I wish I could find a good intermediate reference that picked up at the level of detail the books you mentioned leave off.
For example, I’m framing a wall for the first time and although every book will tell you “put studs 16” on center," it’s hard to figure out that the spacing gets measured from the left edge of the first stud. They also don’t tell you things like where the seam should fall when the wall is long enough that you need more than one board for the top plate, or what to do if you want to locate an electrical box halfway between two studs, or (in a lot of the books) even something as basic as how to detail a corner connection.
The government already has rules to quantify and account for that sort of thing in various contexts, such as this or (more strictly) this. Similar rules simply need to be imposed on SCOTUS.
False dichotomy: I’ll still happily grab a paper map to this day if given the option, but I’ve never paid for one.
Every paper map I’ve ever used has been either a state highway map given for free at the state welcome center on the side of the freeway, or a state/national park hiking trail map given for free at the visitor center or ranger station.
At first I was sad reading that an actor I liked turned out to be a bigot, but then I realized I was confusing this dipshit with Roy Scheider and felt better.
First of all, good for Auckland. I wish my city (whose metro area has about a million more people than the entirety of New Zealand) would have the courage do similar.
However, I gotta say I’m not a huge fan of the built form of the pictured examples, with five or six detached units in a row front-to-back on a single-family lot. It would make more sense to me to build more traditional quadplex apartment buildings (e.g. like this) instead.
I’m sure it is about ticking the checkboxes for buyers’ expectations, on paper. But the end result is just that: nothing but ticking the box, while failing to deliver the actual benefit the feature implies.
It’s kind of like how my house has 4’ x 4’ closets in the bedrooms so they can be called “walk-in closets,” but the extra depth is fucking useless and all it accomplishes is to eat away from the square footage of the actual room. (I’m ripping them out to put in normal reach-in depth closets instead because I hate them so much.)
…Sorry for the rant.
Anyway, the point is that a well-designed apartment or townhouse can be lived in better than a poorly-designed detached house with no windows on two sides because there’s a pointless 2-foot gap between buildings just so they can tick the box of “detached,” but that’s the tradeoff that looks like it’s being made here. These things don’t even appear to have any greenspace (common or otherwise), while the example I linked to would fit on one of those lots and still have room to be set back from the street the same distance as the other houses as well as a shared back yard.
I am only pushing back on this because I am just so damn tired of the constant “Texas Bad” posts comments that are unwilling to engage in a meaningful conversation about the topic and pretend like my state is full of the dumbest most right wing shit heels, while we also have some of the largest left leaning cities in the country.
Believe it or not, I’m a bike/ped/transit activist in Atlanta. I understand both “how a metropolis works,” and your sentiment, better than you realize.
Having said that, I still stand behind my cynical comment. Let’s not pretend the Houston city government hasn’t been largely complicit with this shit for decades, regardless of how “blue” their constituents are. Frankly, even some of the most bleeding-heart liberals here throughout America get real mad, real fast, the instant anybody makes even the meekest suggestion that maybe they should try getting out of their cars. (Or, very relatedly, suggesting that maybe we should allow more housing density anywhere near their single-family homes, for that matter.) That laziness and NIMBY sense of entitlement (for a lifestyle built on redlining and Ponzi schemes, no less) is emblematic of how even the the “bluest” American cities are run, across the board.
Fun fact: they have to modify the emissions system of the truck to do it, violating Federal law (the Clean Air Act).
If you try to “roll coal” in an unmodified diesel (in proper working order), the “best” you’ll get is a light haze of soot, not a black cloud. This is because the manufacturers do actually try to design them to be efficient, and every bit of soot represents unburned fuel that didn’t get converted into propulsive force.
It’s not just that; they also modify the ECU tuning and maybe even swap out fuel injectors themselves to dump in lots of extra fuel that there isn’t enough air to burn. Even without particulate filters and DEF, Diesels don’t naturally produce anywhere near that much soot. You’ve got to deliberately force them to be that bad!
(Source: I have a '98 VW TDI—made before DPFs and DEF were things—that I’ve modded for more performance, and even in the worst-case scenario of flooring it while running dino-diesel, it barely produces a haze. On B100 biodiesel, it’s even cleaner.)
Bottom line is that if a Diesel is producing lots of visible smoke, it’s either really, really old and shitty (think pre-1980s non-turbo indirect injection), or it’s severely worn out, or somebody made it do it on purpose.
No, that’s a Federal requirement, too. It only requires them to be brought up to the $7.25/hour Federal minimum wage so it’s pretty useless, but it exists.
What part of “programming languages are standards” do you not understand?
What you wrote is like suggesting that Internet Explorer shouldn’t have been allowed to implement JavaScript and that all websites should’ve been forced to decide between being compatible with only Netscape or only IE.
Only things that are effective are better than doing nothing. Doing ineffective things only gives a false sense of accomplishment and thus reduces the incentive to try harder to be effective, which means they’re actually worse than doing nothing.
Online petitions, “free speech zones,” and other easily-ignorable things are like honeypots for activism, designed to neuter it.
It’s not about an adult being in the White House; it’s about a non-traitor being in it. The police weren’t conspicuously mostly absent on Jan 6 because of incompetence; they were deliberately sent away in order to help the coup succeed.
Normal people sit in a cell serving their sentence while awaiting appeal. Only elite fascist fucks get the kid-glove treatment and run around free until the judges can’t come up with a fig leaf to keep entertaining their lawyers’ bullshit motions anymore.
Wanting to automate something because it’s better/cheaper is very different from falsely claiming that there’s a “labor shortage” because they allegedly can’t find anybody to do the job, though. There’s no need for them to be fucking self-servingly dishonest about it.
Literature on repairing?
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Watchdog: Thomas Accepted More in Gifts Than All Other SCOTUS Members Combined (truthout.org)
When was the last time you bought a paper map and why ?
Just out of curiosity, are you full digital do you still buy map often ?.
Crowd boos Rob Schneider off the stage when he started telling anti-trans & anti-vaxx jokes (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Australia has long debated this housing idea, but in Auckland it's already working (www.abc.net.au)
'Murica (files.catbox.moe)
This is true Freedom™
Texas asks people to avoid using their cars (www.newsweek.com)
Consumers say they're pulling back on tipping servers, drivers and hair stylists (www.nbcnews.com)
People are a little bit stingier in barber chairs and Ubers than they were just a few years ago....
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Not me. I have a client who’s a very sweet old lady who’s business is doing real bio science to treat cancer patients with cannabis extracts....
MAGA 'Prophets': God Thinks Trump's Conviction Was Rigged (www.rollingstone.com)
Nvidia's grasp of desktop GPU market balloons to 88% — AMD has just 12%, Intel negligible, says JPR (www.tomshardware.com)
Internet Archive is in danger (lemmy.zip)
It looks like the internet archive is needed assistance, I just heard about this today and figured lemmy could help spread this message around
Showing Contempt for Young Voters Is a Great Way for Democrats to Lose in November (www.thenation.com)
Trump's obsession with revenge: A big post-verdict danger (www.motherjones.com)
Former Trump aide Steve Bannon ordered to jail by July 1 to serve contempt of Congress sentence (www.cnbc.com)
**OBEY** (64.media.tumblr.com)
Shout out to 10 years of Antifa International
“This Is War” — Tommy Tuberville Tells Americans to Choose a Side After Trump Conviction (truthout.org)