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A Traditional City Primer

To be fair, streetcars were sometimes a grift that weren't intended to work in the first place. Not all, but some.

See, electric companies pushed for new suburbs to be built with electric streetcars, because if you need to put in all the wiring for a streetcar, you might as well just electrify the entire suburb while you're at it. Which is what electric companies wanted; the streetcars were just an excuse to get the wiring in. They didn't actually care if the streetcars made sense or stuck around, as long as the electric wiring stayed put.

So electric companies would happily push for nonsensical streetcar layouts that maximised the number of electrified households, and then someone else would come along and say "this is idiotic, let's rip it up" (possibly because it's true, possibly because car/oil $$$) and the electric companies wouldn't push back, because they didn't care either way in the first place.

Stalin never even claimed that the USSR had achieved communism, yet somehow every grandma in his “state socialist” empire thinks full communism was reached and the state withered away like Marx predicted. They believe lies he never even told.

He did claim to be communist though - as in, he is ideologically driven to attempt to bring about communism. So calling the USSR "communist" is 100% correct. And naturally, what do you call life under communists? Communism! (This is wrong, but it's an understandable switch-up).

Since Light doesn't immediately write his police-chief father's name in the book. Since light planned to become a cop himself.

In case this is real: you realize that trains already exist, right? Crackheads don't "steal the copper from the rail", in part because the rails don't have copper (they're made of steel, the copper is in the overhead line), and in part because the rails are giant continuously-welded steel rails nailed to concrete sleepers; you can't just pick em up and walk off with em.

0%, straight-up killing a billionaire would freak out other billionaires, and Elon is the most easily discredited person ever. A character assassination would be more effective than an actual assassination.

The Pinephone already exists, and costs $200 instead of $900.

The problem with Linux phones isn't that they don't exist, it's that they're an obscure OS that doesn't have literally billions of dollars of development to make the thing a bulletproof daily driver like Android has received. See Drew Devault's post on the issue.

The specs might be better on this phone (I'd hope so given the cost), but the specs don't really matter if the thing's running the same software and is just as unstable as a result.

You're wrong, you have no evidence. Burden of proof is on you.

The problem is that cheap style-less architecture is often called brutalist architecture, because it sounds more sophisticated than "eh we were too cheap to make it look nice".

Does the head dong thing get sunburned? Does it convey a lot of heat?

The point of a hat is to 1) keep sun out of eyes, and 2) keep the head cool by blocking the thermal radiation that is sunlight.

So, picture 2 fails at both of those. Picture 1 is fine if the head dong thing is just unsunburnable horn and self-regulates its own temperature, plus it's less prone to being blown off by the wind.

If the head dong thing needs to keep cool then picture 3 is the way to go.

A "nuh uh" is deniable specifically because it could be just LARPing (especially when you're not even claiming you've done anything, just that "someone" has). Providing specifics of anything anyone's done in pursuit of this goal is more verifiable and incredibly stupid to post publicly, obviously.