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I don't think that's an assumption (it's certainly not one for me). Bikes are great, most folks could use bikes. Some folks cannot, and we should ensure our spaces are available to…

I'm not sure I'm weird. I've been here 35+ years at this point, plenty of folks bike, plenty of folks public transit, plenty of folks drive. Putting on a pair of snow pants over my…

I've lived here 35+ years. I mean, May-September can be nice, though these days that's smoke season.

Of course. I explicitly tried to say this -- bikes are fantastic, small cars like this are ok too (though, building for cars carries a lot of externalities with it).

Nah. It's easy enough to chain up to any ol' bike post. It's a midsize cargo bike. My wife's bike takes a bit more work, but she's got the whole bucket at the front going on.

I live in Seattle, riding in the rain is not really a problem. A halfway decent outer shell protects you from the rain. I carry my kid on my bike. My wife's bike has a whole box up…

I live in Seattle, it's cold and rainy all year long (more or less). I still prefer using my bike over a car (though I have no problem with small car that replaces big car.)

Right? I sold mine, getting rid of that car was a huge sigh of relief. From parts shortages to labor shortages to weird manufacturing defects that no one could correct to the "over…

Cute! Mine said, "I 9 U!" But I see what they were trying to get me to do, cute.

Hamburg's busses don't have coin boxes or sell tickets/fares? You don't have any mechanism that requires swiping a card, tapping a device, showing a card/ticket to an operator, or …

I'm glad that chemists are researching this. We should also stop using plastic wherever possible. Let's start with single use packaging of things. WAY too much stuff relies on chea…

They all got laid off. Waypoint is no more.

Waypoint and sometimes Motherboard were incredible. It's sad to see them disappear from the space.

Agreed. This is actually a "why public systems fail" critique approaching from the left -- we assume systems need a cost to function correctly. For something like transit, collecti…

Lawns have been in the targets of environmentalists for decades.

One, we can do both. Two, lawns are the biggest agricultural crop in the US. Especially when you consider sod and seed. Lawns are basically wastelands, supporting little to no biod…

Killing your lawn is the best thing you can do. There are SO much better things to do with the space than host a lawn (which is effectively a desert). If you need something green t…

Or that farming is the only productive use.

If the LA River is any historical precedent, yes.

Nah. That only works if you are logged in. It's trivial to delete and account and make a new one. There's nothing particularly special about one's account (and, in fact, I regularl…

The "Orange Hellsite ." And Twitter is the "Blue Hellsite*". Both are bad, both still show up in my browser history. I don't know why.

Wood in the ocean will float for a long time, eventually sinking and storing that carbon. It will be broken down over a very long span, and the CO2 will enter the hydrocycle and ev…

Interestingly, many forest stands are actually overpopulated with trees. Removal of organic matter helps the existing trees grow taller and more healthy, improves the habitat for o…

Probably worth considering pyrolysis before burying it. By heating the wood and baking it into char you get a few nice benefits: * You produce biochar, which is almost pure carbon,…