Meriasek
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Station wagons are hella based.
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I have a thing for the old Town & Country. Especially of late 60s vintage.
Bonesjones
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Most SUVs/crossovers are just station wagons with a lift. The upright seating position makes people feel safer.
Apple Porcupine
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Mr. "I don't care about America" unsurprisingly talking about America once again.
We need a bingo card for what errors will be in this video. Cherry-picking locations? Ignoring inconvenient data? The possibilities are endless.
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What is there to do differently? You see the firetruck you let it pass.
I'm just saying going after the fire department and fire engines is almost something that we would come up with as a joke that Jason would say. Next thing you know he's going after the carbrains who drive these child killers
When you feel down in life remember there's someone out there paying to watch a NJB video.
I remember one time someone had an upside down flag with the red and blue stripe and people were wondering "what is he trying to say, fuck the police and the fire department". I guess Jason's one of them.
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He already did, kind of. One of his first videos was about there being no garbage day or trash bins you own in the Netherlands because people throw their trash into underground containers and that's only practical because they all live in a dense walkable neighborhood.
It's an ok video from the standpoint of not coming across like an arrogant douchebag but I haven't looked into the possibility he's deliberately leaving out something in that video like he does in others.
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Whenever I watch videos like these of his I feel like he's not wanting to create improvement in genuine way, but rather to try to flex how Amsterdam good, America bad.
At first I was thinking "did they come up with some sort of tunnel or chute system to transport it to the dump." However no there's still a garbage truck, but it's just that the trash goes into a communal underground storage that you need to walk out to. Again he never considers the nuanced difference of why this might be unfeasible for other countries.
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Or that it's almost identical to how apartment buildings handle trash in the US; the only difference is that in the US the dumpster is stored in a garage or alley instead of underground. There's no need to spend the extra money to bury it if you have enough space for a vehicle-accessible dumpster.
How is this any different than the Dutch truck?
Larger complexes will often have the garbage truck take away the entire dumpster rather than emptying it into the truck:
Also, a lot of American buildings have garbage chutes so people don't have to carry their trash down the block.
Additionally, lower density areas of the Netherlands also handle trash with curbside bins, just like the US:
Google Maps
So Jason is completely wrong about the Netherlands not having trash days.
The only reason why anyone thinks Jason's video shows anything special is because nobody else bothered to make a political video about garbage collection.
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The average bugman viewer of Jason is a NYC asshole or desires to be NYC assholes, and NYC never progressed past the "pile garbage in the streets and watch the rats eat it" method, so anything is new and a marvel to them.
(The large underground bin reduces the number of times you need to empty public receptacles like you'd find at a park, which are often overflowing if they don't have enough manpower).
Apple Porcupine
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Curious. This might be related to their cancelled VC deals.
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at major junctions, you can a break out a Britbong speciality: signalised roundabouts that regulate the flow of traffic round them
this one near Bradford is one of the largest-scale examples in the country, and at first glance it looks mental (one roundabout with 7 exits, 3 of them onto motorways, and 4 running lanes all the way round, plus a free-flowing motorway-to-motorway interchange through the middle), but in practise it works well due to very clear overhead signage: you pick your lane, stick to it, and the way the lanes are marked out means you get to the exit you want without having to change lanes
the major complicating factor on junctions like is the drivers who blindly follow their satnavs and don't actually look where they're going
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I'm not going to watch that shit, but I assume he's whining that roads and intersections need to be wide enough for fire engines and any time traffic calming is implemented it needs to be fire engine friendly as you can't just randomly block roads to make them bicycle only.
Which is a good thing.
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I just realized what the urbanist blockheads mean when they blather on about induced demand.
Take some random congested road and double the amount of lanes. What's (most likely) going to happen is that more people will end up driving. In other words, they're refering to the decrease in opportunity cost of travel by car, but using terminology that implies nobody would want to drive if only we legislated non-public transport out of existence!
Take some random congested road and double the amount of lanes. What's (most likely) going to happen is that more people will end up driving. In other words, they're refering to the decrease in opportunity cost of travel by car, but using terminology that implies nobody would want to drive if only we legislated non-public transport out of existence!
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I found a short a while ago, I wish I could find it because it silently admitted that people prefer to use cars rather than public transport.
the argument pretty much amounted to: "if we put more lanes onto a road, more people will use cars over Bikes/Trains! this is a bad thing!!!!!!"
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the phenomenon they're talking about, but fail to understand (whether that's due to wilful ignorance or genuine stupidity) is repressed demand:
if traffic is generally unable to make journeys around an urban area, between some arbitrary points we'll call A and B, in a reasonable span of time due to inadequate infrastructure, then as soon as a high-speed route becomes available that allows journeys to be easily made between point A and point B, all the local traffic that wants to get between A and B will be funnelled onto it due to the lack of alternative routes
the most practical, albeit expensive, solution is to build a whole network of arterial and distributor roads around the urban area, and have them connect to each other in a balanced and healthy way (i.e. no A-B terminal bottlenecks, and no country lanes connecting directly to national highways), but that would take a lot of thought and forward planning, both of which politicians are well know for fearing and hating, because they themselves are generally not capable of any kind of planning, or, for that matter, thinking
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A lot of countries use several smaller and more specialized trucks than the single huge, all in one truck that the US uses. So my guess is that he's bitching about that and how the large engines need large roads.
Lobster Cult High Priest
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Yes don't you just love it when bin collectors go on strike and all the trash piles up.
Even better when the Janitors in Public schools go on strike and the schools get absolutely filthy because your fellow students are White Niggers.