Regardless of Election Result, I Feel Disillusioned With Canada : r/CanadianConservative - "Whether Conservatives win or lose. Regardless, I feel really disillusioned and disappointed in Canada and Canadians. Let's start with Justin Trudeau. He got to walk away from facing a historic election loss. He gets to walk away from facing the responsibility for his actions, policies and rhetoric. In other countries, a leader this bad would have to leave the country. His party would collapse in support (Aside from US). His image would be ruined. Canada? We are likely to have another Trudeau asshole lead this country in the future. Now let's talk about LPC. Am I the only one who expected the Liberal party to get obliterated regardless of who leads the party this election? Everybody seemed in agreement that Liberals have ruined this country two months ago. They change the puppet leading the party and now they have more than 30% of the party supporting them again? Even if they lose. If Liberals get 30% of the vote I honestly don't want to call myself Canadian anymore. I can't believe how stupid and forgetful Canadians are. Liberals deserve to lose official party status for what they have done to this country in the last ten years. Regardless of election result, I am thoroughly disappointed in this country and Canadians."
"The Liberals literally proposed moving the election forward a week in October so as not to conflict with Diwali (as a pretext for guaranteeing dozens of MP pensions.) The timing of the election in Easter not only demonstrates their absolute cynicism and hypocrisy but also a perfect willingness to suppress the Christian vote. As for Christians “not being attack” in our own country, you must have missed the dozens of Liberal-sanctioned church burnings that took place across the country in 2021-22."
Meme - "I guess the one direction was down"
"Liam Payne, former member of One Direction, died after he fell from a hotel window, police say"
Opinion: Have hotel stays become an unaffordable luxury? - The Globe and Mail - "I booked my first hotel stay when I was a University of Victoria graduate student in my early 20s. My girlfriend and I, keen to swap the single-bed privations of our campus dorm rooms, were desperate for an indulgent night away. And although we had a far-from-fancy budget, we tracked down an off-season deal at a past-its-prime downtown property: $49 per person per night – dinner and breakfast included. It felt wildly decadent at the time, in the mid-1990s. But looking back, I recall the room’s faded pink decor, bulbless bedside lamp and diminutive bath towels that were as plush as 40-grit sandpaper. None of that really mattered, though, since it also delivered an oasis-like respite from the egregious trials of everyday life. Which, in my case, was the unmatchable stress of trying to understand advanced poli sci texts (thanks a lot, Hegel). Fast-forward to today and the idea of pausing from the world by booking a restorative hotel sleepover has never been more enticing. But with room rates soaring higher than ever in many areas, it’s also never been less accessible. Sure, you can still find some rooms for $200 a night in major Canadian cities, but if you want one downtown or at peak times, you will likely pay north of $300. Meanwhile, The New York Times recently reported that the daily average for a Big Apple hotel stay in 2023 hit a record US$301 ($414)."
Meme - "Prison slavery probably put this on your table this Thanksgiving:
Potatoes Beef Com Poltru Eggs
Hundreds of prisons across all 50 states operate farms. These are just some examples of the food they generate."
Kevin Cruz: "Prisoners actually have a wait list to join these types of programs because anything is better than being in a cell all day. This gives them time outside, and they get to contribute something to society instead of being a burden."
Justin Rumbley: "exactly. All these people jumping to scream "slavery" have no clue They should stop trying to be offended on everyone's behalf"
The same people who claim that "prison slavery" is a thing (when prisoners are never forced to take part) also pretend that no one was forced to take a covid vaccine
Meme - "Movies vs Real Life - 1 girl on 4 guys attack
*4 guys attack girl with baseball bat one at a time and she defeats all of them*
*4 guys attack girl with baseball bat at once and they defeat her*"
Meme - "Remember when all ur friends used the pocket pussy and bunch of them got the clap?"
"Do not ever contact my husband again. Who texts a married man something like that?
Sorry I'm in the car, my wife had my phone. But yeah hahahaha"
Meme - "What Facebook thinks I want: care *emoticons*
What I actually want: ugh facepalm seriously? what the....?! *emoticons*"
Woman charged with arson claims that her neighbors threw unlit Molotov cocktails into her yard before she lit them and threw them back over the fence - "Starr Jackson, of Montgomery, Alabama, is being charged with first-degree arson after five Molotov cocktails were found at the scene of the fire. Jackson claims that her neighbors had been harassing her and that they had thrown the bottles over her fence before she returned them. After lighting them of course."
