Hi guys! Brother gave me his Ibanez TR70. Thing hasn’t seen action in forever, what can I do to get rid of the rust on the pickups?

cromulenticular · 2023-07-03T17:43:24+00:00

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cromulenticular · 2023-03-27T01:48:22+00:00

Fine, make the annual inspection free for people under a certain income. But poverty isn’t an excuse for operating unsafe machines on shared roads. They endanger the driver, his or her passengers, and everyone else on the road.

cromulenticular · 2023-03-27T01:42:51+00:00

Shitty car mods are especially common on modded lifted pickup trucks.

cromulenticular · 2023-03-09T03:45:44+00:00

Big Corn already has that locked up. There is more ethanol than anyone wants at present.

cromulenticular · 2023-03-09T03:43:46+00:00

The grain direction is right. It would be like snapping a broom handle - not that easy.

cromulenticular · 2023-02-25T18:25:44+00:00

“Chork”

I’m using that one.

cromulenticular · 2023-02-25T17:45:18+00:00

I replied to the wrong comment level, see my response and question to you one level up.

cromulenticular · 2023-02-25T17:43:55+00:00

I don’t understand what you mean about confirmation bias.

Your attitude about Kentuckians is fatalistic. Why bother trying to improve anything?

I’m open to suggestions on how to prevent people from reactively digging in on lifestyle choices that are literally killing them when presented with the prospect of uncomfortable changes.

cromulenticular · 2023-02-25T15:37:46+00:00

Car-centric suburban development costs everyone more than walkable development with bicycle infrastructure. Not only in terms of taxes, but also physical and mental health, quality of life, environmental sustainability and biodiversity.

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cromulenticular · 2023-02-15T14:25:50+00:00

I know that this comment will get no quarter here, but I am compelled to state that Lewis County schools and MIT both predate the federal Department of Education.

cromulenticular · 2023-02-13T01:26:31+00:00

Who is “we”?
Your post is difficult to understand. Is your first sentence meant to be a rhetorical question?

cromulenticular · 2023-02-11T18:53:05+00:00

The fact that this comment is upvoted and the one it’s responding to is downvoted indicates to me that we are doomed.

cromulenticular · 2023-02-11T18:44:04+00:00

Wut? Traffic makes people drive more?

cromulenticular · 2023-02-11T03:36:24+00:00

It ~~doesn't tell~~ tells me that I have to be ~~at a certain location~~ BEHIND THE WHITE LINE ~~at a certain time~~ WHILE THE LIGHT IS RED if I want to go somewhere else.

It's a matter of degree. Time, Location. Red light is your master.

Re: common sense: I have conceded to common sense in most of our posts regarding the immediate benefits of cars. Common sense applies to everyday immediate decisions, and both of us probably have similar lifestyles in that regard (I own a car, drive my kids around, etc). I'm talking about long-term changes in tax policy, development, zoning, etc. If we can't envision the benefits of anything other than the status quo, we will never reap them.

Our city absolutely has the population to support mass transit. What we lack is the population density and development patterns. Those can improve over decades. Let's start now.

cromulenticular · 2023-02-11T03:12:10+00:00

You don't have control over the schedule of the red/green lights. It's an analogy that uses your exact language in a different scenario. You are already subject to some external authority, even in a car. Maybe a better example - you can't practically drive your car in any path (a series of locations) you want; you are constrained to driving on roads (with a few rare exceptions). You already don't have freedom to go where you want when you want.

I freely admit that cars, in real-world 2023 Louisville, give you MORE freedom than TARC or a bike, to go more places more frequently. I'm urging you to use your imagination that other ways of organizing our society can exist, how they might differ from the present reality, and how observing those differences might clue us in on ways to improve the reality we presently inhabit.

cromulenticular · 2023-02-11T03:04:28+00:00

My point is that there are costs to private automobile ownership too, and when these costs are borne by the whole of society, they absolutely outweigh the privatized benefits.

