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@tomflood1
This is powerful but I don't like watching this without some kind of a warning or a note about the fate of the kid and the cross guard.
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Fort Armistead is easily one of the creepiest places I've visited in Baltimore. It's remote, blighted, filled with trash, and contains idling cars with shirtless old men inside—and that's during the day. Who was there at 1:30 AM with a handheld camera pointed at the bridge?
Baltimore: Footage filmed from Fort Armistead Park of the container ship colliding with Francis Scott Key bridge. Sadly there was also active construction happening on the bridge, along with vehicles passing through.
#keybridge
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Biking to school with my daughter this morning, I'm thinking of all the things that have to go wrong in order for humans to voluntarily form huge lines like this to save their young adult children from the tiniest bit of walking.
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Took the kid down to Fells Point for a birthday party. First time with a kid in the new St. Lo bike lane, a wonderful experience. Nice work
@BmoreCityDOT
!
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I was the one who disabled these papers (in my role as
@aclanthology
director) in response to a request from the EMNLP chair(s). The issue has now been referred to the ACL Executive Committee and in the meantime I have re-enabled them. What follows is an explanation.
If you're looking for our recent paper on model editing on the ACL anthology and cannot find it, it's because it has been taken down without cause or due process.
The paper is still available on arXiv, feel free to read it there.
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Rode home a bit ago from the Inner Harbor. I had not been on Central Ave since the bike lanes were finished. They are so wide and luxurious I felt like royalty—or at least like a first-class citizen of the street.
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Our approach is to replace the standard (subword-segmented text) embeddings with "visual text" embeddings, computed from a rendered image of the raw text that is sliced into overlapping, horizontal windows, akin to ASR.
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It's hard to overstate what a difference the (pictured) Maryland Ave protected bike lane makes. I will go a few blocks out of my way to use it, especially when I'm with my kids.
Make biking safer for us and you won't have to be behind me in traffic!
Baltimore has been lapped on this cost effective approach to urban road design that saves lives & improves livability. In a city with poverty, low access to cars, and poor transit options there’s a way to get people mobile and leaders fail to implement it.
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I cannot believe how cumbersome and awful the ARR submission form is: page after page of irritating questions. It's as if someone surveyed the American health care and university reimbursement systems. I guess I should be grateful it's not run by Concur.
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Some should tell Mark Steedman the tech has caught up with his email obfuscation.
Has anyone ever done a study to see whether listing your email
handle (AT) school (DOT) edu
actually reduces spam?
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I just had my first terrible driver encounter on my bike commute. She laid on her horn as she approached me on Bellona (just west of York). After a polite fact-based verbal exchange, she parked ahead of me and pepper sprayed me through her passenger window as I rode by.
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In this paper,
@marian_nmt
and I ask the question, why are we still translating sentences?
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@danushman
@Boenau
I love how you blame the cyclist for a bad driver reacting poorly to a situation. Driving faster than you can react, and swerving instead of breaking, are strong signs of a poor driver. Clearly training and licensing requirements need to be raised.
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Baltimore's DPW water billing is baffling. I have an account on their portal, but there is no autopay feature, so I have to manually pay each month. And to do so I have to manually re-enter all my contact info every time.
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This is one of the most astonishing aspects of driving in Baltimore. I assumed it was universal knowledge that a dead traffic light becomes a four way stop. In Baltimore both directions treat it as if it didn’t exist, try to establish right-of-way by chicken.
How come NOBODY here seems to know to treat a non op traffic light like a 4 way stop? Y'all some non driving fools out here!
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If you are involved in conference organization, it is a lot of work, paid mostly in complaints about what you got wrong, which will inevitably be a long list.
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@itsallG_O_O_D
It's thieves people hate; thieves. It's so extraordinarily dishonest for you to select the irrelevant property here ("unhoused") and so deeply depressing to see you're a journalist.
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Are you a Baltimore resident who for some legitimate reason needs Virginia tags for your car? You're in luck, just call 410-782-5552.
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@RichardHanania
What's wrong with this? She's friendly, polite, respectful, raises a concern, points out an inconsistency of his, and ends with a question. She never gets in his way or tries to stop him. Looks a lot like a journalist trying to get a question across.
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@BaltimoreBrew
@BmoreCityDOT
@MayorBMScott
@Nick_Mosby
@BillforBmore
Every time I ride down there I am amazed at how magnificent it is. Cycling north back home, the transition to the unruled chaos of Harford Road is like being roughly awakened from a dream.
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@FOP3
@CouncilmanYitzy
Why should Baltimore city be issuing statements on international political issues?
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This is fantastic. Opponents will decry it as an attack on freedom, but in fact it is a step in reducing freeloading, by getting people to pay for the costs they impose on the rest of us (wear and tear on infrastructure, parking capacity, safety).
Another state moves against car bloat:
A new Maryland bill from
@RobbynLewis46th
would scale vehicle registration fees based on car weight. Owners of cars > 5,000 lbs would pay $229.50/yr, 4.5x more than cars < 3,500 lbs.
The hearing is on Feb 1.
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This is fantastic news! For years
@jedweeks
and others have been documenting cars that come off the highway and run into buildings, etc. This should make a real safety difference in a pedestrian-heavy area, and is an important step towards a resident-focused Remington.
Big changes coming to Remington! Thanks to the advocacy of
@bikemorebmore
and over 600+ residents of Baltimore, (including all but one person talked too on the corridor), we are getting a bike/scooter/ADA lane on 28th street! Connecting MD Ave to Druid Hill and the Big Jump!
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This is the state of pedestrian crossing signs across the city. You expect to see this in the city’s many stroads but this one is on a pedestrian-dense college campus. Someone should take the hint and redesign the street to bring vehicles down to a safer speed.
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@WillFedder
I go to HD or Lowe's for some things but Ace is often the place for people who value the intangibles
@indexnforgetit
Proximity, first tier customer service, curation of trustworthy high-quality goods, small footprint, and prices that are usually pretty good. HD or Lowe's adds forty minutes of overhead (driving, parking, navigating giant store).
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@jiriknesl
@Boenau
I think the issue is mitigated somewhat by the fact buses and cars are closer in weight to each other than to cyclists, and by the fact that bus drivers undergo extensive training.
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I wish Github had a "feature bounty" system. I'd gladly pitch in $10 for a `fairseq-generate --automatically-fit-batch-size-to-available-memory` option
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I have been in Munich for ten minutes and a stranger has already corrected my behavior. What a fantastic country. It’s been too long.
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@sfmcguire79
Reading these letters from college administrators who have cautiously and hesitantly performed their adult duties, you can sense how deeply haunted they are by a fear that these students are not going to like them
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I biked up to Greenspring quarry today, first time I’d ever seen it. It’s a shame that in a state with no natural lakes they didn’t turn this place into a swimming hole (along with Druid and Montebello lakes)
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Sentence segmentation is a core tool at the top of many NLP pipelines. There are many tools for it, but how do you know which one to use? You can check out Rachel Wicks and my paper, which she'll present tonight (23:20 UTC+0) at
#acl2021nlp
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@TheNFLanalyst
I agree with you that it's mostly drivers that need advice on how to work their cars. Today on my second bike ride I helped push a driver out of a ditch, who hadn't understood that when roads are icy you need to slow down. It's a common failure mode with drivers.
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A while back the city broke up a homeless encampment in Wyman Park Dell. This is a really nice little park next to Hopkins with a path around it and an adjacent playground above the dell with the only public ping pong table in the entire city.
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On the way back up we rode on the lovely Olmsted bike path on Broadway between Oliver and Broadway East. A preview of how nice it could be for the people in Gwynns Falls (didn’t see any dirt bikers).
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It's just as bad in Lower Herring Run Park, which might as well be renamed the Armistead Gardens Dump. These are just a few of the pics I took this weekend while biking through it (and excludes the burnt-out husks of overturned vehicles in the river). Massively wasted potential.
Dumping in Leakin Park
#Baltimore
. It's a shame such a huge urban woodland is used as a dumping ground, with apparently little effort by the city to stop it.
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I keep looking at this picture and reliving this experience. Baltimore’s medians are aesthetically pleasing and help make road crossing safer. But the path gives it a whole new layer of purpose. With a bike path you spend *time* there. What a missed opportunity to not have one!
On the way back up we rode on the lovely Olmsted bike path on Broadway between Oliver and Broadway East. A preview of how nice it could be for the people in Gwynns Falls (didn’t see any dirt bikers).
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Fixed a sagging bleacher at Carroll Park that I saw last week and was sure was going to collapse on someone. It was installed without any carriage bolts for the center column! Completely unattached.
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#ACL2023NLP
folks heading back to the US via YYZ: security this morning was an hour, and then another hour for customs “preclearance”. Download the MBC app and *submit* within a four hour window to skip this second line.
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This week I discovered
@countyhwy
, "America's only newspaper". There was a stack of VOL 1 ISSUE 2 at
@atomicbooks
in Hampden, and I bought it on impulse and brought it home to set on top of stacks of unread books and magazines that surround my armchair.
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I will never understand how being carried around in a luxury, motorized, climate controlled easy chair like a medieval princess got coded as “manly” and braving the elements, danger and using physical strength to power one’s journey got coded “metro” or whatever word they use.
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So a *huge* reduction in high speed driving, and basically no effect on the lowest end. Fantastic news. How do I get one of these lanes at The Alameda and Argonne?
Another month of 28th Street traffic data is in.
Dangerous speeding is down 96.5%. Congestion is trending down, 3.8% *improved* vs pre-install.
🏎️>43mph🏎️
Pre-install: 13.57%
Sep: 0.99%
Oct: 0.79%
Nov: 0.47%
🚙<18mph🚙
Pre-install: 83.79%
Sep: 87.66%
Oct: 86.24%
Nov: 80.54%
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Just a gorgeous snow today in Baltimore. It hung perfectly on the trees everywhere for the whole day. I saw lots of folks out with fancy cameras.
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Has any of the "green" AI work addressed the fact that making something more efficient might make it practical enough to deploy at scale and thus consume more net energy than if it had remained inefficient? AFAICT this work all presumes that usage is held constant.
GreenCV: Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our times. As we pursue larger and more capable vision models, we must also seek to develop efficient ones. Towards this goal, I am planning to submit a PAMI-TC motion
@ICCV_2021
.
A first draft:
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The next is from John Dickerson, about how your kids are going to change and need you less.
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Happy Halloween! It’s 7:30 AM on a peaceful Sunday morning and I’m not stopping until I’ve blown every last leaf off my property.
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@rasmansa
@Vampyricon
@conor64
According to deBoer, this belief is not accepted among educators, or at least does not inform approaches to education.
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First time trying to bus to school again after 18 months. Forgot how awful this is. It’s rush hour and we’re 28 minutes waiting for a bus. 103 saw us and decided not to stop, GR was full. Loch Raven and Greendale.
@mtamaryland
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Related, riding around Gwynn Falls, there are tons of visually striking, red "NO BIKE LANES" signs. It gives the impression of a consensus in the neighborhood. Is there one? Why have we let this stand?
I've been wondering if it would be a good idea to stage a biker's "thank you" to drivers passing through 28th St. One vision would be a series of signs noting the inconvenience and adjustment period, thanking them for the sacrifice, and expressing appreciation.
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@WillFedder
You may ask, "It is rush hour and I have just arrived at the airport; can I catch a train from this rail platform to the city's central train station?"
No. But wouldn't you rather finish your travels by stretching your legs with a brisk walk with your luggage, anyway?
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In Remington the other day looking for coffee after lunch and stumbled across Cafe Los Sueños. Great coffee and a super friendly owner. Located on the 28th St. highway, check them out!
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As for me, however, I'm sorry for my role in disabling the papers without due process. I could have prevented this had I been more curious and insisted on looking a little deeper and resisting what is often a false feeling of urgency.
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My Ph.D. in computer science has not remotely prepared me for figuring out how to extract and download the PDF of my W2 that my employer's payroll system displays in its Clinton-era web interface.
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Is there a plan to connect the Mt. Royal Ave bike lane to the Big Jump via Mt. Royal Terrace? There is so much extra capacity, and that route (yellow path) avoids all the intersections and lights on North Ave. and Maryland (red path).
cc:
@BmoreCityDOT
@bikemorebmore
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There was no malice or ill-intent that I know of, though I understand if that is not much consolation.
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It's not just pedestrian deaths. Lately, driving distances at night on highways is painful because of how many cars have extremely bright, blinding, white headlights, even in their "low" setting. Why are these legal? This affects even drivers! Does the NHTSA do anything?
NHTSA is the only agency in the United States with regulatory authority over automobiles. They are the Uvalde Cops of road safety, standing in the hall tweeting PSAs as pedestrian deaths skyrocket ~70% in 13 years and all road deaths rise.
Road safety is THEIR responsibility.
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Thursday afternoon hike with the kids. They see a tree with three branches and one of them has the idea to each hang over a limb and take a picture and call it “dead meat”. They all instantly and eagerly comply.
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@PeterMoskos
I'd wager that abolitionists' beliefs are rooted in being insulated from the effects of their policies—just like those of east-coast liberals on immigration. This would come to a quick end with a program that housed accused criminals pending trial in *their* neighborhoods.
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@AvacadoToes
@FreeRangeKids
We have let our 11 year-old son ride home alone from school here in Baltimore: 4 miles, 30 minutes, crossing the northern part of the downtown area. He'd rather be driven but it's great for him!
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@indexnforgetit
Proximity, first tier customer service, curation of trustworthy high-quality goods, small footprint, and prices that are usually pretty good. HD or Lowe's adds forty minutes of overhead (driving, parking, navigating giant store).
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I do wish to urge people to have some patience and understanding and to extend the benefit of the doubt to those upstream of me in this process.
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The Baltimore 311 app is so good and keeps getting better. I'm reporting a downed power line and tree on the JFT and uploaded a photo, and it used the metadata to pick the location. Exactly what it should do but I haven't seen this feature before.
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I cannot speak for the Exec, but I assume a policy will likely be worked out to address alleged issues with an ethics statement or other paper content. But a "presumption of innocence" should apply, and while that is adjudicated, I have restored the papers.
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I have nothing but admiration for people who see a problem and take action on it. And apart from the results, I love how well-planned and documented this is, even down to the informative tweet.
With the help of GRIA, I designed and managed the planting of (132) street trees in Remington this year and the removal of (5,200) sf of concrete. Bigger plans in the works for 2024 to expand our urban tree canopy!
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@WillFedder
This is a really good comparison. I knew DHP was bad but this makes it clear why. Wow.
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Finding people who care about details, correctness, and quality—and who are also willing to put in the time to achieve it—is hard. The best volunteers are often the ones who just take charge.
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This is well-put. We're extremely fortunate to have
@bikemorebmore
making these arguments, from DOT's own documents, in a measured, digestible manner.
The Problem with the Belair Rd "Traffic Calming and Streetscaping" Plan — Bikemore
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This stand that I hacked together on a whim in 10 minutes is the single greatest improvement to my quality of life in recent memory.
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This rings true. The overhead of driving kills discovery and makes many kinds of errands not worth the cost for me. When I lived in Berlin I would swing through a flower shop at my subway station transfer. In car culture this kind of purchase is an event that requires planning.
People who walk, bike and take transit shop very differently than those dependent on cars. Walkers shop frequently, in small batches, nearly always shop locally and can be enticed into shops w/ good window displays. They also have much more to spend than the analogous driver.
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ChatGPT exhibiting the extremely human-like trait of stopping listening to you the moment it thinks it knows what you're going to say, just waiting for its turn to speak.
Beautiful example to reveal the nature of an LLM (a sophisticated statistical model trained on a large corpus of text).
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@aaronchriscohen
@wanyeburkett
@bryan_caplan
The kind of person who reads this story, gives its details a few moments of life in their mind, and thinks, what we need is more of this, is an asshole.
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Thanks to
@mmbollmann
for this nice new feature! Many of these small features are driven by developer itches. We welcome contributions and ideas in our
@github
pages:
A small change made live today provides convenient access to the BibTeX citation key, permitting quick and easy citation of papers exported in the complete Anthology BibTeX file (, 5.5 MB compressed, 35 MB uncompressed)
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@jduffyrice
The opening scene of
@geneweingarten
’s piece on children accidentally dying in cars is heartbreaking and has haunted me as long as I’ve been a parent
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The Harford Road bridge, last week in Baltimore, on a strip of road with more than enough space for every manner of transportation
The part about protected bike lanes many don’t want to admit or perhaps just don’t want to understand — is that many motorists don’t WANT to make make streets safer for everyone. They would rather see people be hospitalized or die than change anything or be inconvenienced at all.
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Today I taught my son the proper procedure for when you knock someone’s toothbrush on the floor. Pick it up, scrub it quickly and thoroughly under a bit of hot running water, and, the most important part, *do not tell anyone.*
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28th St has to be experienced to believed. It’s a two lane road through heavily residential areas, but also a major arterial on the way to the highway, and people treat it that way, driving 50 mph I’d guess sometimes.
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As a Michigan native, one of the worst things about MD is the complete absence of natural lakes. The unnatural ones are fenced off (Montebello, Druid, Ashburton), diminished to a tiny shallow swim area (Greenbrier), or brimming with excrement.
I think people seriously sleep on how transformative recreational water activities in Druid Lake and the Harbor would be.
Proximity to water is one of our defining features, but we’re usually limited to looking at it and walking around
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I don't think CS is that hard a degree, but I *hate* being called doctor. Spending 5–7 years earning a Ph.D. does not seem to me to merit some kind of acknowledgment from everyone I might run into.
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Note that they don’t _sometimes_ do this. This is the observed behavior _every time_ I have had the misfortune of coming across a dead light here. It is just the worst driving culture anywhere I have ever seen, and that includes Nigeria.
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Best donut I’ve ever had outside the Midwest here at Waverly Market courtesy of Blondie’s Doughnuts. My goodness.
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@wanyeburkett
It's really hard for me to explain the sheer delight I take in having my expectations overturned. Even if it turns out to be small and marginal the undergoing realignment is fascinating to watch.
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Going through old Field Notes, found this gem:
9 year old: "Dad, [7 year old] said the C-word!"
Me: [Oh, boy.]
Me: ...
Me: "Wait, what's the C-word?"
9 year old: "Crap."
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There is no real policy in place for this novel situation, and in our volunteer-led broader community, it can sometimes be unclear who has jurisdiction and what should be done.
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@wanyeburkett
Interesting to read this from you. A few years ago I went to a midnight Xmas mass at the St. Louis Cathedral. I liked how they treated me like an adult, in contrast to a Protestant service I'd attended earlier, which was suffocatingly accommodating.
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