Modernism really should have stayed the hell away from urban planning
unironic paul graham posting to own the libs
I hate car culture and amerikkkan infra too but that's a terrible comparison
The person whose tweet you screen capped and posted here. The Y-combinator asshole we have to blame for Reddit, Twitch, Instacart, Airbnb, Dropbox, Heroku, etc., he's one of the five people who bear the most blame for the current white supremacist and misogynist culture in tech.
- cheered on as coinbase's CEO told employees to leave if they were pro BLM last year
- [CW: racism, misogyny] unabashed white and maie chauvinist
I'm sure you can find other shit if you dig deep enough. Just the essential example of the mediocre gen-x white guy that got a lot of money from financiers to write awful software then became one of those financiers and clearly thinks that means his opinions are important.
This tweet is such a great example. Comparing two entirely different aerial views as if they say something meaningful. The worst part is he's not wrong, Atlanta is awful for sprawl and dedicating obnoxious amounts of space for cars. But comparing the border of the urban core with the exact center of another city's urban core is nonsense.
He’s a software developer and the founder of Y Combinator, a startup accelerator that funded companies like Dropbox and Airbnb.
Los Angeles could have massive amounts of chaparral and oak savanna greenspaces if it weren't for fucking suburbs, cars and freeways :-I
god i've been to interchanges like that. the amount of time it takes to cross such a small distance can be baffling; like if you're in the shopping center in the bottom middle and need to get to the top middle
Yeah. You gotta go down one one street for half a mile and hit a U-turn ramp.
I mean it's nicer, but from my experience with italy you're still legally allowed to drive your car into every little nook, cranny and alley that the romans probably banned horse carriages in.
I don't think it's that dangerous, but it fucking sucks,
I mean yeah Piazza degli Strozzi in the historic part of Florence sounds nice. It's still a car park.
