Varyk

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Varyk,
Varyk,

Varyk,

Really?

I’m not asking this facetiously, can you explain how?

I find the cropped version funnier.

Varyk,

I didn’t know that would hit so close to home.

I’m glad you find this fun.

Varyk,

I don’t see how

Varyk,

No one:

Caring

Varyk,

You being less funny doesn’t make that phrase funnier

Varyk,

Stop playing, there’s no way you understand percentages

Varyk,

Your revelation might just be relative to your general understanding

Varyk,

No worries, nobody expected you to

Varyk,

Sup, babe. How’s that ipo?

Varyk, (edited )

Hot shit I thought the reddit design was a joke, that’s awful.

Varyk,

Probably kino’s journey, kino no tabi, the original. Captures the spirit of calm wanderlust perfectly. Itinerance.i love the ending too.

Varyk,

Great answer

Varyk, (edited )

1440 is a great daily newsletter with least-biased articles about American and world news.

I’ve been using it a couple years now, it’s my favorite news aggregator.

It’s just one daily email with the most significant news of that day, at least one source per story and often multiple sources for the larger stories.

The only ads are text, you can scroll right past them, and they include two or three fluff pieces at the end. Like a cat on a hamster wheel or something so you can get your inane meme fix as well.

join1440.com

Varyk,

Hahaha well I laughed out loud, so thanks

Varyk,

I’m so glad that Sean is the meme now.

Traffic Engineering: a help from Italy

Good morning, I write from Italy and here, where I live, but it is not only here the problem, are launched public roads projects that are breathtakingly bad and obsolete. I am no expert, I just think to have a minimum of good sense to understand that projects that are raping the countryside to build streets and welcome the...

Varyk, (edited )

Adding more lanes does not “magically create more cars on the road”, but it does mundanely create more traffic, so that increasing traffic lanes provides diminishing returns of reduced congestion.

You have to factor in how many cars are acquired every year, how many people are driving, how they are driving where, and when.

Every year people are buying new cars and the old cars don’t just disappear, more people move to where more people already live, and adding new lanes only invites more drivers to where everybody is already going.

A simple, related and more accessible example is adding parking spaces into a downtown area. This does not lessen congestion but increases congestion as more people drive downtown and everyone drives around looking for a parking space rather than walking an extra 7 minutes from a less congested area.

A similar thing happens with highways, and research backs it up.

bloomberg.com/…/why-widening-highways-doesn-t-bri…

smv.org/…/how-does-roadway-expansion-cause-more-t…

Improve mass transit and public transportation and this problem evaporates.

Varyk, (edited )

Highways notoriously create more traffic , every time we expand a highway or create a new highway, traffic gets worse.

If you just search “highway creates worse traffic” or something similar, there are many, many videos that will give you very good information and statistics about how building roads does not help convenience traffic or a sense of narrow or broad community in most situations, and new roads or new highway lanes almost always create more traffic in urban situations like cities.

Varyk,

It’s definitely the egg, since the chicken was the road and the egg(traffic density) increases after adding another highway or lane to a “super highway”.

Before that highway or lane was added, there was less congestion.

Varyk,

Have a couple boxes of this in my fridge right now, I didn’t even think about making it myself. Thanks

Varyk,

All online articles appear in the print editions of the New Yorker, but not all printed articles are in the online edition.

Varyk,

Not all New York times articles are also in print, you can use usually check the header or footer or some data on the page that tells you whether or not the online article was printed

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