Two knob UI is the best. Ovens in the 20th century worked great.

Ugh. When I was buying our oven (Dec 2019) some were advertising the color touchscreens. It took about 5-10 swipes to start baking including choosing temperature from a list. I got the prior year model that just had buttons to type the temperature.

However, I’d think it also can be easily “funded” by simply cutting the budget of DDOT’s engineering division by $x and then adding $x to the budget of the engineering division to fund this provision. 4/4 @maustermuhle.bsky.social

I was told DDOT/CFO considered this to have a fiscal impact and thus is unfunded so far. This is kind of BS as it just says you can’t do x (leave off a crosswalk) but offers an escape valve. Maybe it should just have said you can’t do x and then, no fiscal impact. 3/

“… marked crosswalk that complies with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, unless DDOT has published a brief reasoning on its website describing why installing a high-visibility, marked crosswalk would reduce pedestrian safety." 2/

It’s a violation of the Vision Zero Enhancement Omnibus Act of 2020: “For a road segment that has a crosswalk that is not marked, road reconstruction or major repair, installation of a curb and gutter, or curb and gutter replacement shall include installation of a high-visibility 1/

which I don't think actually apply in that specific area. I'm curious if you agree with his point when applied to places not granted to Native nations by treaties at some point?

Thanks for this! I do think most of his piece is reacting to the way people use land acknowledgments, as opposed to the nations-rights framework you are talking about.

I have seen ones for i.e. Washington DC where people are trying to figure out what tribes once lived here, not real treaty rights

Agreed. As you touch on at the end, I think, talking about how X may have been an unhelpful echo chamber even before its Musk-ification. (Personally, I left X months ago; mostly used Reddit and the occasional FB group; and then recently dipped my toe back because a lot of people are joining.)

There's certainly the question of whether being on any of these is actually good for one's health. If one is on such a platform, maybe Bluesky will have less abuse, but we'll have to see. I hope so.

The tenor of replies you are getting here isn't promising, unfortunately. At least I'm not being force-fed all the ads and junk as on X.

As for your article, you're talking about elected officials and issue activists and such. For regular people it might be a different story (or not).

Helpful article, thanks! I personally left X because I just found posting on it was making me more stressed, not happier, always refreshing to see if my post had gotten likes and such. Plus Musk didn't help. I'm still undecided if Bluesky is going to be worthwhile or not.

This is great! Are reflective license plate covers (the ones designed to stymie enforcement cameras or toll readers) included as well?

Right, but that doesn’t tell you the race of the riders. There might have to be a survey or something to actually get hard numbers about nonwhite people also increasingly using CaBi. My anecdotal observation is yes, but an article would need some data I think.

Is there data that has been released about that which reporters or columnists could turn into an article?

Sounds about on brand for modern DDOT.

Good for you! Following you now