Communists took control of the road department and said stupid shit like "creating more lanes just makes more traffic!" They're actively building road features to "encourage public transport." They're meddling dickweeds who ruin shit on purpose to sell this retarded lie.
and you only had to drive 15 minutes to "get away from it all" in any direction
Where I grew up this is still true.
What is the ideal number of people on the earth?
This is a meaningless data point. You can't control it and the number itself depends on the level of available technological advancement of the planet as a whole, which itself is partially a function of the number of people that exist to create and drive those advancements.
We're biological. Nature knows what to do even if we don't.
things sure were better back in those days.
Yea.. because we held communists in contempt and didn't let them get their hands on anything other than shitty university positions.
Communists took control of the road department and said stupid shit like "creating more lanes just makes more traffic!" They're actively building road features to "encourage public transport." They're meddling dickweeds who ruin shit on purpose to sell this retarded lie
"Let's add bike lanes! But wait, those bike lanes aren't safe, so let's add posts and shrink lanes more!"
As no one really uses bike lanes and the rest of the roads are broken and worn down because it also makes it more difficult to shut down a lane and repave.
Bike lanes are stupid. Also fails to teach you how to properly signal on a bike, so you end up being some unpredictable ass hat when you are forced into a road without bike lanes.
Which then gives incentive to add more bike lanes.
A- fucking MEN! Brother. I hate them and those that use them! Fuck cyclists. They think they OWN all of the roads in Colorado. Visited there and it was terrible! prick cyclists everywhere and the cities cater to them.
I used to bike to the bus stop when I lived in Cedar Rapids, and it was a city ordnance you had to use the road. Hell, I once rode a bike on the highway for miles to pike up a layaway (remember those?).
but I had the decency and common sense to get the hell out of the way when a car was behind me...
Communists took control of the road department and said stupid shit like "creating more lanes just makes more traffic!" They're actively building road features to "encourage public transport." They're meddling dickweeds who ruin shit on purpose to sell this retarded lie.>
This has nothing to do with "communists", it's just simple math. You widen the roads, travel times become faster again with the car, more people take the car instead of public transport and the roads clog up again. Simple logic just as this picture is:
No.. it also involves logic, which you have applied none of here.
You widen the roads, travel times become faster again with the car, more people take the car instead of public transport and the roads clog up again.
The number of people taking the roads is not a function of how long the road takes or how much public transport there is. It's a function of total population density and overall economic activity in the area.
How many repair businesses can take public transport? How many plumbers? How many total deliveries with trucks can you take?
You have literally fallen for communist propaganda. Your city is not primarily made up of "worker bees" who just need a way to get from work to home.
Simple logic just as this picture is:
You have substituted a picture for thinking. The communist mind virus got you. Sorry you had to find out this way.
You are suffering from a mind virus called being overly emotional which makes you think in black and white terms.
Equating calculations on throughput on roads with Communism is an absolute joke and is basically the same thing as the left saying that math is racist.
You are now basicaly saying that math is communist!!
People congregateing like ants in the cities and spending their entire life's energy paying off a postage-stamp sized block of land is the problem, not the overall living space available for mankind.
I would still be OK with half of them being shot into the sun after this though.
They want us all living like ants in walled off cities, so they have control over everything we do. They themselves wont be living like that but, everyone else dont matter. Cities make me physically ill to be in them overly long, not comfy at all, I can't imagine living an entire life in one and never understanding what it feels like outside of one.
"Cities make me physically ill to be in them overly long"
I concur 100%. I can't wait for this to be over so I can get the fuck out for good, as I will not sell my house for fiat currency even if it was only for 2 weeks.
I do enjoy visiting cities but, only if I stay for a few days. I feel like I am in a rodent cage after a while, boxed in, too much building and concrete and people everywhere and constant man-made noises and hums. They are too loud for me with the constant hums even if it is not a loud singular noise, the noises all blend together to be a constant hum to my brain, and that makes me physically sick. If you live there, you dont notice it I guess and it is why when someone who grew up in a big city freaks out with spooky feelings when they visit the countryside. They are use to the constant hum of noise so countryside at night feels like an empty haunted house. haha. I will take an empty haunted house anyday :P
Time for A road trip. There are inhabitable places in kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, oregon, Washington, Utah, Dakotas, etc where you can't see a living soul in any direction. there is so much space its insane. Then you can really get away if you move north to Canada or south to Mexico and further. If you want to live in population centers then you get what yoh described. There are really nice towns that are dying because people want their Sodom and Gomorrah instead of Mayberry
@whiptail Right but rural America is dying. Suburban life you might see what you are talking about but not in the country.After seeing much of the country and much of rural America I am inclined to believe the population numbers are inflated. Perhaps they have just succeeded in pushing everyone together.
