everyone drives, one person per car, makes sense

It probably is the only one! But it was probably there first!

So you are telling me there is a slaughterhouse in the butchertown neighborhood 🤔

I don’t think 7 foot ceiling is a safety issue. It seems unpleasant at worst. If anything the reduced air volume mitigates insufficient ventilation capacity.

Electrical, plumbing, and ventilation (indoor air quality issue)? Oh yeah regulate it.

Incredible building. Very hostile

Same

We do love Europe's human-scaled, transit-centred, car-lite urbanism, don't we?

bar chart showing rapid growth in middle housing in Beaverton, Eugene and Portland, but a decline everywhere else

Thousands of duplex, triplex, fourplex, & cottage homes have been built in Oregon since its 2019 statewide upzone - but they’re unevenly distributed.

Let's dive into two things:

1. What we can learn from the places it's working
2. Why @govtinakotek.bsky.social's follow-up bill would help

Imagine how that would go in 2025 for “disfavored” municipalities

Even better if they let builders choose at their option to comply with Eurocodes or Japanese code instead

AKA "non-hard vodka"

Yeah I’m not surprised the Pentagon is mad, the signal groupchat alone could have gotten pilots killed

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NEW: A coalition of students from more than 15 law schools across the country have signed a pledge not to work for any firm that “gives in to Trump administration demands…”

Signatories include students from Harvard, Georgetown, University of Chicago, UT-Austin…

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If true ground floor units have privacy and security issues, why don’t duplex downs also? Those units need to have windows AT ground level, and I assume they can’t have bars because they need to be egress windows.

Exclusive: Aircraft supplier Howmet may halt orders if hit by Trump tariffs, letter says Howmet Aerospace , which supplies parts for planes built by Airbus and Boeing , may halt some shipments if they are impacted by tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, according to a letter seen by Reuters.

Pittsburgh-based aerospace company, which sells parts to the major aviation companies, has declared a force majeure in the wake of Trump's tariffs so it can break contract obligations
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A screenshot of text from The Return of the King, with the following passage undermined (Gandalf speaking), "And for my part, I shall not wholly fail of my task, though Gondor should perish, if anything passes through this night that can still grow fair or bear fruit and flower again in the days to come. For I also am a steward. Did you not know?"

In this moment, with so many of our institutions - economic, social, educational - being actively undermined, when I think of what my role as a historian is, my mind goes to my favorite passage from The Lord of the Rings.

For I also am a steward. Did you not know?

A pale green Mojave mound cactus on sandy ground with bright red buds like tiny lipsticks and a few cup-shaped flowers open between long thin cacti needles

do people #flowerreport here? here’s a basically perfect Mojave mound cactus with no filter besides a few clouds 🌤️

I have been considering treasury bonds a good hedge for the current chaos, based on my inflation expectations, but I just had a horrible thought. It would be totally in character for Trump to start talking about defaulting on the debt out of the blue.

He Served His Country And Voted For Trump. Now He Has Regrets. Anthony Muro helped other vets through his dream job at the VA. Now he frets over the future of veteran health care as Trump cuts government agencies.

Muro preferred Trump over Kamala Harris because of primarily one issue: the border. He now has deep misgivings about his vote because of Trump’s slapdash cuts to the government.
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"'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party."

“Remember, I am a tariff man”

If you argue with them on the intarwubs, it's just amazing how many of them have completely convinced themselves that he knows how bad tariffs are and is just deploying them as a high-pressure negotiating tactic. It's like, have you ever actually listened to a word this guy says?

You’re a gutless weirdo. Some things are worth standing and fighting for. Can you imagine FDR or Lincoln saying “No, I won’t defend this free nation of laws, because it might risk an economic downturn”?

I didn’t realize that one was just a single bar. I agree that’s the best way if you want the look but not the function.

Both of those building designs are really nice retro styles though

That’s really weird, haha

Would be obnoxious to have one of those fake ladders taking up space on your balcony

Some "Russian Warship" vibes here from a tiny fed'l agency.

via Brett Murphy:

The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building: