cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/360222

> Woooooo

JUST ONE MORE LANE BRO

>Yet the constant risk of losing top talent has been enough to make companies reconsider their strict RTO mandates. Research has shown that companies that put pressure on employees to return to the office are more likely to experience turnover issues than those that don't.

>Companies that have mandated a strict return to the office three days a week without first seeking employee input are experiencing the most angst, Kacher adds.

>"They're the ones struggling with retention and recruitment," she says. "Some of the companies I work with have even scaled back the number of in-office days they're requiring in response to employee backlash."

Entirely elevated, it's a new-build via Kenya-China cooperation 🇰🇪🤝🇨🇳

>‘Lahaina is not for sale’: Maui wildfire survivor to real estate developers

Archive hasn't been working for me lately but maybe someone in the comments can help.

>As many as 10 Cruise driverless cars stopped working in San Francisco’s North Beach on Friday night, causing traffic to back up and leaving some questioning the decision of state regulators a day earlier to approve the expanded use of robotaxis in the city.

>The autonomous vehicles appeared to be stopped in the middle of Grant Avenue, according to social media posts, with hazards on, blocking other cars from moving.

>In a response to the incident, Cruise said the backup was caused by “wireless connectivity issues” that immobilized the driverless cars. San Francisco police confirmed that the cell connectivity issues were caused by the large number of people at the nearby Outside Lands music festival overtaxing the system.

>“We are actively investigating and working on solutions to prevent this from happening again and apologize to those impacted,” Cruise said in a statement.

>According to a text message exchange between San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin and a Cruise government affairs manager reviewed by the Chronicle, the cell connectivity affected the company’s remote ability to reroute the cell-connected cars. According to Peskin, approximately 10 cars stalled at the intersection.

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>Transportation and fire officials told state regulators that the spike in robotaxi activity in recent months coincided with disruptive incidents, such as unplanned stops and erratic driving. They warned that such disruptions were likely to occur more often as the companies expanded service.

>The road that the cars were paralyzed on was a “tiny street,” Peskin said, and there would have been no way for emergency vehicles to get through had there been an emergency.

>“The irony is that this happened the night after the CPUC irresponsibly gave them the green light for unlimited vehicles over the city’s objections,” Peskin said.

>The CPUC’s approval did not include a cap on fleet sizes, and Cruise and Waymo are not required to report to state regulators how many driverless taxis they operate in the city.

Don't go to that url, it's anti-cycling propaganda

It's a red flag with a steam train on it. How cool is that?

The picture is from a recent visit to a railway museum where they had an exhibit about the cold war. Being written by western libs the text next to the flag talked about how civil defence at places like the railway workshops was complicated when "everybody didn't agree on who the enemy was" and called the communists a "fifth column". Apparently, as all workers had to take part in civil defence still and know about plans in case of war, authorities were worried that the large communist presence at the workshop meant that they would tell the USSR about the plans or use their knowledge to sabotage the railways in case of war.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202307/1295256.shtml

Nitter

Located in the former socialist city Кливленд, what a stunning building

We hear the jokes, yes, but

Cleveland:

-Has a metro -Has a good BRT system -Has a great history of manufacturing and industry -Never fully got rid of their streetcars and converted the last two lines to light rail -Has what looks to be pretty affordable housing -Has this dope-ass arcade and many other cool architectural features

Cleveland was once a very large industrial powerhouse, and capitalist disinvestment in the city has devastated some parts of it to a huge degree. That cannot be overlooked. But the city has now become a smaller city with big-city features and history. Big shoutout to Cleveland! Go check out https://hexbear.net/c/cleveland@midwest.social for more Cleveland content.

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For $100 a Night, You Can Stay in a Bed and Breakfast Shaped Like a Beagle

image: Woodland Retreat

During the 2014 Venice Biennale, the award winning Korean pavilion displayed work from both the DPRK and the ROK. The DPRK portion was organized by Koryo Studies. Here is the brief from this website on "Utopian Tours":

>Koryo Studio commissioned a North Korean architect to work on ‘Commissions for Utopia’, designs for sustainable tourism. We sat down with the North Korean architect and talked about trends in creating architecture that leaves a small environmental footprint. North Korean architects who were trained pre-digitalisation are expert in rendering their drawings by hand using acrylic paints, creating artworks in their own right. > >The works were exhibited at the 2014 Venice Biennale, Korean pavilion (Golden Lion winner).

Here are some of my favorites:

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Silk Co-operative

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Mt. Kumgang Bird’s Nest Villa

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Mt. Kumgang Bird’s Nest Villa Interior

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Mountain Conicals

And finally, the MVP of communism:

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Train

More here: https://koryostudio.com/exhibitions/commissions-for-utopia-2010/

>“For an office building, you can’t get a loan today…there’s no liquidity in the marketplace,” Gottlieb told Fortune. And with interest rates being higher, it’s eating away at a lot of the cash flow, Gottlieb said, calling it a “very trying time.”

>In his view, the difference with this office real estate downturn as compared to previous downturns is that office owners are wondering if demand will ever return.

160k for that truck esp considering its made with Swiss labor is pretty good.

Y'all surely already got recommended these same videos by youtube, but I really love the "US urbanism hopium week" unknowingly unleashed right after the dumb NJB doomer tantrum, lmao

https://fortune.com/2023/08/03/michael-bloomberg-billionaire-return-to-office-federal-agencies/

>Empty offices are a problem that could result in another run on the banks, some economists have warned, with swaths of new office buildings financed on short-term loans with no leases taken out to pay for it. Morgan Stanley estimates that $1.5 trillion in commercial real estate loans are due to be repaid by 2025.

>With 176 offices across the world—some of which cost more than $1 billion to build—it’s perhaps not a surprise that Bloomberg is keen to get his own staff back through the doors, a sentiment echoed by JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon.

It's that time again! Ask me about trains.

Nitter

Metro is adding service specifically because Taylor Swift is playing. Free shuttles to the stadium from the station, service until 2am!

https://thesource.metro.net/2023/07/24/look-what-you-made-us-do-were-adding-service-for-taylor-swifts-six-shows-at-sofi-stadium/

Next year MAYBE construction begins on a people mover connecting SoFi stadium to Inglewood station.