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Arctem
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Finally some representation for us aphantasians.
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Arctem
@arctem.bsky.social
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Finally some representation for us aphantasians.
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Arctem
@arctem.bsky.social
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Switzerland took over all the ads in the San Francisco subway for a couple months last year. Lots of pictures of a lady doing yoga on Lake Zürich.
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The.Simpsons.s4e12.Marge.vs.the.Abigail.avi
@popeguilty.bsky.social
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Charity is a means of control, which is why conservative monsters absolutely love it.
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Arctem
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The greatest public service the NYT editorial board can now perform is to resign immediately so they can be replaced by someone with a single brain cell.
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Popehat
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Jailing people for being homeless is a classic American policy: stupid, brutal, and very expensive.
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Arctem
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That's just right on Market Street. There are a bunch more in the neighborhoods. I go past two that I know of on my commute and it's pretty short!
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Arctem
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San Francisco has lost a lot of them but we still have at least three CVS/Walgreens options in the core of downtown. The CVS inside a Target is the only one that isn't horribly depressing at all times.
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Arctem
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So there might only be one per city block now?
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Dan Nguyen
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NYT has comment sections for every Wordle and yesterday's Wordle was "MANGA"
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Kameron Hurley
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When we talk about "taxing rich people" there's folks who think we're talking about Aunt Edna who has the second summer home. The astronomical levels of "rich" that now exist are almost unfathomable to people. It's the stuff of vast empirical dynasties. We're talking about taxing emperors.
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Arctem
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I'm willing to help force it into existence.
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Arctem
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I definitely want to see that video, but yeah it feels weird to focus on the negatives for a year in a series that has been mostly positive.
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈
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Literally happened minutes ago: a truck driver killed a cyclist at an intersection that will be within the congestion pricing zone. Could we get a more stark and timely reminder of why congestion pricing is not just about the revenue? It's about making our STREETS SAFER.
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Arctem
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Congestion pricing elsewhere tends to be unpopular right before it starts and then quickly popular after implementation. If it had become effective this summer then there would be time by the election for those benefits to be apparent. Instead the argument will continue to be divisive.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Studies repeatedly show that congestion pricing's popularity is lowest *right before it gets implemented,* recovering and quickly becoming popular once citizens start to see the benefits of it, so of course NY Dems are committed to staying in that "almost implemented" period as long as possible
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Arctem
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It was for driving into Manhattan:
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/n...
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Arctem
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It was going to.
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Four Years Ago Today
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June 1, 2020 In one of the most notorious days of the Trump presidency, police suddenly advanced on peaceful protesters in Lafayette Park across from the White House, clearing them away with batons, flash-bangs and tear gas. Trump then strode through the park and held up a bible for photographers.
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Arctem
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My proudest moment at Google will forever be when Waymo lawyers told me to take down a meme, I told them to fuck off, and they never bothered again. I'm just very glad I wasted their time over something so pointless.
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Arctem
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As a recently departed (laid off) employee of Search, that article mostly tracks with my experience. My perception of the decline started a little after RTO in 2021 and escalated severely at the end of 2022. 2023 especially was a year of sacrificing everything to chase AI trends.
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Arctem
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There's a reason they use ton-miles when comparing themselves to other countries: US freight almost only moves goods too heavy for trucks, which usually means coal and other cheap per ton goods. They move weight, not value. No one ships perishable goods by rail in the US because it's too slow.
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Arctem
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That definitely isn't accurate. US cargo rail has abandoned the majority of its former market share to trucking and nowadays only focuses on bulk cargo like coal and iron which don't have high demand for timely delivery. Track is poorly maintained and crews are overworked, causing many problems.
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Kurt Opsahl
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The Google AI isn’t hallucinating about glue in pizza, it’s just over indexing an 11 year old Reddit post by a dude named fucksmith.
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Arctem
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Saying that the odds of them both misfiring were 1 in 125k seems a bit silly. Surely the odds of him not knowing how to properly load a gun were much higher.
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Arctem
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It's crazy that 9/11 still makes the charts.
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Arctem
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That entire article is a stream of "on the one side, there's slightly less parking. On the other side, drivers regularly kill bicyclists, pedestrians, and children. Who can say who has it worse?"
