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Wellp, I see it this way. If someone can get me riled with just a little name-calling, that person has power over me. He’s a puppeteer who can pull my strings on-cue and make me react.

If I don’t give someone that power over me, then he has none. It’s as simple as that.

Wellp, we got multiple neighbors who have driveways and garages and choose to park all their cars streetside, across their driveways rather than in it (oh, unless there’s no parking and they have to). I gotta keep 2 cars, 1 as a placeholder — so double insurance, double registration, double yearly-inspections, double everything — just to have a parking space when I come home at night.

And some schmos would still park across my driveway. Little love-notes on the windshield did nothing, ’til I started calling ’em in and having ’em ticketed, and made noises about having the next ones towed as well. “But you don’t use your driveway…” Yah, well, tell it to Mr Neighbor, not me; it’s still a driveway (half mine), and I will have ’em towed.

Some nabes have each plot as house+driveway, but we got half-driveway+house+half-driveway for whatever reason those geniuses divided up the plots that way.

And I can imagine parking (an EV) out front and having an electrical cable draped across the sidewalk. Helloooooooo, lawsuit!

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Lightbringer,
I am confused.

It sounds like you are saying that you pay taxes on a house which has property that includes a driveway that you are not allowed to use because your neighbor who shares (But does not Own) doesn’t want any car there?

If this is indeed true, then he is owning you.
Tell him when he wants to pay your taxes, then and only then, can he tell/request/prefer, etc. what you do with your own property.
Doesn’t cure your electric hookup, but I be damned someone gonna tell me I can’t use my own driveway.

Wish I could help, neighbors sharing driveways never ends well. Have had my own experiences but I was a renter so I had no real power.
Guy would always pull the “I’ll call the Cops!” routine (Like many chowderheads always resort to)

Sorry for your pain.

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100 companies are responsible for 71% of pollution emissions. Poor people having too many kids is not the world’s most pressing issue, the how and why so many people lack access to food, water, medicine, etc. is, as well as whether how we’re generating power and products is sustainable since we know that population WILL increase and those undeveloped/developing countries will start industrializing more and more.

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They’re each a single-width driveway, but split down the middle on the property line. So there’s my half and his half.

I could put a motorcycle or even a dumpster on my half and he can’t say sh- squat, but a car would be on my half and “trespassing” on his half. And v/v, so either neighbor has “veto power”.

Well, half-owning…

They’re kinda like these…

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where you’d have a yard and possibly garage in back.

But half these schmos use their garages for storing their crap instead of keeping a car, and park in the driveway just off the sidewalk instead. Or worse, park streetside.

And there are the illegal conversions, 1-family houses illegally converted into 2-family (to prevent exactly this situation), basement apartments, attic apartments, rent-a-rooms, each one bringing more people (and more cars) onto the block. Their “rental income” is paying their mortgages, and giving a big “f-you!” to everyone else on the block.

I’m not a rat, but I’ve been sorely tempted to just sic the city on ’em all. Problem is, those who’d do the investigating only have ID cards, not badges, so you could slam the door in their faces or just not even answer the doorbell, and the “investigation” ends right there. It’s a (bad) joke.

Problem is, the past decade or so, I think all the cars in the neighborhood had sex and pooped out that many more cars, because I never used to have a problem coming home even late at night. Now? Unless you beat the quit-at-5 crowd to get home, forget it.

The only saving grace is that the neighbor on the other side prefers to park in front of his (streetside) garage vs under the tree in front of his house, where the birds would use his car as a toilet. So even though he can be kinda d-baggy on occasions, too, he doesn’t mind and even prefers when I park my car “halfies” between our houses. So that way no one blocks him out in front of my “placeholder” car, and I still have the too-short space behind so I can park across my half-driveway.

That’s why I’ve looked (and am still looking, ’though not terribly hard) to move out east vs in The City.

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And that’s why I ain’t touching that topic anymore.

But forget global; even on a local level, there are finite resources, that can only comfortably sustain a population of X.

Hell, my own neighborhood never used to be positively choked with traffic as it is now. It’s just 20lbs of crap in a 5lb bag.

In relatively affluent Manhasset (not to be confused with Manhattan), there’s talk (and planning) of using a huge Macy*s parking lot to build an apartment complex. The neighborhood’s already strained, traffic-wise and otherwise. Even if they set aside underground parking for something like 80% of the apartments (never mind that couples/families would likely have 2 cars per unit), there’s concern about parking, traffic, schools, you name it.

Unless people want the dystopia of “Soylent Green” to be their future, yes, the population must be limited, one way or another.

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OK, I mis understood you.
Thought it was double wide drive with no separator, that’s what I had at the rental.
Makes sense now.

Glad to hear you get some help from your other neighbor.

Moving sucks for sure.
If you ever want to know how much crap you actually do own, just move once and you find out real quick :slight_smile:

Am spoiled now living in a rural area with off street driveway that fits 3 cars comfortably and back yard will hold more than I have ever had at a gathering, probably 15 more cars.
After the experience with the idiot neighbor, when I was looking for a house to buy was very explicit with the Realtor;
No Doubles/Semi’s/Partial detach whatever you want to call it, if it doesn’t have 4 walls that don’t touch any other building, do not even suggest I look at it.
And no Yuppy Breederbrook cul de sacs from hell, developments or condos, etc.

