Well, the article’s thesis is more that transportation/traffic engineers don’t care. DoTs are set up to get grants and spend money, with a focus on throughput. Very little thought is put into safety, and most “safety” best practices are confusing, outdated, or poorly thought out.

If he only started thinking Musk was a dipshit asshole during Covid, then he wasn’t paying attention.

What solution is AI going to come up with other than “stop burning fossil fuels”? We already know the solution to climate change. Acting like we don’t is absurd.

I think a good first step in meeting climate goals would be eating Eric Schmidt.

I meant in other countries. Rural France is still conservative, for example. So is rural Japan.

Plenty of places with developed rail networks are still conservative in rural places.

Erika is genderfluid and uses they/them pronouns.

It’s Idaho, so I can only assume someone with MAGA brainworms will attempt to roll coal through the middle of it in a giant lifted truck.

Based comes from Lil B…

It originally meant grounded.

Excuse the overdramatization, but it feels a lot like Frodo going to the Grey Havens. They did something great and now their reward is to disappear forever and be well taken care of.

I’ve worked for tech companies in SV and I’ve never seen a developer without a MacBook.

Yeah I don’t expect there are many tech employees working with Windows Thinkpads.

When asked if he was sure that Albion couldn’t be copyrighted due to its historical context, he replied: “I don’t know if I’m honest, I don’t really know… I hope so. I mean you would think that the responsible person I should be, I would’ve spent the last six months in lawyers’ offices…”

Bold strategy, Cotton.

Showing all the balls by immediately coming out to say no to Medicare for All, yes to the border wall, and yes to genocide.

This is the shit you like to see? Or is it perhaps that you believe in nothing and care only about aesthetics?

Tearing down the properties has reduced their local property tax base and also no doubt reduced the values of the properties across the streets as well. It’s creating a downward spiral of local tax revenue while no doubt increasing state maintenance obligations.

Decisions like this are why small towns like this are going broke. They make themselves easier to drive through and tear down the properties that constitute their tax base.

City or state would have had to pay to buy the properties anyway, though. Then the money spent on the widening could easily have been spent to modernize and update (or otherwise improve) the buildings.

The issue, to be clear, is not who makes the surveillance cameras. It’s the surveillance cameras being installed in the first place.

Alarmism about Chinese surveillance cameras is missing the forest for the trees.

Except if the side of the truck says “U-Haul” or “Home Depot” people understand you’re not the kind of asshole who buys and drives a fuckoff huge truck every day of the week.

They had really extensive plans in 1984 that accomplished amazing things. And then immediately got rid of them after the Olympics.

https://la.curbed.com/2018/6/7/17419270/olympics-2028-los-angeles-1984-traffic

Mt. Moran. Grand Tetons National Park in Wyoming.

the impetus to improve the infrastructure will be stronger if conditions are worse

don’t chicken-and-egg yourself out of densification