Chris McKee

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⚡️Ukraine using 'secret' strike drones to devastate Russian logistics on crucial highway, Nemesis Brigade says. The 412th Brigade Nemesis said it had tested a new "secret" attack drone, which it claimed proved effective deep behind Russian lines, destroying "dozens" of trucks and fuel tankers. kyivindependent.com/ukraine-using-…

BREAKING: Adam Hoffman has been released from jail for "good behavior." Hoffman is the 49-year-old Waco, TX attorney who faced life without parole for repeatedly raping a young boy, until Texas AG Ken Paxton offered him 1 day in jail and no need to register as a sex offender. A judge increased his sentence to a whopping 60 days. He got out in 30 days. This is MAGA's vision for the USA. Full story: letsaddresstexas.substack.com/p/ken-paxtons-…

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America.  He embodies the broken system we’re running against. It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton

One of the most insane thunderstorm I’ve ever seen just rolled through Davis, California. Local weather stations recorded nearly 0.50” of rain in 5 minutes. Temperature dropped over 20 degrees down from 70s to high 40s.

Forget everything you’ve been told about the painfully slow pace of climate action - it's accelerating, driven by renewables dominance and electrification Ep 102 of the Angry Clean Energy Guy podcast is out audio: theangrycleanenergyguy.com/podcast/episod… video: youtu.be/L-d9QBvP-cY?si…

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@eyetraveler I don’t even know what boxes other people are seeing. This is what I think of when I think of a boxy building. I don’t know what people are complaining about.

@Ragcha Some of the "boxes" are worse offenders than others. Some try and make up for the box design by throwing a mural on the side of it. I do prefer when the buildings try and do something creative.

Do people complaining about new apartment buildings in LA even live here? I think they’re way better than the crap built between 1950-2000. And wait till the trees around them double in size!

Please replace lawns with doggy walls @ParkLaBreaApt — and replace more of the lawns here with creative, native plants.

I think of the 50s as post-war. I live in Park La Brea. The townhouses were built pre-war. The towers were built post-war for soldiers -- finished in the late 40s. The integration works remarkably well between the two levels. The trees are key. It's a little too same-samey here otherwise. Many of the median lawns should be replaced by a greater variety of plants. (Although dog owners will object, because they want toilets for their pets. : / The best thing about the towers are the views. The paint job done 15 years ago greatly improved the look of the complex, but the buildings are pretty monotonous, and the hallways are cramped and stuffy. I'd be interested in seeing what you think was done well after WW2.

@Ragcha Yes - those are very terrible. Most stuff done in the 50s and 60s was bad and after the 70s just horrible fast-build junk. Some of the post war stuff is good.

@_ArkLA_ We need taller buildings on boulevards like Franklin. That building should be five or six stories. There are other buildings on Franklin that tall already. Also better if the first floor had shops built in like those in Franklin Village. laist.com/news/la-histor…

@Ragcha These are not single family homes. But what they are is interesting, unique design which works in their locations. The pink one is on Franklin. This *approach* to design can and should be scaled *up along wider boulevards/around transit such as in Hollywood

@eyetraveler I like that design. I think some of the people responding here would say that's another box, even if it has some creative design elements.

@Ragcha Instead of posting what I don't like, here is a building I really do like.

@AmusedCynic1982 @mnolangray Would this really be "missing middle" in the Bay Area? With massive yards, this could rapidly become high-income estates. Probably not bad for Silicon Valley workers -- especially if BART ever connects to Downtown San Jose and the peninsula CalTrain...

@mnolangray It's taken decades for anything to move forward, so at this point they shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. That is solid missing middle density.

A one-in-a-generation-tier mistake: 12,000 homes might sound like a lot, but on a giant 800 acre site, that's only 15 units per acre—half the standard threshold we expect to be allowed on housing opportunity sites.

@mnolangray Hi Nolan. Can you explain why it is common now on X for people to post screenshots, rather than links at the top of their posts? Side note: I didn't even know what community this was in until I clicked on the article.

Let's be clear here. There are massive, extremely profitable companies that know they are poisoning our air and water. They don't want to pay for anyone getting sick from it. And they don't want to pay for destroying entire cities to fires and floods, which we know are happening much more frequently now because of their pollution. America needs to vote for Democrats. commondreams.org/news/big-oil-i…

@histofarch I don’t know what dissonant geometry you are referring to.

@Ragcha I like those things too, it’s just this unnecessarily dissonant geometry that I think is really unfortunate.

@histofarch The shit they are replacing are hideous — only excusable for emergency shelters.

@Ragcha :) Do you “like hideous better than neutral”? Or you think those “ roll the dice dartboard” façades are more interesting than they are ugly?

The buildings Giraffe seems to be trying to fit in with I think should be bombed off the face of the earth (after evacuation of course) Also, these look like single, family homes. People can do whatever they want with their homes, barring destroying classic architecture and cutting down old trees. I’m mostly dedicated to making the boulevards into fun walking neighborhoods.

@Ragcha I’m totally for big bold buildings,but they can’t all look like stacked boxes w grey metal siding-Especially in infill areas. @nithya4thecity talks about how urban planning can/should be sympathetic to the character of neighborhoods. Giraffe does this well share.google/z0b9G4Q1RoKFD1…