jaimel.bsky.social
chicken and bee wrangler. sailboat capsizer. too many dogs haver. motion graphics for money doer. brooklyn born country living chore enthusiast.
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If he'd walked a mile down Lexington it all could have been avoided.
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There's a few stories but they more or less are all based in thankfulness of a good catch in a time of hunger. The stargazing part is probably retconning; the sardines are sorta proof there's actually fish in the fish pie. I'm sure it's fine, sardines are nice fish and fish pie is delicious.
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Stargazy pie.
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As an American, discovering Sharpe late was befuddling because he lived through every episode I saw.
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This is about to pivot to a full-time chicken raising account so get ready for fledgling pullets y'all. Gonna be a wild ride.
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Their endowment is 53 billion dollars. They'll be fine. I'm more worried about all the kids who are gonna end up at underfunded state schools because they had a gender studies department or a professor published a study on hermaphroditism in butterflies or something.
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I can see it!
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lol now I gotta look him up thx
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I don't think I'll ever find two more eloquent fried clams so I'm stuck with mine.
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so if eight members of a party actively hostile to oversight of an unhinged executive join forces with a minority party that's shown zero commitment to anything beyond talking for a long time, we're headed in the right direction? Please tell me there is a step here I am missing.
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My breakthrough in my early 20s was realizing if i do a little research and fill out as much as i can beforehand it'll be quick and easy. If i show up with a question and a goal i'll still get there, I'll just hafta make three lefts instead of a right.
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This is just straight-up opinion but one of the most effective ways to calm traffic in New York would be to get rid of the large street signs overhanging intersections. Anything intended to speed the flow of urban traffic is poison to humans not in motor vehicles.
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There is definitely something to what you say. There have been experiments (NL of course) in removing traffic signs from some areas; the idea being if drivers have to observe and react to conditions instead of assuming permission to proceed they will behave more safely.
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People are probably far too sanguine about rattlesnakes in the northeast but there's one trail at one waterfall in western mass that's absolutely crawling with them and we should definitely focus on rattlesnake management in the state parks. A small number of rattlesnakes are too big a risk.
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Figured but it bears mentioning every time! Humans are fighting for the scraps left by automobiles.
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Right? RIGHT?!?
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I'll leave figuring out how to quantify unreported injuries to your anecdote-having, no-research-doing ass. Might want try "google.com" but you do you.
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There you go, chief.
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We've at least got our heads on right about the real issue.
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And the real infrastructure has barely changed! But we've tried to turn narrow city streets into strodes. It's been crazy to watch the literal property grab by car owners; previous forms of use have been made impossible by automobile proliferation. If we acknowledge this from the start?
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I know it's hard to believe in the modern age but streets really were third places especially for children in living memory. Cue the sepia footage filter, but I played on asphalt in all weather from the age of probably seven or eight on. A city far less friendly to everyday driving is a kinder city.
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No argument with your proposals but I think the SUV in the room bears mentioning...
This is maybe informed by my age and childhood in Brooklyn during a diffferent period in the city, but this and nearly every other thing that ails human motion in nyc has the same solution; fewer motor vehicles.
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Idk I think the problem is starting with this as a premise. Not like in a "I'm opposed to humanity as a thing" way but more as maybe we'd be a little better off not seeing ourselves as an inevitability that the world should be bent to accommodate. Henry Gee knows the deal.
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I guess so. As is his right.
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These things happen!
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"Most urban cyclists are dicks. Sorry not sorry."
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Just want to circle back to your original post which concluded:
"Most urban cyclists are dicks. Sorry not sorry."
...which, I mean, fine, but also maybe don't come back with this pearl-clutching tone policing when you jumped in by saying most of a wildly diverse group of people are dicks.
NSJS.
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Sunuva... 😂
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If you have some shit to talk I recommend you google for six fucking seconds where you will find things like the following. 313 of 51,801 injuries resulting from crashes in nyc in 2022 were bike-on-pedestrian. Of 259 total fatalities, 3 were the result of bike-on-pedestrian collisions. Please stop.
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Ok.
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In that similar to stranger danger, a fear of it is felt far out of proportion to its occurrence in reality, for which I had offered statistical proof. You made a contrary assertion and seem to think I'm obligated to research it for you. I'm not, and this is tiresome. Have a nice Saturday.
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like i said, i am not a librarian. you can do your own research if you want to move away from making a vibes-based assertion.
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Ok, that research should get out there then. Good luck.
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I mean that must be terrifying to go through life like that and I'm glad I don't. Sorry.
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Go find your own research supporting that then babes. I'm not a librarian. I can tell you anecdotally there were definitely ebikes pre 2021 bc the boys were flying all over the city on them delivering stuff during the pandy. But if there's been a jump since 2021 I'm sure it'll be easy to find out!
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I honestly think the rules of the road should be similar to boats, where there's a hierarchy of right-of-way from powered to sail to rowed but at the same time like if you're in ny harbor that Staten Island ferry is not stopping no matter what ask me how I know lol.
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It's really not! The scary things people observe and experience are contested intersections which, fair, and delivery cyclists on ebikes doing the last hundred feet of their route on a sidewalk at relatively low speed. This is like stranger danger. Or quicksand. It's a frightening edge case.
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Once they have to start saying the stuff in the creed as factual assertions and not declarations of faith the whole story gets threadbare pretty fast.
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This is not and has never been the case. It may be anecdotally frightening, but in New York City, where space sharing is chaotic, fraught and happens at a quick pace, the danger you describe is historically nonexistent.
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100%. The arc for Catholics who are raised in the church and are normal is credulousness peaks right around seventh grade and confirmation. You get a two year glide & as a high school sophomore you start picking apart dogma and by adulthood you're comfortably arms-length and independent-thinking.
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🎶 you've got a hoovering comin' 🎶
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I hope it's hilarious.
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Yeah some of my deeply Waldorf neighbors-like the true believers- are super nice and we agree to a point but oh man does it get bonkers. That Steiner had him some ideas about race, class, hierarchies and belief for sure
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Columbia County airport somehow got approval for an expansion nobody liked much; the owner was even not particularly aggressive in pursuing it. It just kinda happened. Turns out it was being used as a transfer point for renditions and needed a longer runway. I guess it paid well for him? Idk.