Let's take a trip to the future. What will it be like?
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Drenthe, Netherlands (52.7°N 6.9°E), 04 Oct 2022
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今日はちゃんと起きて待ってた
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『キリストの磔刑』1930年 パブロ・ピカソ Crucifixion, Pablo Picasso
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a good way to do this is to get on the bus
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I guess they didn't...
...Truss the plan
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I also notice that the ice cream store in older pic also says "bus terminal" "Boston" and "Hartford"
maybe on the back side of the building? doesn't look like there's any terminal space in front lol
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stagnation & decline
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you will notice two major changes in the modern day pic:
1- two buildings (3 stories each) replaced by smaller buildings (1 and 2 stories, respectively)
2- awnings removed, exposing pedestrians to rain and snow
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Northampton MA, in recent years (top) and in the past (bottom)
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Russian spying: SVR Directorate S steals identities for operatives who insinuate themselves into the target country
theguardian.com/world/2016/may
Chinese spying: XU YANJUN pays CHING-FU GAU to photocopy military secrets from his employer
bloomberg.com/news/features/
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Hello -- some news!
I've adapted Susan Cooper's cult-classic novel, The Dark Is Rising, for a 12-part audio drama/podcast on .
Dir. & co-adapted by .
Starring Toby Jones, Harriet Walter.
Music by & more.
#TheDarkIsRising
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u have no idea lol
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If Pearl Harbor happened today rightoids would support Japan for taking down the "GAE" military industrial complex and would try to justify Japan's actions by showing how they aren't woke and don't use pronouns twitter.com/patrickbasedmn…
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Which problems are we actually addressing when we electrify a bus route that only runs every hour or two?
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The local RTA recently got a huge grant to buy some electric buses and supporting infrastructure. Cool, right? Except "lack of electric buses" wasn't really a problem we were having--at least, not a problem from the passenger perspective.
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The kicker is that the grant award was for (by my estimate) roughly double the RTA's annual operating expenses. If they handed out money like that for OPERATIONS instead of for greenwashing we could run THREE TIMES as much bus service: more frequency, more routes, etc
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The local RTA recently got a huge grant to buy some electric buses and supporting infrastructure. Cool, right? Except "lack of electric buses" wasn't really a problem we were having--at least, not a problem from the passenger perspective.
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The problem is that the tacit purpose of the American government is to dole out windfalls, not to solve any particular problems
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I think maybe it's time we reevaluate if the best way American transit agencies can advance equity is by doling out windfall contracts... twitter.com/SEPTAPHILLY/st…
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28. Subordination is a skill that most Americans do not have.
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I've said this for years now but Americans have a huge competitive disadvantage when it comes to #business:
They don't know how to be subordinate.
They either think they should be allowed to curse at their boss's boss, or they adopt BDSM-level submissiveness. Often the former. twitter.com/neontaster/sta…
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11. Blame is an incredibly corrosive thing to think about all the time. There's a difference between "nothing must go wrong" and "nothing can go wrong that is my fault."
A litigious society encourages the latter, not the former.
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You should try to believe the unbelievable a little more often. Try on ridiculous opinions. you don't have to do it in front of anyone. Just when you think something 5% plausible try to imagine the 500% version of it.
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用事の帰りに寄り道
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日中自由席特急
日没10分前に通過😇
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[prison]
PRISONER: what's for breakfast
GUARD: every meal is bread & water
PRISONER: [is a duck] oh baby
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“fear no man except the one above your head” i tell my students as they raise their heads nervously to look at the sniper perched at the top of the panopticon
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fall is hurtling by
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Imagine if Amtrak's problem was principally or even mostly underfunding
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Imagine if we had this instead of a $800,000,000,000+ Pentagon budget. twitter.com/DailyLoud/stat…
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