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 front that could carry two kids. (Mine…
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 "overpromise and underdeliver" attitude of…
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 otherwise proving you have, in fact,…
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, collecting fares involves: 1) Systems and…
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 biodiversity. Removing them does material…
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 to walk on there are plenty of…
Or that farming is the only productive use.
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 regularly delete mine and create a new one so I…
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 eventually be released as a gas. Probably…
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, and therefore you are only…
There's a part of me that loves this and there's a part of me that finds this sorta sad. Not pejoratively, just, evocatively for me there's a sense of sadness in the ephemeral nature of this installation. I have a…
Left handedness used to be about 2% of the US population. Now it's about 12%. While it could be that somehow we've got an epidemic of left-handedness that blossomed in the 1920s, what's much more likely is that we've…
> most of them are very decent people and don’t do nasty things. That's not really the bar though. Police officers have exemplary powers, being the manifestation of the violence of the state. They must be held to a…
The first uniformed police force came about in the 1850s. Prior to that, police forces weren't the central utility they are today. Yes, there were guards, but their roles, responsibilities, and behaviors were quite…
Uniformed police are a relatively recent invention. In the US and England, the police evolved predominantly out of a desire to socialize the costs of protect the capital interests of the wealthy. This was protecting…
We've had decades of systematic removal of protections and healthcare for people. There is zero political interest in improving things (and even when there is some, it's opposed brutally.) Both parties are responsible…
Anyone who has been watching cops over the past few decades shouldn't find this at all surprising. Cops consistently believe themselves to be above the law and above oversight -- especially the NYPD, but the problem is…
The moral panic of the era. Whether it's the internet, rock n roll, dungeons and dragons, Elvis gyrating his hips, the red scare, mods and rockers, violence in games, or even the printed word, there's always someone…
Biking is demonstrably more efficient than walking. And electric bikes are even more energy efficient than biking. Sure, manufacturing a bike takes some energy, but there's huge value in people using e-bikes to get…
I think the author and you might have different understandings of "lazy". If I pursue a hobby for an afternoon with no financial upside (say, building model kits or painting) I might consider that a "lazy Sunday". I was…
> I declare your house a public good, it is now mine. Private houses, when used as a primary residence, are typically closer to the personal property rather than private property realm. There's a very real discussion…
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 front that could carry two kids. (Mine…
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 "overpromise and underdeliver" attitude of…
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 otherwise proving you have, in fact,…
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, collecting fares involves: 1) Systems and…
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 biodiversity. Removing them does material…
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 to walk on there are plenty of…
Or that farming is the only productive use.
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 regularly delete mine and create a new one so I…
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 eventually be released as a gas. Probably…
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, and therefore you are only…
There's a part of me that loves this and there's a part of me that finds this sorta sad. Not pejoratively, just, evocatively for me there's a sense of sadness in the ephemeral nature of this installation. I have a…
Left handedness used to be about 2% of the US population. Now it's about 12%. While it could be that somehow we've got an epidemic of left-handedness that blossomed in the 1920s, what's much more likely is that we've…
> most of them are very decent people and don’t do nasty things. That's not really the bar though. Police officers have exemplary powers, being the manifestation of the violence of the state. They must be held to a…
The first uniformed police force came about in the 1850s. Prior to that, police forces weren't the central utility they are today. Yes, there were guards, but their roles, responsibilities, and behaviors were quite…
Uniformed police are a relatively recent invention. In the US and England, the police evolved predominantly out of a desire to socialize the costs of protect the capital interests of the wealthy. This was protecting…
We've had decades of systematic removal of protections and healthcare for people. There is zero political interest in improving things (and even when there is some, it's opposed brutally.) Both parties are responsible…
Anyone who has been watching cops over the past few decades shouldn't find this at all surprising. Cops consistently believe themselves to be above the law and above oversight -- especially the NYPD, but the problem is…
The moral panic of the era. Whether it's the internet, rock n roll, dungeons and dragons, Elvis gyrating his hips, the red scare, mods and rockers, violence in games, or even the printed word, there's always someone…
Biking is demonstrably more efficient than walking. And electric bikes are even more energy efficient than biking. Sure, manufacturing a bike takes some energy, but there's huge value in people using e-bikes to get…
I think the author and you might have different understandings of "lazy". If I pursue a hobby for an afternoon with no financial upside (say, building model kits or painting) I might consider that a "lazy Sunday". I was…
> I declare your house a public good, it is now mine. Private houses, when used as a primary residence, are typically closer to the personal property rather than private property realm. There's a very real discussion…