Yeah, that'd be way too far. With a 50 minute walking radius from here I could hit about 20 grocery stores. Using the public transit that doubles or triples.
Nah, it's almost visible from our apartment's front door. We have to cross one street where traffic really never gets above 15mph and the biggest danger is tripping on one of the tram tracks (did I mention the multiple railed transit routes here as well?).
The first 5-7 Honor Harrington books are a phenomenal read.
Was it a group of well identified law officers with a warrant and identification or a gang of heavily armed, masked, and aggressive people trying abduct someone?
These days we only see the second group and they should be treated as the criminals they're acting like.
We finally moved to a city with actual local businesses. Bring able to walk 50m to a reasonably priced grocery store is a game changer. It's so much better than having the weekly 3-4 hour long Costco + WinCo trip to stock up a huge pantry.
When the seal on the diaper slips...
Just get the DoJ to.... Oh.
Then we'll have the House convene to... Oh.
Maybe some of those 2nd amendment whack jobs... Oh, they've joined ICE as the very people they vowed to shoot?... Oh.
....
It's the richest country in the history of humanity and all we did with it was oppress other nations, build a massive military, and sell the nation off to the rich. So far it's not a winning plan for anyone outside of the top 1%. Same shit, bigger piles of gold.
The city I just left is almost through that entire arc. How did you guess the history of a city you've probably never looked at!?!
The latest wave of city council leadership is actively trying to build out more public transit and it's amazing just how horrible people can be when you ask them to make a tiny percentage of the roads (often 3+ lanes wide in the city core) have a bike lane or even a few blocks of bus priority lane so the busses can arrive on time during rush hour.
At the same time it's in the top 5 most dangerous cities for pedestrians in our state, but the mutilation of fellow city dwellers is okay as long as people can drive fast through downtown to get to the big box store 20+ miles away. Strangely, the City Council's old members keep yelling about how the city downtown is dying because we added a few bike lanes and therefore people don't want to be there since it's harder to drive (but only during major rush hours).
What did this regime do to both insulin and insurance prices?
But at least some people could lose some weight along with their lost insurance.
I used an auto-cleaning script on my Reddit account. It went through and deleted all 13+ years of posts, comments, and activity before nuking the account itself.
It doesn't matter to my perspective. The history of religion is for sub groups to spilt off over inconsequential differences, make up different doctrines and eventually go to war over them. It's an expression of Authoritarians and cult behavior, and what leads to some of the greatest suffering that mankind has ever inflicted upon itself.
These families wanted to filter themselves to a sub group that's a distinction without a difference.
I managed to pick up a crime novel off a free pile this week. I'm not able to read it outright, but the percentage of the prose I'm getting is about 60-80%. That's a huge win for me.
In more formal practice I'm nearing the end of translating book 95 of Die Drei ??? Kids - Geheime Zeichen (secret signs). I'm thinking about getting another one of those since the vocabulary level and prose difficulty are about right for me at this point.
I did manged to order food a few times during the week entirely in German, though I bailed when trying to describe how much of a cheese wheel I wanted to purchase.