A Pile Of Vegetables

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Dreaming of a more human world. Daydreaming about dragons and spaceships.

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New study: Cities that encourage cycling are safer for everyone -- including those who don’t bike: "Higher-bicycling cities are significantly associated with better overall road safety outcomes." doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

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We know how to stop Covid (and it would probably do for a lot of other diseases too). We lack the will.

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We know how to stop Covid (and it would probably do for a lot of other diseases too). We lack the will.

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Having isolated myself for the past five days to avoid getting COVID from the spouse, I am once again falling into despair about the collective decision to just pretend that COVID is no longer a problem, that it's fine if people experience multiple reinfections, and that precautions are unnecessary.

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The deal seems to be that people can largely live like in pre-pandemic times as long as we accept getting miserably ill maybe twice a year (especially during family holidays), accept heightened risks of long-term health problems, and let old/vulnerable folks die. Doesn’t seem like a good deal to me.

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Anyway take this with you into the holiday season

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“‘Road injury’” also remains the leading cause of death for people under 30. The economic toll is just as staggering.”

Traffic Deaths And Injuries Cost $1.8 Trillion To The Global Economy: Reportjalopnik.com The United States follows none of the WHO's best-practice laws for road safety, but it isn't the worst offender

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Reclaiming our communities from the car is about more than saving the planet. It’s about saving ourselves from the inequitable, unliveable, financially-ruinous places we’ve built. Ten books we read this year that changed how we think about mobility. An #urbanismbookclub thread.

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We should phase out eating animals. www.science.org/content/arti...

‘Not dumb creatures.’ Livestock surprise scientists with their complex, emotional mindswww.science.org A growing field of research is challenging long-held assumptions about goats, pigs, and other farm animals

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Narrow the streets! "If cities embrace narrower lanes, there are a range of possibilities for re-designing city streets to make them safer and more accommodating for pedestrians and cyclists." www.wri.org/insights/big...

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oh yeah, ugh, sounds terrible

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Modest proposal that the starting point for everything be the acknowledgement that humans are a dependent part of a finite and indivisible larger living system.

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Because it's seasonally relevant (again), just a reminder that we small Indie manufacturers don't have shareholders to satisfy, just bills to pay. And that while there's no algorithm here, Reposting stuff is the best way to help with visibility for us.

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No, The Atlantic, I don’t want a weird car, electric or not. I want viable public transit and a secure place to lock my cargo trike, fewer trucks & smaller cars so 3rd graders can safely cross streets, more rental availability for the 1 time a year someone needs a big vehicle & an end to stroads.

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You may not know this but I am in fact a climate modeller. Here is my climate model

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Even if the centers of power don't acknowledge it, even if the flashy events don't acknowledge it, the world has always been and always will be an indivisible whole. No one wins if other peoples or other species sink into climate devastation.

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"About 57,000 students attend Harvard, Penn and MIT. Florida’s state university system, by contrast, educates more than seven times as many students."

The testimony of Ivy League presidents received far more attention than new assessments of how universities in Florida have been hobbled under DeSantis.

Analysis | Furor over the Ivies — and crickets about Floridawww.washingtonpost.com The week’s conversation about higher education both reflects the salience of the war in Israel — and the right’s success in how it frames higher education.

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No. But unions could.

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MCDM James and Matt live. www.youtube.com/live/Jjslnoh... #ttrpg #mcdm

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www.cnn.com/travel/paris...

Paris is getting a whole new Metro network. And it’s huge | CNNwww.cnn.com The Grand Paris Express will add four lines, 68 stations and 200 kilometers of track to the French capital’s 120-year-old Metro system, providing vital suburban links – just not quite in time for ...

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mcdm.gg/RPG

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Precision strike hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

NIMBY Protoss Oppose the Construction of Additional Pylonshard-drive.net “This used to be such a nice neighborhood,” said Fedranix, a high templar who organized the rally.

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Carsized.com is a great tool for illustrating car bloat. Here's a Yukon next to a Civic www.carsized.com/en/cars/comp...

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/3 Meanwhile, actual genuine no-nuance-about-it Jew-hatred is on the rise, wearing many guises, and making many American Jews reasonably feel unsafe, but why substantively address that when you can opportunistically call out your geopolitical foes.