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Urban Planning Opinion Progression

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If they're going to make people ride bikes and scooters in traffic, then it should at LEAST be legal to do the Snow Crash thing where you use a hook-shot-style harpoon to catch free rides from cars.
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satadru
10 days ago
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I did see someone on in-line skates holding onto a semi-truck at 96th St and Broadway the other day to catch a free ride... Didn't see their harpoon though.
New York, NY
deebee
9 days ago
Same intersection, watched a guy on a skateboard reach out and grab the back of a flat bed and get a tow up the hill from WEA
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jlvanderzwan
9 days ago
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Fun fact: Amsterdam is ackchyhwally one of the least bike-friendly places in the Netherlands, relatively speaking
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10 days ago
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If they're going to make people ride bikes and scooters in traffic, then it should at LEAST be legal to do the Snow Crash thing where you use a hook-shot-style harpoon to catch free rides from cars.

Iceberg Efficiency

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Our experimental aerogel iceberg with helium pockets manages true 100% efficiency, barely touching the water, and it can even lift off of the surface and fly to more efficiently pursue fleeing hubristic liners.
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satadru
11 days ago
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So Good...
New York, NY
jepler
17 days ago
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"hubristic" is the word of the week
Earth, Sol system, Western spiral arm
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Washington, DC
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jheiss
17 days ago
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What percentage of ice does it need to contain to still be called an iceberg?
dukeofwulf
17 days ago
"Icebeaxrg." "Diet Iceberg." "Riced Berg."
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Our experimental aerogel iceberg with helium pockets manages true 100% efficiency, barely touching the water, and it can even lift off of the surface and fly to more efficiently pursue fleeing hubristic liners.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Stress

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Froth is evidence that you're still breathing! It's a sign of health!


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hannahdraper
28 days ago
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sigh.
Washington, DC
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softwaretr
19 days ago
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good
brennen
24 days ago
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I am sharing this apropos of having just left a yearly physical.
Boulder, CO

Path Minimization

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Of course you get an ice cream cone for the swimmer too! You're not a monster.
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JayM
34 days ago
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Hahaha. Instead of Dijkstra’s algorithm, seems to be Ben & Jerry’s Algorithm…
Atlanta, GA
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Of course you get an ice cream cone for the swimmer too! You're not a monster.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sonnet

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The total effacement of selfhood is bad but the corn is *very* sweet.


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Circuit Symbols

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A circle with an A in it means that the circuit has committed a sin and has been marked as punishment.
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JayM
41 days ago
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Ha!
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A circle with an A in it means that the circuit has committed a sin and has been marked as punishment.
silberbaer
29 days ago
You mean, the Avengers tower has been... oh, what am I saying, it's Stark's building, of *course* it has.
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