If they were really making trucks for mountain bikers to shuttle up washed out fire roads the body and hood would be as low as possible while maintaining ground clearance. They would be small and functional like a classic pickup truck. The same changes that would make a truck safer to drive in city.
But you will never, ever see a late model pavement princess off-road. No F150. No Hummer. No Bronco.
Part of the value of an off-road vehicle is seeing in front of you, and the child-crushing vanity hoods that these vehicles have make them completely impractical off-roading.
This is great!
I actually do regularly drive off-road and I've never seen a pavement princesses on a gravel road or trails. I drive an Impreza (6.5", can do ~70% of fire roads). There's a lift kit for the older Rav4 models that extends their capability. And older pickups are a regular sight.
It's one of those pieces of infrastructure that's good for traffic calming in theory, but in reality the way people choose to approach it turns it into a bigger hazard than a just an empty intersection or stop signs.
The little neighborhood roundabouts. People take tight left turns instead of going around them, ironically making the intersections much more dangerous. There's one in my neighborhood that's a blind turn when going the wrong way and people still take the left at speed without slowing.
@iwriteok.bsky.social Big fan of Behind the Bastards, but the recent wave of AI crypto scam investment ads is wild.
Can y'all get more ethical sponsors like BetterHelp, Palantir, and OpenAI?
Seriously though, ads for "generated asset" scams are probably doing real harm to your fans.
I don't understand these. In my neighborhood half the cars take the wrong-way shortcut and I've almost been hit a bunch of times walking and on my bike. I get the theory of how they can calm traffic but the tight wrong-way left turn is scary.
That's what I thought, but I keep talking to people who are genuinely dumb enough to believe fake-conservation talking points.
I would put her on blast. The tree people are awful because they do not actually care about trees or urban ecosystems.
Cut 18" off the hood and add it to the bed and it would be perfect.
None of that matters, but a 5ft bed really sucks. A Kei truck is much cheaper and has a 6-6.5ft bed. I've done mountain bike shuttles with 5 people in a Kei truck. With a 5ft bed you might as well go with a hatchback sedan, better value and you can use back row seats when you don't need the space.
A ball python hiding in a crawl space.
Holding a ball python
A ball python getting a bath
This guy has been on the run since October. So glad to have finally found him! Noodles the ball python.
No way that could make it though the traffic calming trap corners on the waterfront.
This is really exciting! My daughter will be eight when the West Seattle extension is scheduled to finish. Looking forward to some bike adventures that don't involve a car.
I'm really hoping the Wilson team cracks down on this.
I've done 50mph on Admiral to match the speed of traffic and it's fucking terrifying.
@westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social Have you seen this DIY sign? I'm curious what the objective is and if it's related to any traffic calming efforts, or if they're popping up elsewhere. This is 18th and Brandon.
I just started a new game after 2 years of not playing and my character portrait is just a black box after hitting level 2. What gives? Is this going to be fixed?
If they knew renters biked across the island to commute across the lake they'd probably blow up the bridges.
The West Seattle library was such a great resource when I was getting my degree. Not enough people s appreciate the value of being able to sit somewhere that's not your apartment without having to pay.
My old neighborhood in Seoul had elevated tracks and stations running along a street half that width. And I don't think it cost very much. Guui station. 10 car trains arriving every ten minutes.
I'm a bike commuter I find ebikes to be problematic because infrastructure isn't built for them. Inexperienced riders immediately have the ability to go 20+ mph. There's one hill where they pass me and I get stuck behind them on a descent and curves for 3/4 of a mile while they ride the brakes.
NYT just giving up and asking ChatGPT to generate ragebait.
If I remember correctly they had staffing shortages. This led to dropped buses. But the notifications only got entered into the system after an hour or two, then at the end of the day, then not at all. Without notifications for buses dropped from the schedule, they just became ghost buses.
Expertise and education is communist. We need to run transit like a business! Something something most efficient distribution of resources. High prices with poor quality of service is good actually! Why do you hate America?
The bus used to be for everybody, but now it feels like Seattle has prioritized only two demographics:
1) Affluent people communing directly to and from work.
2) People who can't afford a car.
And if you get stranded w/ baby, Uber and taxis no longer have car seats and most will turn you away.
What city are you in?
I used to ride the bus so much in Seattle, but the quality and reliability absolutely collapsed in late 2019 and after being stranded dozens of times I only drive or bike.
It's so frustrating because I am a transit zealot and if I can't deal with it, who is it for?
neocaridina shrimp
White cloud minnow
Stocked with white cloud minnows and orange neocaridina shrimp. It's tempered glass so I can't cut vent holes or build a door, so it's just springtails on the wall.
The tea colored water is intentional. I used raw wood to introduce tannins for the blackwater vibe.
Planted waterfall paludarium
Planted waterfall paludarium
Planted waterfall paludarium
I made this waterfall paludarium for my daughter's room about a year ago. I rearrange it when it overgrows and root the clippings right in the water.
It's my first terrarium with a spray foam wall as well as my first paludarium. Built from scrap glass. This hobby doesn't have to be expensive!
A fascinating blue pattern on a Dolomedes triton fishing spider revealed by UV light.
The UV pattern seems to only be revealed in adults. It reminds me of the robots from Breath of the Wild.
The paludarium designs favor water, where they spend most of their time (unlike many other fishing spiders that live more terrestrially). They are large, with females growing to around 3".