@americanfietser.bsky.social the fire department of the academic hospital Utrecht made an indoor firetruck from a cargobike

I know it will likely be a long time before we get lower speed limits in Houston (state government is against that kind of thing), so I do the traffic calming whenever I drive. Local neighborhood becomes 20 mph on my dash or 30 on the arterial (posted at 35).

The car-brained can go around.

Oh, sorry to hear that. I stayed away from gin for most of my life due to all of the horror stories friends and family told me. Then I tried it about 9 years ago. I have no earthly idea why it was so bad for them.

Then again, I honestly do not get hangovers. Just a little dry mouth the next day.

Same here. I do have one bottle each of bourbon and whiskey, but suspect their contents might outlive me.

Whereas, I go through white rum and gin the fastest. My brother gave me a bottle of Uruapan Blanco rum (Mexican) and it's the best clear rum I've ever had. Flor de Caña is another good one.

I'll have to try that with Mexican Coke.

That's fair. As I'm not a winter-person, that would be a daily motivational block.

Okay. It's just how I perceive it by observation here in Houston. Maybe they are the weird one.

Changes in work or other aspects of life?
Personally, I need to learn how to use the bus. I don't even know the basics 😅

Governments are weird. Doing a "curb-cut" likely requires a different project designation and application, as well as a different contractor.

About the only time all of that is together in one package is when the entire road is being replaced (underground and above ground).

In the Vivaldi browser, the icon for "Reader Mode" looks like a paragraph of text. It's located in the url field (next to the bookmark icon-button). Clicking it removes most of the formatting of the page and organizes it into one tall column of text and images.

So long as you have Vision Zero on the books, there's hope.

Our boomer mayor in Houston removed us from that ideal. No hope while he's in office (he's a DINO), but we do hope to reverse his damage once he's gone.

That's interesting. I haven't yet had that happen with Vivaldi. Maybe try other browsers on the same site and see which ones are best at that function?

It also takes not having a country occupied and operated by "rugged individuals". It takes having respect for others and a high sense of community. Europe has that. US doesn't.

I've been meaning to get a typical shop or push broom for sweeping the crashed-car-debris back into the roads. It's not like the roads are free of that same debris either. No one will notice driving over more of it 😅

Car-Brained reply: "But--but--but--weather!! NOBODY can experience weather and survive!" 😅