Matt

Somehow I moved to Poland and lost 2 kg, clearly I'm not eating enough pączki

The problem being too many choices, not enough time?

Americans hate freedom. 🤷‍♂️

Manus, Manus the AI from Uranus

Strange take since Google Translate has been 'AI' for a long time.

Or is this a case of when something becomes effectively solved it is no longer 'AI'?

The US has lots of retail space in the form of big box stores.

Not to argue but just to note that this particular chart doesn't suggest the problem is specifically ground floor retail.

I don't buy this take. Tesco, Sainsbury's, etc are fine as supermarkets but nothing riot worthy. Wegmans is better. Hmart too. Some random local grocer near my parents had loads of products from all over the world, really nice. Some US supermarkets are shit, some are good. Ditto for UK.

A small utility snow plow heading home after clearing a protected cycleway just after a small snowfall. The sidewalk and street are already clear.

Warsaw

Let's be fair, the British also have their share.

Data: New Yorkers Keep Biking In This Cold, Cold World - Streetsblog New York City Even in the city's historic deep freeze, New Yorkers are getting around by bicycle, according to publicly available data.

I do hope one of these years the people running the nice bike share program in Warsaw realise it's possible to operate throughout the winter. NY manages in even colder weather.

nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/02/11/d...

A thought: I like seeing exactly what command it wants to run, before I say yes/no. You can do this in an IDE by inventing a language to describe operations, but that's just reinventing CLI.

Make the can Old German and it'll feel like my uni years in Pittsburgh.

In any case, intermingling is something that Germany does quite a bit of, and I suppose the lesson there is: don't, and, if you do, don't underinvest for decades while the system degrades and millions depends on it working.

It's marvellous when all your train connections work because every train is equally delayed

If you can find them

Whatever you do don't copy Germany

Long distance too?

Americans are sick in the head these days, they way they treat parents (among other things). When I was around that age I walked over 20 min to elementary school on ordinary streets by myself. That was in the 80s. Now they persecute parents over a 4 min trip.

Connections are the difference. Sitting here wondering if I'll make my transfer on time at Berlin, the importance of reliability is somewhat highlighted. And unfortunately on the German railway network, a very serious concern.

Congestion Pricing’s Unexpected Winners: Suburban Drivers NYC’s controversial toll program hasn’t just sped up trips inside Manhattan, a new paper finds. It’s easing traffic in outer boroughs and neighboring counties.

A strange but true finding about NYC congestion pricing:

Drivers’ time savings have overwhelmingly gone to those traveling *outside* the toll zone (i.e., driving from Brooklyn to Queens or within NJ) – not those headed into Manhattan.

Me, in Bloomberg 🧵

Trams on a street, it's very foggy and you cannot see much besides the lights of the tram and headlights in the distance.

Kraków in the midnight fog is very mysterious. Trams haunting the streets. I wish I had a better camera.

What do you do with some spare time in Bieruń? 🤔

NJ: a bad state, or the worst?

Somehow EU can mandate spyware on 400+ million peoples' phones (Chat Control) without unanimous agreement, but they can't put out a weak statement without cowering to Hungary?

Around year 2000, I used to go to La Fiesta on Atwood. Americanized, but must have been better than Chi Chi's. It's gone now.

Your name threw me for a sec, Paçzki instead of Pączki. Funny.

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Amazing. After watching this I get the feeling that if every convoy was followed with a boombox blasting Yakety Sax the ICE trash would flee the state in dire embarrassment. What clowns. imgur.com/gallery/foun...

Nice of them to plan this very foreseeable work with only a few weeks notice.

Commute was only 1/5th of journeys (generally) & that proportion has dropped since pandemic. Over-emphasizing commute is a classic transport planning mistake.

Cycling density just as good as walking density in the Netherlands.

They could do better, but worse than NJ? No way. Only Hoboken compares.

Worse than NJ is a helluva claim for a development that is 10 minutes bike ride from Delft station.

Back over a decade ago, I made a big fuss to ensure that 2 replacement stations for the B line in Boston (now rebuilt at Amory & Babcock Streets) would have access at both ends. They agreed to do it, basically by making the stations a whole block long rather than add more crossings.