Scone: The Word That Divides the UK | Engoo Daily News - "not everyone can agree on whether you should put the jam on before the cream or the cream before the jam! But this isn't the only thing people can't agree on when it comes to scones. People can't even agree on how to pronounce the word! In fact, some British and Irish people get quite passionate about the pronunciation of certain words — and "scone" is one of them. There are two choices. You can rhyme it with "phone," with a long "o" sound. Or you can rhyme it with "gone." In England, people who say it to rhyme with "phone" are sometimes thought to be posh. But across the sea in the south of Ireland, that's just the normal way to say it. In 2016, researchers from the University of Cambridge even made a map of the UK and Ireland based on the way people pronounce the word. They used data from an app that tens of thousands of people had downloaded. They found that many people in Scotland and the north of England rhyme the word with "gone." But people in the southwest — and a small area of Yorkshire — rhyme it with "phone." In the rest of the country, no one can really agree. It even divides families!"
75% of younger S. Koreans want to leave country - "Young South Koreas, between the ages of 19 and 34, feel more anxious about life than the older generation, a new study has found. And even among the younger generation, the level of anxiety is higher among women than men. As a result, 79% of women want to leave Korea, as do 72% of men. On Dec. 15, a presentation titled “Diagnosis of Gender Conflicts from a Youth Standpoint and Suggested Policy Responses for an Inclusive State: A Gender Analysis of Fairness Perceptions” was delivered at the Korea Women's Development Institute’s 119th Gender Equality Policy Forum. According to the presentation, eight out of 10 South Koreans aged 19 to 34 viewed South Korea as “a hell,” while 7.5 out of 10 said they hoped to leave. In contrast, 6.4 out of 10 members of the older generation (aged 35 to 59) viewed South Korea as “a hell” and 6.5 reported wanting to leave. The study analyzed data for 5,000 South Koreans aged 19 to 59 by generation and gender."
Air Katakana on X - "83% of young korean women think of south korea as “hell” and 80% of them want to leave korea. if your mental model of south korea does not match this, it’s your mental model and not the data that is wrong"
A lot of Koreans think they're losers too
Shinjuku Restaurant Serves Kimchi - But Not to Korean or Chinese People - "A restaurant in Tokyo's Shinjuku, near the heart of its Korea Town, proudly says it won't serve Korean or Chinese customers. Tokyo’s Shinjuku is one of the city’s most diverse locations, with a foreigner population of around 13%. (Foreign residents comprise only around 2% of Japan’s populace.) Okubo, within Shinjuku, is even more diverse. Known as the city’s Korean Town, it’s host to a number of resident Koreans and shops that cater to Japan’s “Korean Boom.” The area also hosts the so-called “Islam Yokocho,” a home to shops selling Halal food. That all makes the actions of Okubo Bar (大久保バル), located nearby in Hyakunincho, even more surprising. The Italian bar and restaurant made waves recently with a hand-written message on its window that read: “Although diversity and tolerance may be fashionable, we refuse to serve Chinese and Koreans as it’s unpleasant and saps our will to work.”... Many noted the irony of an Italian restaurant near Korean Town being explicitly racist against Koreans. More expressed anger at the “cutesiness” of the message, which was accompanied with a smiley face and a musical note. Other users openly questioned how the restaurant plans to enforce this policy. One X user said they’d get a group of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean friends together and see if the owner can correctly guess who’s who. Meanwhile, some Chinese users remarked sardonically that, if Japan doesn’t like serving Chinese customers, then it should stop using kanji, the ideographic writing system that Japan originally adopted from China... The main reason for refusing service in non-Japanese languages is usually expense. Keeping restaurants staffed with people who can speak English in Japan is tough. That’s especially true these days, as Japan continues to wrestle with a labor crisis that sees it increasingly relying on foreign workers. However, other stores say they refuse service to foreigners because they “don’t fit the store’s atmosphere” or “drive away Japanese customers.” In those cases, store owner’s objections seem to be based more in racism or xenophobia than any economic concern. On the flip side, tales of misbehaved tourists are legion. From tourists punching out women in Roppongi to Chinese YouTubers urinating on national landmarks, it seems a week doesn’t go by without a story of a Tourist Behaving Badly. However, life isn’t easy for foreign residents of Japan, either. Surveys show a lingering reluctance to accept them, particularly among Japan’s elderly. Many foreigners also report facing outright discrimination in areas such as housing. That discrimination usually hits Korean and Chinese residents the hardest. The lingering historical bad blood between the three countries means that, while some Japanese will begrudgingly accept foreigners in their midst, some draw the line at serving Korean and Chinese customers... In an interview with Bengoshi JP News, lawyer Sugiyama Daisuke says that this is, indeed, illegal – and could get the restaurant in real trouble. Sugiyama cites a case I discussed in my previous article of a jewelry store that refused service to Brazilians. A Shizuoka court in 1999 found that this violated the law and that the store owed damages to the people it had refused. Sugiyama says this and other cases violate the 14th Amendment of Japan’s Constitution, which ensures equal treatment of all residents. It also violates Japan’s commitment to the multiple anti-discrimination conventions to which it is a signatory."
