Jeff Baker

As a former Oklahoman I would like to mention that this map's characterization of "Alcohol Allowed" in the wet counties of that state is quite is an overstatement. Liquor stores were not allowed to own refrigerators until 2018, so it was impossible to sell or buy real beer.

Real America's halftime concert has broken the Nazi forum.

This paper is going around again for some reason and I really cannot over-emphasize that a conclusion that major platforms like YouTube reach only 60% of young people, and falling, is completely bananas and this conclusion does not make the paper interesting, it makes it obviously flawed.

What's the story on the new bike? Was it made for you or something you found that fit as-is? What was the motivation for new bike?

I'm trying to custom-build a tandem and it's been challenging to get the details nailed down.

Imagine the infinite landscape of discourse that would have been unlocked if a member of Biden's cabinet had said they were going to have yogurt for the Super Bowl.

If it were that simple every initiative would qualify.

There's no way serial loser Rishi Kumar has the juice to get a million signatures.

No the issue is that the hanger forces wheels to be cockeyed to the right, which is not fundamentally wrong and has been done correctly on older trains, but on this train it puts all of the load on the side of one wheel spoke, unavoidably.

There's a L2 AC charger in a Berkeley city garage that, probably due to simple mistake, doesn't make anyone pay.

This doesn't look age-adjusted. Florida probably has the most walking fatalities, too. Old people have way worse outcomes from falling.

Whoever invented the bike hanger on the new San Joaquin train cars has ZERO personal experience with bicycles. Why do they have to keep "innovating"????

I get really excellent results using my phone connected to a laptop, using Zoom, Meet, etc. You'd need a tripod but I imagine you already have a phone with a spectacularly good video camera built in.

One Step at a Time: Our Family’s Path to EMBER Compliance Last June, the Berkeley City Council unanimously passed our EMBER ordinance, a fact-based proposal from the Fire Department that asks ~900 households located in the highest wildfire danger zone along ...

It’s not enough to talk the talk, you have to walk the walk too — especially when it comes to wildfire safety in Berkeley.

I’m documenting our family’s step-by-step path to EMBER compliance to share our progress. Hope you’ll follow along and share your tips too!

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You're welcome to plumb the depths of poor reading comprehension, if you want, but what the other guy said was "Most traffic deaths are on rural highways" nothing about rates. And this is extremely false. Not even remotely true.

@telegraphforpeople.bsky.social wdyt

It was a warm and sunny January in the East Bay and the Bay Wheels bike share set another record for January ridership.

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I can't see how a median can be useful here. You can't use the median as a coefficient.

Geez, what was going on there? Just people smoking for 100 years?

Ha yeah that's exactly what I thought, too. Now not only can you sell your entitlements to developers, you can also sell them to NIMBYs!

The thing is, aside from Ed Markey being way too old to hold a Senate seat, or to drive, the remote operators aren't being called upon to decide matters of law. The remote operator gets a Q&A interface where the car wants help resolving an ambiguous scene (such as: is this road blocked by this tree)

They get real-time access to all the video feeds and the 3D scene reconstructed by the on-car driving system, and they can rewind the video feeds.

I agree. I was glad that U.C. decided to not sell their building and parking lot on Fourth Street. I think that is a fine place for a gigantic tower.

The last letter between these parties was an offer to deliver the bits of a demolished building to the place of BAHA's choosing, which I still find hilarious.

The Campus Architect of U.C. Berkeley sent an open letter to the Landmarks Preservation Commission just to say that "the campus is not a museum" after the LPC repeatedly placed Anna Head School on their agenda. I love the stance the university has adopted with regard to the LPC.

Maybe that's it. I don't know how we got through the 80s without people preemptively freaking out. Maybe it's differently coded if the characters are working class instead of billionaires.

Let's don't ignore how popular culture normalized that, though? See: "Working on the Highway" a cheerful, upbeat 1984 song about trafficking one's child bride across state lines?

$550 is a good start but displaying forged disabled parking placard should be an instant tow, then two weeks in the city jail when you show up to get you Jeep back.

Exploring Electric Bicycle Safety Performance Data and Policy Options for California Asha Weinstein Agrawal, PhD Dr. Agrawal works at San José State University, where she is the Director of the Mineta Transportation Institute’s National Transportation Finance Center and Professor of U...

Did you see this:

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Except that would be intensely stupid, just like space datacenters. The power needed for communication between widely distributed wimpy nodes would dominate the equation.

There is nothing about this idea that is not deeply, monumentally stupid.