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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 1 points 30 minutes ago

The former president leads the vice president by just two percentage points in the Sunshine State

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Existing cities have lots of other businesses, they can survive without the fed jobs. And those lots of other businesses are what causes high COL. High population without room to grow.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 15 points 3 hours ago

That's interesting, and this is an interesting community.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Link to podcast?

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

There a huge difference between cut and cover in a green field, vs cut and cover in an existing downtown. Huge. That's if you can even do it in an existing downtown because of the road alignment and existing underground utilities. It's really unlikely you can do cut and cover in an existing city and that's the whole problem. Greenfield you can do with side slope instead of shoring, one story deep instead of two because you can plan out exits to not interfere with an existing road, and no conflicts with traffic/utilities/buildings/noise mitigation to snarl everything up. And when you get out of the planned core you can run it on the surface and still grade separate crossing, which is cheap.

the last 70 years do not suggest huge roads, huge offices, and huge house lead to a utopia.

I'm sorry but this is really twisting what I said. I didn't say huge roads, I simply said roads (although I can see how that can be misread).

Huge (tall) offices are the whole point, you relocate big offices and lots of jobs. With easy access to subways. That does not mean car dependency. It's actually the other way around, a bunch of short rise offices quickly become too far away from a subway line.

Nor did I say huge houses, I simply said houses. I could include apartments in there too.

Car dependency depends on the city design, it's not inherent to the existence of offices and roads. And the whole point of a designed city is you can get the space for cheap subways and space for bike paths without having to cram them into an existing road system. The existing road system is the thorn in the way of subway, transit, trains, and bike paths. Trying to cram all this into existing road system usually doesn't work, and if you can it gets to be extremely expensive for a subpar system.

a rare case in America where post-WW2 greenfield housing or commercial developments

This is not simply housing or a business park on the edge of an existing city which is usually done in car dependency sprawl style. I'm suggesting a new city.

constant sprawling expansion

Yeah you really seem to think I'm demanding sprawl when I'm not. I don't know if your twisting is intentional or not but it's at the point that I think I'm going to end this conversation. It's really far from my original question anyway.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Ohh that makes sense.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

I got a YouTube link to a 30 minute mumbler.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

A new downtown would make a subway very easy and cheap to build, you could cut and cover instead of tunnelling. Cheeeaaap land for huge offices, roads, and even houses. Whenever you try to scale up an existing town/city you run into all the old problems of land and layout problems. Cities bidding against each other would be short term appealing but more expensive when it comes to building everything. Green field is just so cheap.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

Oh I missed that I'm thinking this would be for federal offices. Not sure about political capital like congress just because, but we have a ton of federal workers that really don't need to be located in a high cost of living area.

 

Not sure if that would count as "for ends of public utility". Anyone experienced in this field? This would take a city size amount of farmland for the downtown and most of the city (I think any small towns caught up in the boundaries would be incorporated into it).

This would be kicked off with federal offices, but not necessarily political capitol. There are a ton of federal jobs that really don't need to be located in a high cost of living area.

The term "eminent domain" was taken from the legal treatise De jure belli ac pacis (On the Law of War and Peace), written by the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius in 1625,[5] which used the term dominium eminens (Latin for "supreme ownership") and described the power as follows:

The property of subjects is under the eminent domain of the state, so that the state or those who act for it may use and even alienate and destroy such property, not only in the case of extreme necessity, in which even private persons have a right over the property of others, but for ends of public utility, to which ends those who founded civil society must be supposed to have intended that private ends should give way. But, when this is done, the state is bound to make good the loss to those who lose their property.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 54 points 12 hours ago

It's like the game you play with a baby where you put your hands over your face to hide.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago

If that's his first carbonated beverage, I can understand.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago

Engineering and planning will probably take 2 years. Then years more for eminent domain and actual construction.

 

Normally idioms are language specific, but number of hours and days are the same.

 

Very interesting.

 

At the age of six, Obama and his mother had moved to Indonesia to join his stepfather. From age six to ten, he was registered in school as "Barry"[31] and attended local Indonesian-language schools: Sekolah Dasar Katolik Santo Fransiskus Asisi (St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Elementary School) for two years and Sekolah Dasar Negeri Menteng 01 (State Elementary School Menteng 01) for one and a half years, supplemented by English-language Calvert School homeschooling by his mother.[32][33] As a result of his four years in Jakarta, he was able to speak Indonesian fluently as a child.[34] During his time in Indonesia, Obama's stepfather taught him to be resilient and gave him "a pretty hardheaded assessment of how the world works".[35]

In 1971, Obama returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham. He attended Punahou School—a private college preparatory school—with the aid of a scholarship from fifth grade until he graduated from high school in 1979.

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The decision to demilitarize started from a proposal to put more money into education and healthcare by the then Defense Minister Edgar Cardona, who passed it to the Interior minister Alvaro Ramos and then, taken to the constitutional assembly by the provisional President at the time, Jose Figueres Ferrer.

But even though Costa Rica has no Army, it has a special police force, officially called the Public Force of Costa Rica (Fuerza Pública). It was established in 1996 by the Ministry of Public Security to perform law enforcement, policing, and border patrol tasks. The force’s motto is “God, Fatherland, and Honor.”

The Effects of Costa Rica not having an Army

The budget previously dedicated to sustaining the Costa Rica Army is put into other aspects of the society like education and health care.

This, in turn, allows for improved political, economic, and social stability. New schools and hospitals lowered the country’s infant mortality and heightened the literacy rate.

Today, Costa Rica’s infant mortality rate is the second-lowest in the region, and the literacy rate is 98%. It also has a higher life expectancy, averaging 80 years old. So, overall, the standard of living has increased.

In fact, in 2012, based on the Happy Planet Index, it was the happiest country in the world!

Population of 5 million.

 

Yes I inverted it to burning coal is called the industrial revolution because I think it's neat way to look at it.

I'm thinking through the history of energy: We burned wood. Then we burned coal. Then we burned oil. Then we burned atoms.

 

Found on Imgur

 

The great auk (Pinguinus impennis), also known as the Penguin or gare-fowl, is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century. It was the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus. It is unrelated to the Penguins of the southern hemisphere, which were named so after their resemblance to the northern species.

...the auk foraged in the waters of the North Atlantic, ranging as far south as northern Spain and along the coastlines of Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Norway, Ireland, and Great Britain.

Early European explorers to the Americas used the great auk as a convenient food source or as fishing bait, reducing its numbers. The bird's down was in high demand in Europe, a factor that largely eliminated the European populations by the mid-16th century. Around the same time, nations such as Great Britain began to realize that the great auk was disappearing and it became the beneficiary of many early environmental laws, but despite that the great auk were still hunted.

Its growing rarity increased interest from European museums and private collectors in obtaining skins and eggs of the bird. On 3 June 1844, the last two confirmed specimens were killed on Eldey, off the coast of Iceland, ending the last known breeding attempt.

The word "penguin" first appears in the sixteenth century as a synonym for "great auk".[20] Although the etymology is debated, the generic name "penguin" may be derived from the Welsh pen gwyn "white head", either because the birds lived in New Brunswick on White Head Island (Pen Gwyn in Welsh) or because the great auk had such large white circles on its head. When European explorers discovered what today are known as penguins in the Southern Hemisphere, they noticed their similar appearance to the great auk and named them after this bird, although biologically, they are not closely related.[21]: 10

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