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The War on Cars
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No car should be able to hit 122 mph. The technology to limit a car's speed either to a fixed maximum or, via GPS, to the posted limit of local roads exists.
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Randall Munroe
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An innocuous start to May 18th on this account following Mount St. Helens 44 years ago in real time
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Peter
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2010 Google top result: the website you’re looking for 2018 Google top result: an ad related to the website you’re looking for 2024 Google top result: a computer tells you that Snoop Dogg is the President
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Arctem
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The fact that you swapped the order of the games in this post really made me hope that Mullet Madjack was the puzzle game. It's such a bizarre name for a puzzle game that I want to see what it would look like. Also Lorelei and the Laser Eyes is a solid name for a boomer shooter, so it all works.
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Colin McMillen
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i'm Still Mad that google could have nipped the whole generative-text spam thing in the bud like, 2 years ago, by saying "yo, we have An Algorithm to detect AI text, and if your site is found to be using lots of AI-written text, we'll treat that as a signal to lower the ranking of your site"
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Arctem
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The dark magics of Maritime Law call to them, whispering in their ears at night until they can no longer resist its allure.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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One thing I always forget about BAND OF BROTHERS is how, right when they're doing the horror movie setup for the Battle of the Bulge, one of the most suspenseful and frightening parts of the war, Jimmy Fallon shows up.
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wint
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this shit would be so easy for me. it would be kindergarten for babies
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Arctem
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Also on mobile, just now.
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Arctem
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Even beyond the meta obsessives (which are funny because they never agree on what the meta is) the ones upset about anyone not fully focused on the major order are a special kind of baffling to me. They seem to think failure will result in us losing content rather than just twisting the narrative.
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Arctem
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I've had surprisingly good luck in random matches, but the community outside of the game is absolutely dominated by all kinds of weird toxicity.
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Arctem
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And so much better than Twilight especially! It's the Zelda I'm most likely to go back and replay.
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Arctem
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That's not true. Wii had Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword and even if you count Twilight Princess as a GCN title instead of Wii then it also has Wind Waker. Then N64 had Ocarina and Majora's Mask, so the Wii U is the only console with a single new Zelda.
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Arctem
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I can definitely agree on Trump being the holdout. And it's possible it might actually be bad for them just because if he did really poorly and knew it he would spend all his time obsessed with claiming he did great in his future appearances since it would weigh on him.
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Arctem
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That's likely the reason he doesn't want to, but I still think a debate would ultimately be more useful for him than harmful. The conservative media would spin any performance by him positively no matter how poorly it reflected the actual substance of the debate.
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Arctem
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You imagine Trump needing to do anything but yell louder than Biden for at least long enough to fill a 30 second ad. The full content of a debate wouldn't matter, just the heavily edited clips that conservatives can pull out of it.
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Arctem
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I'm genuinely confused this strategy isn't more common in most creative industries. Both a great way to farm potential hits for and discover new talent that owes you a favor.
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Josh Fruhlinger
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shoutout to @pbump.com for finding a couple urbanist memes from 1939. "death begins at 40" is a god-tier slogan for a campaign to lower speed limits, why aren't we using it s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...
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Dennis B. Hooper
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The War on Cars
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"In 2022, cars killed 7,508 pedestrians, the equivalent of 18 fully-loaded Boeing 747s crashing with zero survivors. That means a pedestrian died roughly every 70 minutes, with no breaks in the tide of fatalities for weekends or holidays."
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Arctem
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Also the idea that there is literally anything that he wouldn't find a way to blame on Democrats (and that the media wouldn't treat credulously) reeks of not paying attention for the last 8 years.
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Peter (Popular With Friends)
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Worth mentioning the great scene in Dracula A.D. 1972, when Peter Cushing as Van Helsing fills an ashtray with butts as he struggles to figure out the connection between Alucard and Dracula.
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The War on Cars
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“The family killed in West Portal was doing what more people in San Francisco should. They sold their car and chose to [use] the city’s robust public transit network to get around. The fact that they were killed by an SUV while waiting for a bus is an especially cruel irony."
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Arctem
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And are they the same people who do it on the bus or is this a case of convergent evolution?
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