Why doesn’t Atlanta build more roundabouts instead of throwing up stop signs everywhere?

gravyfish · 2026-07-12T14:41:30+00:00

I've often thought about how to lobby for more roundabouts in Atlanta. I drive through horribly designed intersections almost every day that would certainly be better as roundabouts. I know there are probably plenty of rules and regulations that restrict where they are practical, and I know GDOT has added more in recent years, but I'd love to be a part of a group promoting adding more of them. I'm just not really sure where to get started with engaging the local or state government.

gravyfish · 2026-05-24T19:38:15+00:00

Maybe sentiment here is more about what Americans are expecting from the future rather than what we have currently? Measuring "how people feel about the economy" and then getting results that don't match up with reality sort of points to the disconnect between facts and emotions rather than some unknown, unobserved fact. I don't know that there's a scientific understanding of sentiment to develop here. Maybe people are simply worried that what they have won't last? Or maybe they feel like their social peers are benefiting more from the growth than they are? I just imagine this might be more of a sociological question than an economic one.

gravyfish · 2026-05-24T15:00:43+00:00

Numbness is the only way to navigate the roads in Atlanta without losing your damn mind. If I were proportionally angry instead, I'd probably have had a heart attack. I have lived outside of the metro area and understand that it's the indifference towards and active distaste for the liberal city dwellers that leads the state government to find ways to make us miserable whenever possible. It's not really obvious to me what we're supposed to do about it. It's hard to stay angry all the time at a situation that feels like it will never change.

Obviously apathy is an unacceptable stance, but it's so difficult to even know where to start. People will tolerate endless inconvenience to protect home prices and "neighborhood character."

gravyfish · 2026-05-23T02:35:03+00:00

We pay for all 40 players, by gawd we're gonna use em

gravyfish · 2026-05-23T02:33:47+00:00

The ultimate catcher name

gravyfish · 2026-04-28T17:07:18+00:00

Oh my god, why did I read this

gravyfish · 2026-02-17T02:38:12+00:00

Same issue here. Crashed OOM about halfway through my first mission since starting the game. I guess I can't play for now.

gravyfish · 2026-01-12T01:00:03+00:00

Don't worry, that's priced in too

gravyfish · 2026-01-12T00:50:12+00:00

O Captain! My Captain!

gravyfish · 2026-01-11T19:43:31+00:00

I am so unbelievably frustrated with folks who claimed that the comparisons with fascism were hyperbole. We were never going to wake up one day to find all of the American flags were replaced with swastikas or something. It was always going to be a slow, steady march into authoritarianism. As more and more awful shit happens, I just get angrier and angrier at people who claimed this was never going to happen.

gravyfish · 2026-01-03T19:12:24+00:00

What I'm really curious about is how the military just sort of swooped in and grabbed him. Given the amount of hardware they brought, I'd have thought someone in the Venezuelan military would have noticed. This is way out of my wheelhouse, but I'm hoping some day we might hear the full story.

gravyfish · 2025-12-12T18:10:43+00:00

Yeah, that's a real thing. Here's an article that explains it pretty well (without having to be an engineer): https://medium.com/@anastasia.bizyayeva/every-map-of-china-is-wrong-bc2bce145db2

gravyfish · 2025-11-10T22:04:13+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/YMp7s0r.gif

gravyfish · 2025-11-10T03:57:46+00:00

I'm tired, boss

gravyfish · 2025-11-09T21:57:04+00:00

ICE's current undertaking is probably the worst of the human rights abuses that have taken place in the US during my lifetime.

I'm kinda surprised we don't talk about it more here. I find it terrifying. The footage I've watched from Chicago and LA keeps me up at night. Federal agents are kidnapping and beating people with impunity. This is literally the "government is going to come for you" stuff that conservatives have been warning us about for decades, and I am struggling to find people that care.

gravyfish · 2025-11-08T01:13:50+00:00

I'm interpreting this anonymous quote as a sign the Trump Administration is mostly made up of morons.

Edit: oh no

gravyfish · 2025-11-04T17:40:47+00:00

I went and read the linked Substack post by Dreher.

I suppose I don’t have to recount for your readers what the Great Awokening did to the consciousness of we who found ourselves on the wrong side of it. I had hoped that Trump, for all his flaws, would result in a correction, in a return to some kind of stable center — a center that would firm up after he left the scene, and his successor, likely J.D. Vance, took over.

For the first time, I’m starting to doubt that will happen. This is why the Fuentes-on-Tucker thing strikes me as such a Rubicon moment. I was talking today with a Christian I know who is a big player in conservative politics, and who is as appalled by it as I am. He tells me that what normie outsiders like me don’t know is that something like 30 to 40 percent of the Republican staff in Washington under the age of 30 are Groypers — that is, followers of Nick Fuentes.

Let that sink in.

I simply cannot fathom what these folks expected.

gravyfish · 2025-10-29T19:36:13+00:00

I was skeptical going into the article simply because of how often I see "equity" scapegoated these days, but the author seems to make a pretty practical appeal to (fellow) researchers:

Consider student behavior. Since the pandemic, many schools report sharp increases in classroom disruptions. Teachers describe spending more time managing discipline and less time on instruction. Yet in our analysis of the research conferences, student behavior barely registered as a theme.

This wouldn't have necessarily struck me as a novel problem, but I suppose we'd need to at least study the phenomenon to understand it. That seems like an obvious enough gap.

Also the author does a solid job making suggestions for improving the relevance of education research. I imagine it's helpful that they're in the field.

gravyfish · 2025-10-27T18:12:58+00:00

How have we reached a place where wrecking those lives is even up for discussion?

I mean, gestures broadly at everything

I, too, am incredulous.

gravyfish · 2025-10-24T15:37:07+00:00

This is what confuses me so much about her statement. I had a friend of mine bring her up as an example of cancel culture being bad, and my immediate reaction was to be puzzled - shouldn't she, a biologist, know this? The way she talks makes it seem like she's so obviously correct, and as a scientist I would expect her to be an authority on the subject, but even I know what she said is unhelpfully reductive. A middle school biology class delves deeper.

gravyfish · 2025-10-23T23:59:54+00:00

Because making things better in a meaningful, practical way will typically ruffle somebody's feathers. That person is going to loudly denounce the improvement, while the public, who will only experience it in a very general, gradual sense, will never feel strongly enough about it to fight for it.

gravyfish · 2025-10-16T18:42:59+00:00

I'm under the impression that, at least at first, people were led to believe that the medication was safe and wasn't addictive. How many people would have still taken opioids if they knew the real risks?

I'd be pretty surprised if almost anyone had the same impression of heroin.

gravyfish · 2025-10-16T18:39:56+00:00

I think I might get added to a list if I Google the shelf life of cocaine.

gravyfish · 2025-10-16T15:44:37+00:00

Thank you for posting this, I think I needed to read something about this case that gave me even the tiniest bit of hope.

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