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• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That “modern” architectural style where you get houses that often have flat roofs, blocky structures, large glass walls and the rest usually white plaster or unpainted wood (idk the name but I think most people have seen it and I see people hating on it more often than not. I dont mean brutalism since what im talking about doesn’t usually have unpainted concrete everywhere but it looks maybe related) looks pretty good actually. Not every example sure, but in general I find the aesthetic pleasantly futuristic looking.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I, too, enjoy blocky architecture. Though it’s kind of impractical, large glass walls are a large issue in the summer (assuming they’re not on the north side) and AFAIK flat roofs have relatively expensive upkeep.

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    • HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Large glass walls are better applied if they have photogrey technology built in so that when light hits them from one side, they tint. I have only ever seen this in hotel lobbies.

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  • toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think I've heard that being called "scandi", recently.

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• Tidesphere@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The biggest road block getting in the way of bike activism and expanded safety and spread of non-car transportation is the bike activists themselves behaving inconsistently and demanding strange, contradictory rulesets and concessions.

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  • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I’m probably gonna disagree with you once I read your other comment expanding on your views, but right now, I agree. The Vehicular Cycling style advocated by John Forester has been a huge detriment to cycling safety. Here’s a 90 minute video essay expanding on how John Forester ruined cycling in America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPduRHBhHI

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  • fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Car people, in fact all groups of people also behave this way.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Bigger than the anti-bike lobbyism backed by multi-billion $ corporations? Also, which country? I’d be surprised if bike activists showed such consistent behavior across national borders.

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    • Tidesphere@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Honestly, if you told me bike lobbyists were putting in spoilers to advocate for nonsense instead of clear common sense solutions I would believe you.

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  • nanometer1625@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You have me curious. What kind of contradictions?

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    • Tidesphere@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Like, a lot of their behavior seems to be centered around gaining respect and focusing on having car drivers defer to bikes, while bikes slough off responsibility and behave dangerously.

      For example, bike lanes. I, as a person who primarily drives a car, believe that what should happen is that the curb should be extended into the road, and bike lanes put up, on the curb, next to the sidewalk. If the goal is mitigating harm in the event of accident, then placing bikes beyond the curb will be the safest movement, rather than having them be a dedicated lane literally in the road. Having them be, ideally, up on the curb in their own dedicated lane is the safest solution we can come up with. The second, is that if there is no dedicated lane, they should be on the sidewalk not on the street.

      We can do the math on collisions. A soft body going under 15 miles per hour with high alertness and high reaction time (a biker) is less likely to collide with another soft body going under 5 miles per hour with high alertness and high reaction time (a pedestrian), and if they do happen to collide, the injury will be very minimal.

      But a soft body going under 15 miles per hour colliding with a 2 ton metal machine going 30 mph with lower reaction time (a car) is going to be more likely and lead to far more intense injuries for the biker.

      But for some reason bike advocates don’t want the safer option, they want to be in the road. They want to be in the road with the cars while cars give them deference and while also completely ignoring traffic laws that vehicles on the road are meant to be following, including them.

      I live in a large metro area, and I have not once seen a biker follow any kind of traffic laws. They don’t stop at stop signs, they don’t indicate turns, they don’t even stop at stop lights. They swerve out of the bike lane, into the crosswalk so that they can count as ‘pedestrians’ and then swerve back into the bike lane once they’ve gotten to the other side.

      And given that, legally speaking, if there is any collision between my car and a biker, I am automatically considered at fault because I’m operating a motor vehicle, I want there to be as little chance of that as possible.

      Like, I’ve got a long rant going here, but don’t get me wrong, what I want is for my town to be safer for bicycle travel, and for all of us to reduce our dependency on cars for travel, but when I see the way bikers behave it makes it hard for me to believe that that’s what they want.

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• ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Scalping only works because that’s already the market rate, if the venue charged that price to begin with then scalping wouldn’t work.

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  • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ticketmaster’s real job isn’t selling tickets. It’s being the bad guy, so fans hate them instead of hating the band or venue.

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  • nanometer1625@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Doesn’t ticketmaster now allow you to re-list the tickets for sale within the Ticketmaster app? It would be a smart move, because they get a cut of the sale without taking the risk of the tickets not selling at high prices.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Kinks are better than The Beatles

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  • MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is true but mostly because the Beatles are absolute dogshit.

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    • HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And they definitely didn’t invent metal with their song “helter skelter”.

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• SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Forrest Gump” is one of the most overrated movies in recent decades.

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  • Glemek@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Might be an unpopular opinion that the 90s aren’t recent decades anymore

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    • fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I would say if people are alive from that era its recent. Humans don’t live long.

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  • Dookieman12@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The Shawshank Redemption should have won Best Picture that year. The only reason it didn’t is because it’s a sad story and people like happy stories more.

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• SoupBrick@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  🤔👉😃🚫😈🟰🤣👍

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• socsa@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My penis can solve any problem

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  • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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  • toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Stick the dick a wobble dee whip.

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  • SolacefromSilence@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    With that attitude, you can fix him/her/they, whichever you don't fancy.

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    • socsa@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I am pan as fuck which is how I know my penis has this power.

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• sealhaslupus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pol Pot was right

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  • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is a dogshit opinion. Good job!

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I never liked /r/unpopularopinions because it was just a way to use otherwise downvoted thoughts to farm karma. On Lemmy, the karma is even more useless than it is on Reddit, and a majority of the posts in the comm are just dumbass rage bait.

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