THE NUMBERS MASON got me pretty good

This is the most patriotic I’ve felt in recent memory.

Enough to get you aggressive not enough to make you violent

A constant state of mind these days.

Such a great line

As the great Steven Wright once said, "Everywhere's within walking distance if you've got the time."

Try it with a disability.

I've walked all over LA and it certainly isn't made for walking❤️👍

Unhinged

The credit card as a spoon is over the top. Respect.

“True, but not for bitches like you.”

Pocket chili sounds like a Charlie move from It’s Always Sunny if I’ve ever heard one.

Yeah that is walkable, there's no hills.

OOC

@gothtatertot.bsky.social

"Don't forget your pocket chili." Dude I would so eat some pocket chili.

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*Proud To Be An American* starts playing spontaneously

If there are any purchasing agents for supermarkets reading this, let this be a resounding endorsement of Hormel's Turkey Chili No Beans. It's a shame that it seems only one store in 10 carries it.

I feel guilty saying where I live in the UK (outside of any major city or even a town) my local grocery story is three hundred yards away. The bus stop is a hundred feet away (two hundred if you're going the opposite way). Four train stations which get you anywhere in the country - 20 min bus ride.

Facts. Don’t feel guilty! We Americans are fat because we don’t walk anywhere unless forced to. Our rail system is an unorganized mess and not meant for people. Just moved back to the city and looking forward to not driving!

most of the top 20 largest American cities have high quality transit and simple rail systems, if you never take advantage of them that’s a you problem

Problem?

yes, if you cannot read a rail map that is entirely on you and not a reflection of the “disorganization” of American transit (quite the opposite is true).

🤣✌️ have a nice day

studies are mixed, but and recent research implies that exercise is not sufficient to keep weight off

You are correct and that information has been around for a bit. It’s the combo that works.

If everything you eat contains HFCS then yeah, could be a problem.

17 miles one way?

"...and your mom won't lend you her car keys ...or cook for you anymore"

This is extra hilarious to me because I’ve been on a mission lately to visit all the walkable cities and now I can’t stand the fact that I live in Los Angeles even more now because it’s not walkable! Lmaooo!!!! Favorite walkable city so far was Boston, hands down 🚶🏽‍♀️

Parts of LA are walkable but what’s annoying is when you’re walking and then, boom, where did the sidewalk go??!

lmao eating out of a can on the street using a credit card as a spoon.

This is your War on Cars on drugs

I watched this multiple times and I can't believe I missed 'swoldiers' ...Ha ha ha.

My city is super walkable. You can walk almost everywhere. San Francisco.

That's my experience when I was in USA on "Work & Travel" program from Eastern Europe. You have a low low payment job and don't have a car (because why would you for 3 month?), so you walk by foot anywhere you need

Yeah, there lots of people that need to get around without a car, but the street design nevertheless is all to prioritize car traffic. It makes it unpleasant and dangerous to walk in much of the country.

Like obvs this is meant to be funny but also it’s for sure a real problem all over around here

Was he drinking a Cosmo on the rocks?

Strawberry margarita most likely.

No sugar rim?

Maybe he ordered it that way? People do that.

Rather than trying to make a career off nothing - like being a blogger - drop you hateful gen whatever attitude, get a real job that is actually a contribution to the human condition... The only little bitch in this is the narrator...

If you hate your own job so much, just go out and get one you actually like, instead of worrying about someone else having a good time at theirs.

The hate is yours, not mine...

Sir, this is an Arby's

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I love my "real" job (medical scientist), and I desperately need art and culture and stupid videos of people having fun and being funny to watch on my lunch break- and those people deserve to make money too!

It's like social media - the produce nothing, yet earn obscene amounts of money at it...

You remind me of the old guy from footloose who is angry at kids dancing

“My son drove off the road eating chili out of a can!”

BRUH 😂😂😂

Oh, noes! People are making a good living doing what they want! Just like I have done working in animal care for over thirty years! How dare anyone like their job! Isn’t that the whole point of living (surviving) in a capitalist hellscape doing its best to return the US to a slave economy?