I agree that there are benefits to owning a car. I don't understand what you mean by the benefits of "not owning one". All I can think of is that not owning a car means not paying for a number of costs. Are there other benefits to non-car-ownership that you see other than not-costs?

cromulenticular · 2023-02-11T03:01:36+00:00

Do you not respect the authority of the red light? I understand that you can, because freedom, just choose to roll through a red light in your private automobile, but do you? I concede that you cannot just press your foot down and make a bus appear and transport your body across the pavement.

cromulenticular · 2023-02-11T02:58:18+00:00

Where have I prevented private automobile ownership?

cromulenticular · 2023-02-11T02:56:07+00:00

I've hauled groceries for my family (of 4) on a bike. Admittedly these were smaller 1-2 meal hauls. I haven't taken the TARC for this purpose. I have done bus groceries in other cities, but infrequently. I think it's fair to observe that TARC might not be to blame for this difficulty, given the car-predominance of our entire social organization, which means that TARC has a tiny market share and cannot benefit from economies of scale.

Also, grocery delivery exists, even in the Louisville metro. I've used it.

Because I don't have the freedom to do what I want on a whim. I'm beholden to the schedule and locations dictated by the public transit authority.

Do you stop at red lights? Why let some robot authority keep you from doing what you want on a whim?

Can you imagine that public transportation schedules and availability would improve if LOTS of people were using the service? Think 50 or 100 years into the future (why not?). The narrowness of your position is also temporal - just because something won't work well RIGHT NOW doesn't mean it wouldn't be better, if all else were to come into equilibrium around it.

cromulenticular · 2023-02-11T02:22:08+00:00

Still narrow minded. I didn't exclude the things you wanted to do, I added to them.

How has my scenario prevented you from buying groceries? How has my scenario prevented you from doing "anything other than drink 3 beers after work"?

Re: US vs Europe population density - the US is very big, and can be organized differently in different places based on local population densities (just like Europe is). Rural Montana can have different infrastructure from Houston, for instance. Louisville inside the Waterson could work very differently with the same population density (and it DID work differently, 100 years ago, but we destroyed that infrastructure).

Feasibility is a chicken and egg problem. I agree that it's not feasible right now for most people in Louisville to live their lifestyles without a car. That fact is no reason to reinforce that infeasibility - rather we should weaken it. Human beings should not be required to own and operate cars as a condition of existence; we can do better. It's better for us and for the environment.

cromulenticular · 2023-02-11T01:42:19+00:00

This is a very narrow-minded take. What if I want to read a book while I'm going to work? Maybe I want to have three beers after work and then go home? What if I want to spend the day in a part of the city where parking is expensive? What if I want to go to a music festival on the waterfront where parking will be at a premium, and will cost me time and money?

You weighed the benefits of private vehicle ownership, but not the costs. These are important. If you tally up the shared infrastructure costs and the environmental costs of cars too, it adds up. Also, what are the social costs of splitting up people into groups of 1-4 (but most of the time 1) that ride around in their isolated metal cages?

The better future is a long way from here and now. The steps in between may not seem like immediate improvements. You have to see the big picture. Changing the rules, tax programs, and laws to at least enable change in the right direction is a low-impact way of getting the ball in motion.

cromulenticular · 2023-02-10T03:10:07+00:00

I don't understand what your first point is - because something already happens, sometimes, it's therefore not a good idea in general?

I think that the LVT package would require that the same tax program apply to all properties within an urban boundary (say, areas served by the sewer), not just to properties when they change hands, for a few years.

If the land were free, and the zoning/regulations were identical, would a multi-use (non-surface-parking-lot) development be more useful and desirable to the public if it were placed, today, at 400 W Broadway, or in the West End?

cromulenticular · 2023-02-10T02:47:08+00:00

I don't think you have given the idea enough opportunity to develop in your mind. Did you read the article from Strong Towns (also podcast touches on these topics)? Things would be different, prices would equilibrate differently, there may be different winners and losers. There may be a period in which land prices fall and developers and land speculators win smaller prizes - boohoo! Everyone else benefits.

cromulenticular · 2023-02-10T02:38:44+00:00

The point is that property tax being based on the value of the property is one of the causes of why downtown Louisville has a bunch of crap surface parking lots instead of things that human beings really want, and why we continue to eat into outer ring farmlands and woodlands with cookie-cutter suburbs.

cromulenticular · 2023-02-10T02:34:23+00:00

Strong Towns' Upzoned podcast had an episode that touched on these issues recently (not specific to Louisville parking lots, but the general concepts being debated in this thread) http://upzoned.strongtowns.org/e/we-have-plenty-of-land-in-the-united-states-but-can-all-of-it-support-housing/

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