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It seems like hammer-nail thinking: our urban planners in North America saw the rise of the private car as a panacea for actual planning work: rather than working with the geographical constraints to build urban centers that prioritized accessibility for all (including those without cars) to reach a wide range of…

You should visit suburban Japan. There are better models for Suburbia than Japan, but Japan’s model is the most readily adapted to the US, of the ones Have seen that do not suck. Sapporo in particular balances car vs no car very well, even out into its rural extremities, and it is almost entirely single family…

I sign many large contracts on a regular basis, ranging from $50k to $1M, assigning contractors and subs to start work.

Why would anyone who cares about a loved one mail their remains - and not deliver it personally? The strangest case was around Sacramento some years ago when a contractor who was supposed to dump the ashes over the ocean (or wherever the family wanted) just stacked the remains in a self-storage facility - over 400…

1st gear: Hopefully this doesn’t surprise anyone.

the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission estimates Americans, on average, receive approximately 310 millirem per year of naturally-occuring background radiation. If you were to be continuously exposed to 0.036 millirem/hr of radiation for a full year, you would receive approximately 315 millirem.

Your family has a pretty specific situation that makes it unlikely to go car-less, and I think that’s fine

Our land use patterns give you car brain. You can live farther and farther away from where you need to be exactly because policymakers are all afflicted with car brain. Instead of building up, more efficiently, we build farther and farther out, requiring the use of a car to ‘get more space for the same dollar.’ This…

If I could snap my fingers and have more densely packed population centers and high speed trains and hyperloops and autonomous helicopters and whatnot, that’d be great. But that’s not something I can change.

“in a modern society, that’s not a thing.”

There’s no doubt that cities and urban/suburban, and even semi-rural landscapes were developed around the car, but also keep in mind that there are some people in the US who live 15+ min (by car) from the nearest hospital or grocery store. I’ve been to locations in the smokies where its a 10-15min drive down the…

THIS is literally the definition of car-brained. Where you’ll make any and every excuse on why cars are necessary and prioritize cars over changing habits.

I can’t see “car-brained” being any different than “Plane-brained” “Boat-brained” “Phone-brained” “Internet-brained.”

This somewhat falls back on the (for no reason at all) controversial Section 230. Yes, content hosts can skirt responsibility for content posted by the general public, and yes, this is a major win for free speech.

For starters, I disagree with the existence of 3 and 4-way stops. At Cross intersections, 1 road should be deemed the main road and not stop, the cross street should be a 2-way stop and wait. T-intersections, same concept, the side street should stop and wait while the main road is allowed to carry on without…

In my early days of car modding, I found tires were always a relatively cheap handling and performance upgrade, especially swapping All-Seasons out for Summer tires (FL).

Been a while since I’ve logged in.

I wouldn’t even call myself that. As I mentioned, those aren’t my actual pictures, but an example of what I take on vacation.

I was gonna say.....I mean, it’s ridiculous as hell and completely pointless, but at least they took something that’s completely pointless and decided that it shouldn’t be bolted down with 15 #10 bolts.