In a similar vein, "All cities are bikable if you're not a bitch." I like this one better because I like bikes :)

This is basically what vehicular cyclists argue unironically lol

don't forget a pocket spoon

This is a philosopher

wtf is this???

OMG 😂..

I'm legit with him on the whole pocket chili thing

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Walk in rural America while black and you're guaranteed to get questioned or worse.

But in some cities you have to walk past a lot of cars to get anywhere.

I walked from Newark airport to my hotel in sandals and almost stepped on a hypodermic needle. cringe.

Get this guy a Redbull sponsorship

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OMG. Brings back memories! But I never ate chili. That’s an interesting twist!

Is he eating canned pocket chili with a credit card? Brilliant. Innovative. Inspiring.

🤣

I have done the hike from the hotel to the HOT BROWN that looked like it would be pretty easy on the map. I have discovered some amazing urban swamps that way.

Based.

This guy looks brain dead from UV rays

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A bitch? Really?

The t-shirt makes it for me.

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...is he eating food out of a can using a metrocard as a spoon? that is brilliant.

Sure but some are real nice and some are shit.

A lack of sidewalks on a 40+ mph road presents you with a sense of excitement and inspires a desire to run faster.

I used to do it all the time. There are no sidewalks on country roads in Scotland. The trick is to walk on the side that faces the traffic flow ...and live in a country that's courteous to pedestrians

Or - live in a country where it's illegal to kill people.

The Credit Card lol

I thought he was eating the chili with the can lid at first. I'm like "Don't do that you'll cut your mouth open!!"

It’s all so good

He could’ve used the lid as a spoon.

Must Cut your face open, if you are not a bitch

wanna know how I got these scars

That’s where I thought he was going to go with it, but the lid edge could get dicey

The credit card. Didn’t even see it at first.

where

Eating chili with it

Duuuuuude, the thing is that I bet 3/4 of the guys who see this tok tok wouldn't realize this is satire making fun of those type of guys.

'I was high speed railing your mom' 😆

All cities are walkable some just the once

Paused 4 hours 25 minutes 🏆

Can we not use "bitch" in commentary on male courage?

Pocket Chili!

This might work in Cincinnati, and you can even shotgun the can from the side like it was a beer for maximum masculine bonus points, that shit is so runny, while you take bites of a raw onion like an apple. Later, you can take your revenge on your friends on the way home in the Uber.

"Sorry Europe I can't hear you over me high speed railing your mom"🤣 Sorry America, I thought your sister was on the FREEway for a reason, we didn't know there was a toll 🤦‍♂️

UNHINGED

What the heck did I just watch?!?

I was gonna say, it seems this was a years long trip. Do you still live at the same place you started out at?

17 miles to a Chili’s! I can walk to another city in 14 miles, go to anywhere in my city and back again, go to dozens of towns around my city, and even walk to the airport and back in that distance (and no, the airport is not in the city). Tbf, the closest chilis to me is 460 miles I think!

I had a similar retching reaction when watching only a few seconds of this lump of toxic testerone as I do when seeing or hearing the porcine despot.

It's like the great Stephen Wright once said: Cross-country skiing is great . . . if you live in a small country.

For the love of god, some of you commenting, please take a course in media literacy incl. Satire 101

The media actually swallows stupider shit that this.

Pocket chili is serious business.

After the Free Press video, it's impossible to know what's satire now.

Excellent point.

cool cool but nothin' until you walk ontario ca

On a visit to Orlando whilst walking back to my hotel from the bar on the next block, a police patrol car stopped and asked me if we were ok.

I got profiled and I'm white while walking around in L.A. they had a digital device(not a cell phone or regular camera) and took my pic and asked me info and put the info in text in the device. So I am now i am In a system for just walking

My incident was 25 years ago. I think he was amazed to see people walking. Times have clearly changed given your experience

You’ve obviously never been to Houston or Los Angeles……

I’ve been car-free in LA since 2015. 🥰

You've obviously never seen a meme......

