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If they're going to make people ride bikes and scooters in traffic, then it should at LEAST be legal to do the Snow Crash thing where you use a hook-shot-style harpoon to catch free rides from cars.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

How much "space" does one person, or even a family need? When you were in those cities, where did you stay? There is a big difference between visiting a downtown core and living in a near-to-downtown neighborhood. Still not everyone's cup of tea, sure, but if we all lived in an acre property we would collectively go bankrupt from infrastructure costs alone.