::hello internet people::
we made a thing.
wait, wha?
nice words, pretty pictures, tall boxes = a thing. maybe?
—and v1 is all about those i n s i d e s…
so, go:
Start something,
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Always nice when math helps make it all the more clear how ridiculously reasonable the worker demands are.
This is what the studios have brought everything to a grinding halt for.
I had to mentally send myself a reaction image the other day. I ran up the stairs on all fours, said to myself “i’m such a locationpilled scampercel” and then perfectly envisioned this image
please i've already hurt so much
So the James Webb telescope just took a picture of a galaxy that is 29 million light years away.
If that wasn't cool enough NASA decided to peel away all the cosmic dust in order to see the bones of the Galaxy itself.
AND IT'S BREATHTAKING
i learned that during the alcohol prohibition in the United States, between 1919 and 1933, the transportation and manufacture/growing of alcohol was prohibited. Some people who made Moonshine (a type of whiskey) did so in the middle of a forest or meadow. Moonshiners were often wanted by law enforcement.
Authorities often had to track down alleged criminals on foot. So, to avoid capture, some moonshiners changed their shoes because a set of human footprints would be suspicious and indicative of people preparing or transporting alcohol. Specifically, they put on cow shoes.
Hoofprints were used to make sure the police never followed the tracks. Obviously if they came across a still they would do something about it. But with footprints, the thinking is that if the police found these footprints they would think nothing of it, whereas if they found human footprints they would possibly follow them and ultimately discover a still.
A 1922 article in a now-defunct St. Petersburg, Florida, newspaper called the Evening Independent carried a story about moonshiners wearing "cow shoes" to fool the police - instead of leaving suspicious footprints leading to their secret stills, they left innocents cow footprints.
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I mean, it's great that the "what about emergency vehicle access?" hack is so effective when pointing out the deficiencies of proposals for walkable communities, but it kind of burns my ass that you need to take that approach in the first place. I don't know how many conversations about communities planning I've seen that go like this:
Walkable communities advocate: Here's a plan for a walkable community in which only public transit will be permitted – no personal vehicles of any kind will be allowed.
Disability advocate: What about access for physically disabled people? If your options are public transit or the sidewalk and literally nothing else, any disabled person whose needs aren't fully served 100% of the time by your favoured public transit framework is fucked, and there's no such thing as a perfect public transit framework.
Walkable communities advocate, whose brain shut down the moment they heard the word "disabled" and didn't process anything past that point: Oh, you silly cripple, the term "walkable community" doesn't mean you're only allowed to walk! How quaint.
I guess pointing out "well, if only public transit is accommodated, how are firefighters and paramedics supposed to access emergencies?" works because now they can imagine themselves being affected!
To address a few of the recurring whatabouts in my notes and DMs:
