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stevenbodzin

@stevenbodzin@thepit.social

Discontent creator. Big fan of living things.

Award-losing journalism is at https://journa.host/@guacamayan

Photos: me, soda pop and ferns

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stevenbodzin, to random
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Today I was again remembering how in the early 90s, after the revival of Earth Day, the success of the Montreal Protocol and the growth of concern over global warming, one cute little thing people did was to take their own cup to the cafe. Most cafes would sell coffee cheaper if you brought a cup.

It was part of a broader conversation about reducing packaging.

It disappeared after the 2000 election, the disgrace of Al Gore, and 9 months later the 9/11 attacks.

stevenbodzin,
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When they let GW Bush take office, even though he quite likely lost, I for one thought "well as long as there's no major crisis, we can muddle through and get back to fixing things in 4 years"

that didn't pan out too well

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@capntransit Amazing! In that case you probably remember how at one time every youngun had a cup hanging off their backpack? I don't see it and I don't see cafes publicizing that they offer that option.It's great that a few places still do but I think it was much bigger then, as was the general conversation about reducing packaging. There were serious moves to require manufacturers to take back ALL packaging. Imagine that now? Packaging use rises every year thanks mostly to mail order.

stevenbodzin,
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@capntransit or am i misunderstanding your comment? I mean, if you DID IT today, congrats I guess?

ai6yr, to random
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Ran across a garage sale this weekend where someone was selling a used road bike, for more than the Blue Book value of my current vehicle. 😬

stevenbodzin,
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@ai6yr but at least it came with a garage

futurebird, to random
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Thom Hartmann is disturbed by a field of wildflowers... but not an insect in sight...

https://hartmannreport.com/p/is-the-loss-of-insects-a-desperate-7fe/comments

It's hard to quantify the loss of insects since we have never kept great track of them to begin with.

stevenbodzin,
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@futurebird i find a lot of the insect crisis stuff really unconvincing. If insect populations drop 90% i have a hard time believing that bird populations don't also plummet. And we do track birds

ascentale, to random
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@skyfaller asks about low maintenance bikes for the long-long term:

Q5. What is the easiest bicycle to maintain in the long term, like if you wanted it to be a family heirloom? Bikes that are no longer in production are valid. What factors do you consider for ease of maintenance?

If you were building a bike from scratch with the goal of making it as easy to maintain as possible, how would you do it?

#BikeNite #BikeNiteQ

stevenbodzin,
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@Cvwarren @ai6yr @ascentale @skyfaller 5 year old bike, way too much bike mechanic time looking for replacement brake hoods

Also had to pay $100 for a chainring because this size isn't made anyone

stevenbodzin,
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@ai6yr @Cvwarren @ascentale @skyfaller still a bargain compared to cars or even bus fare...

fraying, to random
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Imagine for a moment what the news would sound like if the Democratic nominee for president was a convicted rapist and guilty of 34 cases of fraud.

Now pay attention to how the news discusses Trump in the coming days and ask yourself why it’s different.

stevenbodzin,
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@fraying the soft bigotry of low expectations?

GrimmReality, (edited ) to random
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Welp, looks like I picked the wrong week to maybe not go get boisterously daydrunk.

stevenbodzin,
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@GrimmReality have you seen this

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-election-trump-biden-donors/

it's paywalled and i can't find the original, but if memory serves, it shows that NYPD employee campaign donations in 2020 had a higher ratio of Trump:Biden donations than any other company in the US.

thomasfuchs, to random
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Guy literally (accidentally) slits his wrist with his new CyberTruck at the dealership and has to go to ER.

His unironic verdict: “It’s great!”

https://futurism.com/the-byte/cybertruck-sliced-wrist-hospital

stevenbodzin,
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@thomasfuchs i'm not even going to click but that's amusing and awful

reminds me of the book Geek Love

stevenbodzin, to random
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AOC's statement about how she is implementing the is an amazing little schpiel, at minute 140 in this rather long podcast:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-power-broker-04-rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/transcript/#playlist

I live a couple miles from this project and had no idea it was happening.

stevenbodzin, to random
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I hear a lot about how nobody supports open borders.

I support open borders!

