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Bridget Ware's avatar Bridget Ware @briware.bsky.social
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Next try having your entire work docking station setup, including the network connection, connected to your laptop via the two flimsiest usb-c connectors that only seem to plug in halfway at most.

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This happened where I live, as in the small businesses directly experienced increased business due to traffic calming as opposed to having to trust a study, but they convinced themselves it was something related to the pandemic and are still trying to get the traffic calming taken out.

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I’ve appreciated your posts on here, you’re one of the clearer voices in what feels like a racket sometimes. I completely understand though, and I see what the comments on this site are like. I myself was ecstatic when I saw they finally implemented account deactivation. I hope you get a good break!

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If you’re still on the other site, you could look up Dan Caroselli. He posts a lot of cool LA architecture and has posted specifically about LADWP buildings before (though I’m not sure about the color).

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My new pet peeve is when they make a thread anyway, but every single post still has “read more…” I’m not clicking through each one individually!

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Logging into Bluesky like

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If everyone on the day side of the earth pushes real hard while everyone on the night side pulls real hard, we should be good!

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Cameras are a “yes, and” with better road design. Even if you have the political will for redesigning roads, it takes time and money. Cameras can save lives in the meantime.

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Every time I make a joke on this website I deeply regret it and come away with a few new blocks

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Yes, I think the reason people get so mad they got caught is bc they weren’t intending to speed or do anything reckless, but we put 6 lane roads through a neighborhood and set the limit at 35. You stop watching your speed closely, go with the flow of traffic, before you know it you’re going 45.

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My company hired consultants for a reorg, the result of which was, “go back to exactly how you had it before”

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And a drive in what, the car I threw into my carry on? That specific airport has BY FAR the highest rental car rates I’ve seen, could easily add hundreds to the cost.

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The city my sister lives in was recently rated poorly for summer tourism because of the airport and transit, and the local paper’s response was that it’s an easy drive from the major airport a couple hours away, just completely missing the point of why people on vacation might value good transit.

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Bridget Ware's avatar Bridget Ware @briware.bsky.social
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When talking about traffic calming, I so frequently find myself defending it from the perspective of a driver too. No right on red? Awesome, I don’t want to have to pull out to see if anyone’s coming, judge how fast they’re going, feel pressure from people behind me, etc. Just let me wait for green!

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I second this as someone whose entire life trajectory was defined because of the first one.

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Beside the point, but they should get rid of streaks and other stats. Wordle should be much lower stakes than some people make it out to be.

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At our staff meeting last week, we were shown a slide listing a few AI tools nobody asked for that we could go download from our software store and were told to see if we could find any good uses for them. Literal solution in search of a problem.

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Not in NYC—In my 20s I used to move around every year like it was nothing. Then I had a couple long distance moves that were company sponsored where they come and pack all your stuff, no problem at all. But a couple years ago, late 30s, I did a local move on my own and I thought it might break me.

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Thank you! I also felt weird the whole time they were dating and she didn’t know his real identity, she seemed kind of into the idea that he kills people??

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I prefer to remember people on their birthdays than their death days but since I saw folks giving Bourdain his roses today, 6 years after he left us. Here’s a gift link to what I wrote then

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Thank you for sharing! I don’t typically get personally invested in celebrities and never used to understand the way some people grieve over celebrities they don’t know, but his loss was the first I really felt. 💔 Parts Unknown is still the #1 show I recommend to everyone I know.

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This is how I’ve felt watching the whole DEI panic while working at a large corporation that boasts about their “DEI initiatives.” None of it means anything or has any teeth! We just get a bunch of emails that everyone ignores and the company can say they did something.

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I’ve been fully expecting Biden to go on Hot Ones the next time the NYT whines about him not giving them an interview.

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One time I was waiting to turn left, the light turns yellow, the car coming head on stops to give me a chance to turn, but the car behind them decided they were ABSOLUTELY not going to stop and switched lanes to gun it through the intersection just as I was starting my turn.

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Every time I leave this app for a few hours, logging back in is like

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My app says South Pas. I’m on the west side and didn’t notice it at all, though I was up doing stuff around the kitchen, and my neighbor upstairs has been making a lot of noise moving things around so I might’ve written it off as that.

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I apparently came into an inheritance then immediately ended up in debtors’ prison (though I did eventually escape)

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Bridget Ware's avatar Bridget Ware @briware.bsky.social
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Something here in CA is that commercial buildings don’t have to be built to as strict of earthquake codes as residential, which feels not super great when we’re spending a third of our day in these buildings! But, yes, does make it a lot harder to convert.

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I remember my coworker complaining about Foundation because “not everyone in the universe needs to be a black woman!” Only to find out that it was a mother and daughter. I guess he can more easily imagine a black woman having a white baby than there being two whole black women in that universe.

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Once they started forcing not only ads but “suggested posts” into my feed (you used to be able to snooze the suggested ones) it become completely unusable, but then I realized if you go to the “following” feed, it’s only people you follow, no ads at all, AND in chronological order. Game changer.

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“It’s ten o’clock somewhere” I whisper, going to bed at seven

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I think ours were ruined in a flood, but we still had the CD-ROM!

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Knowing Boris Johnson has been driving a Tesla around my city immediately makes me feel less safe.

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My coworker says his car makes some kind of sound when he goes over the speed limit, but then it turns off after a few seconds because it figures you’re meaning to speed at that point.

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If you see this, post a bridge

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I’ll never forget the girl just a couple years ago who was completely unaware that she couldn’t bring a full liter sized bottle of contact solution through security and was trying to argue with TSA over it…

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*clutching pearls* not the fuck word within 50 ft of a bus stop!

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I have a friend who will go to sleep with a full face of makeup and wake up with it still looking so normal that she wears it through the whole rest of the next day. I just—what.

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Related, when characters shoot wildly any chance they have and don’t seem to be trying to preserve bullets in any way by aiming or waiting to fire until they do have a real shot.

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When I worked in Denver, like half the office had moved there from Kansas in just the last few years, yet they’d spend all their time complaining about people moving in from out of state and traffic getting worse and cost of living going up, and they’d joke about building a wall around CO.

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Out of the last two games, I accidentally slept through all three of our goals the other night and our only goal last night was when I took out the trash! Saw ALL of the other team’s goals happen though. So yes, this is obviously my fault.

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If we’re going to have a “Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act,” can it be about smart appliances and data collection instead?

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So even the owners that know their dogs can actually be aggressive don’t think it should limit where they’re allowed to bring them, but that other people should alter their behavior around them instead. 2/2

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I was in a coffee shop last week and multiple dogs got in line back to back behind me (a whole health code issue that we seem to have completely thrown out the window, but that’s another story), and one of the owners said to the others about his dog, “watch out, he can be aggressive.” 1/2

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I’ll never forget this.

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