EngManagerIsMe

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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
I don't think that's an assumption (it's certainly not one for me). Bikes are great, most folks could use bikes. Some folks cannot, and we should ensure our spaces are available to all of us. And I deal with a similar issue i
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
I'm not sure I'm weird. I've been here 35+ years at this point, plenty of folks bike, plenty of folks public transit, plenty of folks drive. Putting on a pair of snow pants over my jeans and a waterproof shell over my jacket
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
I've lived here 35+ years. I mean, May-September can be nice, though these days that's smoke season.
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
Of course. I explicitly tried to say this -- bikes are fantastic, small cars like this are ok too (though, building for cars carries a lot of externalities with it).
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
Nah. It's easy enough to chain up to any ol' bike post. It's a midsize cargo bike. My wife's bike takes a bit more work, but she's got the whole bucket at the front going on.
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
I live in Seattle, riding in the rain is not really a problem. A halfway decent outer shell protects you from the rain. I carry my kid on my bike. My wife's bike has a whole box up front that could carry two kids. (Mine has a long tail
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
I live in Seattle, it's cold and rainy all year long (more or less). I still prefer using my bike over a car (though I have no problem with small car that replaces big car.)
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
Right? I sold mine, getting rid of that car was a huge sigh of relief. From parts shortages to labor shortages to weird manufacturing defects that no one could correct to the "overpromise and underdeliver" attitude of the company.
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
Cute! Mine said, "I 9 U!" But I see what they were trying to get me to do, cute.
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
Hamburg's busses don't have coin boxes or sell tickets/fares? You don't have any mechanism that requires swiping a card, tapping a device, showing a card/ticket to an operator, or otherwise proving you have, in fact
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
I'm glad that chemists are researching this. We should also stop using plastic wherever possible. Let's start with single use packaging of things. WAY too much stuff relies on cheap, disposable plastic that could be shipped/p
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
They all got laid off. Waypoint is no more.
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
Waypoint and sometimes Motherboard were incredible. It's sad to see them disappear from the space.
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
Agreed. This is actually a "why public systems fail" critique approaching from the left -- we assume systems need a cost to function correctly. For something like transit, collecting fares involves: 1) Systems and equipment to iss
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
Lawns have been in the targets of environmentalists for decades.
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
One, we can do both. Two, lawns are the biggest agricultural crop in the US. Especially when you consider sod and seed. Lawns are basically wastelands, supporting little to no biodiversity. Removing them does material good to the surroundin
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
Killing your lawn is the best thing you can do. There are SO much better things to do with the space than host a lawn (which is effectively a desert). If you need something green to walk on there are plenty of herbal/clover mixes that
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
Or that farming is the only productive use.
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
If the LA River is any historical precedent, yes.
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
Nah. That only works if you are logged in. It's trivial to delete and account and make a new one. There's nothing particularly special about one's account (and, in fact, I regularly delete mine and create a new one so I don
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
The "Orange Hellsite ." And Twitter is the "Blue Hellsite*". Both are bad, both still show up in my browser history. I don't know why.
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
Wood in the ocean will float for a long time, eventually sinking and storing that carbon. It will be broken down over a very long span, and the CO2 will enter the hydrocycle and eventually be released as a gas. Probably on the order of
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
Interestingly, many forest stands are actually overpopulated with trees. Removal of organic matter helps the existing trees grow taller and more healthy, improves the habitat for other species and animals, and can result in a more biodivers
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
Probably worth considering pyrolysis before burying it. By heating the wood and baking it into char you get a few nice benefits: * You produce biochar, which is almost pure carbon, and therefore you are only sequestering the weight/vol
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
Trees gather up a ton (sometimes many tons) of carbon during their lives. When they die and begin to decompose, fungi and bacteria return most of that carbon back into the atmosphere as CO2. If we could find a way to prevent that, then thos
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
There's a part of me that loves this and there's a part of me that finds this sorta sad. Not pejoratively, just, evocatively for me there's a sense of sadness in the ephemeral nature of this installation. I have a really comp
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
Left handedness used to be about 2% of the US population. Now it's about 12%. While it could be that somehow we've got an epidemic of left-handedness that blossomed in the 1920s, what's much more likely is that we've got
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
> most of them are very decent people and don’t do nasty things. That's not really the bar though. Police officers have exemplary powers, being the manifestation of the violence of the state. They must be held to a standard above &q
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
The first uniformed police force came about in the 1850s. Prior to that, police forces weren't the central utility they are today. Yes, there were guards, but their roles, responsibilities, and behaviors were quite different. I posted
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by EngManagerIsMe 3y ago
Uniformed police are a relatively recent invention. In the US and England, the police evolved predominantly out of a desire to socialize the costs of protect the capital interests of the wealthy. This was protecting warehouses and such for

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