You? I'm British my friend
It is definitely among the top 5 things I miss from London
honestly I should have got that
Why not both :)
But I would like capitalism to deliver me goods and services in exchange for money. I'm terrible at baking
YES ALEX
Bit drastic. The French boulangerie in Logan Square has decent bread so I guess I'll just cycle up there again
But it's not like rent in London is cheap and yet there were multiple places near my house that sold fresh bread
This is a thing that annoys me far too much, but my god I would just love to be able to walk out of my house in the otherwise dense and fantastic neighbourhood I live in and buy a fresh loaf of hipster sourdough or a baguette
*tiny things that drive me surprisingly mad*
Really good bread within a 5 minute walk is absolutely among the top five things I miss from London
They may. I do not care to find out. If you don't sell bread you're not a fucking bakery, you're a cake shop
There are eight different businesses within a 15 minute walk of my house with "bakery" in their name and not one of them sells actual bread. America can be a very stupid country
This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.
They run away though, in my experience
It could work. But the elephant could be otherwise occupied in the bookshop. It might have its head deep in a Douglas Adams novel. Not guarantee it could be lured
My experience with elephants is they don't necessarily just run away when you approach
Giraffe. They're pretty skittish. As long as the door is tall enough
Kevin Sieff is an old friend and a truly fantastic hire
A very good way to measure people's preferences is to look at what they're willing to pay for less car-dependent neighborhoods in the urban core versus completely car-dependent neighborhoods in the exurban fringe.
It's just because at the moment the median Amish woman gives birth to 6 children whereas the median American in general is 1.7. Compound that over a couple of hundred years and you get some pretty wild outcomes
What is “the E-Bike Effect?”
“Those who bought e-bikes increased their average daily bicycle use from 2.1km (1.3 miles) to 9.2km (5.7 miles), a 340% increase. The e-bike share of all their transportation increased dramatically too; from 17% to 49%.”
Fewer car trips.
Via @lloydalter.bsky.social
I am rereading HHGTTG right now and there are just so so many one-liners like that
Should be, but the CAFE standards don't apply to "light trucks" and SUVs
Kevin Shields gets to do it (I bought it on vinyl - which comes with a digital download code, so perhaps it is working.) I kind of think there will be more of this soon
This cartoon came out in 1993, so adjusted for inflation Calvin's dad was actually calling for $19 per gallon of petrol
Happy Calvin's Dad day to those who celebrate
Here's a thread featuring clips of key moments from the DC Metropolitan Police body camera footage of the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that I obtained as a result of my FOIA lawsuit:
Oh that's a really annoyingly good point
Very few people have this flexibility or willingness obviously but I have lived in six cities in five countries in the past 11 years so I trade an awful lot more on the margin of amenities/housing costs/etc