University of Tokyo Professor Criticized for Anti-Chinese Tweets - "Racism in academia became a hot topic again when Tokyo University associate professor Ousawa Shouhei (大澤昇平) came under fire for discriminatory remarks about Chinese workers. Ousawa holds a PhD and is the CEO of Daisy Co., an AI platform that enables users to collaborate in AI design. On November 20 he tweeted, 「弊社 Daisy では中国人は採用しません」 (“I don’t employ Chinese people at Daisy”). He called out Chinese people for their supposed “poor performance” in commercial enterprises. Ousawa also said he’d reject any Chinese person during screening for potential hires. Even worse, when users started calling him out, he tweeted out that “low-ranking citizens who barely understand Japanese” were attacking him... The University of Tokyo was quick to distance themselves from Ousawa’s stance and publish a statement of apology. Without naming him or the content of his tweets, the university stated they found it “regrettable” one of their professors would act so discriminatory, but that in the end, his comments were unrelated to the university. On the 28th the university announced it had established a committee to investigate what proper measures should be taken. Ousawa’s AI company and research are already taking hits thanks to his careless tweets. Companies Monex Group, Aucfan Co., and Daico have already pulled funding from a special AI learning course Ousawa taught. Swiss data platform Streamr also cut all business ties with Daisy"
Pets OK, No Foreigners: The Reality of Housing Discrimination in Japan - "One investigation in 2022 said that as many as 40% of all foreigners in Japan may experience housing discrimination... foreigners aren’t the only ones with issues renting in Japan. A survey by real estate company LIFULL this year found 60.4% of disadvantaged people as such – not just foreigners but also the elderly, single mothers, LGBTQ couples, and disabled people – said they’ve encountered discrimination in the housing process in Japan. One man was flat-out told that a landlord didn’t rent to people with mental health issues. In response to these issues, LIFULL launched its own service, FRIENDLY DOOR, which works explicitly with people in these groups to ensure they find housing. A LIFULL rep, Kyo Igun (sic; 龔 軼群（キョウ イグン）) argues that, with the number of vacant and unrented properties in Japan increasing, it’s important for both sides to break down barriers to renting... “We looked for ads that specifically stated “foreigners welcome” to prevent any potential friction. I think it was either a mansion in Kunitachi or Kitami that we applied for where we got up to the screening phase with the landlord and were declined. The real estate agent we were speaking with indicated that the landlord preferred that “白人” [hakujin; white people] rent their property.”"
As it happened: South Korea's President Yoon survives impeachment motion over martial law fiasco - "South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Saturday (Dec 7) survived an impeachment motion over his brief declaration of martial law, after members of his ruling party boycotted proceedings despite huge protests outside parliament. Yoon stunned the nation and the international community on Tuesday night by suspending civilian rule and sending troops to parliament, but was forced into a U-turn hours later after lawmakers nixed his decree."
Meme - "@MrAlexisPereira I thought I looked nice in my sweater but my fiance said I look like a retired member of the X-Men."
Getting Wasted on Cum Cocktails - "We heard a loud bang from the bathroom and Tony strolled out with a nice healthy glass of semen. My kinda-willing-to-drink-semen-in-a-cocktail friend Victoria almost puked right there after she stared at the cum filled glass, so we placed it in the kitchen to let it “melt.” According to Fotie, the act of melting cum is a vital part of the drink making process. Basically, once you’ve harvested your jizz, you have to let it sit in the glass for a few minutes so it loses its lumpy texture and becomes a nice smooth consistency, which makes for the perfect addition to any drink or meal... Lex, Victoria, and I all gathered in the kitchen with our drinks in hand. I had this insane mix of fear and excitement in my stomach. As I held Bruce’s Semen Bomb, all I could hear was my own heartbeat as everyone crowded around to watch us drink this elixir of life. As us girls exchanged nervous looks, we all cheers’d and downed our drinks. I can honestly say, it was pretty good once you got past the stigma of downing cum in a glass."
