A ton of bikes parked at a bike parking at the Columbus Main Library.
Hmm, must be that time of the month...for the Transit Columbus meeting!
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A ton of bikes parked at a bike parking at the Columbus Main Library.
Hmm, must be that time of the month...for the Transit Columbus meeting!
Google Maps screenshot of the intersection of High Street and Vine Street, at 450 North High Street. Vine Street dead-ends onto High Street, at a big glass wall of the Convention Center. Right up against the back of the curb is a mass of concrete planters, maybe 2' by 6' each and 2' tall, spaced no more than 2' apart, in the path of the direct continuation of Vine Street.
I'm thinking about the intersection of High Street and Vine Street, which a Tesla drove through a few years back and ended up parked in the second-story window of the Convention Center.
There's a large number of reinforced-concrete planters there now, located right against the edge of the curb.
Consider a hypothetical situation where this exact same setup is located within the right-of-way on US-23 on North Fourth Street in Downtown Columbus, a 25mph area.
Does whatever guidance you're citing prohibit the location of these bollards on the sidewalk side of a 4-6" curb?
Note that these bollards aren't in the roadway. They're on the sidewalk side of a curb. Does whatever guidance you're citing prohibit that?
Ditch of Despair, definitely.
Sure, the bollards probably preexisted the waste bins, and were probably designed to protect something expensive from getting bumped by trash trucks.
Why can't we have that to protect pedestrians?
There is a higher density of bollards protecting these two waste bins than I've seen for any pedestrian infrastructure in the City of Columbus.
Chart from linked article, showing what % of of each major fertilizer type (nitrogen, phosphorus, & potassium) the US imports, 2000-2024. N has gone down from 21% imported to 6%. Phosphorus is a little up from 2% to 13%. Potassium has gone from 76% to 94%.
The US already makes 96% of the N fertilizer we use.
The fertilizer we import the most is POTASSIUM. Which we get from CANADA.
When we import phosphorus, we get 98% of it from PERU. Not Iran.
So the reason we've had trouble getting those is TARIFFS.
farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2025/07/us-f...
Almost everything on my calendar coming up can be handled by (e)bike and bus, thankfully.
$3.399 gas this morning in Columbus, Ohio.
How much per gallon?
What tech do you think would be a better replacement?
There are ways around X's loginwall, such as xcancel.com or other Nitter instances, but these are not advertised and are not well-known.
Ideally, though, the public notices would also be posted on the government entity's public website in a format that doesn't require reading a 100+-page PDF.
qntm.org/abolish
Historical examples are all fine and dandy, but there's no reason to have that density in a modern layout. (Hijiri-bashi Bridge, Ochanomizu, Tokyo, near Akihabara) youtube.com/watch?v=t6fv...
Can you retrieve your car before midnight now?
I'm in some sort of bubble, I guess, because every web service I use takes WebP, and all the software I use takes WebP as well.
What services are y'all encountering that don't take WebP?
A photo of a statue of Arnold Schwarzenegger, in a body builder posing position with his arms flexed. He's been photoshopped to appear to be holding a COTA bus. He is also gigantically large and appears to be towering above the Columbus skyline.
We'll be back (on the bus).
Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.
living in a walkable city where you can get anywhere you need by walking, by bus, or train is goated in an economic collapsed based entirely on gas prices
In their discussion of strengthening copyright law, do they at all discuss fair use? I'm worried that they might decide to close off stuff like teachers' copies, musical sampling, collage, remixes, wiki summaries of plots, and fanmade videos.
As long as the $/unit gets below that of fossil methane, it's going to displace the extraction industry market. That means a reduction in the amount of new carbon added to the biosphere, which reduces the potential for future warming.
Terraform Industries' tech also results in low-cost green hydrogen production, which would displace methane in the ammonia production pipeline, massively reducing the greenhouse gas intensity of fertilizer for farming.
It's neutral fuel, yes, but more importantly it's a feedstock for many chemical processes. Tack enough carbons on and it can be used for durable goods like plastics. That's carbon-fixing.
And here's the Eventbrite event from @christopherwyche.bsky.social 's email: www.eventbrite.com/e/public-uti...
Something to keep an eye on in the next year or so:
Solar-powered Direct Air Capture CO2->methane pipelines that can provide net-zero-carbon CNG. www.terraformindustries.com says they're going to start deploying in 2026, and they want to hit a price point that would replace fossil sources of CNG.
So what's the special election timeline for replacing Mullin
Godzilla never stood a chance.
parasocial relationships are fun and wholesome!
TL;DR:
- body cameras
- badges and uniforms
- identifiability
- face mask ban
- reports on use of nonlethal force
- de-escalation training
Nothing that would address the roots of the problems the country has seen.