Took a while to find what I wanted but was worth the effort in the end.
However that was in 1998 before the prices want crazy, could not afford to buy it now from scratch.

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If we look at the population trends in countries that moved to what most consider “developed” status the key strategy to achieving that is clear. It will take massive restructuring of the world economy to not rely on super cheap labor and resources though.

Not that you are doing so here, but its just tiresome to see the boogeyman of OVERPOPULATION :smiling_imp: brought up as the cause of everything currently happening from famines, to pollution or any other issue someone might feel like blaming on the section of the world that isn’t actually contributing to the root causes.

Annnnyyywaaayyy… :smiley:

I would imagine people made arguments with a similar spirit when internal combustion cars first came about, and look where we are now. The tech and infrastructure will improve, and the incentive to go electric will only increase as gas prices get higher. I am willing to bet a lot of the people that don’t see much personal benefit to driving electric live somewhere with cheaper gas than California or NY state haha

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Some of us have to drive 350+ miles on any given day (multiple destinations) with no notice. Don’t think anything electric is going to take care of my work needs anytime soon.

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Supercapacitors and other tech that’s in it’s infancy might surprise you.

Gasoline was always going to be leaded at one point too.

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No worries. If it were a doublewide driveway, oh, I’d park right up to the dividing line if I had to.

Because it suits him. Ohhhhh, trust me, he’s another one who thinks he owns the block. I just purely lucked out that he prefers it this way.

You ain’t kidding!

I was already under contract but luckily got out of that one. Monthly estimated payments (mortgage+insurance+taxes) just kept going up, and up, and up. Off-the-wall seller reneged on things in the contract that the realtor was going to pay out of pocket to save the deal. Thank B’harni (pbuh!) that financing got torpedoed, else I’d be stuck there.

Sounds like my gf’s place, and I was looking for places in that area. What I would’ve paid for a shoebox here in the city, I could get a decent sized house on a third-acre or so for half that.

Or HOAs.

Yep, sometimes it’s worth the wait. Problem with out east there’s no NG hookup, so everything’s electric. And I like gas stoves. Hard to do cast-iron skillets on glass-top ranges. :confounded:

Back on topic… :laughing: yeah, with a place like that, my own place rather’n shared anything, I could do an EV and get away with it. And given the range, even on weekends if I wouldn’t have to travel so far to see the gf.

Thing is, with solar, I’d want my system to be isolated, and ideally with storage. The issues with net metering or not can leave you screwed.

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So it kinda looks like North America is where we need to start controlling the population the most, right? They’re the biggest polluters… :slight_smile:

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Yep.

1. Let’s build a BLF charger that can charge cells at lower voltages so they last longer.

2. Make more environmental friendly flashlights.

3. Buy lights shipped from your country if possible

4. Buy less lights.

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CO2 goal:

1. no more chargers

2. no more flashlights

3. buy no flashlights

4. see no. 3.

5. no more cars

6. no more consumer goods

7. no more Infrastructure

8. no more internet, yes Internet is now a really CO2 hungry beast and growing faster than most other CO2 sources

9. no electric cars

10. live in cages and use flintrocks, wood fire, wood farming gear

11. because of No. 10 95% of worlds population dies starving, but we live CO2 neutral

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Bingo, the developed world has a much slower population growth. To combat high resource use/waste and pollution we (the US I mean) need other methods beyond telling everybody else to stop having so many kids.

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Its not always locked to population total number

Its that we didn’t start 70 years ago to move to recycling and CO2 neutral technology

without all the fertilizers, pesticides and mono culture agriculture with its massive machines,
we would simply not have that population growth because not enough food could be produced

Now we are so far that we will miss the opportunity to stop a massive global warming, even if we are CO2 neutral in 30 years or so it’s too late, because

- we can’t stop permafrost soil to emit huge amounts of methane

  • we can’t stop methane hydrate in the ocean to be released because the permafrost methane heated the atmosphere
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Sounds like a plan! :laughing:

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That’s not a fact. It just couldn’t have been done as profitably.

Change in population pyramids over the last century in industrialized countries is due much more to changes in birth and death rate from social change and medical advances. The US arguably faced a true famine during the Dust Bowl but that wasn’t mostly due to lack of agricultural tech (rotating crops to avoid depleting the soil could be considered that though I guess).

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I had high hopes for the Avian and Swine flu but those both fizzled out. L.A. has some Bubonic and Typhus floating around, keep your fingers crossed.

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all that machinery and chemistry frees up enough manpower to do things like modern medicine

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I know some of it is dark humor, but I hear the “we need a plague” line a lot. I don’t think a lot of people realize just how terrible for civilization hundreds of millions of people not showing up for work would be, let alone the effort and danger it would take to dispose what was left of them.