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Neblib

@Neblib@mastodo.neoliber.al

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ai6yr, to gardening
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It's a slug party,
and I've bought them all a beer
Let's invite them to come right over,
and have a great cheer
It was the cheapest beer they sell nearby
But for a party it will fly
The question is really,
Will they just get drunk, or die?

(human poem, mine)

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Neblib,
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@ai6yr thanks for following up and giving us conclusion to yesterday's story! I hope your mouse friend is doing okay today and not too hungover / bloated / regretting their decisions.

ai6yr, (edited ) to cycling
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Checked off "bought cheapest beer possible before 130pm and bicycled it home" on the bike tooter achivement list. #BikeTooter (Edit: just for clarity, these are for my slugs, I do have a driver's license and no DUI arrest, I do own a car, and I don't drink beer.)

Neblib,
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@ai6yr for those not in the slug world, what do slugs need beer for? Is it a reward for being good pets?

lieberal, to random
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We love our housing developers, don't we folks :cool_beans:​

Neblib,
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@lieberal I don't love them, but we should be guiding that greed to have good impacts by:

  • removing R1 from the zoning books
  • actually do mixed-use TOD
  • move property taxes to be land not asset based
  • ensure our master plans exist, include parks/trails/schools, allow small scale commercial in residential, and allow works fulfilling that plan + code by right
  • focused TIF things on plan and small scale works
  • timecap things like prop13
  • make zoning code about env + safety not appearances
Neblib,
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@lieberal with LA minimum wage now at $17 that's reasonably affordable assuming 22 8-hour days of work a month that's 60% income to rent to have in a HCOL city private space relatively close to work / good transit, and people can get closer to the 30% ideal by getting roommates / non-studio (and upskilling or working more than 40 hours) and at those margins (~36k/year) you should qualify for some other assistance. Hopefully there's incentives to build multi room dwellings too.

Neblib,
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@lieberal

Bass later came back with an amended order to exempt all of the city’s single family neighborhoods. That clarification cut out more than 70% of the city’s residentially zoned land and the lion’s share of its well-to-do neighborhoods

:boo_hoo:​

"To go that extra step…would be a declaration of war with our single family neighborhoods.”
That war may be coming ... Los Angeles has until mid-October to plan for 250,000 new homes.

:lets_fucking_go:​

Minnewegian, to random
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I think HOAs would be the most effective way for fascists to take control in America. A snitch in every neighborhood. People with nothing better to do besides making others miserable empowered by the state to fuck people over for small rules violations.

HOAs are coming, are you ready?

Neblib,
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@kemotep @Minnewegian I really dislike that so much of new housing forces them. They only make sense if you have shared assets needing maintenance like walls/foundation/roof/etc as in a condo or townhome, and I'll accept gated communities too.

Slyence, to feminism
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reading an article about how texas college profs are suing women for not being "chaste"

https://www.salon.com/2024/06/03/texas-professors-to-fail-students-seek-abortions/

This is how Gilead happens, small little steps that feel awful but not quite awful enough to do something about.

#feminism #texas #abortion

Neblib,
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite @Slyence did you read the linked filing? https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/Title%20IX%20Amended%20Complaint.pdf plenty of arguments throughout that they believe title ix shouldn't apply to discriminating on sexual or gender identiy. Exhibit E / F talks explicitly about "cross dressing" during work being something they should be able to fire someone for.

Neblib, to languagelearning
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I've been using https://thenewsintwos.app/ for about two years and its a great no-cost app to add to a language learning toolkit to consume more in your target language. I only use the web version and I don't bother with its language plans, but its by line or word translation reveal in feed is slick. It sources Newser, which is not bad, but it'd be neat to have the functionality built into a feed reader - please let me know if that's already a thing.

#languagelearning #newsintwos #appreviews

Neblib, to TikTok
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If you need more reasons to stay off Tiktok, you can add not seeing posts by #trump:

https://www.newser.com/story/351139/trump-joins-tiktok-which-he-once-tried-to-ban.html

#uspol #tiktok #trump

girlonthenet, to random
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A friend of mine just shared this because some random bigot on his FB was kicking off that the Duo owl would be pro-LGBT+ rights ("I'll DELETE THE APP!! OMG"). Obviously this is hilariously tragic and bigots should fuck off but I feel like there's a deeper question that needs answering here.

Namely: why does this owl have tits?

Is the Duolingo owl... a mammal?

Neblib,
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@girlonthenet I think Duo just feels cute in a bikini, all the depictions show no mounds so I don't think Duo has breasts.

zoness, to random
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Gonna install TikTok to find out what the actual hubbub is about. I’ll let you know if it sucks as much as I’m told.

Neblib, (edited )
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@zoness at least it labels it correctly as Russian state controlled media, but the fact it's algorithm is boosting it definitely matches my priors.

ascentale, to random
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@MartyCormack has a two-part question:

Q8. Two part question for people who wear helmets:

  1. Have you ever thought of your bike helmet as protection from something other than falls, collisions, cars?
  2. Have you ever used your helmet during the course of a ride for something other than head protection?

