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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • I wouldn’t say that’s entirely true. Vancouver, Vancouver island, and Montreal have some interesting bike infrastructure. Calgary has at least some infrastructure, too. Shifter is a canadian youtube channel that covers many of the canadian cities and discusses them in relation to other bike-centric cities around North America and Europe.

    But yes, Canadian and American cities could use much more investment and a Parisian-style revision in road and plaza use, dedicating more places to bikes and foot traffic. Subsidizing ebikes will also help get people off cars.




  • As the article mentions, I applud efforts to up-armor existing bike lanes to make them safer against car and truck intrusions.

    But we should be pushing a lot harder for more bike lanes that are protected by concrete barriers AND more connections to things like south Seattle, west seattle, and greenlake.

    It’s really frustrating to watch massive roads go into places like the waterfront that are just going to ferry cars between North and South seattle. That money could have been spent better elsewhere, building out a staggering number of bike lanes at a much lower cost.










  • Congrats! Scope our the website for the company, sometimes they will ask if you’ve looked them up/made an effort to do research on them. Scoping out your interviewer on social media too, like linked in. Can make conversations flow more naturally if you know them a bit.

    Finally, dress a bit nicer than normal, fresh clothes, iron them the night before so that you are ready to go. Probably goes without saying, but being showered, clean, and smelling great goes a long way in a first impression too. Finally, a firm handshake when meeting them. Good luck ^^




  • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_scare

    I was intrigued by the interesting name, which left me so rapt that I started checking the sources because it sounded so outlandish that surely, it couldn’t be real. That culmated with me buying a shockingly expensive paperback book and reading the shit out of it. I kept having to check the copyright date because it seemed like a repeat of 2022. It gives me a lot of hope for humanity because America came out (heh) stronger because of it.

    The wildest part is that it happened so recently ago, ALL the landmarks are still there in DC. There’s zero placards that acknowledge any of it, but you can still visit each of these places, some of which are right across from the White House. I recommend everyone read it, it shows the depth of evil, but also the hope of people, and how a peaceful social movement goes from the most hated, to one that became part of the cultural mainstream in a handful of decades. The wildest part is that it took this long, mostly being post WW2.

    That book has even been referenced in the NYT in headline articles, which was awesome to see.