I like the blue accent fence they added, as well as the planters. Here’s to hoping the lid project happens soon too.

Climate change will defeat everyone soon if we don’t stop blowing through all of our deadlines.

https://xkcd.com/1732/

Eww, creepy. He must have brain damage or something.

They definitely need to have the cops check that organizer’s hard drives. That dude looks like seriously bad news.

You will never clog a toilet if you get a bidet. Putting tons of TP in is how you get clogs.

That’s great!

My theory on car/motorcycle deaths is that a lot more people are running blatantly red lights. Not where yellow teases red. Solid red for a minute where people just Hail Mary it through the intersection and then get obliterated.

The solution is more red light cams, automated ticketing cams on buses for cars doing illegal maneuvers in bus and bike lanes, and better enforcement of traffic safety rules.

Simultaneously, slowing down cars with narrower roads, speed humps or bumps, and turning many roads into Canadian-style green streets for bikes and pedestrians eases congestion and makes things safer.

Some moron recently got disarmed and capped with his own gun recently. Dude died for no reason, the other guy didn’t even have a weapon, but had slick hands and capped the dude when he tried to get his gun back.

Between that and people accidentally discharging their weapons into themselves/their homes/their workplaces, I’d be in favor for a ban on open/cc in general. Not that it really matters, but I’m also in a same-sex relationship and have never felt the need for CC/open carry anyways.

Honestly, I think this is great. I love going to the range, but nobody needs to open/cc in a first world city, in a first world state. We already deal with random shootings, this will potentially reduce those and make our city even safer.

I’d support more aggressive policies like banning CC/open carry & severe penalties for ghost and illegal guns. And only allowing ammo to be used and sold/delivered at ranges or designated sites. Having exams and licensing for firearms, too. I have to be licensed to buy a 5w walkie talkie, I think we should probably need to be licensed to operate high-powered weaponry.

I think the ideal model is a variant of what Nordic countries use. Any guns/flamethrowers/RPGs you want, but they are stored at the range, and ammo is only used at the range.

Reduces suicide, domestic violence, and general violent crime, while still allowing people to hit the range with friends for a day of male bonding.

To some extent, yes. Though the Nazis were so evil and morally warped, sometimes I think it’s best to retire certain symbols permanently. We can always create new ones. Humans have a very bad habit of worshiping the past, sometimes too much, given the current climate. :P

You and me both. Imagine where we’d be without Trump.

Oh, the Republicans will give them a reason to vote, just wait a bit and see, lol. If Republicans deregulating banks caused a “great recession”, I’m very curious what voters just bought for us by voting for a platform of deregulating everything.

No, I think people will enjoy the taste of curb and a swift kick to the head for the next 4-8 years. It really puts things in perspective.

Yeah, as the other person said, lots of vote splitting because there were several good democrats and people assume the good ones will always win the primaries, so they don’t vote. This has hosed us in the past. We could really use ranked choice voting and better classes that teach students why voting is so important.

Also, the nominative determinism is strong- Upthegrove has a deep knowledge of the field (heh), and has strong endorsements from great orgs like the Sierra Club. We’d be lucky to have him!

Kinda makes sense, though. You can fly from the west coast of the US to South Africa in under 24 hours. Areas that used to take weeks, months, and even years to get to are now under 24 hours and largely less than $5,000 to travel to.

We are gonna get some wild pandemics since anyone can criss-cross the globe so fast.

I dunno, I see a number of gouge marks in them when they have been around for a bit. Cars going too fast scrape pretty hard xD

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.

Glad to see the west coast and Canada banning ICE, but 2035 is late. We should be massively pushing ebikes in cities along with public transit. Get fewer car trips ASAP, even if we can’t get off ICE overnight.

Sounds like these data centers are going to need to invest in advanced nuclear or other renewables and transmission lines if they want to build datacenters here.

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.

I’ll miss this museum. Wish the Smithsonian bought it out and added it to its collection.

Swamp ass with hints of mesquite or a cherrywood smoke.