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@OnePerfectShot ✖️ @cumtownpodcast

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@idlebell Not enough/any housing. No one lives there. Dead neighborhood when it shouldn't be.

[Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist @UrbanCourtyard]

Lockhart, TX's, urbanism problem is not the courthouse at the center of its civic square. That part is fine. The problem is the urban fabric surrounding it.

The problem begins with the parcels. Their street frontages are too narrow, encouraging buildings to extend deep into the lot and consume most of its area. That geometry leaves little room for interior courtyards, gardens, or mixed use programing.

The buildings are also too short and overwhelmingly commercial. Downtown therefore lacks the residential population needed to sustain public life throughout the day and week. Too few people actually live there to animate the streets, use the square, support local businesses, watch over public spaces, and turn the courthouse district into a great neighborhood. Where people live.

 This is probably why there are many empty storefronts. It could be a great neighborhood, though, with the right zoning overlay, and maybe a few adjustments to the street layout, some new parks.

[𝐬𝐨𝐯 @sovietsoleri]

A place for everything

Scanned from Fine Homebuilding: Remodeling, 1997.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your calendar was full at 21 and empty at 26 for a reason MIT discovered in 1950.

Researchers studied a housing complex called Westgate and found friendship was predicted by one variable above everything else: physical distance between front doors. Students living near stairwells and mailboxes made the most friends. Shared interests, values, personality? All downstream of foot traffic. They named it the propinquity effect.

Researcher Rebecca Adams later distilled friendship formation into three conditions: proximity, repeated unplanned interactions, and settings where people let their guard down. A college campus delivers all three automatically, dozens of hours a week of engineered collisions. Adult life delivers zero by default.

That's the entire mechanism behind days blending together. Your brain registers novelty from unplanned human contact. Remove the collisions and time loses its texture.

The fix is repetition. One dinner party changes nothing. The same gym class, same coffee shop, same pickup game at the same time every week rebuilds the structure school gave you for free. Friendship grows from accumulated accidental contact, so frequency wins.

College handed you a collision machine. Adults who stay social just rebuilt one.

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@AwfulRacing Toyota pickup with classic Celica front end, I'd say.

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@CoreyJMahler 398g

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@susanhecht @brianonhere that restaurant only exists because they didn't need to spend €100k remodeling the WC

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@brianonhere I liked this post thinking you meant Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs). Retracting like.

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@odysseus02 @Empty_America Retire / FIRE today. You just did the math.

[iP（あいぴー） @_127001]

インターネット百景
天王洲の運河にある取れない謎のHDD
初確認が2023年なのでかれこれ3年間は放置中。もしかしたら凄い額の暗号資産が眠ってるのかもしれないし収集したエロ画像データを海に沈めようとしたらたまたま乗っかってしまい手が出せなくなったのかもしれない。とにかくロマンがある。

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@JoshLipnik damn I want to live there

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@MikeValmike @NEETzscheIDDQD Nissan LEAF is the answer. You should own one for all local trips.

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@Empty_America Problem is these are only being built due to external factors and/or American stupidity. Well designed apartment with a parking spot moggs this in every way. But we don't build those. Only these stupid things instead.

[Midwest Modern @JoshLipnik]

1959 house in Indianapolis by architect Evans Woollen III

Interior photos via Zillow

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@anishmoonka Nah, camera has nothing to do with the success of the OG iPhone. Could have shipped without one. People liked it for multitouch, web, email, apps. Camera only important (VERY important) for later models.

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@willmenaker

[cav empty @cavempty_]

meet me at the refreshment center

[Canoopsy @Canoopsy]

Apple Park shot on iPhone 1

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@Clint_Davey1 The Big/Little thing was weird and unnecessary in TFA.

Should have just cut the entire character. I was glad when TLJ did.

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@coachgregadams Skill issue. Many dual-FIRE.