Do we all want to date somebody ‘out of our league’? How online dating is contributing to income inequality - "Researchers found that at least half of the rise in income inequality between 1980 and 2020 is attributable to changing preferences in the online dating scene. People are now even more likely to marry someone of a similar socioeconomic level — lawyers marrying bankers, truck drivers marrying plumbers etc... Although the research time period coorelates to the rise of online dating apps, it did not specifically ask if respondents used the apps — with one dating app company openly questioning the validity of the data whenThe Independent asked it for comment. “We strongly disagree with the conclusions drawn from this analysis, which we find to be overly simplistic and logically flawed,” said a Match Group spokesperson, the company behind Hinge and Tinder. “We believe the authors failed to provide any solid evidence of a causal relationship between online dating and inequity, instead relying on superficial correlations in timing to support their claims. More concerning is that the research does not attempt to distinguish which couples were online daters, a critical omission that undermines any effort to assess the actual impact of online dating.”... The report highlighted that the higher availability of educated and skilled women has decreased the number of men who prefer uneducated women. This contrasts to data from 1960 to 1980, where men preferred women with the least income, skills, and education, “implying a preference for spouses who assume domestic roles,” the researchers wrote. The findings are in line with general trends in heterosexual dating: while both genders prefer partners with high income and education levels, the effect is more pronounced for women. “Women are more selective in romantic partners than men and more likely to prioritize resource-acquisition ability in a possible long term mate,” the Institute for Family Studies wrote. In terms of overall preferences, “our paper found that people were most selective on race, followed by education and age to a much lesser degree,” they added. Previous research shows that your success on the online dating market may be up to your race: Black women and Asian men are the most ignored, while white men and Asian women receive the most attention. But the report noted this effect may be less pronounced: since 2008, both genders are more open to dating someone of a different race."
Imprisoned for Life for Causing the Great Flood of 1993 Just to Party - "In the summer of 1993, hundreds of volunteers pulled together to protect their town from the rising Mississippi River. One of the volunteers helping to sandbag the area around the levee was 23-year-old local James Scott... This witness alleged that shortly before the flood, Scott told him that he was going to break the levee so that his wife couldn’t get home and he could continue drinking, partying and having fun. Authorities took this statement seriously and arrested James Scott for intentionally causing the flood that damaged farmland. For his crime, he was sentenced to life in prison. However, Scott has maintained his innocence, suggesting that the police quickly jumped on him as a suspect because of his minor criminal history... On the day that the levee broke, James Scott had been helping to sandbag. When reporters arrived on the scene to report on the flood, he just so happened to be walking by, so he was stopped and asked to give an interview. He agreed and talked to the journalist about how he had spent the morning sandbagging when he noticed a weak spot, which he tried to reinforce. He left for a bit to go have a drink and when he came back, he learned that the levee had been breached. This interview didn’t sit well with local authorities, who were well aware of Scott’s shady criminal past. Authorities didn’t think it was just a coincidence that Scott happened to be at the scene of the flood shortly after it happened. In the interview, his clothing appeared to be too clean for the work he claimed to have been doing and he wasn’t wearing the required life vest that all the other volunteers were wearing... His wife, Suzie, was working as a waitress on the other side of the river, so by breaking the levee and flooding the bridge out, she wouldn’t be able to make it home that night and he was free to continue drinking and partying as he pleased... James Scott’s trial began in November 1994 and was based entirely on circumstantial evidence. There was no physical evidence to tie him to any kind of vandalism that would have caused the levee to fail. One key piece of circumstantial evidence the prosecution had was the statement from Joe Flachs, about Scott’s desire to keep his wife away and continue to party. They identified several other witnesses who later came forward stating they had also heard him bragging about breaking the levee. The theory was that James Scott must have created a gap in the levee by burrowing a hole and allowing water through. The defence team refuted this claim and brought in two independent soil scientists who testified that in its condition at the time, the levee was destined to fail. There had been several other levees just upriver from Quincy that had also failed and it was believed that the community effort to help save the levee by bringing in the assistance of bulldozers may have actually contributed to its breach... During the trial, the president of the Fabius River Drainage District, Norman Haerr, testified against James Scott. Haerr also happened to own the largest piece of land that had been damaged by the flood. It was revealed in a Vice News documentary that Haerr didn’t have flood insurance at the time of the catastrophe, yet he was able to receive an insurance payout because the cause was determined to be vandalism. If it had been determined that the levee failed on its own that evening by an “act of God” resulting in a natural disaster, Haerr would not have been able to collect any insurance money. None of this information was disclosed at trial."
