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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Nah, this road is a fucking textbook example of a bad neighborhood intersection.

    Wide straight road with a hill on one side leads to unsafe driving speeds. Combined with parking at the intersection making visibility low for anyone crossing the intersection (cars, pedestrians, and bikes all included!)

    This intersection needs intervention, and a stop sign is a bare minimum solution. Speed bumps and daylighting would also be justified.

    We know we build unsafe intersections, we don’t need a traffic study to confirm it, especially if you have a large number of residents with the same complaint.





  • Wearing natural fabrics helps a lot too. They can absorb and make moisture unavailable so the bacteria aren’t able to produce as much of a scent.

    Wool is fantastic at this, but other fabrics can too like cotton and linen. Polyester in the other hand does not absorb water at all, it just sits in the surface of the fabric letting the bacteria have their feast and producing smells.







  • It matters to me because the sheer number of these morons who are being exploited by the rich are actively making my life and the lives the people I care about worse. To do nothing about it is to admit defeat and accept this as the way of the world. I don’t want to do that, I’d rather at least try something, even knowing the likelyhood is low.

    And I don’t think pure doomerism is helpful either. By encouraging against any kind of deprogramming, you tacitly make it easier for the morons to spread without resistance.



  • In the current age of the Internet that doesn’t work. It used to be people were afraid of being shunned by their community as then they would have nothing. Now with social media there are echo chambers that amplify views deserving of shunning and give refuge to those who would otherwise be shunned.

    But deprogramming people like this is hard, and won’t always work. So I won’t blame anyone for shunning people like this, but just know it’s not really solving anything.




  • Averages can mess this with this kind of statistics, where small group of people can bring up the average cost significantly.

    Gas is also expensive, my wife spends about $130 a month a gas alone. They are also likely factoring in all costs too, including personal property taxes (which where I live gets much more costly if the vehicle is worth over 20k), and all maintenance. So things like tire changes, replacement batteries, oil changes, and everything else, averaged over the lifetime of the car.

    You won’t see most of these with an electric car at nearly the same cost. Electric cars see much lower operating costs, but only if you can afford it, and can charge it cheaply. Many people I know can’t as they live in apartments and would have no way to charge an electric car.

    For us personally, looking at buying a new electric over my wife’s paid off car, increases in personal property taxes and insurance negate much if the financial savings of having a lower operating expenses. Combined with a high initial cost of the vehicles it doesn’t save anything financially.










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