I'm from one and live in the other. Yes, you can walk. And Houston public transit does not totally suck. LA's is somehow worse.

When I lived in Houston I noticed lots of people were sure that public transit was horrible but had never been on a bus.

That guy seems to be in Tampa. The central parts of LA are in my experience much more walkable than what's in the video. (it's getting between parts of LA that's challenging)

...have you? Like, recently?

scariest /worst place I ever pedestrianized is Knoxville Tennessee no sidewalks and drivers screaming at me

And yet its probably the most walkable town for a hundred miles in any direction till you get to nashville

holy shit

Smells like Tampa 😂

I used to live in Tampa, and laughed so fucking hard when I heard that line 😂

LOL I’ve only been once and I was like “yep” 😂

As far as I recall, Tampa smells like salty swamp water and ASS. Lol

He totally looks like someone I would've played darts with in a dive bar in Tarpon Springs.

LOL Todd’s wife sounds fun, too 😂

I went to a wedding in Tampa. Before dinner even started, the bride's dad changed out of his tux & into a shirt that read "IF YOU DON'T SPEAK AMERICAN GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY COUNTRY." (Yes..."speak American") I asked him why, yada yada I got kicked out of the wedding. Solid Tampa night, I figured.

Oh wow!

I’ve watched this too many times cuz it keeps getting funnier. Thanks for sharing sir! 🤣

It's too early to say that Diogenes has been reborn, but I *am* watching the anthill for signs.

What language is he speaking? 😉

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Several years ago, I walked a mile from my off-strip hotel to the strip in Vegas and the sidewalk I was on just ended in the middle of a four-lane street with no crosswalk or anything so things got pretty awkward after that.

When I (a non-American staying in SF) tried to get from my hotel to a popeyes about half kilometre away, I couldn't believe I had to cross a 4 lane highway with no bridge or traffic lights to get there, and there was no footpath, either

Shout out to the camera man, also made the journey 😂

Lol. There is a homeless women who panhandles near our local grocery. She comes in kindly, asks the clerk for ice for her thermos, washes herself a little in the bathroom, and buys two cans of this exact chilly. Frugal, kind, clean. She's got it made.

Yup! I do it all over Boise

Amateur. I do the Granddaddy who went insane in World War II method; running the Wolf Hot chili with no beans mod. Fuck that Turkey Hormel pocket chili, next thing you know you'll be drinking Quinoavocado Kale smoothies with Stevia and Agave Nectar.

beer... "break"?

Cc’ing @dieworkwear.bsky.social

I know he smelled terrible at Chilli’s.

I love the “One Must Imagine Sisyphus Drunk” shirt.

Actually, I love everything about this video.

Spoken like a man who has never feared getting raped while simply walking at night.

Should've brought pocket chili

Or soup. Ya know, for your family

I think this might just be my new favorite video on the internet. POCKET CHILI!

This guy's channel is so good. I love the unhinged cooking segments.

That’s funny. Intentionally so, I’m sure. The comments here are interesting.

Arsewank!

That Sysiphus short, tho

Mad respect and also completely disgusting

And anything Is a dildo if you're brave enough. "Good joke" and "good advice" are separate categories that occasionally overlap. There is no overlap here

@bobbby.online

The speed run across the road was too relatable lol

Ha, as a teenage girl trying to cross busy intersections on her bike in Lake Oswego, OR, I got pulled over by a cop and got a warning when the driver who was trying to kill me should have, I never tried biking in my hometown again

i used to work in Lake Oswego no sidewalks a lot of places, i had to walk fully in traffic for long distances i also had to hike a mile through the woods to get to work if the buses did not sync up right hellish place and ACAB

That describes it perfectly! It was a car heaven and a pedestrian nightmare

This reminds me of the guy I befriended at Christian college. The most normal guy there