Twitter Account Run by Philly Dem Jimmy Dillon Features 'N' Word, Gay Slur - "Dillon entered the state Senate in a 2022 special election after the sitting Democrat senator was appointed to the bench. His brother Shawn was going to fill the vacancy, but was bumped from the ballot after he failed to file documents required under the state’s ethics laws. Party insiders then picked Jimmy to replace Shawn. With his first general election looming, Dillon’s past is becoming part of the Senate District 5 race. First came reports of Dillon having an outstanding arrest warrant from the state of New Jersey for failure to pay his fines for traffic offenses and failure to appear in court."
Suburbanites and 905ers driving a and clogging up the Gardiner in the morning.... Why the 🤬 aren't you on the Go Train? : r/toRANTo - "The real quick fix is improving the infrastructure. People don’t use cars in Japan as much because they don’t need to - transit is more reliable and safer. That’s not the case in Toronto. I’ve been physically assaulted and harassed on TTC way more times than I’ve driven in my car. I even had a guy WHIP OUT HIS FUCKING DICK and stroke it on the Yonge line. You know where that doesn’t happen? When I’m in my car. Granted I’m not a commuter to Toronto anymore, but that’s a pretty damned good reason for a lot of people to choose cars over transit."
Suburbanites and 905ers driving a and clogging up the Gardiner in the morning.... Why the 🤬 aren't you on the Go Train? : r/toRANTo - "A collision in stop and go/gridlock traffic is so much safer (and less likely to happen) than being on transit with someone actively consuming drugs. And traffic isn't really slower than transit. My gfs place is 15 minutes away with no traffic late at night. If I get stuck on the Gardiner at rush hour it can be up to 45 minutes. By transit it takes an hour minimum. The time savings combined with the car being fully adjusted to my comfort (seats,, climate control, music, etc) make it an obvious choice. I will admit that driving is considerably more expensive than a metropass once you factor in insurance and mechanic work, but it's just so much better of an experience when you live outside of downtown."
Suburbanites and 905ers driving a and clogging up the Gardiner in the morning.... Why the 🤬 aren't you on the Go Train? : r/toRANTo - "They usually are on GO trains. The data from a few years ago on the Gardiner showed most traffic was originating in the mega city. They are coming from Etobicoke, Scarborough, North York, etc. Most 905ers work out there to and those that work downtown do mostly take GO. What is happening is there is this belt around the city that is poorly served by transit. It’s actually faster and more reliable to take a GO train from out in the 905 than it is to take TTC in the outer 416. So people in the outer 416 have to drive. What’s even more messed up is the reverse commute. The Gardiner is rammed at the end of the day with people returning. Last cordon report I saw showed equal traffic both ways between Peel and Toronto (the municipality)."
Suburbanites and 905ers driving a and clogging up the Gardiner in the morning.... Why the 🤬 aren't you on the Go Train? : r/toRANTo - "Wait until OP finds out the all the heavy trucks to supply Toronto and remove waste grind the local roads of the 905 to shit. Or that Peel foots a lot of Airport bills. Or that Halton, Peel, Durham, and Halton residents all pay more than Toronto per capita in provincial and federal taxes than they see returned in transfers and services"
Thread by @Noahpinion on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Here's something a lot of people I talk to don't understand about Japanese urbanism, and why Japanese cities are so special. Japanese cities feel different than big, dense cities elsewhere -- NYC, London, and Paris, but also other Asian cities like Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore. There are many reasons for this, but today I'll focus on one: Zakkyo buildings. When many people think of "mixed-use development", they think of stores on the first floor, apartments on the higher floors. This is sometimes called "shop-top housing" or "over-store apartments". This is how most cities in the world do mixed-use development. Here's a great view of shop-top development in NYC (Little Italy). You can clearly see the restaurants and stores on the first floor, apartments on the higher floors. Here's Hayes Street in San Francisco (close to where I live!). Two or three floors of apartments over one floor of stores. This is how shopping districts look in most of the world's big, dense cities. Here's the Marais in Paris. Again, one floor of retail, then apartments on top. It's also the norm in the older shopping districts of big Asian cities. Here's Tsim Sha Tsui in Hong Kong: Another great example of shop-top housing from Hong Kong. Sometimes you see signs on the second floor. These can be signs for a first-floor restaurant/shop, or (occasionally) the restaurant/shop actually occupies the first two floors. Bugis in Singapore, same story. (Sometimes the units above the shops are offices rather than apartments.) Here's a particularly gorgeous example of shop-top housing from the Rue Montorgueil in Paris.
