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Re:Something special is happening in Barcelona by BuyMyBitcoins on Sunday October 24, 2021 @01:37AM (#28975257)
>” They are. Most modern cities are an unlivable toxic mess thanks to the fact we based transportation on private cars.”

This is rhetorical hyperbole that undermines your position.

If cities were actually “unlivable” then people wouldn’t be living there and it would cease to be a city. Toxic is also an exaggeration.

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Re:Something special is happening in Barcelona by adrianN on Sunday October 24, 2021 @01:50AM (#28975299)
You can say that about literally everything that we did in the past and don't do anymore because we finally came up with better alternatives. Take the mining industry for most of its existence for example. Working in the mines was a literal death sentence, yet people did it voluntarily. Even children. Why? Because there were no alternatives for them.
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