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by wonder_er 2y ago
holy cow this is amaaaaazing, u/ellipsis753. My god. I want the t-shirt, I love the love for bell bollards, I obviously had a photo of one in the post but i didn't know there was so much love for them!!!!! I <3 this
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by wonder_er 2y ago
I was under the influence of _deep_ rage at American traffic planners and municipal 'engineers' who commit themselves, deeply, to dehumanizing decisions, and then spend meaningful effort preventing OTHERS from tending to the space
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by wonder_er 2y ago
saaaaame
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by wonder_er 2y ago
loooool this is gold. Author of the post, here, I love this. > Like, they would love nothing more than for some master race of pickup truck bros to upload their brains into anthropomorphic cars, discard their primitive flesh, and then ru
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by wonder_er 2y ago
> In fact, it strikes me that "places where you shouldn't try and park a car because your car would probably be hit by a car" would make a pretty decent heuristic for places to start. Spot on. I'd LOVE to start with b
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by wonder_er 2y ago
> we make an active choice to create danger and then a second choice not to mitigate the danger. Precisely! This is why I keep suggesting charges of criminal negligence against city engineers, along side stripping them of sovereign immun
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by wonder_er 2y ago
I feel seen. (Author here.) Indeed, the cost of bollards is _dramatically_ lower than 'not bollards'. Also, a one time spend for permanent safety, for years or decades. It's a slam dunk.
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by wonder_er 2y ago
author here. Thanks for the gracious words. Yes, I'm foundationally attacking the entire way the discipline is practiced, I'm not _trying_ to do it politely, _and_ the critiques are possibly fairly leveled. :)
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by wonder_er 2y ago
exaaaaaactly. this, all the way. (i wrote the bollard post.) > It's actually much crazier, but you will find it hard to believe. I kept having this experience, as professional, licensed engineers would tell me, with their whole mou
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by wonder_er 2y ago
I've been following the world bollard account for ages, love them with my whole soul. I'm weighing _installing a bollard_ against _a person or building or both being destroyed by a regular and routine mistake_. Bollards are hilari
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by wonder_er 2y ago
author of the post here, this is exactly right. There's zero 'structural empathy' towards non-car-drivers. It's always been that way in America, though, as soon as municipal planners figured out they could use federal hi
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by wonder_er 2y ago
I do desired them for their _objective_ incompetence. Among serious traffic people, globally, american traffic planners are regarded as children in a corner eating play dough. I have plenty of nuance, here you go: - https://zonin
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by wonder_er 2y ago
> The author writes as if people who work in this space are not smart. That's correct. I write as if they are not smart, because the other option is that _they are willfully malicious and committed to maintaining a status quo that i
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by wonder_er 2y ago
Author here. You got the exact message I was trying to convey. Thank you.
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by wonder_er 2y ago
author here. Didn't find out until just a few minutes ago that this recent, random, draft post ended up on the HN front page. Huzzah. > My biggest question is: is the author arguing that there should be spaced bollards along literal
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by wonder_er 3y ago
The public input blocking improvement is a feature, not a bug. Think about who had the permission to vote, when voting was first deemed as a way to impact the world. 'the public' means 'americans' which means 'the n
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by wonder_er 3y ago
when two people are playing a game, and one of them is willing to use violence, it's quite a bit harder for the other person to not use violence as well. The US uses violence and coercion as a matter of fact, continuously, in every way
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by wonder_er 3y ago
"America" is so hideously crippled by the heavy duty ethnic cleansing and regimes of social control baked into land use laws and transportation/mobility networks that 'advanced' problems are not even eligible to be
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by wonder_er 3y ago
the us immigration system is deeply dehumanizing. The presumptions, control, classism, the authoritarian language, the implication that access to some perfect garden is being granted, that the lucky recipient will never want to leave... it&
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by wonder_er 3y ago
yeah. for a few years, but especially recently, every time I re-enter the USA, I cannot help but think, for a long time, how it feels like such decline is so visible everywhere. It feels quite dispiriting. I'm not sure I'd go to c
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by wonder_er 3y ago
part of the reason this is so bad in the USA is indeed what OP named, the concept of 'legibility', as explained in 'seeing like a state'. In the case of the USA, though, another 'lens' on the legibility is that
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by wonder_er 3y ago
ooooh, sorry, no, it's gone. I had a whole thing happening around becoming a bold lead climber by becoming an amazing lead belayer. It was great! I've helped many, many people become very safe, very confident sport climbers. Watch
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by wonder_er 3y ago
https://josh.works/blog Oh, boy, it's a random collection of things. Here's a smattering of posts about: - climbing: https://josh.works/climbing/2016/05/29/on-boldness-in-climbi
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by wonder_er 3y ago
My only credibility to make a reliable book recommendation on this topic: 1. Have experienced some of what's discussed 2. Has historically read quite a lot The following book, and others by the author, have proven to be the most effici
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by wonder_er 3y ago
Great question. I think because plastic and rubber are both petrolium byproducts, the 'shreds' of both are bad. I googled, found: > Current tires consist of 19% natural rubber and 24% synthetic polymers (plastics), as well as m
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by wonder_er 3y ago
Tire rubber is a huuuuge source of airborne microplastics.
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by wonder_er 3y ago
whoa. Thank you! Just enabled this for my ublock extension. Don't see a difference yet, but I'm psyched for any chance to up my ublock usage.
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by wonder_er 3y ago
couldn't agree more. I put together an explainer about how to use it to _rapidly_ (and usually permanently) delete nearly any part of public websites. When I see friends on many websites now, it makes my heart ache. https://
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by wonder_er 3y ago
jesus. Some folks seem harsh here. You have one life, you're allowed to think critically about it, and weigh if you're getting from it what you want, etc. I humbly propose that you start planning your exit from your software devel
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by wonder_er 4y ago
I would vastly prefer private security forces to provide defense for me than the police. History is full of examples of neighborhoods and ethnic groups organizing their own defenses to manage misbehavior from within and without those groups

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