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'Bessie' is a preposterous name for a chicken.
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Everyone knows the proper name for a hen is Henny Penny.
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Kylo Hen?
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...wizard, time traveller, man who lives inside a clock made of chickens
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Be me: has chickens
Also me: is a surburbanite
#restingchookface
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Is it weird to say that your chicken looks straight gangsta? Like I'd invite that chicken to my smoke circle
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i just want to thank you for starting a thread of people posting their chickens im the midst of a bunch of debatelords being debatelords.
the internet is a better place with you in it💗🐔
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Same.
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Omgosh, your lovely lady looks very very similar to my old lovely lady that passed last year!
She was a rescue Issa Brown, we think she was a former farm layer due to the clipped beak. Absolute badass too tho.
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God I wish. I live in an American city, so it's too dangerous to walk along the 4 lane stroad to get to the grocery store a block away
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my condolences:(
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When I look at those neat American suburb grids and imagine to be a shop owner, I would love to put my store directly into the grid. Is it just not allowed to have a shop in those neighborhoods? Isn't that anti-capitalist lol?
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That's correct, suburbs are the product of the worst housing experiment in the US, in which racists fled from cities to suburbs. They were designed to benefit white people in the aftermath of WW2, because white people were more likely to afford a car. More racism prevented POC from buying in the suburbs or qualifying for housing loans. A second layer of racism came when the Department of Transportation intentionally used Emminent Domain to design the highway network for disrupting and dividing neighborhoods of black people. The whipped topping of this racism pancake came from an unassuming supreme court case, which allowed for municipalities to "preserve the character of the community", which cemented racist single family zoning into city ordinances and prevents literally anything other than a single family home from being built
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Suburbs without cars are food deserts. No shops, no public transit. Only single family homes, schools and pedophile shuffling services (churches). If I had to walk to buy any food (even fast food) it would be a 45 minute trip minimum.
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Unironically agreed. Suburbs suck and apparently they're also bad for the environment.
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Join us
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Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !fuckcars@lemmy.world
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Also if you haven't already, !notjustbikes@feddit.nl and the Not Just Bikes YouTube channel.
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almost: car-centric suburbs suck, other kinds are generally perfectly fine.
Like there are many suburbs throughout the world built around public transport and they're great, my fave is one to the northeast of gothenburg that is just a bunch of high-density housing and a tramline slapped into the hilly forest. Same population as my town and everyone living there has like a 10 minute walk to the forest at worst, and most people have a 5 minute walk to the tram.
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Imagine being able to walk or cycle to a store in a few minutes while also not being in some dense urban hellscape 🇳🇱🇪🇺. Hopefully the US will learn to build better cities someday.
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while also not being in some dense urban hellscape 🇳🇱🇪🇺
Fun fact: Although Amsterdam (~5,000/km2) fails to match the population density of New York City (~11,000/km2), similarly-human-scale Paris manages to almost double it (~20,000/km2) despite not having skyscrapers. Because of things like progressive setbacks and the need to build parking decks to comply with minimum parking requirements, NYC-style skyscrapers really don't buy you as much extra living space as you might think, compared to mid-rise apartment buildings that can use the entire city block curb-to-curb.
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That's already how my life is in the USA. I live in the woods, and I can get to 2 grocery stores within 5-10 minutes.
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The most frustrating thing is being in a place with dense outwardly building urban development. Watching more and more copy/pasted strip malls go up with plans for "Subway. Smoke shop. Nails. Maybe gas station." (Yes, every time)
Aside from copy-paste labyrinthine housing developments.
You just wish you could shout loudly enough "You're doing it all wrong and there's still a chance to make this better!"
But it keeps on going.
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The most frustrating thing is being in a place with dense outwardly building urban development. Watching more and more copy/pasted strip malls go up with plans for “Subway. Smoke shop. Nails. Maybe gas station.” (Yes, every time)
If it's a strip mall with a surface parking lot (as opposed either having a parking deck, or having very little parking at all because it's TOD), it categorically doesn't count as "dense."
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The suburbanite sounds like she had a lot of other issues besides just owning a car lol
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why did u assume the suburbanite’s gender lol
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Sorry, I'll fix it... The suburbanite sounds like he, she, and/or they may unfortunately have a lot of other non-normative and potentially problematic life journeys going on besides just owning a car. Perhaps we should educate them by exchanging platitudes about living our best life?
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the president still doesnt make the gas prices
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that's the joke i think
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Suburbanite: Child, go open the instacart app on my phone and have some eggs delivered by an underpaid driver for $35.
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Fuck suburbs, probably the one thing rural and urban people can agree on.
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Yep, it's their fault for living in a food desert and not the fault of the corporations that made it a food dessert 👍👍👍
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Food deserts are mostly not the fault of corporations; they're the fault of zoning. Some of that blame admittedly rests on misguided (to say the least) modernist urban planners back in the '30s, but most of it rests squarely on the shoulders of NIMBYs.
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When the store is 100 mile/160 kilometer round trip, you either figure out a substitute or do without. And if you don't know what else to use, your favorite search engine is only seconds away from helping you with your problem. It ain't rocket surgery.
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Bessie the chicken huh
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For the vast majority of my suburban life, whenever I needed eggs mid-recipe I just walked across the street to either the local grocery store or local convenience store to get eggs.
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Not your neighbor?
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Now, which artist or thinker said that a suburb is just the city spread too thin
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I live in the suburbs and am within walking distance of 3 places that sell eggs. Which is an anomaly, because yes this is one of many problems with suburban sprawl.
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Where I live suburbs (both those with apartment blocks and those with detached houses) usually have stores within reasonable distance
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Me, being a suburbanite with backyard chickens and a store I can drive to in 2-3 minutes
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Why do you need to drive to a store that close?
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Because America was built for cars, not pedestrians. You'd be surprised how hard it can be to walk just a block or two down sometimes....
Also in some parts of the country we have ridiculously fast roads right in front of neighborhoods so 3-4 minutes might be at 55mph (88kmh)
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There are no sidewalks, bike lanes or even a shoulder on the road. I walked home from the tire shop next to the store one time last year and four people stopped to offer me a ride because it's that dangerous.
Also it's currently way below freezing here. I would still walk in those temps but not many people will, and not everyone can walk two miles each way (which is more like 1-2 hrs of walking total)
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Because it's cool
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So like a 5 minute walk to the store?
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There are no sidewalks, bike lanes or even a shoulder on the road. I walked home from the tire shop next to the store one time last year and four people stopped to offer me a ride because it's that dangerous.
Also it's currently way below freezing here. I would still walk in those temps but not many people will, and not everyone can walk two miles each way (which is more like 1-2 hrs of walking total)
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Have they invented vegan eggs?
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Honestly for baked goods bananas will do the job quite well
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I can buy free range eggs at the farm gate, a five minute drive from my house. It's pretty handy actually.
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Gotta drive to food lion, walking near those stores almost guarantees a stabbing.
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i just use gound lentis seeds or some apple sauce as egg replacement ez
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applesauce
egg replacement
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The only reason I know what a Wawa is, is because of the Philadelphia International Outreach Program
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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
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I know wawa because there's three within five minutes of me
That I'm sure of
I love them, 24/7...ish stuff! Hot food! Packaged goods! My vice of soda! All available at 3am.
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