"Mustum playa videogameus" translated as "Must play videogames" by Google Translate.
The funniest thing about modern AI-powered Google Translate is that it will interpret any fake-sounding Latin
Design for disassembly.
probably OK, it’s what plants crave
Good morning and welcome to the month where Seattle opens the only light rail line across a floating bridge anywhere in the world.
Criminally funny, but also I'm crying inside
Norway comes for the #TechBros
www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree
vimeo.com/1168468796?f...
unsure if this is a real bike rack design or one that evolved organically from placing bike racks in vehicle impact zones
STUDY: We found that while the majority of the roads in these cities are low stress, they are poorly connected, and the greater provision of low-stress cycling infrastructure is associated with more people cycling to work.”
No surprise, but evidence confirming the obvious is valuable. #UrbanTruth
Sprinting up stairs and escalators makes a person feel *alive*!
”everything’s amazing and nobody’s happy” was a comedy bit several years ago I think
in an alternate universe, we centered our best, biggest, and most popular neighborhoods on the edges of these parks and became one of the world’s more compelling cities - a space age Paris or Hong Kong seamlessly interwoven with the views and deep wilderness of a half dozen Stanley Parks
I just missed a 2 and had to wait five minutes for a 1. I silently grumbled about how if we had automated trains we could have 90 second headways, and knew at that moment that I had become a Seattle Urbanist.
noise pollution causing actual real physical health problems in humans is one of those things that sounds fake but isn’t
also noise pollution in the U.S. is almost entirely from cars and it’s literally giving people heart attacks
I wrote an article about it because it’s so absurd
please put a Monorail Espresso in here, it should a requirement to have a monorail-themed cafe within a block or two of each monorail stop
The w63rd net zero duplex is a multigenerational home. It includes a mini elevator in the upper unit so aging parents can visit the top floor living space / roof deck.
There are places where this is true and basic geometry dictates that they all eventually wind up looking like Florida
we have been missing out on opportunities to steal great researchers from these places. functionally relocating, say, the University of Florida to Port Angeles would be a coup and an improvement for all parties involved
The 130 too. Or take the bike trail
much as a lot more places used to smell like cigarettes to the point where everyone was used to it, I wonder what future generations will think of the smell of our exhaust-shrouded cities
“Dang it, there’s a leak - better replumb the whole thing.” *goes to Home Depot for a ten foot pipe segment and a few connectors*
my barest-of-bones 1950s mass production house had something like this and it was amazing in a way - what can go wrong when there are only six feet of pipe in the whole building?
I never thought of the old frequency as bad, but this is a completely different class of service. After experiencing it, I am bummed that it is not the standard on more of the network
you as a person also are a net importer of fuel and subject to supply and price fluctuations
[on the AMTRAK platform]
Me [whispering]: Trains, Trains
Other person next to me [softly]: Trains, Trains
Group of us [louder]: Trains, Trains
Entire platform [thunderous]: TRAINS, TRAINS
You are only “excited “ about technology if you:
- reject advances in old technology (like vaccines)
- bow before our mighty computer god we built from Clippy and every graphics card, fed with the endless sacrifice of intellectual property rights
- eat joke diets of all meat
“Empty jars make the loudest noise”
Not knowing or caring about the price of gasoline is an amazing feeling.
hello I would also like this for my town pls
Today is like a full transit line grand opening but only for the absolute biggest transit nerds in the region.
We found the cure to male loneliness, and it's getting in a cargo bike with the homies