I’m sorry for your experience & life choices😢

☀️😁 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMPASSION. SAME COIN FRIEND. WAS PRESSURED BY FOSTER FAM TO GO CHRISTIAN. NOW I'M A PROUD GAY DUDE, VEGAN, FREETHINKER OF SCIENCE, + CONTENT CREATOR. CHECK MY BIO FOR MY LGBT CONTENT + SCIENCES PORTFOLIO. 🫂

it’s really important to me to know which christian college. i don’t want you to say which one if you don’t feel comfortable but could I have a hint? went to private christian school so i can probably fio with very little information

IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME TO PROTECT MY FAMILY + DODGE TUITION SCAMS, SO I'LL JUST SAY ITS A FULL EAST COAST UNIVERSITY NOW. DONE BEING AMBITIOUS ANYWAY, NO FUTURE REALLY FOR ME SO I GUESS IT DOESN'T MATTER

PENNSYLVANIA, NICE PEOPLE THERE, A COUPLE OF THEM SAVED MY LIFE ON SOME OCCASIONS

Pocket chili with the credit card spoon is brilliant.

I know it's a joke, but like it's also for real. I don't always do it, but like 2-3 miles on foot is really not that far, to get somewhere, but you tell someone who hasn't walked further than a parking lots distance other than for recreation and they act like you're questing to destroy the one ring.

Is he eating with a credit card?

Having walked my entire time in Vancouver, I wholeheartedly agree.

Omg 😳

gotta go jorts mode

peak season for it

@down.blue

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Hilarious 🤣

This is glorious

So he is trying to say mass transit is needless?

Build a car free city and they will come…

Mackinac Island, go for it.

Good for Mackinac👍 Forgot the disclaimer. *preferably in a non fascist/racist pedo-lead country.

If they were to film E.T. nowadays, the kids would probably get run over by a car.

It's interesting how American cities, and Canadian cities, are really ugly compared to the rest of the world. You don't have the feeling they are cities anymore. Just space connected by highways.

@down.blue

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I can't tell if this is sincerity or satire, but it's funny either way

no one said satire cannot be sincere

This is hysterical

As bad as that was, try it when you’re female, alone. I couldn’t walk a block in my suburban neighborhood without some creep slowing his pickup down to ask me if I’m ok or of I need a fucking ride. Men, mind your own damn business and let women walk. Unless you like bear spray.

👏👏👏👏👏

Every single day almost. A creep did this while I'm walking my dog!

Eating after a 17 mile walk must be the best Chili’s has ever tasted for anyone in the history of the restaurant

I have to assume @nerd4cities.bsky.social is upset he can't make this video now.

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Sadly, I am a bitch. A little bitch-ass bitch. 😥

Dropped my car off at the mechanic and decided to be manly and independent and walk home. Five five-minute drive took about an hour on foot. One thing I'll say about the experience, you get a much better feel for the neighborhood when you experience every foot of it.

Oh yeah, our cities in the US are walkable if you don't mind nearly getting run over, or tetanus from stepping on sharp objects, or mostly walking through bigass parking lots where you gotta look in all cardinal directions at once.

Walking on a two-lane blacktop with no shoulder is definitely fun

nimbys in the posh neighborhood voted against installing sidewalks bc it'd take 2 feet off their lawns there's already a drainage ditch so people have to either walk on the lawn or the shoulder that bad drivers regularly swerve into but then there isn't anything in walking distance anyway

We could talk all day about sidewalk ridiculousness here in the in the suburbs. They install them right in front of a school or a nursing home, and it doesn't go anywhere else, it's just right there in front, and then cry about how much it would cost to install them where they're needed. Oy

I am absolutely making it a goal this week to use the word "swoldiers" in polite conversation.

Do you know how much walking you can do in Chicago?? My gods, it's the fastest form of transportation there! (Not including bicycles, roller skates, Segways, unicycles, skateboards, and Heelies)

I love him and I don’t want to know a thing more about him please and thank you.

Don’t forget your pocket chili

That's great, I'm taking the hard way to 🌶️ Chili's too!

