It's my take, that it's largely due to traffic, and although people in DFW complain - traffic here has no comparison to Houston traffic. People "easily" commute 40-50 or more miles one way. It's part of the Plano problem, if you lived in Plano an commuted to Legacy West, you are likely in the minority. Most Plano workforce, likely does not work in Plano at all. It's why 75 and DNT get traffic. Most of Plano jobs, likely held by non-Plano residents. The same story plays out everywhere here. In Houston, when I lived there, if you lived in Katy you pretty much stayed in Katy. Maybe you'd jump over to the Woodlands, or Sugarland, or go towards inner Houston on a weekend. The people that commuted downtown for work, the often woke up and drove at 4-5AM to avoid the traffic (they've added new roads since I lived there, toll roads that make this easier). But still, if you're on the West or North side or even in the Loop - dipping down to Galveston can be a significant road trip even though it's just ~50 miles from downtown. We simply don't have that kind of traffic in DFW. The commutes are long because traffic is light enough that people choose to live/work great distances away - then they complain about their commute/traffic. This is also why any type of fixed public transit won't work here, I think it has to do a lot with how the roadways are laid out differently - whole other rabbit hole I could go on about that, but DFW actually does do traffic a bit better than Houston which effectively unlocks the entire DFW area for people to use just like how you explained in your brewery patron example. I can't imagine a brewery in Pearland gets many visitors from the Kingwood or Woodlands or even Katy.

The urban core of Dallas is a failed experiment in my opinion. It's referred to as the Central Business District. And so, almost by definition, it's just office spaces. Covid hit it hard and it's slowly turning/gaining residential which will eventually bring back some life there. The nightlife in Uptown is very personality driven, if you're a preppy/posh type person you probably love it. It sounds like that's just not your cup of tea.

My general thought is, what’s the argument for placing them in populated areas to begin with? Why dedicate land use for it in Nashville? Wouldn’t putting it 40 miles outside town work just as well? Why don’t we create development zones specifically for these things? In Dallas we have a similar thing for our distribution hub, it’s south of downtown kind of in the outskirts and in an economically struggling area. Same for industrial areas, it’s usually something that’s zoned to a particular area so residential neighborhoods aren’t really affected. It’s not land where the community may benefit more by literally anything else (sometimes even a Walmart is better than a datacenter). I assume that’s where this is all headed, cities need to roll out their long term vision of where datacenters fit into their city, if at all. Until then, it’s all these small battles and the information used by opponents doesn’t really matter. If enough people don’t want it, it should probably go somewhere else. This is not serving any community benefit so I don’t see any reason why it has to exist where the developers want it to.

Expecting rational opposition is actually irrational. They just don’t want it. The why is varied and probably based more on emotion than anything else.

But also I support the critique. Especially of DART, which I don’t see how the rail service ever works in a city designed like this. With residents who hop all over the metroplex on a somewhat random and sporadic basis, covering great distances. I think Waymo/robot is the best path for mass transit until we use it so much we stop buying cars. Then, the city can build rails and hopefully robots can be more efficient with less lanes of road. The Waymo solution gives A to B where a rail requires ABCD, in a metro where first and last mile may be 10+ miles each, that just doesn’t work. Also, rail has a chicken and egg problem. It really needs critical mass to run more frequently and justify the expense but it can’t get much usage at all because of this first and last mile problem. So it is kind of like a zombie of solution, we invest in it to seem modern and whatnot, but in reality it’s mostly a transportation subsidy for lower income people that can’t drive, it supplements the bus system which many car owners would never use and don’t consider an option for their first/last miles (it’s a class thing in Texas, just is, most people will never use a public bus). A small percentage of the population use it more than twice a year.

Idk, just thoughts.

I’ve been burned too many times and it would take you many years to earn my trust as a new company. You also still have to hit the style, size, material, fit exactly right for me to want to even call it my forever shirt. I’m pretty particular which is why after having my favorite styles rug pulled many times and suffering for this problem for years I did the bulk order thing.

If you don’t have the money for 500 t shirts I don’t think you have the money to start this business either tbh.

I do this with deodorant, soap, and shaving supplies too.

I fear it’s more perverse at times, people just don’t always understand and can’t make sense of it so they just rush to start something as it avoids admitting the truth

That said, it seems more likely to me cats near the tar pits just held the territory and became inbred from that. You can see similar patterns today around a junk yard. There will be feral dogs or cats that are living off the trash. They protect it from outsiders and inbreed.

That’s if inbred is even the explanation. I think it’s also possible that weak or deformed cats may just prefer this site more than healthy cats as they are hungry enough to take the risk. So the population bias is inherently there through attendance. If cats are getting stuck in tar so frequently, it’s likely they knew going near it was risky. Healthy cats would hunt elsewhere and avoid the risk.

I personally don’t think the 24 hour news cycle is healthy. I pretty much abstain from it except it’s so prevalent in our culture there’s a lot of second hand exposure.

I’m sure there was still some funny business going on. They didn’t report so heavily on tabloid stuff and probably protected people in power more. But there was absolutely some level of investigative journalism in every article.

I do a similar procedure for my house windows. I use a squeegee on those but probably not necessary for panels.

The truth of that may be upsetting, management is aware.