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Comment Re: Its time for another smartphone (Score 1) 35

Why should we be giving a platform to lying stochastic terrorists bent on destroying our country as we know it? So a few billionaire pricks can get richer while everyone else commits a Holocaust? Yeah, we played that game once, it's called The Removal, and Hitler admired America for that.

Comment Re: A Walkable City? (Score 0) 199

It's a passing fad, it's just economics.

In larger urban centers land prices are going up, so density is increasing, and lawns are the first thing to shrink.

In smaller cities or even towns land prices are much lower so they typically still have big yards.

Sure bud. Look at any of the railroad towns that dot America and I guarantee you the yard sizes have remained small in the original area of town. We're seeing a return to form as car suburbs convert away from car dependency, rather the opposite trend of a century ago when streetcar suburbs were having their transit ripped out.

Only enthusiasts and professional vehicle operators want to drive everywhere for every trip. Everyone else wants things to be as simple as walking to the fridge. You don't get that with car dependency.

Comment Re: A Walkable City? (Score 0) 199

What? Lolno, this isn't new, it's the default. French Renaissance sized lawns in America were a mid-20th century suburban fad that's basically died as being wildly impractical for everyone involved. I live in a 1928 house (eg, when people still primarily walked everywhere) and the back and front yards are large enough for a decent vegetable garden or to entertain outside but still small enough it's not contributing significantly to spawl and mowing only takes like 20 minutes with a reel mower.

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