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What I mean when I say #BanCars
by JamesI drafted this at my local Honda dealership, getting my car serviced. For someone with a #BanCars plastered on the back of their bike, owning a car might seem a bit hypocritical. But it’s not.
When people see the sticker, they assume I think we should ban all cars. But that’s not exactly what I want. Let me explain.
Outside of our homes is the public. The public is owned by all of us, from newborns to centenarians, people of all fitness and physical abilities. Cars take the public and privatize it.
Toddlers can’t walk around the public least they get run over...by a car. Riding your bike becomes difficult because you’re worried, not about the weather, but about getting hit by a 2-ton pickup truck, something that is only going to get worse with electric vehicles as they are heavier and quieter.
I don’t want to ban all cars. No, I want to reclaim the public for people as much as possible. Reduce the number of lanes dedicated for cars and increase the lanes dedicated for other modes of transport, like bikes. Make dedicated lanes for public transit. Remove free car storage from the sides of our roads. Reallocate the roads of our cities to be human centered, not car centered.
It’s not a ban. But it will feel like a ban to some people in the same way that some white people feel oppressed when there's racial equality.
This is what I mean when I say #BanCars, it just doesn't fit on a bumper sticker. -
Response to
by JamesNot only Telegram implements new features, I spontaneously had an idea and a bit of programming desire. As an optional feature GoBlog now offers “reactions”. I don’t think I need to explain this feature, just try it out on this post. 😉
Oohhh, I like this reactions idea. I may need to do something similar in Tanzawa 😀. -
Checkin to Starbucks
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by JamesI finished the initial pass at layerizing Tanzawa. There's still more work to be done to get more logic out of forms and into the domain layer, but the initial moving large chunks around the code base is done. Will merge and deploy it tomorrow.
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by James
- Maintenance of Wordpress sites is a never ending battle, and even the most prolific bloggers can’t be bothered.
- I miss the optimism of the web in the early 2000’s before social media silos became so dominant. The people in the indieweb help restore my faith in the potential of an open web still being "viable".
- I should do more long form blog posts and be the change I want to see.
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by JamesExcited to listen to a new episode of Inside the Energy Transition. The latest episode, A just transition: how to avoid leaving people behind, should be good.
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The Week #93
by James- After Leo got Covid last week, I knew my turn wasn't far behind, sure enough, we all tested positive. While Leo is technically out of quarantine as of Sunday, since he's 4 and can't go anywhere, he's still quarantining until we're finished on Wednesday and Thursday this week.
- Thankfully, because we were freshly boosted the effects have been minimal. I had a sore throat for a couple of days and a small cough. The day I posted positive, I felt a bit short of breath making my coffee, but by the time it brewed got some coffee in my system, it sorted itself out. And the pulse oximeter that arrived later that day confirmed it.
- Which is to say we've all been mostly indoors since March 30th and, besides not running / making regular trips to the store, I'm surprised just how little my day-to-day has changed. Perhaps because we were already in a permanent state of social distancing.
- Catching Covid, as much as it sucks, has also been a relief. The past 2+ years I've been second guessing myself, worrying "what if" most every time I went out...and now I don't need to do that. I'll still do my part and mask up and so forth, but that background thread is getting bumped down the priority queue quite a bit.
- My first batch of compost has been finished for a couple of weeks but I'd been delaying using it...and since I'm stuck at home, I decided to finally use it by replanting our rosemary plant. I think batch-1 needed to be mixed a bit better as there were still some onion skins remaining intact..but other than that it was mostly soil. My second batch got a small dose of starter and the next day when I mixed it, it was hot...the team is loving it and really breaking everything down.
- The Linda Lindas' Growing Up album finally came out and it's great.
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by JamesI keep thinking about what if we got rid of our car parking spot in front of the house and built a nice garden and terrace instead. Would bring more daily happiness.
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by JamesBeen listening to Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown podcast lately when I walk. It’s just the episode’s audio track, but feels like you’re traveling. It’s great.
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by JamesDespite my intentions to blog as I tweet, I haven’t. Probably as I have yet to automate syndication. I’m torn between doing it with brid.gy or just writing the quick integration myself…Brid.gy would probably require me to add update support to my micropub endpoint.
