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Apparently someone got their car stuck on the light rail tracks at Mt. Baker. For those unfamiliar this is 35 feet up in the air

officialboredom

First test flight of a flying car by Mazda partially a success

tuulikki

I feel like the Arizona license plate should take some place in our analysis of whatever in the goddam fuck we’re looking at here

weirdstrangeandawful

Much like Springfield before it, Seattle is one of the few major cities in the world with a monorail. That, combined with a more conventional light rail system, makes Seattle the rare U.S. city with two different types of train for public transportation. On Tuesday night, the rail system briefly had a third: a Mazda CX-5.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a71483251/mazda-driver-seattle-pulls-into-elevated-train-station-on-tracks/

nicky999doors

aomitois

rb and tag your favorite song that's not in english, japanese or korean

#dina lam

sadpearonmars

During the agonies of expansion draft, now is a great time to propose my new PWHL rule suggestion.

Goalie Rage

When someone interferes with a goalie, the second goalie on the bench is immediately armed with an extra big goalie stick. (Imagine this like a Final Fantasy sword size stick) The second goalie then gets to skate around the ice for a period of time bapping the opposing team with the stick and skating headlong into them before returning to the bench.

This rule would provide necessary goalie enrichment, and frankly they deserve it.

insertusernameici

unicornempire

I love that Leverage really goes out of it’s way to show us that just because you break the ‘rules’, it doesn’t mean you’re breaking the rules. Rules and laws and society are all made up, at the end of the day, and all you really have is your own moral compass and sense of justice; is this just to you? Is it right? Should it be OK for companies to put people in insurmountable debt for the rest of their lives just because our medical care is so expensive in this modern day and age? No law or rule should change what you know in your heart is right and wrong, and I think that’s the key thing that makes someone a good person in my eyes.

theheroheart

#there was a time when parker wouldn’t have noticed, #not because she lacked the capacity to care, #but because she had narrowed herself, #to stay alive she cut off as many unnecessary things as possible, #watching her get them all back, #is one of the glories of this show (via @seananmcguire)

jack-the-bear

Leverage hands down has the best character development I’ve ever seen.

lets-go-steal-an-ot3

This scene hit me like a brick. My parents were hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt when I was 16 bc I’d had cancer the year before (my treatment ended up being free but the initial ER bills and such were not).

But somewhere along the line they just… Disappeared. My mom says they’re not being paid and they’re not in collections. It’s almost as if someone out there did…exactly what Parker did.

Ever since I saw this the first time, I’ve imagined it was Parker doing it. That she and Hardison had a free weekend and decided to take it out on a collections agency. That I was one of the lucky ones who got a little Leverage.

gay-jesus-probably

Okay but like yeah, that is actually a thing that happens, albeit not exactly like this. I don’t remember the exact process but basically there’s a booming industry to sell peoples debt - the business you owe money to sells it to someone else for a fraction of the money owed, wipes their hands of the whole affair, and now whoever bought your debt is riding your ass to get you to give the money to the. But it’s also entirely possible for people to just… buy up massive amounts of debt for pennies on the dollar, and then just. Forgive it. Because capitalism is a living nightmare, but the system is broken enough that it’s possible to exploit it for good sometimes.

Like, the main reason I know about this is because John Oliver did a piece on debt buying a few years ago, and ended it by revealing that he’d bought 15 million dollars worth of medical debt just so he could forgive all of it. Both to expose how broken the system was because some random fucker like him could buy millions of dollars in peoples debt with zero regulations, and also just to take the record for biggest TV giveaway in history.

mikkeneko

A charity where you can do this, right here.

Be Parker! Be somebody else’s Leverage!

melyzard

Reblogging for the website.

nianeyna

yes! if you want to help with the medical debt crisis in the US and have some extra money please donate to RIP Medical Debt if you can. They’re completely legit and really do what they say - you really CAN relieve an incredible amount of debt for the needy with even a small donation. I’m a monthly donor and receive a quarterly report of the debt they’ve abolished, and it truly is amazing. Based on those reports the average amount of debt abolished per person is actually I would say about $600 - which means, if you’re doing the math, that with a $6 donation to RIP Medical Debt, you can potentially pull one person out of a poverty spiral - maybe even one family. For six dollars. that’s a pretty good deal, I think.

bethanyactually

RIP Medical Debt is now called Undue Medical Debt!

Undue Medical Debt makes it easy for donors to make an impactful difference in the lives of those struggling with medical debt.

queer-as-city-folk

Anti-city people are just plain fascinating to me

lenarasys

Tbf there's good reasons to not do mini-shopping each day, but like. If you live close to a shopping mart you *do* just push the trolley filled with your bags? And then bring it back? It's not a lot of effort in exchange for only having to deal with that amount of noise once a week????

transarsonist

You can also just buy your own folding cart. They're pretty cheap!

anatombombatallhours

in a lot of major cities in the United States, you cannot take the shopping cart farther than the perimeter of the parking lot because either the wheels will lock, or store security will harass you. you very very much cannot take the shopping cart home with you.

so, yeah, a lot of people who live in the city and walk/public transpo to and from grocery stores either bring two or three very sturdy bags, their backpacks, or as @transarsonist said, a folding cart!

but this also means that people shop strategically--if there's something big they need, sure, they may drive, or they will plan ahead for that shopping trip and bring multiple people, or get the littler, less cumbersome items at another point in the week.

i can't describe to you how incredibly freeing it is to be able to walk/bike/public transpo to the places you need to go for the things you need. i wish more places were accessible like that in practice, not just theory (and even in USian big cities, there's a lot more theory than practice).

littlemisspipebomb

also, if the big supermarket is across town and you're doing a big shop, you normally take the bus. Most supermarkets have a bus stop outside specifically for this purpose. It turns what could be a long walk with a half-dozen big bags into 2 or 3 streets for most people.

If for whatever reason that isn't doable, there's always delivery. This is absolutely a solved problem.

transarsonist

i mean the core point of a "walkable neighborhood" like, a real one, is that you never really have to do that because theres an acceptable store every 6 blocks in every direction, and a corner store with snacks and some basics every couple of blocks, so you can usually get everything you need by making maybe one or two 3 block trips from any given point on the map.

the antithesis of the walkable city is for the supermarket to be in a space zoned "for super markets" where you would have to take the bus there.

That's even pretty low-intense walkable. The thing is that in cities like that, almost all the street-level slots are commercial, so it's shops all around, under the houses where people live. So more like a couple of corner stores per block, plus a mid-sized supermarket every couple.

Pictured: supermarket and grocery stores a few blocks away from my house, in the suburbs of Madrid:

(all this is 5 minutes by walk from my house)

odyver

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 5 days 14 hours

odyver

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 5 days 15 hours

odyver

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 5 days 15 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

i-wear-the-cheese

Hi OP! I have a friend who works in the heritage sector and thought you might find this useful. The place they work was having an exhibit on Experiences of a Certain Demographic Group in a Certain Period of History (vague to avoid doxxing) but instead of using human written copy from archival examples of real humans, the company they hired to build the exhibit used AI copy derived from archival examples.

What it did was make it impersonal, inaccurate, and unacademic. The voices and stories of the people weren't real so they didn't relate directly to the materials on exhibit, nor were they fictionally derived from a specifically curated amalgam and the experiences ended up a mismatch of class and racial norms for the time so a human copy editor had to fix it for a sum that far exceeded the original budget.

It cost them a lot of money but it also cost them audience attention and the "yes and" factor because stewards working the exhibit couldn't easily relate the work back to the artefacts they displayed (as the LLM had no ability to do this) and the public couldn't on their own initiative look up more about a person.

The friend in question is really pissed because the heritage sector is not all that well funded and he works for an organisation that is well known for its positive approach to rural life and natural preservation. And then the higher ups dumped more than he earns in a year into an initiative that funded environmentally disastrous data-centres, left skilled copy-writers out of a job, and alienated visitors. It was Bad.

michaelmilkers

"can men be lesbians?" bestie in 100 countries women can't be lesbians is this really the most pressing issue rn

saddest-girl-in-the-whole-world

"Oh Gideon wouldn't be that buff" this "Oh she doesn't get nearly enough protein on the Ninth" that. I don't care. I DONT care. What about her daily fiber intake???

saddest-girl-in-the-whole-world

you understand

probuccalfat

these women did wonders for the “i’m single and i like it that way” community… i’m having a sexy ass life!

cunning-and-cool

game changers leverage au....can anybody hear me.....

reckless-glitch

ramblingandpie

[Video description: Gritty is turning the crank on a flagpole to raise the Progress Pride Flag. He gesticulates angrily that the flag is not blowing in the wind, then gestures offscreen. The flag begins blowing. As Gritty begins raising the flag more, the camera pans out to show a man in a suit and sunglasses, looking like a stern Secret Service agent, is holding a leafblower that points at the flag. End description.]

wifegideonnav

psst. go look at tommy arnolds instagram story. are you seeing what im seeing

this one?

i am absolutely seeing what you’re seeing and im quite amused lol. hard to tell the context here but imagine getting jumpscared by your own artwork irl lol

chirpingfromthebox

People keep wanting to talk about Ian Kennedy rumors as if he isn't a man who can't even be bothered to check a calendar let alone check any facts.

transxfiles

this pride month i want everyone to consider the benefits of abolishing the sex binary

transxfiles

furthermore, abolish the government systems that require people to categorize themselves into gendered categories. why do y'all need to know that.

transxfiles

no more assigning babies a legal sex at birth. i feel like this should go without saying, but no more surgeries on intersex infants. no more surgeries on intersex children. embrace intersex traits as natural. because they are.

no more gendered dress codes. no more gender markers on passports, driver's licenses, ids. i'm not talking about "adding x" or "adding a third category" i'm talking about no more categories, period. why does the government need to know what my genital situation is? why does the government feel the need to assign me a sex on the basis of genitals? why does the cop who pulled me over need to see an m, or an f, or an x?

no more "gender is a social construct, sex is the thing that's binary." sex is not binary. abolish the idea that it is. normalize conversations about intersex traits. being intersex is natural. the sex binary is a thing imposed by the state.

no more gendered sports. if you really care about equity, sort people into categories based on skill level and athleticism, not gender or sex. the concept that there are only two sexes and that one is inherently weaker than the other is pseudoscience. the male/female hunter/gatherer dichotomy is not based in fact, and is a product of modern sexist cultural biases. one gender is not inherently subservient to the other. people are not inherently different on the basis of sex or gender. it is just more complicated than that.

the concept of multiple genders and sexes beyond the man/woman male/female dichotomy has existed as long as humans have existed. the sex binary only serves to benefit the patriarchy. the gender binary only serves to benefit the patriarchy. continuing to impose it just controls (and harms) the people it forcibly categorizes.

i'm not asking for the end of gender, i'm calling for an acknowledgement of gender and sex that understands the infinite diversity of the human species. i'm suggesting an end to binary systems that only benefit the ruling class. just think about it. okay?

kabber

something i really liked about project hail mary is that Rocky and Grace are both equally out of their depth and about as competent as the other. theyre both the smart one. theyre both total dumbasses. neither knows whats going on. they both think the other is an idiot baby. they both admire the other's intelligence so much.

ao3commentoftheday

Hiya, was wondering if you know if it's possible to sort of save a set of filters on Ao3's search?

Im a picky picky person who knows what they like and I use the filters liberally. But it's a pain to put it in every time I accidentally close my Ao3 tab or I wander into a new fandom. I'm well aware you can favourite a single tag, but I'm talking multiple tags included and excluded.

Thanks for your time and thoughts!

If you want to look up the same filtered tag again and again, the easiest way is to bookmark the results page. The URL has all of the filters in it, so reloading that URL will give you the latest results with all of the filters applied.

sidenote: it's possible to throw an error by applying too many filters just because it hits the max length of URL allowable by the browser

If you want to apply the same filters to lots of different tags, then you might be better off using the Saved Filters Bookmarklet creatied by reisling on AO3.

daydreamorama

I'm a HUGE fan of this script https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/8382-ao3-tracking

It allows you to search for something, add all your filters/exclusions you want on it and then save it, and then with one button have it tell you if there are any updates to that filter and how many. Really helps with rare things that get maybe one update a week and you're constantly refreshing them...

I like to use it with https://greasyfork.org/scripts/5835-ao3-kudosed-and-seen-history which puts a red bar on fics I haven't even seen in a search result before.

rocketmouse

I use AO3 Savior (https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/3579-ao3-savior) which lets me blacklist or whitelist tags universally across the AO3. So if I never want to read High School AUs, I can block that in the script and it's blocked no matter what tag I'm in. It works on multiple types of tags, and includes wildcard searching.