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This is about the alleged food hall that was going to be coming to the Ritz Carlton Tower. They made a big show about how they'd be offering spots to the food carts they displaced.

Well now e-mails are bouncing and there's radio silence from everyone involved about whether there even will be a food hall anymore.

It sounds shocking, I know, but it certainly seems like the olive branch that they offered to assuage everyone's anger about the food carts they were displacing was a lie.

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Did y'all know they're building a monorail line under the Panama Canal? (www.railjournal.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem by regul in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 89 points 3 months ago

It's a top down problem. The universities didn't invent it. For years, candidates have campaigned on "lrn2code" so much so that we make fun of it here. They weren't saying that to bring new perspectives or art to the discipline. They were saying it because tech jobs have basically become the only path to the middle class. Small wonder, then that enrollment situations are what they are.

I graduated from UC Berkeley's College of Engineering with a CS degree right as the recession hit. Even then, I could see the demographics of my classmates trending away from your typical nerds who just like being on the computer into guys who were just after a paycheck.

Point being, like everything, this is a systemic issue. Give people one path out and they'll take it. The US economy is basically just giant business conglomerates and tech companies. Myopic capitalism has led us to this.

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Monkey-wrenching road pricing (cityobservatory.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Here's the fallout from Kotek's decision to stop all tolling, as well as a history of promises made and then broken about tolling.

A couple of things I took from this article:

Oregon has reduced GHG emissions for most sectors except transportation
Tolling was part of the plan to reduce transportation emissions
Tolling on the I-5 Bridge will drastically reduce traffic on it, which obviates the need for more lanes
Only tolling on I-5 while leaving 205 free creates huge issues
The state was counting on tolling money for all of its projects, so car dependence is hurting car dependence, which is a small silver lining

🐈🐈🐈 by regul in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 57 points 4 months ago

Nobody looks like this. This is a cartoon.

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Here's Gonzalez getting "accosted" on Max (youtu.be)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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He filed a police report for someone brushing his shoulder walking through the aisle and then criticizing his homeless policies.

Him not riding Max anymore has nothing to do with "violent and antisocial behavior" and everything to do with him being unwilling to face his constituents.

Allies fear the US is becoming less reliable, with growing concern over a possible Trump return by regul in c/[email protected]