm take: NYC is expensive because lots of people want to live in a walkable neighborhood.

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Long Island City fights gentrification by building new homes 2007-2023

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NYC actually subsidizes turning its neighborhoods into a traffic sewer. If you, partner, and two kids want to take a bus or subway into Manhattan, you pay $23.20 plus $28 in LIRR tickets. But if you drive your SUV in from Long Island, you pay $0 today. Completely backwards!

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2 years

Walkable neighborhoods with passive house design are a trillion dollar climate change technology- that makes families richer and makes money for investors. Most towns ban it.

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Would you drive the Citroën Ami, built in Morocco, designed cheap, retailing for the equivalent of about $7,000 in France, legally driven on the road by 14-year-olds who passed a road safety certificate course. top speed is 28 mph, range of 43 miles

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When America was great in the 1950’s, the top tax rate on the rich was 91%

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2 years

A naturally occurring park- it’s not car free, but the people want it to be

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Car crashes are the leading cause of death in the United States for people ages 1 to 54. After 54, it’s heart disease, in part caused by physical inactivity and obesity from car dependency. 🚶‍♀️ 🚴

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Why do we see more homeless people in cities vs wealthy suburbs? 🤔 It's not that cities create more homelessness. Rather, wealthy suburbs actively PUSH OUT the poor and homeless through a few key tactics:

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GM unveils $14,000 electric pickup. The micro-vehicle is smaller than a Fiat 500, powered by a 67 horsepower electric motor, has a top speed of 62mph and can drive @ 200 miles between charges. You’re not allowed to buy it

GM unveils $14,000 electric pickup, but you can't buy it in the USA

The Baojun Yep pickup is an electric concept vehicle designed for China. It is based on the Yep SUV that is on sale now at a starting price of $14,000.

www.foxnews.com

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There’s about 3 million free car parking spots in NYC- subsidizes to encourage traffic. If each spot paid just $10/day, that’s $30 million in daily revenue to pay for schools, or $10 Billion every year to pay for safety, education, and infrastructure.

sam

@sam_d_1995

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just saw a street sweeper go by in Manhattan and every single car pulled out for a minute and then backed right into the same space after the sweeper passed it’s so insane that we dedicate so much of this valuable land to free parking

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Why don’t we have coffeeshops on the platforms of subways? A newspaper stand is okay today. Safety, sanitation, space, demand?

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4 months

Auto dependency and sprawl is very, very expensive.

Edgewater Expat 🇮🇹

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America is so ridiculously wealthy why doesn’t it feel like it

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Twenty years ago I made the switch to being car-free in the NY state and let me tell you, it's been a game changer. Not only am I saving $10,000 per year according to AAA, but I've also discovered a whole lot of benefits that I never expected.

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Our founding fathers lived car-free in walkable neighborhoods. 🇺🇸 🚶 🦅 🚶‍♂️

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2 years

@ugathom $278,920 is what she could have made with mass transit. If the car cost $5,000 a year, including insurance. If mass transit is $1,000 a year, she could invest the $4,000 saved in the SP500 index (10% return) 20 years at $4,000/year and 10% interest is $278,920

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We are in a weird era of car socialism. We have central planning of towns, business just to form development around cars. We subsidize roads and highways like “public transit”. And once cars are mandated, voters fight for more subsidies … because cars are 10x more expensive

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higher risks of depression found in sprawling, low-rise suburbs "may be partly down to long car commutes, less public open space and not high enough resident density to enable many local commercial places where people can gather together".

Depression hits suburbs more than city centres, new report claims

Urban areas are more affected by depression than rural areas, but dense inner-city centres are not the worst place to live. A new study has found that residents of suburbs are more at risk of...

www.euronews.com

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UPS trucks are 24F hotter than a FEDEX truck. Why? Albedo. FEDEX trucks are white, which reflect sunlight. UPS trucks are dark and radiate heat 🥵 (They are parked next to each other)

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@maplecocaine It’s just proof that a good guy with a gun can’t stop a bad guy with a gun 🤷‍♂️ GUN CONTROL stops a bad guy with a gun

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America broke the law of Supply and Demand to turn housing into a retirement account. We use single family home zoning as a way to limit access to housing and artificially raise home values for homeowners, creating a de facto tax on renters and new buyers.

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Everyone in NYC wants to replace FDR drive with light rail and homes. What would it look like? (ai)🚈🚶🚴🌲

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1 year

Technological advances- the Honda Civic went from 38 mpg in 1992 to 35 mph in 2022. That’s a 10% drop in efficiency over 30 years.

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Suburban NJ cars blocking the bike lane in SoHo (every weekend)

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1 year

Life is better without cars. Richer Healthier Happier Easier

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Cars 🚗 🚗 🚗 🚗 🚗 🚗 🚗 🚗

World of Engineering

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Like cigarettes in the 60s what’s a current thing people in the future are gonna look back and say “I can’t believe THAT was so widespread”?

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Top marginal tax rate for the rich was 91% in 1950

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 🇺🇸

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what happened?

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Charlotte moves to ban single-family zoning to confront segregation. legalizing duplexes and triplexes citywide, undoing a policy originally intended to circumvent the Supreme Court’s ban on racial zoning by keeping renters out

The Most Important Housing Reform in America Has Come to the South

To a fast-growing city where too many residents can't get ahead.

slate.com

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About 92.4 % of all crime in New York City is caused by cars.

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1 year

There’s a bestselling $10,000 electric car that you can’t buy in America. The USA bans small, affordable cars today. The GM Wuling Mini EV.

GM’s All-New Wuling Air EV Officially Launches In China

Available in two-seat and four-seat body styles.

gmauthority.com

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Retiring-in-place in NYC skyscraper is easy. There’s parks, young neighbors, an elevator to the grocery store, and world class hospitals nearby. Retiring in place in the suburbs is isolating, sedentary, and- if forced to drive a car with cataracts or heath issues- deadly.

