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There are tons of roommate situations in Portland for around that price: https://portland.craigslist.org/search/roo?max_price=700#sea...

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Wow, this is amazing! As a songwriter, the only feature that I’d really need to make it an insta-buy is always-recording audio as well (and then you bookmark it and it only keeps w…

If the problem is psychological trauma, wouldn’t therapy be the obvious solution?

For more in-depth reading on Dutch street design, this blog is fascinating: https://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/search/label/what%20wo...

Phones have completely fucked our posture because they have to be hunched over and our fingers need to contort into unnatural shapes and do repetitive motions. The form factor of b…

Basically all the housing in NYC—from the brownstones in Bed-Stuy to the high rises on the Upper East Side—were built during the early 20th century when there was a huge population…

Illegal immigrants. Here are some sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/nyregion/migrant-delivery... https://nypost.com/2023/09/20/tidal-wave-of-migrants-in-nyc-... https://g…

The “problem” is that many (most?) delivery cyclists in NYC aren’t legally allowed to work, so this option would be jeopardizing a large part of their workforce (bad for DoorDash) …

I feel like maybe one of the causes of apparently such widespread sleep apnea is how most people, as far as I gather, sleep with their windows closed. This is deeply unnatural—we e…

FYI, for anyone interested in learning Bikram, this book (by Bikram himself) is amazing: https://www.amazon.com/Bikram-Yoga-Radiant-Personal-Fulfillm...

It’s not a conspiracy theory. The nation’s car-centic instructure is a direct result of the decisions and actions of Robert Moses, as detailed in The Power Broker. Not to say that …

Le Corbusier

I know it seems too cartoonish to be real, but if you read about Robert Moses, you’ll see that it is shockingly true. He didn’t just lobby and propogandize; he had absolute power o…

For cars, it’s actually even more cartoonish than that. Read The Power Broker; auto-centric urban planning is basically entirely the result of Robert Moses’ insane power and influe…

The Gazelle Arroyo C8 is a Dutch e-bike (one of the only models available in the USA) with a beautiful design.

> we did not evolve to sit all day, inside, at desk, gazing into screens What I love about Apple Vision Pro is that it has the potential to solve this!

This blog post addresses all of your points, which are actually just common misconceptions: http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2011/02/all-those-myths...

> the former is almost impossible When you understand how quickly the Netherlands changed (it used to be just as car-centric at the US), you might change your view about what's pos…

Any actionable advice here? Are there any safer contact lens brands?

Taxis in NYC are often (always?) way cheaper than Uber now.

These are all negative externalities of cars, not containerized garbage. All the more reason to accelerate the social engineering of society towards safer, less polluting forms of …

That would be crazy if so, because it reads as very human

I visited Denver, excited to see all of the supposed new cycling infrastructure, and aside from like, a handful of bike lanes here and there, I didn't feel comfortable biking aroun…