Semaphores are for machines, bikes are for people. It’s funny how some places make bike bells mandatory, when my voice has always been so much more effective. Don’t mechanize yourself on behalf of the driver wrapped in two tons of social alienation.
Not just crushed ants, I smell it when they’re scared and running, but undamaged, as well. Calm ants though, they don’t smell to me. I always assumed it was a warning chemical to other ants, or a deterrent for predators with more sensitive sniffers than I.
Yes, beetles in general don’t smell great to me. They leave a fecal-like scent on my fingers when I hold them (Which I’ve always assumed is some sort of musk and not actual feces). I can smell ants too, but it’s only when they’re scared: They seem to release a chemical that smells to me like Windex the moment they realize they’re possibly in danger. I didn’t know that made me special, but I do know that others might not be able to smell it as I’ve had conversations about this with people who didn’t know wtf I was talking about. I’ve heard that it might be formic acid? Not sure.
Funny because I don’t normally have a very sensitive nose. And I’m not a super-taster, cilantro tastes like cilantro to me (Fresh and herbally).
No parking minimum requirements, most places in the US have minimum parking requirements for both residential and commercial construction which not only makes construction unnecessarily expensive but also ensures that the built outcome functionally serves cars more than people.
You can also simply cap the allowable number of driveways per distance on a street. New construction can either join with an existing driveway, put their driveway on another side of the block, or simply not have a driveway.
Municipalities can designate specific areas for parking: Commercial districts can ban on-street parking completely and have a low-cost municipal parking garage in a business district. You can also cap the number of parking lots per block and mandate that any commercial property on the block have access to that lot instead of having a constellation of business-exclusive lots.
As for the visibility complaint, standard guidance is to ensure that the car is completely perpendicular to the bike lane by the time it’s crossing, so that the driver can clearly see both left and right down the lane before they cross it. You do this by setting the driveway a car length off of the road, which can be achieved a bunch of different ways. The way it’s set up now, it’s like putting a right turn lane on the left side of a highway. And they’d also put signage at a crossing like this.
They probably have been sued over and it doesn’t affect them enough to care. And I can assure you, this kind of shit is very real. In fact I’ve taken the train and walked the final few miles to this very venue before. Can confirm, a decent chunk of the walk was balancing on a 1-foot wide curb at the edge of a highway bridge.
Hundreds of square miles of tollway spaghetti. When I lived in NYC I was convinced that it’s intentionally confusing, so that you exit and enter through the toll booths over and over.
Jeez, they still haven’t fixed that shit? I saw a Chili Peppers concert there in like 2008, my date and I took NJ Transit or PATH out there from the city (I forget which) and ended up having to walk several miles along highways to get the the stadium. I wouldn’t give the Meadowlands my money ever again until they did something about that. The trains aren’t even that far away, they just haven’t connected them!!
That automotive crossing in frame center is seriously bad vibes. The car parking immediately adjacent to the driveway - A driveway that presumably leads to more car parking - Means zero bike visibility for drivers turning right off the street. That’s a near-guaranteed cyclist injury or death in the future, which becomes even more likely the smaller the cyclist is. None of the road signs seem to warn of the presence of the bike lane. And there’s another car crossing 20 feet after that! Aesthetically this lane looks pleasing to the North American eye but I expect it wouldn’t actually pass muster in a place like NL.
It’s certainly a move in the right direction but I’d stop short of calling it “good” when it’s not even safe.
NYTimes headline style is a toxic influence on journalism.
Yeah this is something I had to hammer out of myself. Force myself to enjoy a videogame for an hour instead of “being productive” on a personal project.
It would be funny if they didn’t actually have any of it and were just pestering the industry. But they did release all the metadata, and spotify seems to think it’s legit…
One of my favorite memories is inviting both my best friends and coworkers to a metal show at Saint Vitus, both groups hitting it off and making new friends, chatting with the bands at the merch table, and eating enough pizza to vomit on the sidewalk the moment I stepped outside.
Try out manual music discovery, it’s dope!
Old man yells at cloud
Yeah it’s kind of embarrassing but in my experience the number one rule of VPN kill switch schemes is that they will fail to trigger. Sometimes twice, after you fix the discrepancy that caused it to not trigger the first time. Fucking docker being too smart for it’s own good… Me being too dumb for my own…
Yes, my fault for neglecting the /s
It’s true. Before March 3rd 2003, the day ICE was created, humanity did not know borders. They weren’t a thing. Borders have only been a concept for 23 years, the same amount of time ICE has existed.
UPS drivers > FedEx drivers. They get better safety training and their drivers get more manageable delivery loads so they’re not as harried. They’re also less likely to use the bike lane as a staging area for resorting all the boxes from their truck (Though UPS is still occasionally guilty of this). I’ve come very close to death as a result of bad FedEx truck driving multiple times, but I’ve never felt like my life was on the line around a UPS driver.
Ugh I’m so sick of this bullshit narrative, that is not the full story. Copy/pasting my take on this from another thread:
Local media has been trying to frame this issue as a Republicans vs Democrats story because it’s treating ODOT priorities as a foregone conclusion, I find it incredibly frustrating and disingenuous and dangerous.
Up in Portland, Democrats are also fighting ODOT waste every single year as we repeatedly smack down proposal after proposal to widen the section of I-5 that cuts right through the center of Portland’s east side neighborhoods, a folly that would exceed at least two billion dollars. I’ve likened ODOT to a titan that does Attack On Portland at least once a year, it knows only highway expansion and it will never stop it’s assaults even though we keep defeating it.
These regressive highway expansions are ODOT’s greatest price increase pressure. Maintaining and replacing infrastructure wouldn’t yet require us to double the gas tax (Regardless of the fact that we probably should anyway, this is just about baseline need), but expanding highways sure does.
Urban Democrats protest by stumping at planning meetings and pushing back on local boondoggle highways. Rural Republicans protest by threatening a tax revolt and showing up at the state capital. I wish local media would acknowledge that we’re ultimately protesting the same waste, tenuously allied in the same fight, and examine ODOT’s budget priorities. When Republicans complain that ODOT should stick to maintenance and fixes, they’re right. We do transit through other agencies that often don’t even touch gas tax. ODOT is a highway monster, by design.-
Decentralize and federate or die.