I wish folks had the same energy for mogging on Palantir as they do Starbucks, but who am I to deny the will of the people?

what is this and where can I get one?

me: i made mac n cheese but it's way too salty

[20 posts later]

bluesky: white people are afraid of flavor

The reason why I wanted to hone in on that point is that the most common jobs in the US — retail, food service, nursing, construction — can't be done remotely. Good transit + dense housing isn't being built not because of office buildings, but because of existing economic factors (eg, NIMBYism).

I was trying to steelman if anything, but fair enough.

let's not forgot the ethical implications of having robots do security or policing work...

And the practical implications.

with them. If you've worked in a factory you'd also know robots tend to be dangerous — they're big heavy metal things that can crush, maim, and kill when they malfunction, or more often, when humans simply forget to keep out of their way. Some robots can be made safer, some cannot. And...

You can't be serious about the "everyone works from home thing," it's not physically possible. How do we get the guy behind the counter at 7-11 to work from home? He can't pass me some scratchers and a pack of Kools over a Zoom call.

Before you say robots, we can't replace every job...

*for this particular residential area

For somewhere higher density I could see this potentially working, but like I said, these are single family homes.

(I'm not against elevated bike lanes in concept, but for a residential area this doesn't seem or architecturally feasible.)

Wouldn't elevating the bike lane make it less useful for local residents? If you could take it all the way downtown, I guess that'd be neat, but a lot of bike traffic are just people getting groceries up the street. An elevated bike lane would need an obscene number of off and on ramps.

Some people who live here can work remote, some can't.

To me, a speeding camera would make sense. What's your alternative proposal? Again, I'm not against radical change, but this is an area with single family homes; you and I both know how NIMBY those guys can be especially here in California.

(there is a hiking trail nearby and that trail has no parking nearby). It is a wide road that has an unprotected bike lane in either direction. Commuters regularly speed ~40 MPH on this road, and at night, wannabe dragsters go 70 MPH because it is long and straight. ...

be rerouted to existing streets, since like many residential areas it's not a perfect grid where every road has a parallel that goes on for exactly as long. Residents park on either side of the curb as do tourists...

I get what you're saying here and agree in spirit, but if you really think almost everyone was working remotely, you probably live in a bit of a bubble yourself.

Let's talk specifics. Like I said, I'm on a long straight road that people regularly speed down. The traffic cannot efficiently...

For a lot of roads (like the one I live on, a long straight road that is the main route to go downtown), truly effective traffic calming would be quite difficult to implement. I'm not against radical change but unfortunately most of my neighbors are.

I agree completely that urban design is way too car-centered. I'm very much in favor of getting cars out of the picture as much as possible, and I'd rather restructuring over punitive measures. But I'm also familiar with the hell homeowners raise every time you try to make a major change to an area.

if cameras were put in the wealthier areas of Chicago with more deaths like you mentioned, and some of the poorly placed cameras removed, fatalities would decrease further without harming minority residents.