I wanted to RT this quote but opted to let people be as pleasantly surprised at the reminder and tip as i was

My idea of walkable is never going more than 5 miles a day. If walking transit takes more than 1.5 hours total, I'm out. I'll just drive.

*swoldiers*

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Yeah. I worked with people who wouldn't walk 2 blocks to get lunch.

"thank God I brought a water" Cracks open a Monster 🤣

Not even a recovery, OG Monster.

I live in Philly. Ultimate walkability.

The OP is absolute FACT.

I live in Miami, you can’t walk anywhere because it’s too hot but yet the town put in a new sidewalk for I swear for golf carts - looking at you Palmetto Bay Fl - call what you want it’s Miami

Leftist hillbillies are the same as conservative hillbillies both are clowns He’s jokes about another country while this one is going to shit what a clown

I thought he was doing a bit

he is, that joke was bc europe actually does have walkable cities

"High speed railing your mom" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The dude just casually bench presses like 400lbs?!

Gravity doesn’t apply to you when you’re not a bitch

how about a bicycle?

Omg was that Creed at the end?

Audioslave

This made me laugh. Thank you

I’ve never even been tempted to get TikTok until now. I need more of this.

Okay, Matt. Let us know when you walk from the border of Queens and Nassau to the border of Staten Island and New Jersey.

Was he pushing FOUR plates??? God damn

Whoa. Pocket chili is brilliant! I am embarrassed I never thought of that!!

How walkable, we have seen in Rambo.

I live in very walkable city, small yes, but very walkable. I walk to doctor appointments, the YMCA, supermarket and of course the beach. If I have to travel outside my area, we have (almost) reliable public transportation. A shout out from Lynn, MA!

His T-shirt 😆

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Nice ableism wrapped up with ageism, bitch.

it was a joke

Don't quit your day job.

it wasn't MY joke

The joke & entire point is that our cities are *not* accessible. He’s using irony—saying don’t be a bitch—then showing a very difficult 17 mile trek to a singular restaurant. He’s not being ableist but rather highlighting how our cities are not designed with accessibility in mind.

I hope he washed that credit card he’s using as a spoon.

Not me.🧫

Gold

I lived in Los Angeles without a car. If you approach it as a weirdo adventure it can be really interesting (if admittedly very challenging) to explore a city that’s hostile to pedestrians while on foot. I’ve been doing the same in San Diego.

Los Angeles is far more walkable/non car-able than northwest Georgia or central Massachusetts (the 2 places I lived before LA), I'll tell ya that much!

Ah, but one of those is a large urban city and the other two are regions of states. That's like comparing apples and wildlife preserves.

Well, I lived in cities in both of those regions, but they're not as widely recognizable as L.A. Certainly they're not as large, either! But both eastern regions seemed actively hostile to walking in a way that the L.A. area doesn't.

i walk MILES in LA

I didn't do all 13 miles in November, but I got 9 in! greatlawalk.blogspot.com

I sometimes walk miles and miles in greater LA but it can get scary in places where there is no sidewalk, which can happen in extremely well developed parts of greater LA.

so much no-sidewalk! i call it unsidewalk

I didn't have a car in Houston for a good five years. I lived in Montrose and could walk to the grocery store, bank, coffee shops, restaurants, bars... kinda tough to get out of the neighborhood without one, but in the right neighborhood you can do it!

I’m doing this in Phoenix. Ya gotta time it right.

A lot of neighborhoods in greater Los Angeles are very livable without a car - mine for example (though I do have a car). On the other hand, a lot of commutes in Los Angeles are difficult without a car.

