coffeetable posted:

Smythe posted:

i remember the northridge earthquake vividly

duTrieux. posted:

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Cold on a Cob posted:

do you wear it on yoru dick?

duTrieux. posted:

Snapchat A Titty posted:

american cities are the worst

duTrieux. posted:

duTrieux. posted:

tbf

Is this a real app or an art project?
It is both. It is a fully functioning app based on scientific research. We are two artists that created it as a provocation, a taste of where we may be heading with our quantified living and algorithmic decision making. It relates to some previous projects we’ve made like us+, Social Turkers, and Conversnitch. We hope that seeing and trying the app will enable people to think critically about this future and speak out about what we do and don't want to manifest.

coffeetable posted:

i only just realised this is not a thing in american cities

Dubstep Jesus posted:

i bet this isn't any more accurate than just getting a mood ring and keeping track of what the color is around certain people lol

duTrieux. posted:

tbf

Is this a real app or an art project?
It is both. It is a fully functioning app based on scientific research. We are two artists that created it as a provocation, a taste of where we may be heading with our quantified living and algorithmic decision making. It relates to some previous projects we’ve made like us+, Social Turkers, and Conversnitch. We hope that seeing and trying the app will enable people to think critically about this future and speak out about what we do and don't want to manifest.

luvs2Bgraded posted:

But can a mood ring tell you who you get aroused by?

Nintendo Kid posted:

shockingly when you're not building around a 6 century old labyrinth of tiny streets, you don't end up with streets that barely function with cars and thus can be easily closed off to cars.

coffeetable posted:

lol what

okay going from personal experience

here is lookin down the high street of my tiny, lovely industrial hometown

here is the high street of my v nice university city

here is the high street of my current not-quite-as-nice city

i can imagine several good explanations as to why american cities might be less keen on pedestrianisation than their european counterparts, but 'no ye olde streets' isn't one of them.

coffeetable posted:

lol what

okay going from personal experience

here is lookin down the high street of my tiny, lovely industrial hometown

here is the high street of my v nice university city

here is the high street of my current not-quite-as-nice city

i can imagine several good explanations as to why american cities might be less keen on pedestrianisation than their european counterparts, but 'no ye olde streets' isn't one of them.

theflyingexecutive posted:

lol, can't wait for some cracker to wear that and reveal they are scared of all black people

Luigi Thirty posted:

the something awful moderator interview consists of wearing a mood ring while google image searching "child"

duTrieux. posted:

duTrieux. posted:

i'd rather deal with periodic quakes than weather patterns that scour the surface of our planet clean of the works of man, tbqh

quote:

Rich Californians balk at limits: ‘We’re not all equal when it comes to water’

People “should not be forced to live on property with brown lawns, golf on brown courses or apologize for wanting their gardens to be beautiful,”

“And, no, we’re not all equal when it comes to water.”

In April, after Gov. Jerry Brown (D) called for a 25 percent reduction in water use, consumption in Rancho Santa Fe went up by 9 percent.

“I think we’re being overly penalized, and we’re certainly being overly scrutinized by the world,” said Gay Butler, an interior designer out for a trail ride on her show horse, Bear. She said her water bill averages about $800 a month.

“It angers me because people aren’t looking at the overall picture,” Butler said. “What are we supposed to do, just have dirt around our house on four acres?”

Yuhas, who hosts a conservative talk-radio show, abhors the culture of “drought-shaming”

“When we bought, we didn’t plan on getting a place that looks like we’re living in an African savanna.”

Another friend, Woods said, has seen the value of his nine-acre plot plummet from $30 million to $22 million

coffeetable posted:

drought-shaming

coffeetable posted:

this is spectacular

http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...ry.html?hpid=z1

quote:

Butler said she, too, is replacing grass with drought-friendly native landscaping on her four acres, at a cost of nearly $80,000. [...] But she came to the decision grudgingly, she said. And she defends the amount of water she and her neighbors need for their vast estates.

“You could put 20 houses on my property, and they’d have families of at least four. In my house, there is only two of us,” Butler said. So “they’d be using a hell of a lot more water than we’re using.”