Communists took control of the road department and said stupid shit like "creating more lanes just makes more traffic!" They're actively building road features to "encourage public transport." They're meddling dickweeds who ruin shit on purpose to sell this retarded lie.
Where I grew up this is still true.
This is a meaningless data point. You can't control it and the number itself depends on the level of available technological advancement of the planet as a whole, which itself is partially a function of the number of people that exist to create and drive those advancements.
We're biological. Nature knows what to do even if we don't.
Yea.. because we held communists in contempt and didn't let them get their hands on anything other than shitty university positions.
"Let's add bike lanes! But wait, those bike lanes aren't safe, so let's add posts and shrink lanes more!"
As no one really uses bike lanes and the rest of the roads are broken and worn down because it also makes it more difficult to shut down a lane and repave.
Bike lanes are stupid. Also fails to teach you how to properly signal on a bike, so you end up being some unpredictable ass hat when you are forced into a road without bike lanes.
Which then gives incentive to add more bike lanes.
So dumb.
A- fucking MEN! Brother. I hate them and those that use them! Fuck cyclists. They think they OWN all of the roads in Colorado. Visited there and it was terrible! prick cyclists everywhere and the cities cater to them.
I used to bike to the bus stop when I lived in Cedar Rapids, and it was a city ordnance you had to use the road. Hell, I once rode a bike on the highway for miles to pike up a layaway (remember those?).
but I had the decency and common sense to get the hell out of the way when a car was behind me...
They think the painted white line between the them and traffic is the bike lane. I have a train horn on my truck for those douchebags.
This has nothing to do with "communists", it's just simple math. You widen the roads, travel times become faster again with the car, more people take the car instead of public transport and the roads clog up again. Simple logic just as this picture is:
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_9F9_RUESS2E/S7tbclwxiPI/AAAAAAAACmw/uI1bCpNuKNA/s800/picoftheday0012-space-60people.jpg
No.. it also involves logic, which you have applied none of here.
The number of people taking the roads is not a function of how long the road takes or how much public transport there is. It's a function of total population density and overall economic activity in the area.
How many repair businesses can take public transport? How many plumbers? How many total deliveries with trucks can you take?
You have literally fallen for communist propaganda. Your city is not primarily made up of "worker bees" who just need a way to get from work to home.
You have substituted a picture for thinking. The communist mind virus got you. Sorry you had to find out this way.
You are suffering from a mind virus called being overly emotional which makes you think in black and white terms.
Equating calculations on throughput on roads with Communism is an absolute joke and is basically the same thing as the left saying that math is racist.
You are now basicaly saying that math is communist!!
People congregateing like ants in the cities and spending their entire life's energy paying off a postage-stamp sized block of land is the problem, not the overall living space available for mankind.
I would still be OK with half of them being shot into the sun after this though.
They want us all living like ants in walled off cities, so they have control over everything we do. They themselves wont be living like that but, everyone else dont matter. Cities make me physically ill to be in them overly long, not comfy at all, I can't imagine living an entire life in one and never understanding what it feels like outside of one.
"Cities make me physically ill to be in them overly long"
I concur 100%. I can't wait for this to be over so I can get the fuck out for good, as I will not sell my house for fiat currency even if it was only for 2 weeks.
I lived in a city for 11 years. Never, never again.
I do enjoy visiting cities but, only if I stay for a few days. I feel like I am in a rodent cage after a while, boxed in, too much building and concrete and people everywhere and constant man-made noises and hums. They are too loud for me with the constant hums even if it is not a loud singular noise, the noises all blend together to be a constant hum to my brain, and that makes me physically sick. If you live there, you dont notice it I guess and it is why when someone who grew up in a big city freaks out with spooky feelings when they visit the countryside. They are use to the constant hum of noise so countryside at night feels like an empty haunted house. haha. I will take an empty haunted house anyday :P
There’s a lot of room out there. Need to figure out how to live on it, and then the problem seems to be solved. Easier said than done though.
Time for A road trip. There are inhabitable places in kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, oregon, Washington, Utah, Dakotas, etc where you can't see a living soul in any direction. there is so much space its insane. Then you can really get away if you move north to Canada or south to Mexico and further. If you want to live in population centers then you get what yoh described. There are really nice towns that are dying because people want their Sodom and Gomorrah instead of Mayberry
@whiptail Right but rural America is dying. Suburban life you might see what you are talking about but not in the country.After seeing much of the country and much of rural America I am inclined to believe the population numbers are inflated. Perhaps they have just succeeded in pushing everyone together.