Not just crushed ants, I smell it when they’re scared and running, but undamaged, as well. Calm ants though, they don’t smell to me. I always assumed it was a warning chemical to other ants, or a deterrent for predators with more sensitive sniffers than I.

Yes, beetles in general don’t smell great to me. They leave a fecal-like scent on my fingers when I hold them (Which I’ve always assumed is some sort of musk and not actual feces). I can smell ants too, but it’s only when they’re scared: They seem to release a chemical that smells to me like Windex the moment they realize they’re possibly in danger. I didn’t know that made me special, but I do know that others might not be able to smell it as I’ve had conversations about this with people who didn’t know wtf I was talking about. I’ve heard that it might be formic acid? Not sure.

Funny because I don’t normally have a very sensitive nose. And I’m not a super-taster, cilantro tastes like cilantro to me (Fresh and herbally).

Neither. If I wanted my vehicle to drive itself I’d be on a tram.

She repeatedly states in her videos that she’s a liberal and then people get angry at her for being a fake leftist. I don’t agree with a small segment of her opinions, but it’s not as if she isn’t honest with her audience. I wish literally any other liberal had her level of ideological clarity.

Entering the realization phase that the US is a Nazi.

The problem with a Windows machine in your house that isn’t yours, is that it’s still reporting “telemetry” about it’s environment back to it’s true masters.

You’re not alone, friend. To paraphrase Doctorow, an app is just a website that’s a felony to alter. If a company puts a service behind an app that they don’t also make available via web, I am either learning to do without that service or looking for foss alternatives. I really don’t care about someone’s grandpa finding it easier to use an app, fuck you stop using old people to justify killing the web, give me a functioning website.

No parking minimum requirements, most places in the US have minimum parking requirements for both residential and commercial construction which not only makes construction unnecessarily expensive but also ensures that the built outcome functionally serves cars more than people.

You can also simply cap the allowable number of driveways per distance on a street. New construction can either join with an existing driveway, put their driveway on another side of the block, or simply not have a driveway.

Municipalities can designate specific areas for parking: Commercial districts can ban on-street parking completely and have a low-cost municipal parking garage in a business district. You can also cap the number of parking lots per block and mandate that any commercial property on the block have access to that lot instead of having a constellation of business-exclusive lots.

As for the visibility complaint, standard guidance is to ensure that the car is completely perpendicular to the bike lane by the time it’s crossing, so that the driver can clearly see both left and right down the lane before they cross it. You do this by setting the driveway a car length off of the road, which can be achieved a bunch of different ways. The way it’s set up now, it’s like putting a right turn lane on the left side of a highway. And they’d also put signage at a crossing like this.

They probably have been sued over and it doesn’t affect them enough to care. And I can assure you, this kind of shit is very real. In fact I’ve taken the train and walked the final few miles to this very venue before. Can confirm, a decent chunk of the walk was balancing on a 1-foot wide curb at the edge of a highway bridge.

Hundreds of square miles of tollway spaghetti. When I lived in NYC I was convinced that it’s intentionally confusing, so that you exit and enter through the toll booths over and over.

Jeez, they still haven’t fixed that shit? I saw a Chili Peppers concert there in like 2008, my date and I took NJ Transit or PATH out there from the city (I forget which) and ended up having to walk several miles along highways to get the the stadium. I wouldn’t give the Meadowlands my money ever again until they did something about that. The trains aren’t even that far away, they just haven’t connected them!!

That automotive crossing in frame center is seriously bad vibes. The car parking immediately adjacent to the driveway - A driveway that presumably leads to more car parking - Means zero bike visibility for drivers turning right off the street. That’s a near-guaranteed cyclist injury or death in the future, which becomes even more likely the smaller the cyclist is. None of the road signs seem to warn of the presence of the bike lane. And there’s another car crossing 20 feet after that! Aesthetically this lane looks pleasing to the North American eye but I expect it wouldn’t actually pass muster in a place like NL.

It’s certainly a move in the right direction but I’d stop short of calling it “good” when it’s not even safe.

Well then let’s invite them to run a C-Tran train over the bridge to the Expo Center, whatever gets us local rail over the Columbia. Also we shouldn’t confuse county and city up there, same as we shouldn’t down here.

Do however keep in mind that the entire intent here seemed to be the creation of blackmail, it’s not just banality of evil but also ol Jeffy making sure that the dark desires of his marks was properly documented for mossad or whoever he was being funded by. He wasn’t worried about being caught by the state, he was an actor of the state.

Yeah, this panic over the imagination of trains exporting cars full of unwashed masses into your social flight suburb is a tension in literally every regional rail rollout in the west, or at least in North America. The facts of the matter is that TriMet does already police Max ridership (I’d know, they’ve ticketed me), and commuting either by car on a traffic jammed highway over a century-old earthquake-vulnerable bridge or by rail while sitting across a passenger car from a potentially homeless person is a decision that remains securely in the hands of Washingtonian suburbanites, they need not fear that decision being taken from them and they will ultimately get whichever choice they deserve.

But for the time being, Washington is importing thousands of gas belching lifted pickup trucks into my Portland neighborhood every weekday morning, and I don’t personally get much of a say in that matter.

It’s not necessarily that they hate transit, it’s that they have a mypopic and outdated department mission. They can only build and maintain highways. The state desperately needs to tweak the department’s priorities.

Now Vancouver city government… There’s an institution that genuinely hates and fears transit.

By the way that redaction is a federal crime, too. Redacting the names of non-victims in these files was explicitly prohibited by the act that ordered their release. Fascists are screaming at us through their actions that liberalism and legalism will not, cannot prevent or restrain their barbarism. When’s the world gonna listen?

NYTimes headline style is a toxic influence on journalism.

Lol I know like a dozen eagle scouts and today 100% of them are gay or trans. Trying to keep the BSA conservative while every uncomfortable father is enrolling their pansy son is a game of entropy that the right cannot win.

No like textual headers of windows and settings sections. Shit like “My Settings”.