Salt mines.

Here’s one in the USA:

https://youtube.com/shorts/zXzvUKXhMBo

Here’s a list of salt mines in the USA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Salt_mines_in_the_Uni...

Words? What are words? We just don’t know.

If beauty is function we might as well do away with words and go back to using grunts, or whatever it was that preceded the very idea of this thing here is not that thing over there.

I guess that’s why design school graduates had to invent the concept of User Experience in an effort to regress the pursuit of functionality and basic design-consistency to the undifferentiated mess of Un-usability minima we seem to be stuck in.

> If beauty is function we might as well do away with words and go back to using grunts

I'm not sure my comment was meant to be that deep, I was suggesting that beauty or at least pleasantness be added to the list of things which come under the category of "function" when buildings are being designed.

Maximising utility without considering that people will be conducting their lives there, or the effects design choices can have on the feel of a place beyond pure utilitarianism, seems inadequate.

Beauty has a function in improving the emotional state of people observing it. Ignoring this function in favor of all other functions can result in getting trapped in a suboptimal local maximum, where a more beautiful design could sacrifice only slightly in other domains and have a greater overall utility.

IMO one of the main insight in the maxim is the importance to have the form communicate the function to the user.

I’ve recently come across a number of websites where the hamburger menu has been eschewed and what is obviously a drop down menu placed at the centre of the page immediately below the page title graphic.

I’m not sure if it’s a particular framework or whatever, I’m just a computer user.

The sites where I’ve seen it have predominantly been for business whose primary activities are not-online.

It’s refreshing.

Wow, that guy’s buildings look like they were built by someone who never made it as a Lego kit designer.

I can see the appeal.

And, it kinda looks like someone dropped a wet handkerchief on the Sydney Opera House.

The think I don’t like about not being able to “speed” at 50kph(!) through a city is that, at least in Australia with it’s excessive compliment of bureaucratic Karens, is the 30 > 50 > 70 > 60 > 40 > 30 > SCHOOL ZONE > 80 > 40 > 50 > 30 nightmare.

Which does two things, raises state revenue and causes drivers to spend way to much time concentrating on how fast they are going rather than driving to suit the conditions and paying focusing to what’s going on in front of them.

And don’t get me started on the pot holes.

That's just traditional design failure. A well-designed road network has higher-speed through roads and lower-speed local roads - and a school (serving the local neighbourhood) has zero business being near a through road.

And to make it a two-for-one special: roads shouldn't need speed signs to begin with. The road should be designed for a certain speed, so that driving any faster feels uncomfortable and unsafe. If it is physically possible to drive 80 in a 30, something has gone terribly wrong already. Roundabouts are a great addition to this: you can't exactly speed through them, so you are forced to slow down.

Sounds like you'd prefer just setting a single safe speed of 30?

I mean sure I also hate that as a biker, however it's the one thing that keeps my mind from drifting off so I guess it's necessary.

I cycle, ride motorbikes, and drive cars & vans.

I’d rather be in flow state while doing any of those, than constantly be yanked out of it because I’m concerned I might be do 3kph over the legal speed limit.

You forgot roundabouts with traffic lights.

Here’s one in Australia near Perth:

https://youtu.be/h8lhX9Q6Z5g?si=eloUWLcH8q3eJiZH

And I’m certain I’ve driven through other roundabouts with traffic lights in other states.

In England we even have roundabouts of roundabouts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)

I’ve driven around the Hemel Hempstead one a few times. Very confusing when I first saw the sign.

Ooo! I like that one!

New Jersey has at least one roundabout, with traffic lights, and a 6-lane divided highway through the middle: https://maps.app.goo.gl/2XoctqrtbfYGD7q48

I assume the person who designed that was 6 months away from retiring to Florida.

That gives new meaning to “drive straight through the roundabout”.

What a legacy. I’m having a vicarious chuck now.

I know of a couple in NSW: one in Albion Park, and another in Bomaderry.

They work well when the peak-hour traffic tends to block some of the entrances. You can use the lights to allow the blocked entrances to flow, then turn the lights off out of peak-hour.

I believe it's in Scotland, not Australia's Perth.

Could be the Perth in Tasmania.

It’s not, I used to live near Perth, Tasmania.

How many Perths are there?

My honest take roundabouts with traffic lights are just traffic lights with extra steps.

Everything is everything else, with extra steps.

Just do a fresh install every two weeks.

Aah those were the days.

These are too, but those were as well.

Many.

Search for social media management tools.

You don’t need to kill everyone, just enough people to motivate the target nation in an emotionally charged irrational response.