You should write a song about that!
Man imagine only have to drive 1 hour a day….
Years later…
The highways and cars
were sacrificed for agriculture.
I thought that we’d start over
but, I guess I was wrong.Once there were parking lots,
now it’s a peaceful oasis.
This was a Pizza Hut
now it’s all covered with daisies.I miss the honky tonks,
Dairy Queens, and 7-Elevens.“When I was your age we had datacenters the size of fungus farms!”
“In fact, this fungus farm used to be a data center.”
Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got 'til it’s gone?
Completely unrelated, but: Late last night I heard the screen door slam, and a big yellow taxi took my girl away.
The under utilization of buildings is huge problem. So much waste it is insane. Some churches are the worst like Mormons who build tons of churches just to have them sit vacant the majority of time. We are just too selfish to want to change.
dont they also have other properties that are in the 10s if not hundreds of billions.
Im a small minority of biking folk that like parking spaces. Better than them moving around. I do wish parking garages where required to have roof garden parks though. So the top was never allowed to be parking but instead a nature area. Also only garages no lots. I also want them to require spaces made in condos and such must stay with the unit ownership and not be sold seperately.
Life without nothing bro
Well, get on making the cars self driving so they can all drive to one big parking garage. Then less of paradise will have to be paved.
True, but you could say this about any type of infrastructure. Plus i hate counting crows.
The Counting Crows version is a cover.
The original was sung by Joni Mitchell.
True but I agree with the OP. I also hate counting crows.
At least they gave between the buried and me their name.
I won’t deny that they suck, but that’s not the song’s fault.
Why do they suck?
They don’t. Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby and Mr. Jones are bangers, and their cover of Friend of the Devil is marvellous.
Love me some Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby. It’s my 3rd favorite after Sullivan Street and Amy Hit the Atmosphere.
Taste is subjective.
Also wow. Found the entire Counting Crows fanbase.
Mostly because I still have ears. Without those, they’d be ok I guess.
That doesn’t answer my question
I didn’t say it was.
Big Yellow Taxi is one of the greatest of all time, as other many other Joni Mitchell Songs.
Like what other type of infrastructure?
A pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin’ hot spot.
Hotels that are empty most of the year, giant grocery stores where any individual isle is empty the majority of the time, internet cables that have bursts of information but are rarely at their maximum capacity the vast majority of the time.
They are not good comparisons because they are shared infrastructure, but that is what they are getting at.
A real comparison would be a hammer that gets used a few times a year but takes up far less space, doesn’t require roads, doesn’t pollute when you use it, and costs far less to own.
Aisle*
I blame Otto correct.
Hotels and grocery stores - yes, they’re there for the same reason as parking lots. To make money for the rich.
The internet cable comparison doesn’t fit. Just because you don’t always need maximum capacity, doesn’t mean you don’t have to account for it. It’s like with sewage pipes, you need to accommodate the worst case or else it can go to shit (in more senses than one) very quickly. In the year of 2026, internet is a basic necessity.
I said they were not good comparisons…
Why’d you bring them up, then? The first two are actually good comparisons.
Yeah, they keep flying around and getting behind each other.
