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nwchapman

@nwchapman@sfba.social

Your basic Bay Area boy: flâneur, film buff, hiker, foodie, culture vulture, PhD drop out—underemployed and over-caffeinated.

Liberté, Egalité, Flâneurité!

Frisco-Australian

"No, I am not a reasonable being, nor do I consider our scheme reasonable. Who the hell wants to be reasonable?"

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    nwchapman,
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    @divya @davidho I'm not even sure we need to go to indigenous people as opposed to just the past of our cultures. I grew up in a somewhat archaic or anachronistic way - at various times living places with goats, rabbits, chickens, ducks, etc., and/or hunting deer and rabbits, going fishing. Not everyone does that in ways that respectful to the animals, but lots of people do, certainly the people I was around did. And the farmers and shepherds I've known have been kind and respectful, friendly even with sheep or pigs they were planning on slaughtering (though with limits). It's often palpable - that moment when someone is connecting respectfully with an animal they are going to kill, expressing a kind of gratitude to them and to the natural world.

    nwchapman, to random
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    Apparently, nationwide COVID levels in wastewater have gone from "high" to "very high"

    nwchapman, to random
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    Today in WTF:

    Modern technology foiled by... cargo pants

    "TSA told SFGATE cargo pants tend to set off body scanning machines because the attire is somewhat out of style and the technology isn’t trained on scanning pants with extra pockets"

    I wonder how they do with kilts?

    https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/tsa-sfo-holiday-travel-2023-tips-18552616.php

    nwchapman, to random
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    "our leaders have rushed us back to an era of unrestrained airborne pathogens and lax public health policies"
    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/opinion/long-covid-reporting-lessons.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FE0.y9Tf.Ij_ErjuviFq6&smid=url-share

    nwchapman, to climate
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    Catastrophic change looms as Earth nears climate ‘tipping points’, report says

    Polar ice, coral reefs and other Earth systems could cross irrevocable thresholds soon, but urgent action could stave off the worst effects.

    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03849-y?WT.ec_id=NATURE-202312&sap-outbound-id=DC324AFCAF79A34A5355EB4B2BE4C9AE7B45F5C2

    nwchapman, to random
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    Incorrect in basically all its claims and accusations https://sf.streetsblog.org/2023/11/30/elm-school-street-update-sfmta-bait-and-switches-again

    nwchapman, to random
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    when that special someone gives you that look https://botsin.space/@mobydick/111491313441037564

    AbandonedAmerica, to random
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    The entryway of an abandoned church

    See the rest: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/macedonia-free-will-baptist-church

    nwchapman,
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    @AbandonedAmerica Wow. Loving that.

    skinnylatte, to random
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    I don’t understand how healthcare works in this country, but I wanted a Novavax vaccine and Costco has it. Confusingly, Costco also tells you it’s a hundred dollars as you book it, but when you get there it’s 0 dollars (with insurance). Probably also still free for those without insurance. It feels very American to go get a vaccine at Costco. On cyber Monday. I don’t believe you need to be a member to use their pharmacy.

    https://www.costco.com/adult-immunization-program.html

    nwchapman,
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    @veleau_monica @divya @skinnylatte I finally just went with another Pfizer shot.

    nwchapman,
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    @skinnylatte @veleau_monica @divya Hey - I’ve had to manage healthcare benefits for a company AND worked at SF General and I don’t understand how it works here.

    Or to put it another way, I understand that it doesn’t work.

    nwchapman, to random
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    World’s biggest iceberg moving beyond Antarctic waters

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/27/worlds-biggest-iceberg-moving-beyond-antarctic-waters?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

    nwchapman, to random
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    [ironic chuckle]

    nwchapman, to movies
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    Wallace and Gromit studio Aardman Animations running out of clay

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/nov/20/wallace-and-gromit-studio-aardman-animations-running-out-of-clay

    nwchapman, to random
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    Tues, Nov 21 is the last day for Rosamunde

    nwchapman, to random
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    "‘Shocking to see’: Here’s what APEC attendees thought of San Francisco" - SF Chronicle

    Well, 6 attendees out of more than 20,000 at least. I'm glad the Chron could find 6 people to bolster its editorial line.

    skinnylatte, to random
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    It is pretty dystopian to have helicopters overhead all day.

    nwchapman,
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    @joshourisman @skinnylatte I hear the phone in DC is actually pretty awesome generally... still wouldn't want to live there, but it's interesting to think about.

    Probably obvious why. If you look at food around here - "ethic food" - you can trace it, of course, to various waves of people arriving from elsewhere, and sometimes to the effect of a few specific people. I remember when West African food really took off in Oakland and how it seemed to be related to a few people/groups.

    skinnylatte, to magASEAN
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    I’ve unfortunately learned that there is a sport that combines sepak takraw and table tennis. It is called teqball, and it somehow has a curved table

    nwchapman,
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    @skinnylatte Is that what those weird tables in UN Plaza are for?

    nwchapman, to random
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    The Howard Zinn Book Fair 2023: Against Amnesia

    Sunday, Dec 3, 10am-6pm at CCSF Mission Center on Valencia

    [be there or be square]

    https://www.zinnbookfair.org/

    mattlaroche, to random
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    If money weren't an issue, and I wanted to take a sabbatical, I would become a parking control officer for a year. I would love to go around my neighborhood ticketing sidewalk and crosswalk parkers.

    nwchapman,
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    @mattlaroche You can use the 311 app and report all of them - some of them will get ticketed. It's not quite as satisfying, but...

    (I have been assaulted doing this, though - something to consider.)

    nwchapman,
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    @enobacon @mattlaroche Apparently there is something like that for reporting idling vehicles in NYC. It would really be cool if there was something like that for stuff like illegal parking in SF.

    nwchapman, to random
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    This is such a depressing way to present San Francisco as "a City of firsts" to the world.

    No sex, drugs and rock and roll, nothing about what makes or made San Francisco the "Paris of the West," "Cool, Grey City of Love" or "Baghdad by the Bay."

    Basically just tech

    https://www.apec2023sf.org/the-city-of-firsts

    skinnylatte, to SanFrancisco
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    This SF Mission burrito list, I fully agree with. Finally! (Tho I don’t love El Farolito as much as people do, I love the rest)

    Also worth noting the no 1 spot, La Vaca Birria, is halal

    https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/best-mission-burrito-sf-18457256.php

    nwchapman,
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    @skinnylatte I also am not as into Farolito as most other people seem to be. But I've often suspected that might just be personal - when i was a kid, there were La Cumbre people and El Farolito people. We were La Cumbre people. It's not what it was, but I still have this baked in - refried? - loyalty that sticks.

    nwchapman,
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    @skinnylatte Well, there's a whole category of "drunk food" - I know I am much less demanding of my burritos, tacos, and nachos when I've had a few beers. I guess like chips or curries or doner kebad in the UK.

    Is there a Singapore or Malaysian equivalent - food people go for when a bit smashed, often served up right outside nightclubs or wherever?

    skinnylatte, to cycling
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    6 months ago when I had my beloved Rivendell bike stolen, everyone told me: it’ll turn up in a couple of months. I wanted to believe them but I wasn’t sure I did!

    Few things in my favor: my Riv Road Standard was a custom frame in 1995, the size and color doesn’t really exist at all so it was very unique. If you see it, you know it’s my bike. So almost exactly 6 months to the day I got a Reddit message from someone saying they have my bike!

    nwchapman,
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    @skinnylatte It's so great that you got it back!

    skinnylatte, (edited ) to random
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    Just because I disagree with the American left on almost all foreign policy doesn’t mean I have to be like, conservative

    (Editing this post to say this is not about me specifically but about leftists who say they don’t want to be leftist anymore because of their feelings on a certain ongoing war)

    nwchapman,
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    @skinnylatte Come over to the dark side. We have kitty cats

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