In Vox, I explained how federal policy encourages car bloat, making American vehicles more enormous, polluting, and dangerous than they'd otherwise be.
That's the exact opposite of what we should be doing.
Late night walk. It’s midnight. Pass a car parked in a driveway with the interior lights on. House is darkened. They’ll likely have a dead battery in the morning.
If Google is going to be aggressively fighting against ad blocking, they should be held to a far higher, potentially legal, standard for ensuring safe advertisements.
Because one of the really important reasons for using ad blocking is safety from scams and malware. And Google owns THE largest ad network, and it serves malicious ads every day.
It's changed (2015 looks to be more current) but appears you need guards on decks more than 30 inches above grade in the International Residential Code (IRC). Thus, the "one floor above and drop into the jungle" is absolutely a safety hazard, and not code compliance. ("Guard required if more than 30 inches") #deck#safety
My favorite #boots: jika tabi popular with construction workers in #Japan that I modified with tanker boot straps and rechargeable LED lights on the heels. Keeps me visible walking or biking around traffic.
Anyone have a pair of impact-rated safety glasses they really like? I've dealt with whatever I can find at the hardware store long enough, and would consider a "nicer" upgrade if it also reduced the amount of dust that gets in around the edges.
I need them to fit over glasses. I'd prefer earpieces to a headband, but I'll deal if it's effective and comfortable. Also needs to accommodate a respirator.
Do not recommend full-face shields, please. #woodworking#safety
If you're in the UK, check out this new Rough Sleeping Criminal Justice Bill. Feel free to boost this for visibility or add hashtags - I think it's important to set &/or maintain the precedent that these laws be debated and critiqued very thoroughly. Telling someone with no home to 'move along' is a stiff order. That police could be asked to uphold this law (as it is written) could carry a risk of moral injury to our coppers.
“Nuisance rough sleeping” starts at s.59, and the offending smelly “rough sleeping condition” can be found at s.69(5)(c). Including words from subs.(4):
> A person does “something that is a nuisance” if the person ... causes or does something capable of causing ... damage to the environment (including excessive noise, smells, litter or deposits of waste)...
If one were to parody this, I'd propose the following as a start:
"Sleeping in public in the UK must now be done only in a suit and tie or equivalent formal dress, whilst wearing a perfume. Snoring is illegal. Campaigners are lobbying the government to permit it to be carried out whilst wearing a polo-shirt and chinos, however the government maintain that this is a slippery slope to people wearing pyjamas in public, and thence anarchy."
Information about one's MP is available at https://www.theyworkforyou.com/ if you feel further critique of this law is a worthy cause. I'd suggest any MP pushing for this would get positive media coverage.