oldbrokenbicycle.bsky.social
Cyclist, banjo picker, teacher. Living in suburbia working for protected bike lanes.
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Lol. As I'm listening further, I know the homeless dude she's talking about. I gave him a couple of IPAs yesterday when I was exiting the food lion.
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Her problem isn't that people are homeless, it's that she has to now interact with them.
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Perhaps you could do your part by accurately reporting. The man wasn't killed because he was "hit by an SUV", he was killed because a driver ran him over.
Using passive language as you are doesn't help.
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A pedestrian wasn't "hit by a car". A driver plowed their car into the pedestrian.
This would be like saying "local man shot by gun during robbery"
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Second this. Worm bins are super easy and low maintenance.
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Composting is 90% about green to brown ratio. The rest is about turning (adding oxygen) and not letting it get too dry.
If you want to get fancy you can get a soil thermometer and plop it in your pile. If it gets too hot you'll know you need to stir it or add browns. Too cool, add greens
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Here in Chesterfield too. Dominion building out their methane production here too so we also get the dirty air and higher cancer rates.
www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...
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This type of passive language isn't helping. The car didn't ram into the pedestrian. The driver rammed their car into the pedestrian.
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The freedom marches blocked traffic and made things inconvenient. That's the point.
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You may not be trying to do it, but that argument is the same as the one that was made against the freedom marches of the civil rights era.
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Oh shit, I've been found out.
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As a science teacher i can tell you many kids who transition away from homeschooling have serious educational gaps. A couple kids who were religiously homeschooled told me they were taught that the earth was only 10,000 years old.
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Speaking of maypops, IMHO they are the most beautiful of our native wildflowers. this one is growing on the fence at the school garden
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Can you send me some info on the bike the burg project?
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Richmond va. #rva We had the first operational electric streetcar network and could use some of the old track. You could run the lines down to Petersburg (like the streetcar line used to) and serve a large area
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Background checks should only be for the housed. The homeless should be exempt.
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I haven't stated my position on gun control other than saying I support background checks. So wtaf are you talking about?
FTR, I think we should arm the homeless.
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You say sitting in the country with the highest per capita gun ownership in the world. If you can't figure out a way to legally own a firearm, I think that's a skill issue on your part.
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My question was actually "What war on guns?".
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We all should have recognized this isn't a serious person when they started claiming things like background checks are "a war on guns". Kamala Harris spent a portion of her campaign bragging about owning a gun. Walz had ads of him hunting. Yet these folks still think "they're coming for our guns"
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This is a troll comment. Enjoy your trolling, I'm out. If you actually cared about data and a good faith conversation you wouldn't lash out and call people assholes and mansplainers for simply pointing out the disparity in gun violence in the US vs places that have more gun regulations.
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I'm personally really glad there are background check requirements. Why in the world would you be opposed to something like that. As others have pointed out: all the data out there shows that easy access to guns (like we have here) drives up gun violence.
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Lol. Where is this war on guns taking place? It certainly isn't the US. The US has the highest per capit gun ownership in the world. We also have some of the highest rates of gun violence.