If you really think administrative regions NEED to know exactly who is there all the time, I hope you have border stations on your state/province, your city, and your neighborhood. If you don't, why not?

stevenbodzin, to random
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Funny how when people want to spend police $$ they always look at AI gun detection, MRADs and armored cars, when what the city really needs is remote controlled spike strips on every major street

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/05/29/in-hot-pursuit-nypd-chases-still-surging-unleashing-danger-on-city-streets

Andres4NY, to random
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There's plenty of research out there showing that when you add a protected bike lane, a street becomes safer for ALL road users.

However, I'm not convinced that the traffic calming effect that made it safer actually continues to work if you don't bother to maintain the "protection". I fear it's actually the opposite; without the protection, drivers see just a clear lane and drive faster than they did before (where parked cars used to slow down cars, prior to PBL installation). #SafeStreets

stevenbodzin,
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@Andres4NY @roadskater just a couple months ago it was extended from Yellowstone to Hillside, adding miles of new protected lanes. And in the areas with the most double parking, we've had more and more Ydanis barriers installed. I ride it now and then and it's generally been improving

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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I do not love that a lot of the same driving mentality permeates how people move around on crowded MUPs in If you were in the group of bros loudly ringing your bells in unison to get people walking to move right off the path so you all could blast through the middle so fast I could almost feel you on my left shoulder, well I’ll tell you to fuck off in person when you’re stopped next time too. Slow the hell down and wait a singular minute once in a while

stevenbodzin,
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@grivettcarnac why just in Ottawa

ai6yr, to Aviation
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20 people in the ICU still from that Singapore Airlines turbulence event 😬 https://abc11.com/post/singapore-airlines-turbulence-1-dead-20-severely-injured/14857109/ #aviation #turbulence

stevenbodzin,
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@ai6yr

i blame society

inquiline, to random
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Love too live in a country led by a corpse in an electrified tank shouting “fund the police!”

stevenbodzin,
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@inquiline Biden has done a lot of boneheaded stuff, and has also outperformed my expectations by so much that I find it easy to support him. In the coming contest with a literal fascist who wants to lock up my entire profession, I will vote for him enthusiastically. Representative democrracy can be really annoying!

stevenbodzin,
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@inquiline 99% of political actions are not limited by the electoral college. One such actions is posting information about a candidate online, an act that can help either fire up or dampen voter behavior in states with close races.

stevenbodzin,
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@inquiline not at all. Anything he does or says deserves to be publicized. And your post might fire up some voters. But I do find it unfortunate how few people know what the CHIPS act does or that he has forgiven billions in student debt, compared to the number who know that he is a dumbass around police issues.

stevenbodzin,
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@inquiline I have been thinking a lot about why so many people are unexcited by, or even actively opposed to, Biden. He signed the biggest climate bills in world history, finally doing something about what's by far the biggest issue facing our species. Everything else pales next to the billions who will suffer less if we can stabilize the climate.

And yet this just isn't part of the discourse. I really wonder why that is.

stevenbodzin,
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@scott @inquiline yes I get that. But why this genocide all of a sudden? Gaza is egregious but I live in Lenape territory; the whole USA is born of multiple genocides. Living in almost any country requires accepting genocide.

Comparing it to the global climate is bizarre. Thousands of times more people will suffer and 100,000s of times more could die from climate change. Trump actively accelerated that and has promised to roll back Biden policies. Biden put trillions into stopping it.

stevenbodzin,
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@angiebaby @inquiline every president does awful stuff notably maintaining an arsenal of nukes, maintaining a country on Indian land, incarcerating lots of Black men... There is always something to hate in any president. Support for genocide is nothing new. Spending trillions to stop climate change, joining a picket line, boosting wages for the poor and forgiving student debt? All new.

stevenbodzin,
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@angiebaby @inquiline The ballot box is not a place to look for anything to do with one's soul. It's a place where we get to pick our adversary. I would rather demonstrate against the few specific things Biden has done that are bad rather than the utter storm of horror we were dealing with 4 years ago.

Again, my issue is less with the criticism of Biden and more a question of why people focus exclusively on the routine awful things and not the exceptional good things he's done.

stevenbodzin,
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@inquiline @scott I agree that we need transformational change. And Biden hsa started us on several transformations, particularly around climate. I wish the US could tolerate more change. But this is a country full of people who freak out about every bike lane. You need to pick the most strategic battles, and that is what Biden is good at.

This is not to say I agree with many of his choices. But the Green New Deal matters. Few are advertising it, but it's there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDxbTNl4AVI

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