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Raised crosswalks and protected bike lanes help calm traffic, but apparently, the construction projects that build those things might also help reduce crashes:

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/06/28/tremont-street-safety-project-isnt-complete-but-crashes-are-already-plummeting

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From the article it seems like the presence of construction itself is a factor, yeah - an unpredictable environment with hazard signs all over it causing people to be more aware

And then also they emphasize that the 2-lane configuration (vs 4) is probably contributing just as much, so you wouldn't have to keep the street permanently under construction

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Listening to the news about cancellations

Customers saying "it's not okay, because people have planned vacations for like, a long time"

The cause of flight cancellations: severe weather, wildfire smoke, air traffic controller shortages - climate change and class war

But yeah okay the real tragedy here is your vacation

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@mibwright That's all true, too, yeah - there are systemic problems that will cause this to happen more and more regularly until we just build some goddamn rail

What's happening specifically right now is a labor shortage, wildfire smoke, and weather

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I have an overwhelming and very annoying house fly invasion in the kitchen and I cannot work out where they are coming from. I have done all the obvious things, but every day, every morning, there are flies on the floor presumably new hatched... I am glad they are easy to squish but I need to find out where the hatchery is. If it's underneath the cupboards, beyond the baseboards, I have no way of getting into there.

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If you live in a multistory apartment they can be breeding in another apartment and move through the drains

manifest_irony, to random

Remember when wildfires 1,000 miles away made enough smoke to blanket the entire freaking Midwest? Me neither.

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@manifest_irony Same here

Somebody yesterday was like "Wildfires happen" and I'm like, yes but

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DT is "threatening" to "boycott" Republican primary debates

DT has been advised by his lawyers to shut the fuck up about being president, he's under about 30 investigations for his presidential conduct and shouldn't be saying anything on tape about anything

Blaming his non-attendance on FOX coverage is an attempt at saving face through blame-shifting

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My "at-home covid test" conspiracy is none of them work: you're spending $30 for ACON Laboratories to tell you to go back to work

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Anecdotal evidence: mom's clear covid case never tested positive at-home but did test positive at the county testing site

Lots of twitter posts of people who are baffled that they're bed-ridden and not testing positive

Me, personally, today: sent home with fever sweating, weakness, sore throat, sinus clogging, and a lot of pooping

Covid test is negative tho

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"Simulation theory" is a pseudo-religious balm for the glaring evidence that we're exceedingly brief and wasting it

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@kierkegaank Mhmmm if what I wrote was "pot-ay-to", what you're saying sounds like "po-tah-to"

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@kierkegaank "deadly poison po-tah-to" lol

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We are so unprepared for the next wave. Visited a pharmacy to buy some COVID tests. They don't have any and don't plan to restock them. Meanwhile, COVID continues to mutate, the population's immunity continues to fade, and we have another dangerous fall and winter ahead of normal social and travel behaviors with zero mitigations. Those who don't learn from history...

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@augieray I bought tests today, had to ask for help to find them, the pharmacist couldn't even remember where they were - like it had been that long since someone asked about them

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I've been answering "no I don't have a disability" for years because getting a diagnosis for any of my mental health issues or neurodiversity is just not on the radar

and realizing just now that nowhere in this disclosure does it say you need a documented diagnosis

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Literally anyone who knows me can tell you I'm quirky come on

Are0h, to random

There's this thing happening on Tiktok where people, almost exclusively white because, of course, are saying how the lack of sympathy for a wealthy white dude is an indicator of how 'uncivilized' the US has become.

Not homelessness. Not removing the bodily autonomy of half of the population. Not out of control police. Not rampant hate crime and violence. Not wage theft. Not unaffordable healthcare. No book banning. Not targeted discrimination of the trans community. Not the utter disregard the country showed for people during Covid.

Nope. None of that.

What shows we are a BAD SOCIETY is not showing empathy for a rich dude who suffered the consequences of his actions and took people down with him.

I just... it's not funny, but I can't stop laughing. It's yet another example of how white folks, even ones that consider themselves 'liberal,' will just turn on people the moment a random sensibility is offended.

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@Are0h Mostly agree but that's not a random sensibility: that's a very specific one

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So what we've learned this weekend is that Lukashenko, the Belarusian president, is the actual leader of

Because Lukashenko doesn't want it, because war in Ukraine is good for Lukashenko, a Russian armed rebellion changed its mind about the whole thing and the Russian president is just letting them walk away

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The best explanation I can think of for this kind of leverage is that Lukashenko is keeping a lot of Putin's money and some of it was used to buy off Wagner

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I mean Lukashenko's motives are obvious

Belarus gets stronger by taking Russian money (and nukes) while Ukraine and Russia bloody each other

Lukashenko makes deeper and deeper Russian (and NATO) contacts as Belarus is elevated to critical importance due to the strategic nature of the conflict

All the while expending very little of its own resources: all Lukashenko has to do is keep it going for another year or two and Belarus will be the regional superpower

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Aquarium fish tip:

Figure out when delivery day is and order the day before delivery day; it's usually every week

By that point most of the fish that aren't going to make it have already died and been scooped out and you're left with only the ones that have proven they can survive the shock of being moved

If you didn't know that, and you showed up the day after a delivery, what you'll see is a guy scooping half a dozen dead fish out of every single tank

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Some of these fish have an MSRP of $30 and some of them sell for $0.50 and I'm pretty sure it costs about the same to produce any one of them and the only difference is how much people want them

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@screwtape It's the same reason to skip dating until your forties

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The e-bike market is so insane right now that companies need you to pre-order their closeout models because they're back-ordered out to July/August

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You can put $0 down on a 32mph moped or cafe racer e-bike, if you're willing to wait a few weeks for it to get unpacked from the shipping container

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Notice how, as soon as the smoke stopped drifting over the Northeast, we're not getting any news about the canadian wildfires anymore

One of the top 3 articles in searches is "Canadian wildfires pretext for wrecking the economy in the name of 'Climate Change'"

As if climate change isn't real and isn't wrecking the economy right now

They're using the same strategy to kill climate action as they did covid lockdowns and track-and-trace: denialism and fear-mongering over the economy

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@SRLevine It's frustrating because the class war is clearly already a shooting war - millions of vulnerable people died to save 401ks - and the casualties are still rolling in

But one side has no ammunition and wouldn't know how to shoot back if it did

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