@cpm the lawn maintenance I want is not a mow-and-blow green carpet, electric whirly mower cuts too short sometimes, not short enough at others. It's just not the tool for the job 80% of the year (here, at least) where I'm doing no-mow may, some cutting with shears around the edges. If I could hire a shepherd by bike, probably would do that. Do a lot of your lawn customers still drive everywhere?
Catering though, you don't need special parking and logistics? Seems like a competitive edge.
printed up my invoices to hand-deliver, because I needed to go to town anyway and saves postage.
rain was due at 1300hrs, but started at 1000hrs anyway.
Let me be clear
cycling in the rain sux
it just does
I do it all the time
I hate it
have wasted gobs on rain kit that does fk-all,
can't see anything
dangerous (bc cars)
&
ages your bike alot.
@cpm I can see better with rain on my glasses than any driver can with fogged-up windows around them. The rain cape poncho, right brim on a hat has me covered, except in the cold, how do I dry out my gloves before putting them on again. Fenders and mudflaps do wonders for the bike's chain, if they have enough coverage. Really need a front fairing for ones that aren't the bakfiets to keep me dry. Electric regen braking for not wearing through brake pads. Most bikes aren't designed for rain.
@cpm do you mean off the front of the fender? I think it needs a bit more enclosure and something to route the water down and to the sides, from where it's riding the wheel up over the top and spraying back at you, hard on the headset, pantlegs, etc.
Long bike route planning (especially dirt trails) is made more difficult when "Where can I get water?" requires researching park maps, satellite views, street views, park brochures, yelp reviews, etc ... for each park along the way. It's quite tedious.
Grim news from the Burnside Bridge design team about the costs of any connection to the esplanade from 55+ft above. The nine (9) southbound freeway lanes right next to that seem to be a complication in getting structure onto anything seismically sound. #noMoreFreeways#MarquamBridgeIsFallingDown#Portland#transportation#ODOTGTFOpdx
"as part of a project for PSU’s Master of Urban and Regional Planning program. Students... are working with local nonprofit @bikeloudpdx to investigate the potential of adding a major bikeway to Sandy when it gets repaved by the #Portland Bureau of #Transportation in 2026."
@cshentrup somehow we need to literally ban stroads as an emergency order or something to actually go out and tactically change them instead of waiting for the budget to rebuild the entire roadway and haggling compromises with car traffic counts vs theoretical ability of people to bike somewhere. Sandy is the city's, like Foster, but ODOT's Barbur has the same significance in SW, of cutting off so many easy bike trips for people who aren't willing to elbow their way into car traffic. Bus lanes
#StrongTowns monthly meeting with #Portland Neighbors Welcome with practical training on giving effective testimony in support of housing and the Inner Eastside for All campaign.
( portlandneighborswelcome.org/inner-eastside-for-all )
6:15pm Tue May 14th
Multco Library 801 SW 10th, meeting room 1A
it's tough to demand much when you don't have the political power. Trying to get out the vote for "blue no matter whooo" is a far cry from basic income, and public safety nets for housing and healthcare needs. Government bailing out failed banks and automakers to save the union workers but capital profits either way. Voters barely have a say in how their cities are run, let alone states. Might need to get out of our cars and talk about it.
AI can't take over the world, because someone can just unplug the computer. And that's it. Problem solved. It requires constant human labor to keep the overhyped technologies marketed as AI running.
Now, there are wealthy, powerful people who want to keep those computers plugged in. They have lots of resources to use to prevent us unplugging them, even trick us into believing it's a bad idea to try. But that's a different problem, and an old one. That's not an AI problem. Just capitalism.
from OLCV's Mobilizing #ClimateAction Team: #Portland Clean Energy Fund (PCEF) "has invested millions in our communities and critical climate programs in our city. Now it’s under threat from certain politicians who want to overturn the will of the voters and divert money to projects unrelated to climate.
Show up Tuesday, May 14, 9 - 11:30 AM
1900 SW 4th (not city hall!), Room 2500
💚 wear green"
@freeformz funny, but programmers aren't safe from layoffs because companies are going to spend their programming salaries on AI and learn this the hard way
@davidzipper if only the decision makers at companies were accountable for their failures. By the time they exhaust the profit-taking schemes, they've got their yachts and golden parachute. Workers will be left holding the bag and government will bail out the companies to start the cycle again.
Is this a safe space to point out that the largest direct air capture plant in the world — designed to remove 36,000 tonnes of CO₂ each year — is a time machine that takes us back 28 seconds in a year? 🥲
"The way to fight #crime is not with stops based on hunches and pretext, but by investing proactively in communities and with #policing targeted at people for whom there is suspicion of serious criminal conduct.
On the other hand, there is a real #trafficSafety problem in this country… #transportation officials should focus their efforts... better lighting… #protectedBikeLanes & pedestrian crossings; self-ticketing cars with speed limiters, … [#transit]" 🚎 🚲
meanwhile in #Portland, "PPB Expands Central Bike Squad" ...to ten (10) total. It wouldn't hurt a few of the rest to get out of their ($80k/each) cars sometimes though, the city is less than an hour wide on #eBikes.
As much as I despise the democrats' playbook relative to the policy progress we need, particularly the ones in my state stalling voting reform with the "rank choice" fake solution, when it comes time to vote, your options are to vote for biden or fail to vote against trump.
If you want to protest the status quo, not driving for trips less than three miles on nice days would be a bigger flex than not voting. Pull the levers that actually move in the direction you want.
If you want to vote for third parties and not just throw your vote away, you need to understand how the votes get counted and not believe the lies spread by "fairvote" about your second choice getting counted. If everyone votes for the same candidate 2nd, but the 1st choice votes are spread across 3 others, the favorite consensus candidate is eliminated first under ranked choice IRV. Multiple rounds of counting only one choice won't solve the problem of plurality voting https://starvoting.org/the_problem
Time to build: about 45 mins (not including soldering the power supply)
Materials:
(4) $5 Arctic P12 fans
(2) $10 10x20x1 1200D filtrete MERV-11 filters
(2) $7 20x20x1 1500 MERV-12 filtrete filters (pack of 12 off ebay)
duct tape
zip ties
cardboard
12V power supply (free because I soldered a random old adapter, but normally $10 plus $3 or so for a splitter. Or get the fans with built-in splitters)
Total: approx $55, next one will cost about $70.
Roughly 225cfm and extremely quiet. #CRBox
@Andres4NY@pleaseclap without an anemometer, IDK. Maybe you could measure the force on a parachute of known area, using a hanging scale or small weights (and screening so they don't fall into the fan.) The flow at the edges is complicated as it disperses, maybe there are tables to estimate that based on geometry and measured velocity while confined within an output duct.
