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@xianc78 @santiagolmtz This pattern was also fairly common in the Boston area in the 1980s, presumably because zoning wasn't a thing or wasn't strict when lots of older housing and shops next door or built in below were built. Also see some of it generally in older towns and cities in the middle of the country, is also a thing when doing "Main Stree" renovations and the like.

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Government pretending to be surprised by high grocery prices after locking down the global economy, disrupting supply chains, reckless spending, and massively distorting the money supply.

There is a very simple way to have "walkable-cities" without any central planning or any of that 15-minute, smart-city crap. Just allow residential and commercial zones to mix. Allow people with big enough houses to run shops in them.

I know a lot of local stores and restaurants that were renovated from former houses. Just remove the walls between the kitchen and living room, and have the bedrooms be employee offices then you will have enough space to run a store.

You can take that one step further. Why not have a house with a store attached? A garage can be converted into a small shop or you can have the other side of a duplex be a store. Japan has tons of houses with stores attached. There are even apartment building with something like a 7/11 at the bottom.

See? A simple solution that doesn't involve demolishing entire towns and rebuilding them or building expensive railways that would require evicting a bunch of people and destroying their homes just to make room. Car-dependent cities are a result of central planning, not the other way around.

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If you're thinking of being an organ donor, please, think about it carefuly.

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For years now, the government has been playing a cat-and-mouse game with the American people, letting us enjoy just enough freedom to think we are free but not enough to actually allow us to live as a free people.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/08/the-political-matrix-sustains-the-illusion-of-freedom.html
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Every month, it is almost always the same story. The government releases a number that indicates that the U.S. economy has been creating plenty of “jobs”, and then later on that number is dramatically revised lower.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/08/so-hundreds-of-thousands-of-those-jobs-were-completely-fake.html
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EU funding AI instead of FOSS should be food for thought what things they do that are corrupt as well, without you noticing

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so did you know Windows XP phone activation still works?

neither did we

*and* with a random retail key off the internet, fully automated

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Awarding China an environmental award is like awarding a Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger
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Requesting prayers for a friend of mine, he just wound up hospitalized for seizures
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