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Cake day: February 6th, 2025

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  • I wish that I’d screenshotted it, but I’ve had one outrageously long 1+ hr. ad on Youtube. The thing was literally a feature length infomercial, I thought that autoplay had carried onto the next videos in my playlist and couldn’t believe that it was an ad when I saw the length. For shit like that to have slipped through Youtube’s “quality control” even once speaks volumes - how in the Hell did someone submit an ad longer than a Saturday morning cartoon and have it slotted into the same category as 15 second toothpaste ads?






  • There have been some neighbourhoods in my city where the ends of entire blocks have been redone to physically prevent access by cars. Not so simple as bollards, but running the sidewalk straight across what used to be the sidewalk and installing either giant planters or other barriers has worked well. It’s a bit of a pain in the ass where one-way streets already complicate non-pedestrian access, but it’s better that way IMO, as these are all residential streets anyways. Whoever was mad about it decades ago has been long forgotten by the birds bopping around, and kids playing in the street.





  • Understandable, some of the sites I’m describing have a combination of more than one you’re talking about.

    Bollards are the sidewalk kind, all metal or short metal-cored concrete poles, optionally also used to protect building corners and natural gas meters on properties with vehicle traffic. The kind that pops up in the middle of roads is a security barrier, which I think are hydraulic and rise to wholly block even heavy vehicles up-to-and-including heavy trucks.