threes? Polytopia? Should still be able to work

mini freeways?

Christmas massacre?

Koro sensei?

Closest thing to multi-party democracy, this internal factions stuff

Horrid living conditions outback and for First Nations people too (rheumatic heart disease shockingly big, for one)?

eh, they should become the 10 extra states. Or Canada should annex the US, either is fine*

*(for serious reasons, this is a joke. I just like funny maps)

"Oh, but this just shows the nerdy, detail-obsessed nature of Japanese people," you say. Perhaps. But these publications can't exist without a distribution system (i.e., newsstands). And those newsstands can't exist without *dense walkable neighborhoods.*

When a commercial space is both big and expensive, the tenants tend to be deep-pocketed corporations. So instead of an independent perfumer, you get Sephora. Instead of an brand selling niche workwear, you get J. Crew. This leads to homogenization in fashion (and culture).

Could paint it like an old British phone booth…

Or maybe like one of those doors in that Suzume movie?

Yeah but… why??? Just to have the loop doing something?

Why don’t they just keep doing Frankston Cross City?

Thankfully, because sometimes an old early 2010’s piece that there isn’t a capacity problem and we had just been mismanaging it, does put a slight downer on it for me. www.ptua.org.au/myths/infra/

I’d still rather have this than not

An Australia as big/bigger than Japan, let’s goooo

You say it doesn’t exist, but I think the polling for it is kinda popular.

That doesn’t make it good, but that does make me worry how many might just buy into the idea and hand wave away all these issues

Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend