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HayiWena

@HayiWena@mastodon.online

Recovering traffic engineer, LCI, former bike coop board member, and pied biker of SE WA. Drag stan. #StopDeKindermoord #VikingBiking #CarryShitOlympics #BikeTooter

Profile pic: A woman in a crocheted beanie looks up at the camera over her glasses.
Cover pic: A woman on a cargo bike tows a child on a sled along a snowy street.

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enobacon, to random
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asking a lady her weight but for Engineering reasons...

HayiWena,
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@enobacon well then she can lie because you have to apply a factor of safety anyway

ai6yr, to random

Hmm, even 5 feet of sea rise only takes out one naval base and a few farm fields in Ventura County. I would have thought more of the Oxnard plain was at risk. https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#/layer/slr/5/-13260729.027868235/4045008.5481997402/14/satellite/none/0.8/2050/interHigh/midAccretion

HayiWena,
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@ai6yr Miami will have issues long before because it's so flat there's nowhere for stormwater to go. The whole drainage area is just interconnected ponds that distribute water. Every rise in tailwater elevation would take out a lot of capacity for storage and worsen flooding during rain events. Their wastewater plant must be a fun problem, too.

enobacon, to random
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it's not social networking, it's social not working

HayiWena,
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@enobacon hey man I'm on a conference call that's wasting my time I might as well find out what horrific shit is happening in the world.

meganL, to random
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I forgot what a nightmare filling the forms directly is for a dyscalculic (even the 1040 form).

May everyone at Intuit and their accomplices who've fought the IRS simply sending us all invoices rot in hell.

HayiWena,
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@meganL Honestly, doing taxes is intimidating as hell for people who don't have math issues I cannot imagine how tough it must be to do it alone with dyscalculia. We pay for "peace of mind" protection through H&R Block (a privilege, I realize) just because of the fear of making a mistake.

HayiWena, to random
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I would like to report a problem to my city, but the link to the report a problem link goes to a 404 on the animal shelter website.

enobacon, to random
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Leafblower drone to clean my gutters...

HayiWena,
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@enobacon Paging Sir Isaac Newton for a feasibility assessment.

ai6yr, to cycling

achievement unlocked. This cyclist went to the market. This cyclist did not stay home. This cyclist bought arugula and butter. This cyclist put it on the new rack and pedaled (wee! wee! wee!) uphill all the way home.

HayiWena,
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@ai6yr you realize the next levels on your way to black belt mastery are a bike trailer and a Clydesdale fork.

HayiWena,
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@ai6yr It's a cargo fork. https://crustbikes.com/products/clydesdale-cargo-fork

HayiWena, to random
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It is with great irony that the internet is reminding me that on this day six years ago my then-6yo rode the 2-mi journey home from school alone for the first time, but now that he's in middle school he gets driven because 4-lane arterial roads and greater risks from larger vehicles and worse driving.

HayiWena, to random
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Autocentricity is the cops stopping a Latino kid who's truant and making him wait on the sidewalk for a parent to pick him up half a mile away from a bus stop.

Community policing is walking him back to school one block away.

ai6yr, to woodworking

This piece of vintage woodworking equipment appears to be traveling (repeatedly) through Craiglist this week... 😂

HayiWena,
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@ai6yr "I picked this up because it was awesome but then it didn't fit in my garage and my spouse got mad please buy it so I don't have to haul it away for scrap."

ai6yr, to diy

Today's random thought: learn how to do my own stucco or hire someone. 🤔

HayiWena,
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@ai6yr As someone who unwittingly bought a house from an avid DIYer, please do not DIY. The HVAC techs were amazed yesterday looking at my house, and one of them is old enough to have a 97yo mom. He has Seen Some Stuff. (I have an HVAC duct that runs OUTSIDE MY HOUSE. It's a wonder that when it's 0 deg outside it's as high as 63 in the room served by that duct.)

ai6yr, (edited ) to Health

Hmm, I would like to see a double blind scientific study in "ear pulling" being connected to kidney health. (ps, completely different book here)

HayiWena,
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@ai6yr sent this to my friend who just donated a kidney for some light-hearted relief.

davidzipper, to random
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As I told NBC News:

“If we’re serious about reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, we have to be serious about reducing transportation emissions, and in order to do that we have to address the main source of those emissions, which come from cars and trucks on highways."

