For particulate matter, a furnace filter sized appropriately to the window-hole will cut air circulation a bit but does allow air exchange without the dust concern.

But yeah, sound. :(

Windows open at night to store up some cool air is the strat, if you can.

Screw the Popemobile, we need to see a Popevelo.

From what I've heard from the local firefighters' union president at government meetings, there's such a shortage of manufacturer capacity in the US, and prices are increasing so quickly, that most fire departments simply cannot order any new fire trucks at all.

Experts Weigh in on State of Passenger Rail Efforts in Ohio - Columbus Underground Ridership on Amtrak trains has reached record levels the last two fiscal years, and support for passenger rail seems to be building across wide swaths of the country, yet in Ohio, not much has changed...

Great to talk to @thetransitguy.com about the 3C+D line, escaping the anti-transit vicious cycle, and the upcoming Ohio Rail Summit, where he'll be a speaker.

What makes this a "pilot" instead of just a generic upgrade?

Bigamy or secret new gender for Mayor Coleman?

Mayor Coleman has a wife who has a wife?

Mirrored Statue of Liberty?

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING - GAGARIN YouTube video by PSBHQ

Happy Yuri's Night!

A sharrow—a pictogram of a bicycle with two chevrons over it painted on a road.

An assortment of boost pads in racing games, which all have a chevron shape in common.

I just think that if sharrows are gonna look like that, they should give you a speed boost when you ride your bike over them.

Meanwhile, the City of Columbus requires a variance if you plan to use anything other than deciduous trees.

Imagine the train network we could have if we merge back into Pangea.

Those astronauts chose the longest possible route from Florida to California ever. They could’ve just taken the 10!

Science is good. We should fund it.

Right now, they're using the buttons around the edges of the screens.

Arc de Triomphe - Wikipedia

Except for the angel, it looks a lot like en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_de_... which was originally a monument to Napoleon's victories.

There's a Jesse Baker sign in the window of Kafe Kerouac, but Kerouac is across the street from his district.

A screenshot of the Artemis livestream with the Integrity module on the left and a half-illuminated Earth getting big on the screen in the center. The black of space is all around.

The #Artemis II livestream continues to be the best thing on the internet. 😍

The return-to-Earth live coverage begins at 6:30pm Eastern (in about 90 minutes) with splashdown in the Pacific scheduled for 8:07pm Eastern.

www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

Driver rolls through a stop sign, then notices oncoming bike traffic and backs up. Kudos to them for backing up!

Last night, my zoning committee heard a variance application from an apartment developer who said they were including real exhaust fans in their kitchens, and offset studs with double-thickness sheetrock on shared walls.

Those are the sorts of QoL improvements that make apartment living better.

You know those range hoods with the puny fan that runs air through a filter but otherwise just recirculates it in the kitchen?

Those should be banned in new construction and refits. Only real exhaust fans should be permitted.

One thing I love about having a laser printer is that pigment is cheap. I don't have to worry about breaking the bank if I choose to print off 100 copies of the trash calendar: one for every house on my street.

Headlights are blinding in America but not other countries and this tech is why | CNN Business Imagine if you could drive at night with your high beams on all the time, bathing the road ahead in bright light but without ever blinding other drivers.

Oh, that's a specific regulatory hurdle where the US didn't legalize adaptive headlights until 2022, and then did so with a set of rules that were stricter than every other country, meaning that "ADB" headlights are only now coming out: www.cnn.com/2024/02/15/c...
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- The Census Bureau, and frankly the entire statistical-collection and regulatory apparatus, should be moved out of the executive branch to become an arm of the legislative branch. This is to spite those people who say that bureaucracy is unconstitutional because the executive can't legislate.

- More things should be referendums. Build the infrastructure to hold quarterly elections, then monthly, then fortnightly, then weekly, then daily. Make it so the government can run live opinion polls.

During the repeal process, states should hold referenda for which UTC offset(s) they end up in. Force Ohioans themselves to pick whether they're going to share a time zone with DC or Chicago.

- street lights should still be that salmon-pink color, not daylight, even if they switch to LEDs

But are they selling it anywhere?

It was quite clearly because the OSU administration didn't like some of the chalked messages. www.thelantern.com/2025/08/ohio...
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