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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Städte für Arbeitslose?

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Eigentum. Schon mal was davon gehört?

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Guter Vergleich. Du weißt schon, dass maximal 5% der Menschen es schaffen, ihre Gewöhnheiten dauerhaft (länger wie für 10 Jahre) umzustellen?

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Wie wird man Kanzler mit 11%?

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

Wäre es nicht besser, wenn er dieses Geld für noch bessere Produkte ausgibt?

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

Why everything has to consume less electricity than Icelandic households? Why not just generate so much cheap green electricity that we can waste it for this and that?

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

50 and your parents 80 and someone needs to drive them to a doctors several times per week. Most of my usual journeys take 20 minutes with car and 40 minutes with public transit. When driving someone so often while trying to keep up working full-time, every minute matters.

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

I am open to all things tech and I would make a pilot and ship captain licenses if there weren't so expensive. I am also renovate my real estate myself (electric, water, heating, floor, walls, doors etc) because why should I pay someone else. As of your situation, wait and see when you are ⬇️

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

I've spent 15 years in Soviet Union. My first car I've only bought when I was 34. I am not going back.

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

One of the life experiences I hate most are buses at rush hour in summer, where everyone stay tight to each other, it's too hot inside, you have to stay for an hour (it's too much for my foot), you have a stinking smoker on your left and a chatter on your right. I don't think this can be fixed

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

they just promise me pain.

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

force me to use vehicles that cannot be customized to my comfort (by banning cars from Amsterdam, London, Paris etc)... ⬇️

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

I have a couple of health conditions from the very birth so that I grew up with the idea that nothing of standard fits me. I can't just go buy some closes from the shelf, I need them tailored. I can't just play the same amount of time, I can't just sleep in any bed, etc. So people who want to ⬇️

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

This is minor nuisance (just get your driving license man) compared to the advantages: lack of or lash zoning laws and a lot of land. Yes, everything is in short distance here, but you pay for this living with your neighbors being separated from you only by a 20 cm wall. And some of them are bad.

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 25/07/2024

It is so crazy that you consider being individualist as negative feature.

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 25/07/2024

too, on your private property. Is it different in Canada?

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 25/07/2024

the new planned pedestrian zone cannot drive to their home anymore and so their investment in the car is from one day to another wasted. A better solution would be having your own backyard. Here is Germany, if you build a residential building with 6+ apartments, you have to build a playground ⬇️

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 25/07/2024

So we are actually comparing the advantage people get that reaching a comfortable safe space is quick and easy with the disadvantage people have that they need to drive longer and the streets are more congested, because part of street network capacity gets lost. Also, people who live directly near ⬇️

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

stop preaching about the oh so beautiful futiristic cities without cars, where everyone is only walking and using public transit.

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

I am sorry? Here is Germany every left or green person wants to ban cars from the historical / inner parts of the cities (we don't have downtowns in US sense of word). Which is too much. European cities are already good enough for every mode of transportation, US can work on it, but please ⬇️

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Forgot to mention beaches, museums, zoo, open theaters, libraries, cinemas, shopping malls...

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Why wouldnt you go to parks, to school sport yards, to backyards of you home, to public playgrounds, to forests and fields outside of cities, or to places like Disneyland to play?

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

What would anybody want to hangout on the streets of a big city? I mean, the whole point of paved, straight, regulated streets is to allow for quick transportation by car. They are not suitable for hanging our or playing, too hard, to narrow, no shade, tarmac polluted with oil, petroleum and gummy ⬇️

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Are you the same person as James?

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Walkability exists almost everywhere except the US, and there is a difference between pedestrian zones or ban for cars in the inner city, and walkability.

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

As soon as they stop forcing their vision of the city onto me (how they already doing it in Germany)

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Why do you think drivers will be more responsible, if you designate some part of the street to be pedestrian only zone?

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Agree. European towns are walkable since last 1000 years and I consider it as given. Walkability is not the same as pedestrian zones (no cars allowed) though, and public transit should not replace cars but augment them

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

streets blocked for car traffic, some cities limit all or most of their streets to 30 kmh, ICEs illegal in 2035 etc. I do agree that some US cities might benefit from more walkability and bike lanes, but you also can overdo it and convert a living dynamic city to a museum.

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

They are in fact getting in the way of me driving cars, already today, here in Europe. Street lanes being replaced to bike lanes, whole ⬇️

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Huh? They walk on sidewalks, in the parks, and on private property (playgrounds, shopping malls etc). Why is shopping daily cheaper?

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

No idea what are you talking about. I am not so involved in the US discourse.

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

No it won't. bsky.app/profile/loth...

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Huh? Spending time with kids or cooking good dinner are literally one of best things in life. Why should I trade this with sitting on a street breathing someone else's cigarette, hearing chatty neighbors private life stories, and drinking sugar-based caffee with a cookie from palm oil?

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

No, not in Europe. We don't commute for hours to work here.

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Yeah, it's still on my bucket list and I can't wait to travel to the US again.

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Germany has alas nothing to do with capitalism anymore. Commies won here. Everything is regulated. What color your roof has to be, where you are to plant trees in your garden and how many, when you are to have lunch on workdays and how much each book costs.

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

You probably have too much free time, a luxury many families cannot afford.

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

What do you do if you switch job, shop around the corner closes and your mom will need you to care about her two times a week?

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

When we shop for a week, we buy two to four bags 10 kg each, and two 6-bottle packs of water / ice tea. You could put all this in a rather big backpack, I guess. It's perhaps a dream of a mazochist.

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

I live in Germany. My kids can walk safely everywhere. Why do you need pedestrian zones for that? Do you shop daily? Do you realize you can have more free time if you shop weekly?

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

So now I am alone against of millions of people? How about hundreds of millions of car drivers out there? It looks you are not really interested in a calm, reasonable discussion. Your tone is very agitated, as if I am hurting your religion beliefs. We don't need to speak further if it's painful.

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

This myth about adding more roads would always lead to more congestion is based on a 40 years old study from US and they were looking at some highway with a lot of lanes. It is not directly applicable to the modern European cities.

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

OK. When people don't have other arguments, they start to be aggressive.

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

hard or impossible to rent a new apartment. People wait for years for that. And you can to be a renter all your life. No, sir, MY dream is my own house. Built once and for life. I can drive around freely, so I am not so affected by life changes.

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

This is a pipe dream to spend all your life always walking to your destinations. Your food tastes change, your partners change, shops get closed, shops stop selling the things you crave, you get new job, your parents need care... Especially in the "oh so cool" Scandinavian countries it is very ⬇️

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

When? After work? When do you clean up your house, cook and eat your dinner, check the housework of your children, start the washing machine, get the children to bed? Do you work full time?

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Ah, so you rather look like a fool being aggressive on social networks?

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

I've traveled through Netherlands on bike (Utrecht, Amsterdam, Den Haag, Rotterdam). I wouldn't want to live there.

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lothwolf @lothwolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

often drive empty, and also the transport costs will be not affordable.

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