“And to that extent, we need to rethink how much we want to expand highways.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/countries-spurn-cars-us-continues-embrace-highways-rcna145681

HayiWena,
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@atthenius @davidzipper The Key bridge carried less traffic than a local street. It carred ~4,000 trucks a day, but I haven't been able to determine how many of those were Hazmat trucks that can't use the two tunnels. Does the bridge even need to be rebuilt? https://www.fleetowner.com/safety/article/21285334/how-baltimores-francis-scott-key-bridge-collapse-affects-truck-traffic-and-fleet-operations

HayiWena,
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@guigsy @atthenius @davidzipper I think you have two zeros too many in your estimate. There is zero business case for rebuilding the bridge, but we don't do business case analyses for highways. We assume they are a positive net good when it's clear the opposite is the case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_U.S._public_works_projects

HayiWena,
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@atthenius @guigsy @davidzipper It's two orders of magnitude off on the cost to replace the bridge, and then maybe still a factor of five. More like $800m to $4bn range. E.g. $1.5bn for the new Goethals Bridge.

HayiWena, to random
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My 12yo's teacher accused him of using ChatGPT to write a paragraph. But the question is, should he be flattered or insulted?

ai6yr, to random

Pay Intuit yearly extortion fee for Quickbooks or suck it up and convert it all to GnuCash... Hmm....

(yes, I did type sudo apt install gnucash)

HayiWena,
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@ai6yr I use QBO for my business and what started out as $25/mo is now $100/mon in six years. Wave is free...

glightly, to random
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A sunny break in the rain and a lot of surfaces outside are emitting steam from the sudden temperature change.

HayiWena,
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@ai6yr @glightly I rode my Ebike in sustained 35mph winds once (on Turbo), it was a wild ride. I've ridden a road bike in 20mph sustained winds. It's tough into the wind, but an eerie quiet when you're going 20mph with the wind at your back. It's worth the effort going out to experience it coming back, but not vice versa. 🤣

ai6yr, to random

I seriously wonder about who is making some of these editorial choices at the New York Times. Big email about the US economy slowing down because of lack of population growth.

NY Times: :"Since its inception, the U.S. has relied on population growth to keep its economy pumping....But a world with a shrinking population is very different from what humans have ever seen. Since the Industrial Revolution, countries have leveraged high population growth to bolster their economies and government programs. Soon, they will no longer be able to do so."

HayiWena,
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@ai6yr Life is better since I blocked the NYT out of my life. The US has always relied on immigration, not birth rates. The NYT Opinion page is just a propaganda and misinformation vehicle.

ai6yr, to random

Glutton for punishment today, my YouTube searches include

"changing shower mixer"
(potentially challenging, but maybe do-able)

and

"repacking bicycle wheel bearings"
(straightforward, but lots of gotchas and don't lose a bearing or forget how it all goes together. Also, lots of grease involved.)

😂

HayiWena,
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@ai6yr Repacking wheel bearings is my zen.

HayiWena, to random
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When the 13yo girl texts you from her vacation on the opposite side of the country to ask you to finish her bike, you finish the damn bike even though your knee dislocated half way through. I cannot get the front derailleur to work so she's gonna have a 1x and learn to increase her cadence from about 40.

Front view of a road bike in a repair stand. There is black bar tape on the handlebars.

HayiWena,
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@enobacon I took the cockpit off the Fuji my then 12yo (now 17yo) frankenbiked together from parts in the bike coop bins with his dad. It's 2x9 brifters that may or may not match that were used before they got wrecked a few times by the 12yo. I think the cranks and derailleurs are from the Bridgestone but the cassette and shifters are from the Fuji. The derailleur can move but the shifter doesn't have the pull to get it over there. We ordered brifters from this century. 🤞

HayiWena, to random
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Is there some kind of quota for how many of these lies a news outlet has to publish a month? Gas prices are lower than average now and the range is only 1-3 avocado toasts per month.

HayiWena, to random
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In my stupid tech heavy hotel room waiting for "the engineer" to come and show me how to turn the lights on because all the stupid "remote" does is make the walls different colors.

HayiWena,
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@enobacon No, not a futon, there's an unlabeled switch. The latest delight from this terrible place is a weird, very loud, low clicking that goes off every 10-15 min and lasts about 30-45 seconds. Whichever research team we select tomorrow better do a fantastic job of this research to make this hell worthwhile. (It's a project to help standardize how bike & ped facilities are encoded so it's easier to aggregate data and do statewide planning.)

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