I would love it if they closed off the circle and Meridian / Market in that center block and turn it all into pedestrian space.
Then do it for the next ring of streets the year after. And another the next year. Keep going until you hit North, East, South, and West streets.
You could still drive to the hospitals or the stadium or IUPUI. But the actual downtown would be paradise.
This sort of thing should not be a left-right / progressive/conservative thing at all. Data says it prevents harm. Easy.
But. When “city liberals” put policies into place, a contingent of those reactionary types feel it’s their duty to resist, no matter what. And their media engines convince their base of the same.
Big trucks turning right on red in downtown is like the least impactful result of this sort of thing, but it’s a pretty obvious one.
Rings similar to “My daddy beat me and I turned out fine,” says man who considers it okay to beat children
I live downtown (a stone’s throw from the monument), and most people seem to follow the rules. But not everyone does. Pretty easy to break them down into groups.
I think all but the out-of-town folks (who aren’t used to it and don’t notice the signs due to being overwhelmed with city driving and traffic) just go ahead and do whatever they want because of a “you can’t tell me what to do” attitude. Indy cops certainly don’t enforce the signs.
The Indiana state legislature loves to dictate how Indianapolis governs itself. Refusing to comply with the signs is sort of a political statement to some, the equivalent of giving the finger to data-driven, progressive policy.
I live in a giant bucket.
Maybe it’s a range thing, or being worried they’d be followed back to base? Or having to deal with the second guidance system for the bomb / missile the drone would drop is too much of a hassle for the current situation?
A single AA battery is going to discharge itself just sitting on the shelf over a decade
Non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and governments are exempt from the fee. The full policy is here: https://developer.apple.com/support/core-technology-fee/
If you don’t plan to charge for it, you can also just publish through the existing App Store infrastructure, where there is no fee.
(I’m not being an apologist. There are so, so many shitty things about Apple’s implementation here, but this isn’t one. I believe the EU should blast Apple as hard as legally possible for the rest of their implementation which is intentionally terrible.)
Oh, right – I definitely scrubbed the tracking stuff too. I wonder if that’s how all the clones were being found?
I cloned the original website (it’s just a bunch of JavaScript) once the NYT deal went through and still self-host it. I changed a bunch of the UI text, specifically removing all the references to “Wordle,” and I think it’s just me and my friends that use it. Still works!
They want him to win because they want the whole place to burn down.
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