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Not to flex but anyone who followed Elon's hyperloop arc saw this coming a mile away. He said he could save 90% over high speed rail by ... buying land cheaper. That was it, he never offered any further specifics and the media utterly failed to convey how much of a charlatan he was.

submitted 11 days ago • 81 comments

New from me — “What it comes down to is the removal of choice, especially when it comes to established health care. People should not have to suffer the anguish of being denied life-saving drugs because a couple of guys have decided to apply conspiracy theories instead of established science.”

submitted 13 days ago • 81 comments

Autodesk is diving into AI but it would be great if they could fix the stair and railing tools in Revit and let you link to a detail library... all things people would use literally every day and have been complaining about for years

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

I actually hate the "lol the giant asteroid will deliver us from this suffering" jokes. Are there any other people in the progressive movement who think that humans are actually fucking amazing?

submitted 18 days ago • 1485 comments

they can take over the entire country but they can never actually be cool and it will eat at them forever

submitted 19 days ago • 1052 comments

Just one day’s supercommute from the exurbs (100 mile round trip) exceeds 2 years worth of carbon absorbed by a cedar. So if you displace one working person into the suburbs to save one tree, you just created extra carbon equal to cutting down 500 trees, and hurt the health of countless people.

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Pour one out for a legend. Donald Shoup's book changed my life. Reading it is what convinced me to go to planning school at UCLA, where Shoup was my advisor. He literally created a field where there was none before, and showed that, with respect to parking mandates, the emperor had no clothes.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

RIP to an extremely real one. If you don't know anything about Shoup, he was the sort of academic who could write a 700 page book about municipal parking policy and not only have thousands of people read it but have thousands of readers be inspired to change the world by reading it.

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

I'm deeply saddened to share that Donald Shoup passed away last night. He was the ideal academic—curious, methodical, and concerned with turning ideas into real-world change. TAing his parking course these past few years has one of the greatest honors of my life. Rest in peace, Shoup Dogg.

submitted 20 days ago • 46 comments

I love all the mods they’re doing to the Honda Groms…a mini CB R kit? Hell yes!

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

So much this ... seriously over the hate of electric motorcycles I see all over the place. If I can love the sound of a Ducati, Harley, or a BMW boxer engine, but my jam is electric, why can't you be similar? What matters is that we all ride, and we all love riding.

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

Tell Stantec to do the right thing and tear up their ill-advised contract with Doug Ford's government to remove bike lanes in Toronto. If you hold Stantec stock, be sure to mention that. nwmd.social/s/copylink/5...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Grand ride out! Bring ion the better weather:)

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Blue cities have an odd preference for a romanticized idea of “process” over tangible outcomes. Lengthy approval times for building permits are a glaring example. Communities receive no benefits, only harms, from this endless bureaucracy.

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

IMO, Silicon Valley has lost its way and needs a wakeup call. And it looks like they might have gotten one today? Less hype. Less arrogance. Less greed. Less playing at political nonsense. More engineering. More science. Get back to producing real innovations that benefit society.

submitted 32 days ago • 8 comments

MOAR!

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

submitted 32 days ago • 230 comments

When people complain (rightly) about the poor quality of today’s built environment, one of the biggest culprits rarely gets a mention; Dumb insistent engineering infrastructure, loud, proud & inflexible. Increasingly dominates street frontages, & huge capital & ongoing costs to building owners

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

Installed some heated grips, hand guards, and engine guards on the Yamaha, then found a dead-end road. As is my tradition.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

for those who believe nothing can get better: you don't have to get in the way of those who do

submitted 38 days ago • 88 comments

Looking forward to a long weekend of working on the Yamaha. On the agenda: Heated grips Handguards Crashbars …and a good wash. Photos to come.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Data privacy rights are like bullet trains, walkable cities, and universal healthcare, a pipe dream, a utopian fantasy, something that's standard elsewhere but portrayed as utterly impossible in the United States.

submitted 42 days ago • 15 comments

you can build entire neighborhoods and house a lot of people on a golf course

submitted 49 days ago • 6 comments

Teenagers think other teenagers they're into are ghosting them till they grow up and have to coordinate with a general contractor and learn what a true ghosting feels like

submitted 51 days ago • 38 comments

everything is pretty bad and it's going to get worse and I think we need to remember to give ourselves license to post about silly things too losing our minds to despair isn't going to do any of us any good

submitted 51 days ago • 162 comments

moving from the south to seattle changed mine. and looking back, i’m lucky i moved when i did. if i waited 5 years i bet it wouldn’t have worked out. thats why i fight for more housing here, i love this city and want the next person like me to have the opportunity i had

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

If "those darn kids" trumps encouraging ebikes as a climate solution in California of all places, we are truly in deep trouble

submitted 56 days ago • 6 comments

Planners should have to design cities from behind a Rawlsian veil of ignorance. That is to say: the planner will have to live in the city they design, but they don't know where in the city.

submitted 56 days ago • 20 comments

❄️ 🚲?!?

submitted 58 days ago • 3 comments

the plan? build a social media following by tweeting about pants and then, when the moment is right, put out anti-walkability tweets until people sell their homes in walkable neighborhoods, allowing me, a non-rich person, to buy a home in a walkable neighborhood for $300k

submitted 59 days ago • 116 comments

You are currently living through a massive, planet changing technological transformation and it has nothing to do with "A.I."

submitted 60 days ago • 15 comments

NEW STORY // 24/7 Aurora Bus Lanes to Keep Riders Moving During I-5 Overhaul www.theurbanist.org/2024/12/27/2...

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Help please - I took these pics in the 70's but I cant remember when or where - can anyone help?

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

My Christmas eve column: The unfounded panics of the season www.latimes.com/business/sto...

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

Transit had way cooler logos in the 80s.

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments