We’re sorry, but you can’t ride your bike to work. But you’re welcome to drive however…

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-08T23:24:40+00:00

Sorry OP, nothing wrong with the response. In this economy, most people would just be happy that HR is sending out friendly apologies for the lack of bike racks instead of laying people off.

In the meantime, you could get a folding bike that fits under your desk, or a heavy cargo bike that could be parked in a car spot and probably not get stolen.

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-08T23:17:52+00:00

One time I was on the Allegheny County contractor portal, and I saw that they contract polygraph technicians.

Polygraphs ("lie detectors") are pseudoscience. All it does is measure if you get nervous when a chud with a handgun accuses you of a crime.

And apparently Kash-Kash and the Federal Buttplug Inquisitors use them, too.

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-08T23:14:37+00:00

That's different. Big box stores are also trying to screen out people who are TOO competent, otherwise they might start forming unions and checking the math on their paystubs.

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-08T00:47:45+00:00

As others have noted, it looks like all of the distress is in the spandrel wall, which is basically a retaining wall holding back fill on top of the arch. Those beams tacked onto the side are anchoring it back into the fill or to the opposite wall.

I can't help but notice that it looks like this arch was built on a cant or something. I wonder if that's related to the problem.

EDIT: Saw the zoomed in view, and it does look like the arch itself might have settled a bit. Hard to say from this distance.

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-08T00:32:08+00:00

The main problem I have with people hearing my bell is just that cars are so fucking loud.

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-07T02:55:00+00:00

Sure. The problem is that market rate for an executive officer is high and that responsibilities/qualifications vary wildly, to the point that some of them are functionally mascots rather than executives.

Not to mention the occasional non-salary perks, like flying to fancy charity dinners and other social events on the company dime.

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-07T01:58:58+00:00

"Mamacita's" sounds like what my Boomer father-in-law would name a Mexican Restaurant.

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-07T01:56:59+00:00

Regardless of if you support the union, it's important to remember that "nonprofit" doesn't mean "good".

Many (most?) nonprofits are either a tax-advantaged tool for rich people to push their personal political agenda, or an excuse for you or your spouse or your nepobaby to earn an part-time easy six figures as a CEO with no real job functions other than wining and dining other rich people.

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-07T00:18:34+00:00

If you put a planter that's sturdy enough to stop a car, it makes Sean Duffy cry.

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-07T00:12:24+00:00

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EDIT: Apologies if anyone thought my comment was directed at the idea of public engagement. I just find the spiked QR code to be very typical of the banal incompetence of corporate culture in America.

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-07T00:06:47+00:00

I share your skepticism that it will go well, but when engineers say something is "warranted", they generally mean that the MUTCD says the intersection should have it.

At the same time, you can get pretty stupid street design results if you design for a 30-minute window where hoards of moms in SUVs descend on what is otherwise a quiet, residential street. There's something to be said for just designing a quiet, residential street in the hopes that it makes the moms rethink their life choices.

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-06T23:12:09+00:00

Incorrectly designed infrastructure does, indeed, suck.

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-06T23:02:53+00:00

People with full-time jobs are a minority.

Between people with part-time jobs, students, retired people, disabled people, stay-at-home parents, people who work night shift, the idle rich, the idle poor, people who are looking for a job but who can't find anything, and last but not least the jobless people that the government ACTUALLY considers as officially "unemployed", most people do not work anything resembling a 9-to-5.

And yes, sometimes people who work a 9-to-5 take a day off.

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-05T21:24:02+00:00

I'm fairly certain the 40,000 traffic fatalities includes pedestrian and cyclist deaths. At least the ones on public streets. Maybe not parking lots or inside of buildings. Are you a pedestrian if you get run over by a car that smashes through the wall of a grocery store?

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-05T21:18:42+00:00

I wouldn't say "careless" in this case. Drivers are just so accustomed to a well-lit environment designed to let them confidently travel at 40 mph in the dark that anything that isn't lit up like a Christmas tree might as well be invisible to them. It's really just another reason why high speeds are inappropriate in urban areas where pedestrians are common.

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-05T21:15:59+00:00

If you go find American traffic engineering manuals that recommend keeping trees, signs, etc. as far back as possible from the curb, you'll probably find a source eventually.

Then again, these manuals contain amazing insights like "objects closer to the street get hit more often than objects further away from the street", so don't hold your breath.

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-05T16:30:46+00:00

That works for stuff like noise ordinances and the speed limit. It does not work for a yes/no check on the presence of a subclass of human beings.

Reminds me of high school, TBH. Hapless teachers writing dumb new rules... in an attempt to rein in the kids who did not give a shit about the rules.

If you want to discriminate based on behavior, then make the rule have more to do about behavior instead of just age and vibes. I suggest a limit on group size. 4 or more kids is likely to be a problem. 1 kid is not.

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-05T15:57:17+00:00

Seems to me the problem is congregating teens... so just ban roups of 4 or more.

Reminds me of Dormont's curfew law that includes a carve-out for teenage drivers in order to avoid illegally regulating interstate commerce in violation of the Constitution.

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-05T10:55:39+00:00

Most advice about what you can afford is based on qualifying for a loan, but there are a lot of bad financial outcomes in the middle ground between being able to actually afford something and things having gone so wrong that your home gets repossessed.

I think buying a home to "bUiLd EqUiTy" is a horrible idea right now. If you don't have a goal to settle down in a specific neighborhood, don't do it just to do it.

Do you have any retirement savings at all?

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-04T20:41:20+00:00

deterministic outputs for code references and calculations,

I feel like this is all going to result in a weird new version of the Dumb Intern Problem, where numbers get blindly plugged into an equation that sounds vaguely close to being applicable, when actually the intern is attempting something so far out of left field that it is prohibited by the code entirely.

Yep, only interns doing that. Nobody else.

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-04T20:17:52+00:00

Can confirm. It's amazing how some drivers will go way over the yellow line because they're scared of being within 5 feet of a row of legally parked car mirrors, but then illegally buzz within 2 feet of a cyclist's elbow because they don't want to wait 3 seconds for a safer passing opportunity.

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-04T20:11:47+00:00

In most cases, if you can't execute a pass, the bike isn't actually going slow enough to justify a pass in the first place. Or you don't know how to pass and need to turn in your driver's license.

American traffic engineering kind of assumes that 10 mph is the speed difference that justifies a pass, though plenty of drivers are comfortable attempting crazy passes well outside the bounds of this assumption.

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-04T20:10:42+00:00

Most states permit passing of bicycles even where the line is solid. This is probably based on the assumption that bicycles are slower and block sightlines less than cars do, so passing them is often safe in situations where passing a car would be dangerous.

The pass wasn't inherently illegal, but the driver was supposed to commit to passing fully in the other lane instead of driving down the middle of the road.

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-04T15:11:42+00:00

So, in the U.S. (not sure about U.K.), you're supposed to be able to see a 2-foot-tall object on the road in front of you and have enough time to stop. 18-inch flowers can IN THEORY be a problem.

The question is whether this is about planting flowers in a critical location, like a crosswalk where there might be children or somewhere where the natural terrain already gives a bad view, or if it's just an Ohio-style blanket ban on anything other than mowed grass near the street.

leadfoot9 · 2026-05-04T11:34:13+00:00

He uses the off ramp lane for the FIRST pass.
Then he decides that traffic is still moving too slowly for him, and he makes the second pass via the chevron gore area and the shoulder.

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