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oakenrays.bsky.social
zot zot zot; a better world is possible.
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I’ll take a sprinkling of shaming anyone who dares to call it out
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In Tokyo I tapped my suica card on fare gates and it processed it in under a second, to the point that I stopped breaking stride going through the gates. That said, they also didn't have the enormous plexiglass doors...
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BHS jazz is world renowned! We are lucky to have it
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Rare Gruesome Gavin W must be acknowledged. Do you know how much money annually C&T generates, and where else it is spent?
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You’d know better than me but I get the impression that certain planning types feel threatened by the fact that the best bike infrastructure is not some bespoke weird design but pretty simple established stuff like this.
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Glad I pulled the trigger on my new Marin a few months ago!
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any chance we can ditch the plastic straws and go straight for boulders or possibly tank traps?
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I believe that pursuing tesla in a products liability case would mean filing a separate complaint
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This is the vehicle of a man who leaks classified information on the WarThunder forums
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Platform doors are unambiguously good; removing train operators is unambiguously bad. Like you said, there is so much they do beyond ensuring safe operation, so many impossible-to-automate tasks and issues only a human can solve...
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I went to hog island and everyone knew you
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you can stall an airplane at any airspeed and any attitude but only one critical angle of attack...
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How many boomer fuddy-duddy lawyers does it take to deprive the world's fifth-largest economy of functional transit? 1!
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No, PM25!
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Good morning Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court... at last time of checking, a one way airline ticket from San Salvador to Washington, DC cost over THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS
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At every level: the fact that a public referendum was needed; the fact that it had to contain a right to legal remedy and atty's fees; the fact that someone has had to sue the fucking city to get them to perform basic government functions.
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At least in this case it's probably partially NPR Brain: believing that the more perspectives you uncritically present, crackpot or not, the better the piece of journalism
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undying classic: youtu.be/uFpK_r-jEXg?...
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I guess rim brakes are well and truly dead then
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honestly I'm jealous you like it. I really really wish I did!
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we need roadblocks at all points of ingress into berkeley to turn away hog trolleys and their drivers
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I could be blending stuff together in my head though
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can't find it now but I remember watching a doc on BART where it was explained that BART tracks and og trainsets were designed with ultra-high tolerances in order to be silent and fast, but the setup ended up being too expensive and the result is the BART whine.
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despite the big improvement with the new trainsets, unfortunately BART will forever be burdened by the choices of the designers to build an "aerospace" train system
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By Ross Douthat
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I was all over the pencil car thing at the central branch
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Get there itis at every level
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Pogged non scale victory; strong like ox
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The facts are pretty poor for the prosecution but definitely interesting to see what will happen. Very cool experience
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I’ve been sitting in on a DUI trial over the past few weeks and seeing the PD embarrass the CHP for the dogshit MVARS video has been quite funny
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I wish Hayao Miyazaki could put them all in a food processor
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Still 789 on this route, or 772?
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Big Jeans; Big Bicycle; Big Shoes… the growth scam must stop!
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why he gotta wear that big ass palm pilot holster at all times
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Once he finishes his podcast with Reinhard Heydrich yeah for sure
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Disbarments aren’t pardonable, are they?
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No excess carbs? Keto weirdo?
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The absolute monkey’s paw-icity of your multi-year crusade to get Kingsley Jones out of the Canada job potentially culminating in his being Wales DOR… good grief!
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Being able to do this kind of shit is probably the #1 real life benefit of lifting weights. Beyond living longer and being happier I guess.
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New F Murray Abraham joint looks crazzzzyyyyyy
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Ohhh j’espére!
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Yup, thats me... you're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.
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77... he was just a fucking kid
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This is the best news the true crime industry has received in decades!