When I moved to a new neighborhood in SD, for fun I asked for the fastest route from my place to work downtown. It started with walk 40 minutes via a road thru a canyon with no sidewalks, and catch a bus for 20. The same bus stop I had lived across the street from 15 years earlier! Still driving.

lol that’s how Detroit is. used to live on Jefferson at mt Elliott with no car. went on so many adventures around there thinking it was “walkable”. City buses speed up if they see jaywalkers in the street but can’t imagine it on the scale of a city in CA

San Diego has a nice long bike trail along the freeway that I always adored. Its freeways are also almost always locally bypassable and the local roads have undersized but working sidewalks. It would basically be walkable if cars weren't death traps.

i did too and i used to go to laguna beach on the bus all the time…i went so many places throughout the entire urban area without a car…there was no place i wouldn’t go…i would also walk for miles

San Diego, the land of sidewalks that just dead-end directly into a freeway cloverleaf. Nice beaches though.

Yes. Exactly.

This is only possible while young

Precisely. The young benefit from walkable cities but you should build them for the disabled and the elderly, the people who need accommodation built into their transportation systems from the very beginning or they won't be included at all. Others will benefit as a byproduct.

I lived in San Diego when I was little. I knew how to safely cross a highway long before I knew how to navigate snow! Lol

i've lived in LA since 2011 without a car. i don't drive. (i'm from NYC originally so i refuse to do so)

I'm sure you know the work of @awalkerinla.bsky.social

Yes, we used to work together! She’s great!

Thank you both ☺️

Guy I know who does gorgeous time lapse videos lives in downtown LA, I visited long ago by taking the subway system, and he didn’t own a car. Explained how to get around and I was floored. The airport was the biggest PITA (this was before Uber).

They claim it will be fixed for the Olympics, but airport access has been ludicrously bad. For me, by transit: 1) 1 mile walk to the train station 2) Light rail to Union Station - fast, cheap ($1.75), frequent. Do have to wait in the middle of a highway. 3) Catch the privately run "FlyAway Bus".

The FlyAway bus, which has a monopoly, runs once per hour. It travels on normal roads in normal lanes, so the 20 mile trip can take 90 minutes. If it's full you wait for the next one, an hour later. Picking up at the airport it starts at terminal 1 and can fill up by the time it's halfway through.

Before recent improvements to LAX the pickup area at the airport was a poorly marked narrow island between four lanes of traffic on either side, with nothing to sit on for those who were medically unable to stand for up to an hour, or more.

Once you spend time in a 15 minute city, you'll never want to go back to any auto-centric city.

You’ve obviously never been to Los Angeles or San Diego……

did you read the post youre responding to

Spoken like a Dustbin Film that read the post they're responding to!

yeah

LA is LITERALLY known to be like the only major city in America without public transportation. It's INSANE to me that they don't have a train system

LA has the Metro? Coverage isn't great, but it's there.

It's got as much coverage as Pakistani News in Argentina

Dude, San Diego is easily walkable and not at all intimidating.

*guy who never leaves north park voice*

It's all hills

my first bike commute had a 500’ elevation change over 3 miles

One of my first grown up jobs I biked from University City to downtown La Jolla for work 5 days a week for over a year.

that is literally one neighborhood over and is an absolute nightmare to consider walking it

Mostly you walk your bike up that hill

At one point I moved to La Jolla Farms but that didn't make the uphill ride any better

That's not terrible as long as you've got a dedicated bike lane to chill in tbh.

I lived on the hill between the Casbah and Loring Park. I still did the walk.

Okay

Also lived in L.A. without a car...would not consider it a walkable city...despite being a hiker...that being said, public transportation was much better than in a lot of the Southeast

We live downtown San Jose. I really kind of enjoy it going through some kind of industrial, or some kind of old neighborhoods, some kind of mid-century city stuff. I think the thing that soul crushing is the miles of strip malls on Boulevard in towns.

This is the perfect description of my existence in Dallas.

When I lived in North County San Diego (a little inland), there were no sidewalks, and there still aren't in too many places. It was rolling the dice. Definitely wouldn't try a bicycle. I felt bad for the kids and folks with mobility challenges.

San Diego: Hard Mode

I wrote a little about not having a car in L.A. and the history of transportation in the city back in 2013:

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My grandfather would take the train from Beverly Hills to work downtown. "All aboard for Anaheim, Azuza, and Rancho Cucamonga."