Areas with shop-top housing are great. They represent some of the most vibrant walking/eating/shopping neighborhoods of NYC, Paris, HK, and the other great old cities of the world. But Japan does things a bit different, due to a type of building called "zakkyo". Zakkyo literally just means "mixed-use", but in Japan it refers to buildings with many small shops or offices on multiple floors -- anywhere from 2 to 8 floors. Here is a diagram.
Zakkyo buildings have two other special characteristics:
1. They have exterior signs on upper floors, so you can discover the stores from the street.
2. The upper floors are street-accessible, because they buildings have stairways and elevators directly on the street.
he upper-floor signs of zakkyo buildings give Japanese downtown areas their distinctive "forest of lights" look. But they also serve an important purpose: You can see restaurants and shops from the street, and walk in and try them out! Stair/elevator accessibility directly from the street is a crucial part of this. You have to be able to *see* an upper-floor shop from the street, then decide "Hmm, I'll try that out", and then easily and immediately walk directly to that shop. Zakkyo buildings create SERENDIPITY in a shopping neighborhood. They allow you to encounter and discover more restaurants and shops per unit area of walkable street. This is just math. The more you encounter in a square meter = the more serendipity per minute of walking. Serendipity benefits small businesses because it makes it easier for new customers to find them. And it benefits customers because they get more variety and novelty.
But zakkyo buildings have another, special effect on cities. Because they concentrate retail vertically in small areas of land, they allow quiet residential areas to exist very close to the city center! Here's Shoto, a quiet leafy neighborhood in Shibuya, Tokyo. And here is Dogenzaka, a street in downtown Shibuya famous for gigantic zakkyo buildings and extremely dense foot traffic. Now realize that those two places -- the pulsing, packed heart of Japanese consumerism, and the quiet, shady residential neighborhood -- are AN EIGHT-MINUTE WALK FROM EACH OTHER... The secret is zakkyo. Because the shops and restaurants of Shibuya are all piled on top of each other, it's possible to put them in a very small section of the city. That allows you to have residential areas very close by with very little foot traffic from shoppers! Think about the math of shop-top housing vs. zakkyo. If you have 1000 shops and they're all on the first floor, your shopping area has to spread over three times as wide an area as it would if there were shops on floors 1 through 3!
There are undeniable drawbacks of living in a shop-top apartment. Noise from retail customers constantly intrudes from the street. That's one reason a lot of people resist mixed-use development! Zakkyo fixes this, by concentrating shops in smaller areas. Of course, there's another way to concentrate retail vertically, while even creating some serendipity: indoor vertical malls. These have become the norm in China and Singapore, and are becoming more popular in Japan. Indoor malls have one big advantage: air conditioning. That's important in hot regions! But geometrically, they're not as good as zakkyo, because the walking spaces are all internal. You can't pack as many stores into a given space, and the throughput of customers is lower. Malls can be good for serendipity (depending on how they're constructed and what businesses they have in them), but they'll never be as good for serendipity as Japan's zakkyo-lined walking streets. Here, in Taipei, you can see three types of development all next to each other: 1) zakkyo, 2) shop-top housing, and 3) a single-store building. Interestingly, you can see the pedestrians clustering around the zakkyo buildings. In fact, there's little preventing American cities like NYC and SF from creating zakkyo buildings. Koreatown in NYC already has a few! And here on St. Mark's in NYC you can see some shops with signs on the second floor. Looks great, and makes the street more fun!!... There are lots of things that make Japanese cities uniquely awesome, but I think zakkyo are one of the most important and least appreciated ones."
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