Neblib,
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@ascentale @MartyCormack A8.

  1. Maybe protection from the sun with my attached visor?
  2. Its a small basket when I'm off bike as well as a utility-cycling advocacy sign post when I'm in stores / restaurants.

ascentale, to random
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@InkySchwartz asks:

Q7. Are there local anti-cycling attitudes or reinforcements of those attitudes? I'm reminded of a bilboard ad in Gilette WY, about a decade ago, for a law firm where it basically said if you had a DUI if you didn't hire them the only way you were getting aound was on a bike.

Neblib,
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@ascentale @InkySchwartz A7. more just complete ignorance that bicyclists exist outside of athletic training and mountain biking. @bikenite @bikenitea @bikenitea7

ascentale, to random
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I don't think has discussed this much, and it's a great question. @Brownian_motion asks:

Q3. What's your preferred footgear? Do you vary according to the ride, the terrain, the weather, the N-1 bike-of-the-day?

Neblib,
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@ascentale @Brownian_motion A3. I don't have specific cycling shoes, just whatever I'm wearing that day, with the caveat that in winter I'll wear hiking boots and if its a long ride I'll switch to athletic shoes if I'm wearing nicer.

ascentale, to random
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Welcome to the May 31st BikeNite! Thanks for joining, and I hope we all enjoy chatting about cycle stuff! Answer whenever at your convenience. Anyone can join, now or later. Reply to what you like, and boost for visibility.

We'll start out with our introduction:

Q1. Where are you posting from today? I've seen so many more people riding around recently. It may be because of warm weather, or because of Bike Month. What local cycling trends have you seen?

Neblib, (edited )
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@ascentale A1. posting from Midwest USA. I've seen more of what I assume are retirees due to age and time of day doing utility cycling in my neighborhood when I work from home. Its awesome, hopefully they'll join in advocacy for better infra.

petes_bread_eqn_xls, to random
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It’s such a disappointment that, after thirty-some years of eating garlic, my body decides to stop being able to digest it.

Neblib,
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@petes_bread_eqn_xls yikes sorry for your loss of yummy food! At least it's generally avoidable, unlike my friend's post-30 corn and soy insensitivity.

barefootstache, to random
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(300/300)

Another checkpoint has been reached!

In the last 50 entries most were pre-written and most were part of a thread. The flexibility given in 200 was definitely a game changer and reduces stress quite much.

One thing that I have noticed, although the entry already existed, the act of posting was the bottleneck.

Another thing that I changed is the way that the entries are bundled. Initially wrote each entry separate and then linked them after the fact.

Now instead I write them all in the same file as long as they are part of the same thread. This eases the publishing, the writing, and linking. Additionally, with this method, I can add references to the end of the file and be one step closer if I ever choose to publish long form.

Well, off to another 65 days to complete a typical year. Technically this year would have 366 days.

Neblib,
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@barefootstache congrats on the 300!

whitequark, to random
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huh why is the wall like that in lwir

Neblib,
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@whitequark what LWIR sensor is that?

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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    Neblib,
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    @Teri_Kanefield yikes, that's so messed up. Sorry for not saying it more often to help drown out that kind of nonsense, but I've really appreciated your thoughtful posts and educating so many of us!

    Neblib, to random
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    Holy smokes they actually got a verdict before June, and guilty on all counts!

    Neblib, to random
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    I finally finished reading all of the released strips of the #webcomic comiCSS. My favorite was https://comicss.art/comics/84/ , but all were fun to read. Thanks @alvaromontoro !

    #comicss

    timesandseasons, to random
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    I wish we had a common, shorthand way to describe the movement to increase street safety, walking, cycling, mass transit use/availability, and density. Political polls often ask what issues matter most to you, but we don't have a common way to describe it to pollsters, so its popularity never gets detected.

    Neblib,
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    @timesandseasons "Vision Zero" is probably the most understood close term that politicians would know (and likely would get like minds), "Strong Towns" is great but only for those knowing the organization, and "Human-Centered Urbanism" might be more encompassing. I too wish we had a single banner word.

    petes_bread_eqn_xls, to random
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    We need Weird Al to write a song about Weird AI. I want to see “Weird AI – Weird Al” on my music player.

    Neblib,
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    @petes_bread_eqn_xls the standard fonts in the mastodon web make that statement even more confusing, and yes I totally agree.

    dgar, to random
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    Microsoft ad showing someone praising CoPilot AI and how it helped them to turn on “Dark Mode” in Windows 11.

    I feel this says more about the awful UI, than the cleverness of the AI.

    Neblib,
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    @dgar someone with that sense of style really should be running https://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/index.html , if a modern version existed.

    Minnewegian, to random
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    Just felt like showing off the graduation dress I got

    Excited to be done with college in less than a month :)

    Neblib,
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    @Minnewegian congrats!

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