2022-10-15

mindstalk: (I do escher)
2022-10-15 07:24 pm
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beg buttons

They're so diverse!

Some do nothing, perhaps because they used to but have been disabled.

Some are necessary to get a walk signal, but they put you in your place as a second-class citizen: even if traffic has been streaming continuously, you get to wait another minute or two before you get a grudging 20 seconds to dash across the stroad.

But the one tonight... despite the fact that the light had changed fewer than 30 seconds before, it changed again instantly[1] for me. Pedestrians rule here, man!

Oh, I haven't posted in a while. "here" is currently Albany, California. Or maybe Berkeley, not sure where the borders are.

[1] To be precise, instantly turned yellow.