Not sure about the historic district designation as far as the City of #Detroit is concerned... I had assumed it already was (but I have only been in Detroit for about a year so I am still playing catch up 😅).
@adamjcook I have a former feral who is a real scaredy cat and they do so well with her there. I absolutely adore the staff there. Also I love the history of the place
"Fix the damn roads" is one of the most out-of-touch slogans in #Michigan politics today and I wince every time I hear and see it.
I live in #Detroit and I cannot even get a damn bus to #Livonia because the City of Livonia was allowed, inexplicably under Michigan Law, to simply opt-out. 🤷♂️
@adamjcook Yeah. Every time I’m home from Oregon, I think: holy shit, Michigan has to be one of the most over-built states in terms of horizontal infrastructure in the country. It's astonishing to see the extensive road network and highways that crisscross the state, much of which is in disrepair. I don’t even think Portland has any significant stretch of 8 lane highways, but sure enough, Flint has a 10-laner. No wonder why they needed an emergency financial mamager, as did so many others.
@adamjcook I totally agree - you'd have thought the last guy might have done that if he really cared about bringing well paid working class jobs back to America to massively benefit his base. Instead he engaged in a tariff war against China which Americans paid for and we then had to subsidize farmers for loss of sales to China. I think I saw a number of $300B or more? That money could have been INVESTED in manufacturing.
It is interesting watching #Twitter (from afar) sheepishly backtrack on the #LK99 hype.
There were three, maybe four ringleaders as far as I could tell - which included some that are competent in science and physics that should have known better.
But whipping up useless hype gets people paid by Twitter at the moment.
It all really underscores my position on how unsuitable Twitter is for actual science and public education - and that was fairly true even in the pre-#Musk Twitter Era.
@adamjcook a problem with the "good science" take is that it took two weeks to get into the arxiv paper telling that the claimed phase transitions was a well known hallmark of Cu2 S. And nobody told it before in twitter.
I have said it before, and I will keep saying it...
Nothing has damaged #Detroit and #Michigan more than the #automotive industry - from multiple fronts and multiple perspectives.
And although I believe that some public officials here are starting to (finally) recognize that, we must be far more aggressive in shifting away from this industry in Michigan.
The amount of state incentives that have currently been spent on #BEV#battery facilities is too much at this point.
Although the political value of #Detroit (middle-class jobs and a very important state to win for US presidential elections) coupled with its outsized dependence on #automotive manufacturing... absolutely shape the horrid #transportation policy across the US.
Detroit really does define the whole US in many ways that are not healthy.
And we are capable of so much more. I know we are. I can feel it in my bones. I can see it with my eyes.
Going live again on my #Kick channel in a few minutes. Probably going to make this an ad-hoc, regular thing - with weekly, #engineering and #robotics educational streams intermixed in there.
Today, it will just be me working on some OnShape #CAD models with some classical music in the background. I do not plan to do much talking unless there are questions in the chat.
I am new to OnShape (having used PTC Creo for decades), so I am in a learning phase. 😅
If your #NHTSA investigators are still wondering, after years of twiddling their thumbs, why #Autopilot-active, #Tesla vehicles keep slamming into the back of roadside emergency vehicles… I just provided you with the answer.
Anyone remember the time when #Musk promised that, if you buy a #Tesla vehicle today, it will soon earn you $30,000/year in personal income by acting as a public "robotaxi" when not in use?
That was in 2019.
Same basic lie, different day.
The lie worked for Tesla when Tesla needed it most financially (and Musk was never challenged on it by US regulators), and so Musk is now trying it again.
Of course, the "Tesla Lie" actually killed people (by creating human driver complacency).