I build a bridge out of our pillows. Two bor the base, then one spanning a small gap. I put my Earthward arm's hand up the the gap and my head on the bridge pillow.
In all major US cities since the 1970's that have a river in the downtown area, the percentage concentration of dihydrogen monoxide has been increasing! We keep finding more and more of it in parts per million in our river water. At what point will someone in our government stand up for us and say this is enough?!?
This is great to see. I'm very happy the University is using modern city infrastructure options.
Being in Berlin, I see tons of personal cargo bikes, the postal service uses cargo bikes, and there's many pedal-driven cargo trucks (including DHL and UPS ones). When you've got good bike infrastructure, you get a lot done one two or three wheels without much hassle.
So? The park is for people, not cars. Very rarely does removing freeways in cities negatively impact the city. Again and again when we take highways and freeways out of cities it makes the community, healthier, happier, and economically prosperous.
I need the segment display for other projects. It would a great upgrade for my in-home local public transit reader board. Having the upcoming bus and train arrivals with a bigger setup would be massive upgrade.
Overall, nice work. It's the kind of project that could find a home in an art installation. Maybe if the people at the gallery could push a button to clear some RAM or extend the model's life while it ponders existence? Something that puts the humans in control of the model's very being.
We've had several people killed in their living rooms in the last few years by cars just crashing straight through the front of the house. I'm sure keeping a head on a swivel will work there.
Enforcing speed limits has been shown time and again with research to not work long term. Just chasing people around only gets a brief change in behavior. The design of the road sets the speeds, not the fear of punishment. Re-engineering the roads to enforce slow driving is the first real step, the second being to remove car routes in favor of mass transit, biking, and pedestrian routes being the actual win.
Both lights at the end of my residential street cannot detect my motorbike. If I'm heading out from home and there's no cars around I'm essentially trapped (legally) since they've also banned right on red turns in my city.
I had to go through SF a few times this year. I have no idea how much the transit cost, but it was fucking expensive and I just rode a few times per day across town or to the airport.
I love public transit systems and being free to move around a city using them. It's a truly liberating experience to have real freedom, but damn SF was tough to understand and weird in places. They've got to unify the system and start paying for it or it's going to just keep crushing their downtown areas when no one uses the transit to visit.
This is the THIRD time the Republicans have cancelled funding to my research projects over the course of 15 years. This country isn't conducive to stable research work.
The projects cancelled were on senior care tech with smart homes, augmented reality to help prevent falls, and air quality feedback to help people during wildfire seasons. No exactly hotbeds of controversial topics, but having my career and livelihood jerked around against and again by these assholes is enough for me to go. The lastest bend to fascism was just the nail in the coffin.
It is, and I'm well aware of just how hard it is to be in my kind of position. I'm leaving very soon for a job overseas.
It took 12 years of college. It took massive debts that I spent a decade earning to pay off. It took a further 15 years of competing in academia to become a desirable candidate for the job. I'm taking a serious pay cut and spending the saving from a decade of work to make the move.
Its a privilege, but having come from a family that valued education, but had little money to help me, I kinda feel like I've earned it. Decades of effort on my part went into this.
You can be pissed all you want, but I've paid my dues and I'm spending them on a better and safer future for my children away from the US Banana Republic of Dumbfuckistan.
The population pyramid for Russia is terrifying from a societal stability perspective:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#/media/File:Russia_Population_Pyramid.svg
The cliff of a drop for the under-30's (of both genders) is an echo of a dip in the 50-60's group, which is a carry over of the 78-82-ish group. Each generation grows a larger hole in the population and that hole is growing with each generation.
Add in a combination of destructive wars, emigration (mostly due to people not wanting to die in said wars), and alcohol consumption and it's not going to get better. No amount of money or medals awarded to women having children will really change this. It's a region dying generation by generation to dictators' abuses.
The next big nail in the coffin is that complete collapse of the pyramid in the 7 and under group. There's just no children to replace the 33-50-ish group. That older group is essentially the bulk of the Russian workforce right now and as soon as they start to age out shit's going to get real bad real fast. There's literally no one to replace them across the entire country.
I consider that analogy somewhat different. Being able to leave your home to travel safely is a basic human right. Cars on roads are inherently dangerous, even if you try to be defensive as a pedestrian. You can be sitting in your grassy front yard and vehicles can come crashing in to kill you. That happens on a regular basis in the US. You can be walking on the sidewalk and have a car run you down. The vision of kids running into the street to be hit isn't the only risk, merely existing is. Hell, there's plenty of people killed in their home by cars crashing into their houses!
Car crashes are the #2 reason for children's deaths in the US (#1 is now guns, it was cars until about 3 years ago). It's the #3 reason for adults to die after heart disease and cancer. Those stats are actually low balling it because we're finding the noise and pollution from cars jacks up many of the other categories (including heart disease, cancer, dementia). Living by car roads is just inherently dangerous, regardless of how you try to teach your kids to avoid being run down in their own neighborhood.
The government building car only infrastructure, I feel, is an immoral and murderous act against the public. It's categorically different from the parental preference of whether your 14 year old manages to see some porn using a computer you bought on an Internet connection you installed.
I'm leaving a university in the US that's not heavily reliant upon soft money (grants/donations), but we're still losing research support in various ways to this crazy administration. I start at a school in Europe in the fall. I guess I'll go teach and do engineering research there since the US isn't really interested in having academia exist.
I build a bridge out of our pillows. Two bor the base, then one spanning a small gap. I put my Earthward arm's hand up the the gap and my head on the bridge pillow.
Nothing falls asleep improperly.