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I asked Bing for a healthy, sustainable neighborhood:

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The first rule of sustainability is, if it has a parking lot, it’s not sustainable

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EVs?

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@dhdhsj71468083

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Some antisocial white guys wanted to isolate themselves in the 1940’s so they wrote weird zoning rules and now we all have to buy a car and head to the local strip mall for milk.

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SUV sales are up because people fear unsafe driving with SUVs on the road. Mutually Assured SUV SUV’s cost more, and waste more gas, but you need to be in an SUV if you’re hit by an SUV 🚙 💥 🚙

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@BrentToderian

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NYC is number 1 in electric vehicle miles traveled per person, and has been #1 for a century.

Axios

@axios

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The story this map ultimately tells? The electric car revolution is happening — it's just unevenly distributed.

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Q: How can you turn any American into a socialist? A: Ask them if they are willing to pay market prices for car parking, pollution, or congestion pricing to reduce gridlock. 🚗 🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗

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@opensourceq Fury Road is basically Happy Feet 3

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NYC should have 30 million residents. Change my mind. There’s plenty of room, America just stopped building good homes decades ago. A good home is next to good jobs

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The NYC subway has been electric for 110 years, and moves more people every day than all the Tesla cars or the entire US public airport system. We used to go big, not anymore

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An SUV is nothing more than a voluntary choice that drivers are willing to pay much more for gas per mile travelled. It’s a strong economic signal that the economy can easily support a high gas tax to reduce carbon.

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3 years

Every car is an elderly low income driver on their way to a doctors appointment. #congestionpricing #nyc

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11 months

Americas most popular electric vehicle is 118 years old!

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1 year

Our subway system was built over 100 years ago and has created $1 trillion of real estate wealth, allowing NY to send billions to other states. It moves people around at 1/15th the cost of a car, faster, and they don’t have to drive. What would happen if we built more subways?

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2 years

Cursed MPG for 2022. Worse than SUV’s from the late 80’s

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There are lots of walk-free neighborhoods in the USA (where everyone drives, and you don’t see pedestrians). Where’s the largest car-free neighborhood in the USA? (where you don’t see cars on the street)

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My friends blocking new homes in downtown Brooklyn live in rent stabilized apartments- why do they block new homes? They have a car and are worried about losing the free parking space.

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3 years

Who was the socialist who came up with free car parking?

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Every day extremists protest congestion and traffic in NYC by blocking traffic citywide. How? By insidiously buying a car and driving into the city to block other cars.

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@douglascalhoun

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If you're worried about the risks of flying on a Boeing 737, you're never going to want to drive a car again. The chances of being killed in a car accident at some point in your life is 1 in 93 . You have a 1 in 816,545,929 chance of dying in a plane crash.

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@ArtvWar If we don’t pay for the subway, we don’t have a subway to ride

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2 years

Patriot Facts: Our Founding fathers lived in walkable neighborhoods and never owned a car. 🚶‍♀️ 🇺🇸

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US cities by Walk Score: 1New York (Walk Score: 87.6) 2San Francisco (83.9) 3Boston (79.5) 4Philadelphia (76.5) 5Miami (75.6) 6Chicago (74.8) 7Washington, D.C. (74.1) 8Seattle (70.8) 9Oakland (68.5) 10Baltimore (66.2)

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Love or Leave: new art deco homes with formed concrete exterior (ai in Los Angeles)

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2 years

We are really throwing a recession because of cars

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the older i get the more i realize how peaceful life is in Brooklyn

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@ProfBillMcGuire This is the most efficient way to move stuff, it’s impressive!

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Cars kill. When cities subsidize driving, we get too many suburban drivers who block the box, run red lights, block the crosswalk… and make walking home a nightmare

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A parking lot turns into over 400 homes, plus two coffeehouses in my backyard.

Bob Knakal | NYC Investment Sales

@BobKnakal

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1,000,000 buildable square feet…Here today, not there yesterday! 🏛️ 85 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 💵 $345,000,000 This deal is a lesson in starting small with a client, nurturing a friendship, developing trust, and then getting a chance at the brass ring when the time comes.…

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how much richer would the median American be if the country was car-free with mass transit? (A: about 23% richer, median income rises @$16,000)

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10 months

We need protected bike lanes way more than we need e-bikes or electric chargers. Ask anyone who doesn’t bike daily why they don’t ride. It’s safety. Fear of distracted drivers. Focus on a connected bike lane network in your town. Get that bike score over 90.

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@Gtwy @sam_d_1995 People are nice. We just step outside our homes and take a walk 🇺🇸🥰 there a lot to do

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Green California

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Did cars eat our retirement? Imagine having access to mass transit for life and saving $4800 per year instead of owning a used car. Imagine investing that $ in the S&P 500 index at 7% annual return. After 50 years, you have $2,090,000! (2X for two cars, 2X again for new cars)

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Activists are once again blocking the city, driving cars in from the suburbs to deliberately slow down traffic. Should extremists take over city streets like this? 🚙🚙🚙

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Why do all these apartment buildings look the same? A bland, boxy apartment boom that went up quickly, no yards, no depth of facade, built by one for-profit developer with cookie cutter plans…

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2 years

Prototype for 18’ wide lot in NYC. 7 houses and one store. Single staircase walk up. 👩‍🍳 💋 @isaphila

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Car Brain is how we treat others differently, and more aggressively, when we sit in the comfort and isolation of our own vehicle. The metal and glass of the car create a barrier separating us from the outside world, allowing us to act in ways we might not normally do.

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Car Brain is when you treat people differently when you're sitting in your car. Once you see it you can't unsee it.

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