Azusa: "Everything you need from A to Z"

Walt Disney wanted to build a monorail from downtown LA to Anaheim, and planned for it to be the test method for travel around Southern California. It was planned to have kept the road infrastructure intact. Naturally, it was scuttled by horrible, self-serving car focused a-holes, as is tradition.

I think only 2 or 3 cities around the world have monorails not counting Disney parks. One city in Germany has one. Vancouver has a Sky Train but it's not a monorail. Montreal is building elevated light rail. I don't know why city planning keeps failing in practically every city.

Imo, we don't have the vision and stomach to wait for results in America. If a representative is spending money, the people need to see results immediately or they will turn on the visionary and the project.

Here in Canada local neighbourhood residents scuttle long term planning, especially the upper middle class and Yuppies ("me generation")

Chongqing has a mono, beautiful city. Kinda feel like monorails do not make a ton of sense, most places. However, light rail, trams... Love that stuff. Elevated rail is neat too.

"The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury and "Fade Away and Radiate" by Blondie still drive me to rebel by simply putting one foot in front of the other and opening my senses. www.wattpad.com/496713614-sh...

Man, reading that made me feel nostalgic. Like, you talk about an upcoming vote on transit. Where as these days all political events are grinding crushing death spirals. The naive hope that we could vote for a better world- I miss that.

I miss that feeling too.

My first time home to the San Fernando Valley after a semester in Manhattan I felt so empowered I walked to the movie theater and NO. Something about the concrete and unchanging scenery just made a normal distance feel like hell.

Totally hear you. I live in a hot af area with lots of concrete and no aesthetic draw. Walking is conscription here, and I actually like to walk.

This is valid but coming from (coastal) California I was on business trips to Dallas and walked around there and it was way more like this video, I started to get it.

That was me walking in and around Busch Stadium in St. Louis. In theory it's walkable around there, and I made it around okay, but it's clear to me almost nobody actually walks in that area. Like, you can but it's not enjoyable.

I stayed in a hotel near there, then walked to a Cajun restaurant relatively close and then walked to the Old Rock House for a concert. Not a single person was walking around. Lots of empty lots and concrete between those places.

I want “Like, you can but it's not enjoyable” on my tombstone

Felt. I lived in the dorms at Cal Poly Pomona, and walking to the nearest fast food place way tf down the street off campus on the weekend because food was scarce was absolute torture. Just the mental drudgery alone was inhumane. It was preferable to starve.

We got a boat three years ago and got rid of the car. I’m now at denizen of the bus, the metro the train. There are some parts in like Tidewater, Virginia that you just have to rent a car. But that’s a whole lot easier than owning a car and paying for your repair and insurance.

Public transportation here is a bit better now, but usually my choices are spend hours in freeway traffic or hours on public transportation 🫠

I went to undergrad in LA and one of my freshman sociology courses was basically “take public transit across LA County and pay attention to what you see”

I took a writing class once that was basically "go sit around in random public places with a notebook, eavesdrop, write down what you hear, and describe people." And i think that's the best school assignment I ever had.

I once walked back to my hotel in North Hollywood and had to walk in the gutter of a major road for a few hundred metres because the footpath just stopped existing for a while.

That’ll happen. I run out of sidewalk all the time in San Diego. Sometimes it gets more dangerous than others. This country is just an absolute joke.

Can you be a pedestrian and - not - be on foot? (I don’t mean to be rude, here. It’s just that I know my root words. Well, a couple, anyway). 🙏🙏🙏

Etymologically it seems like a contradiction but linguistics is colloquially constructed, so meaning is not derived exclusively from the root words, but how we use them.

I said I only knew a couple but Google agrees with me that pedestrian means on foot unless used as an adjective, which it wasn’t.

The malware app is fun!

Is this the result of inbreeding or injecting clorox?

No. This is the result of being awesome.

Joke posts are such a glorious litmus test on Bluesky

I adore father gains

My hero 🏆

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