They call me the Hiphopopotamus Flows that glow like phosphorous Popping off the top of this esophagus Rocking this metropolis I’m not a large water-dwelling mammal Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis? Did Steve tell you that perchance?
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spoileralt text: A two panel comic. In the first panel there are two buttons labeled “I don’t believe in prescriptivism” and “‘Literally’ cannot mean ‘figuratively’”. A finger hovers between the buttons. In the second panel, the finger’s owner is sweating and wiping his brow, unable to decide.
My grocery store is 0.25 miles away. That’s the farthest I go within a month apart from the bank. I realize that it would be ableist to expect everyone to carry two tote bags full of groceries back from somewhere that far regularly walking, but like what if there could be a service for disabled people to fetch groceries that...
I’d look at Japan as an example of how this can be well done. I spent a short time in a pretty rural Japanese suburb (like walking distance from farmland), but the place I stayed was a 10-minute walk from two 24-hour convenience stores along with several restaurants and other shops.
A big part of this is zoning - even in the most restrictive residential zone in Japan, you can build multi-family units and small shops, unlike in the US where most zoned land is single family housing only. Here’s a great video that goes into more detail on Japan’s zoning.
The Diomede Islands are two islands in the Arctic Ocean, between Alaska and Siberia. Despite the distance being 4 kilometres, there is a time difference of 21 hours between them. Why?...
Just based on how often I notice someone mispronounce a word without realizing it (or have done so myself and realized it later). Statistically I’m probably still doing it with some word.
Tesla drivers had the worst accident rate in the US
Tesla drivers had the worst accident rate in the US, with 24 accidents per 1,000 drivers....
Sniffing women’s tears reduces male aggression by 44%, study finds (newatlas.com)
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So proud I'm coming in NaNth in my step count competition (discuss.tchncs.de)
Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand (newatlas.com)
xkcd: Urban Planning Opinion Progression (xkcd.com)
What is the best hip hop lyric of all time?
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Crosscut - Mayor Harrell releases blueprint to ‘activate’ Downtown Seattle (crosscut.com)
There was an attempt to join the Reddit blackout (discuss.tchncs.de)
Aphex Twin - Untitled [Four Tet Remix - Selected Ambient Works 2 CD 1 Track1] (www.youtube.com)
The descriptivist's dilemma (discuss.tchncs.de)
spoileralt text: A two panel comic. In the first panel there are two buttons labeled “I don’t believe in prescriptivism” and “‘Literally’ cannot mean ‘figuratively’”. A finger hovers between the buttons. In the second panel, the finger’s owner is sweating and wiping his brow, unable to decide.
Warm beer and cold coffee are the same temperature
Seattle’s first protected intersection, Dexter Ave N @ Thomas St. (slrpnk.net)
The mathematically impossible ball that shouldn’t exist. | Stand-up Maths [19:28] (www.youtube.com)
How could a three to five minute level of urban planning be incorporated into larger city systems?
My grocery store is 0.25 miles away. That’s the farthest I go within a month apart from the bank. I realize that it would be ableist to expect everyone to carry two tote bags full of groceries back from somewhere that far regularly walking, but like what if there could be a service for disabled people to fetch groceries that...
How come there are ~21 hours between the two Diomede islands that are only 4 km apart?
The Diomede Islands are two islands in the Arctic Ocean, between Alaska and Siberia. Despite the distance being 4 kilometres, there is a time difference of 21 hours between them. Why?...
There's probably a word I've been pronouncing wrong my whole life that I don't know about
Just based on how often I notice someone mispronounce a word without realizing it (or have done so myself and realized it later). Statistically I’m probably still doing it with some word.
Utabi - Lighpotllution (www.youtube.com)
Laws of Robotics (mander.xyz)
Mayor Harrell Clarifies That ‘One Seattle’ Has Always Referred to the One Percent of Seattle with Waterfront Property [The Needling] (theneedling.com)
Osamu Sato - Long Tall Eyelash (μ-Ziq Mix) (1998) (www.youtube.com)
How Seattle Rejected the Monorail (www.youtube.com)
Fictional alien time travellers can’t be black, insist morons (newsthump.com)