It’s not even a “purple” thing. It’s a “people are so desperate for change that they were willing to give even fascists a chance because the Democrats refused to offer anything but more of the same” thing. It is precisely because this candidate is not a liberal trying to triangulate a mythical “center” that doesn’t exist, that she might actually have a chance.
If a liberal won, certainly. But a socialist has a chance.
I enjoy riding bike more because the commute time is always the same. Nobody can stop you on a bike. No traffic jams, no accidents that blocks a road, no rush hour stress.
At a previous job, I used to commute on the Atlanta Beltline Eastside Trail. Because Atlanta is so starved for bike and pedestrian infrastructure, it was actually popular enough that it managed to slow me down with foot traffic sometimes. (And that was on weekday afternoons; it’s even busier on the weekend.)
Still infinitely better than driving, of course.
Average is 5’10". 6’ is 2" above that, not 6".
Yoshi, because if I wanted the best acceleration acceleration the only other choice was the princess.
(I only played the original SNES version.)
6 ft is only a little bit above average.
No sidewalks
There’s been a lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that resulted in a consent decree forcing local governments to put in ADA-compliant ramps at intersections. But the lawsuit apparently didn’t also include the sidewalks themselves, so now there are useless “ADA ramps to nowhere” everywhere. It’s fucking infuriating!
Where I am, there’s a requirement for 15% (I believe) of new condo developments to meet accessibility standards. You wouldn’t believe how people—potential buyers, not developers—are against that…
I’m against that!
It should be 100%. There’s no excuse not to use universal design principles in every new building.
I’m one of Ossoff’s constituents, and frankly, aside from voting with the party as expected, I’m not aware of anything notable that he’s done.
However, if his desire to be reelected forces him to increase his vigor in opposing the fascists (or better yet, pushes him left) that’s only a good thing!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddites
The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who protested the usage of certain types of automated machinery owing to their concerns relating to worker pay, labour savings, child labour, working conditions, and output quality. They often destroyed said machines in organised raids. Members of the group referred to themselves as Luddites, self-described followers of “Ned Ludd”, a legendary weaver whose name was used as a pseudonym in threatening letters to mill owners and government officials.
We’ve been told historical lies. People who have an issue with this are like Luddites, but that’s because the Luddites were justified too!
They weren’t against technology; they were against it being used to abuse and exploit them as workers.
If you already are their tech support, you probably could’ve forcibly switched then a long time ago.
At least, that’s how I treat my computer-illiterate boomer parents. For them, it’s “use what I tell you to use or you’re on your own.” To be fair, on their last few computers that was MacOS, but their iMac from 2013(?) got so obsolete it wasn’t good enough anymore, so as of a few months ago they’re on a mini PC running Linux whether they like it or not.
My neighborhood is in a big city but still single-family, and we’ve recently started getting a lot more trick-or-treaters over the last few years because it’s been gentrifying and a lot of the young couples who moved in started having kids.
What should I give out along with candy to help?
He was there with his girlfriend, yet he was in the arcade instead of the orgy!
evaporative cooling
Ah yes, that famously water-conserving cooling method. Remind me again where Phoenix gets its water supply?
No, not quite correct. The character pasted off the Swedish page was Ø LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE (U+00D8).
It looks almost identical to the to the mathematical symbol for an empty set (at least in the font I’m using right now), but it doesn’t mean anything even slightly similar and would be rendered entirely differently by, for example, a screen reader reading the text aloud.
I should’ve paid more attention to the GP’s comment, where he said he’d even be willing to vote Republican. Single issue anti-data-center voters are just as fucked up.
a supposed cold city in a tropical country
What does that mean? High elevation, I guess?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-yz0KhZJHI
Not my video and I don’t know what day of the week it was filmed, but it’s pretty representative of ‘medium’ weekday afternoon traffic (even though the video title calls it “heavy”). Like I said in my previous comment, weekends are worse.
(I don’t endorse trying to ride as aggressively as they’re doing in the video, BTW.)