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mindstalk.bsky.social

Interests: liberal, atheist, urbanism, public transit, Tolkien, Silmarillion, walking, anime, yuri, Bujold, Liaden, fanfic, KF94s, N95s. My top Twitter thread (scroll past 18/end, it keeps going): https://mindstalk.net/15minComp.html

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In defense of parasols. slate.com/technology/2...

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Why European cities are safer than US ones www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0_R...

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The US can build modern cutting-edge light metro systems: airport people movers. If only we used the tech for the rest of the city. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybql...

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Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

submitted 7 days ago • 111 comments

WSJ gets into all the gory details of the Cybertruck flop, including the fact that apparently Tesla tried to make it amphibious because Elon tweeted that it would be, and they simply had to give up and redesign the whole thing when it didn't work www.wsj.com/business/aut...

submitted 7 days ago • 75 comments

The most bizarre thing about the COVID School Closure Discourse is how commentators take it for granted that closing schools had no effect on transmission or deaths but that's not at all what the evidence says.

submitted 8 days ago • 38 comments

What if we Americanized Disney? www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG0q...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

i miss frieren fridays #Frieren #FrierenBeyondJourneysEnd

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

submitted 10 days ago • 308 comments

The aim is to allow illness to spread, claiming some, with only the strong surviving. Act now: masks, fever reducers, gloves, medicines- add to your medicine chest as finances and space allow. Act before shelves are empty and the hospitals incapacitated.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqGx...

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Another Kusuriya episode where you realize how much better Shisui would be with Maomao under different circumstances. Jinshi is an annoying harassing boss, but those two would be such good gf's to each other and could match each other's odd obsessions, bugs, or poison.