benlk.com
Bike advocate and urbanist, North Linden Area Commissioner + Zoning Cmte Chair. He. Trains pls. Senior Web Engineer at 10up.
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Normal people call this a carjacking.
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On the online police report tool, Remy says that he is very aware of its deficiencies. He was in a car crash and was told by police to self-report online. It took CPD a month before he was given a report ID that he could use to make an insurance claim. He thinks that's unacceptable.
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Remy's policing-first focus on public safety seems to make it harder for him to consider infrastructure or non-police interventions. "Why can't police address X?" "Well, they're understaffed by 100." "So then what?" He said surveillance tech, and upgrades to the online police report tool.
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Very summarized: Their frames for tackling issues reflect which committee they chair on Columbus City Council.
Which came first: the chair, or the frame?
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Rolling out a new Starlink Phone to everyone, to enable essential communications from the government.
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Bigger corner radius, white instead of blue-grey, and no ripples in the glass. Like if Windows Aero had been infected with "flat" design.
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From the way this was written, I would have assumed that it was only business days, normally excluding weekends and holidays!
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What's the meaning of "day"?
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Is the benefit to the rural/Republican areas that, assuming revenue is held constant, costs are shifted from those areas to the areas you mentioned? Most people I've talked with worry that, since rural folks drive more, they'd pay more than presently.
The link is 404; do you have another?
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What's the source, and criterion for "urbanization"?
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Do shareholders care more about the lost cars, or about what the cars are being used to protest?
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The concept of "digital albums" could've included .m3u8 files and a requirement for gapless playback
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The dot is optional!
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That marking is, shockingly, standards-compliant: mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/par...
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The legislation approving the major construction contract columbus.legistar.com/LegislationD... says "prevailing wage services" but doesn't specify union.
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but you know they're paying a contractor good money for that monitoring, so it totally is surveillance capitalism ;p
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For images of text like this one, make sure to add alt text!
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It's not a great point. Tthe alternatives to Elon's biggest companies (SpaceX and Starlink) cost much more, and have lesser capabilities.
Or does the US government no longer need to launch satellites, and access the Internet from remote locations?
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You can also see it in the per-station air quality records! map.purpleair.com/air-quality-...
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If you're going by it again anytime soon, figure out what direction it's looking, and see if there's a surveying marker or retroreflector in that direction. This looks a lot like an automated surveying "total station".
It's mounted way too low, and too insecurely, to be a surveillance camera.
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Darn. Sounds like an entertaining read.
I wonder if they'd answer a FOIA for it....
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Is the bear module publicly accessible?
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It is surreal to be bombarded with constant op-eds about how we must finally admit that lockdowns, mask mandates and school closures didn't work.
Yes they did! COVID death rates were driven by lax policy and low compliance, mostly in red areas.
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This thing?
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I'm surprised to see this post, because I'm an Area Commissioner and received no notice of this training. Where was it announced, when, and to whom?
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Okay, that makes some sense. I wish the US could come up with a better way of handling stormwater than the current curb drain system.
But why move the curb?
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Why do they have to redo the stormwater drains just to bolt down some precast curbs and add some paint?
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But there's a difference between "lit" and "blinding". If the station uses the same lighting levels by day and night, at night someone coming out of the station won't be adjusted to nighttime outdoor light levels.
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But what if it made you into an incredibly attractive blobby thing?
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I don't think this proposal has actual backers yet, but someone's at least done some math on rehydrating Nevada with water from solar-powered desalination: caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/w...
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The station entrances are aboveground.
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Do you dim them at night, to reduce light pollution?