Jacksonjas

It is often easier to send out-of-towners the wrong way down a one-way street for a block than to tell them to make 6 completely illogical turns.

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Following the US code puts outlets in bad places, agreed. But I’m also going to argue for more quads if we really want to eliminate extension cords (and we do). A typical nightstand might have a lamp, clock and phone charger. We have way more appliances than the code ever anticipated.

Many parts of Boston had fire escapes on the alley side of residences. But instead of stairs leading down to the alley, they were simply metal balconies spanning from one building to the next. I guess if you were escaping fire you were expected to knock on your neighbors' window?

May be one of the best questions ever

Also, building code typically requires windows of a certain size for egress if a space is considered ‘habitable’. This excludes bathrooms, kitchens, closets. But it only applies to a certain height dependent on the reach of the local FD ladder trucks.

Boston, for a long time, had horizontal fire escapes (not their real name) that let you escape into the building next door. Maybe by breaking a window? Knocking politely? Turned out they were a great tool for burglars.

Hi. Any more invites coming our way?

It’s like he is practicing his LonkedIn game, not a sitting Senator.

It would be such welcome news if everyone finally accepted that Eucalyptus trees are explosive trash and we could get rid of them. And the number of ficus trees downed in these winds are eye-opening. Weak, shallow roots.

There is something absolutely beautiful, complicated and pure about Lagrange points: this astonishing balance between multiple bodies moving and floating in nearly infinite space. And something also beautiful because we can calculate them, even position things in them.

When I got my EV, a neighbor said “I hear some people think they are the future, and some people think gas is the always future.” EV’s are clearly the future and are hands-down better tech. The question is whether legacy carbon will let us get to the future.

I also wish there was a way to search these lusts (maybe for Following) and then selectively exclude people I want to follow. The lists are useful but I have accidentally blocked people I want to follow and it seems a bit all or nothing.

Haven’t heard of the Cinestill (a bit out of the game), but these are lovely.

After driving an EV for 6+ months, why anyone would want an electric car to sound like an ICE is ridiculous. If you want to be a child just make Vroom Vroom noises with your lips.

Camping long ago we woke to a wooshing noise that sounded a lot like a serial killer swinging something heavy at the end of a rope.
But was probably more like pheasants doing some kind of mating dance. Nonetheless, eyes very much wide open.

from Orwell's Rose

Shockingly good advice.

The UK burned 3 inches of their country... and we wonder why climate change happened. (via XKCD)

I’m not really certain I should go there, but have you heard of the Catalan tradition of the Caganer?

Community internet is such a good, powerful idea (I am jealous being just outside if mine), which is also why it is opposed by so many ISP’s.

So many fields where this would be useful! (Scratches chin, twirls imaginary mustache).

Absolutely INCREDIBLE demonstration of what this platform can do: subscribe to this labeler and see which fancy private school different UK public figures on here went to, and how much those schools cost. bsky.app/profile/dadd...

All (much, some) of Cambridge used to smell like them!

Why Do We Keep Developing in Climate Disaster Zones? Affordable real estate in the Sun Belt continues to attract buyers under a false sense of security. For experts, the burning question is how—or if—we can build housing ethically in at-risk areas.

For Dwell I got to talk to a bunch of amazing researchers about why we continue to build in high climate-risk areas, and the ways we might consider some type of ethical built future under threat. www.dwell.com/article/why-...

Good ideas seem to succeed in silence, whereas bad ideas, bad pundits, bad actors never shut up and go away. Maybe we need more anniversaries and holidays to cement victories and re-bury the awful.

I’ve been thinking about how much we need to get cities and code publishing orgs behind the idea of experimental ‘pilot districts’ where we can break all the rules of the codes, provided we have justification (i.e allowed abroad, studies suggesting safety or good performance ect). This is it.

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It’s so confusing. I can spend my limited time arguing with someone whose primary interest is wasting my time, or I can scratch away at building something supportive, curious, and sometimes hilarious? Trains with butts are the missing vitamins in our diets.