I’ve sdeen some, but only rated 29 nrr.
My sore throat has been getting worse.
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Site flashes but…
Because diesel oil and diesel fumes need more allergens…
Posted my Panzerblitz scenarios to CSW, not sure where else to post them. Maybe BGG but it has accessibility issues.
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I’m still feeling very sick, and I’m getting hit wit a few more hours of construction pain.
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I am SICK of getting BEATEN with this UNRELENTING PAIN BOMBARDMENT.
P.S. Inadequate noise pollution standards can die in a fire. Just because most people either can’t hear or don’t notice noise at the legal volumes and times, doesn’t mean no one gets hurt, or sickened, or just struggles with too much pain.
I am autistic and have hyperacusis so in the 1st place, I can hear noise that most n/t people can’t hear,
2nd, I can’t filter out continuous or repeating noise, it gets louder and louder for me even if it gets quieter and quieter for most n/t people,
3rd, I can get really bad migraines and nausea from loud, rhythmic, or non-stop noise, and
4th, I am very sick right now with a sore throat and painful lymph nodes.
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Still in pain. Still struggling with construction noise. Tried to make 2 pain calls to doctors’ offices today, failed, sicker from the pain calls. And more construction noise scheduled for thursday and friday.
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Got the spare broom, started sweeping the leaves off the sidewalks myself. Maybe this will mean less painblower blasting in the future. Maybe the wind will just blow them back onto the sidewalks, showing there wasn’t any point to the painblower blasting.
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So my general practitioner wants me to see a nutritionist and possibly an allergist. The Medicaid insurer’s site lists one nutritionist at the far end of a neighboring county, and no allergists. The only contact info I can find is a pain number, so despite my migraines, I made a pain call today and got the answering machine. So since this afternoon I’ve been waiting for a reply.
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I think I finally found a way to pre-check which pdfs are likely to take forever on my Kindle, or other slower devices.
gtime -p -o input.pdf-timed.txt gs -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH input.pdf
In Mac Automator:
Application recieves files and folders as input.
Run Shell Script.
Set to use bash and recieve input as arguments, then:
for f in “$@”
do
suffix="-timed.pdf"
base=basename "$f" .pdf
outputfile=$base$suffix
/usr/local/bin/gtime -p -o “$f”-timed.txt /usr/local/bin/gs -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH “$f”
done
It outputs a txt file listing how long it took for ghostscript to run through the original file. I don’t think the suffix, base, and outputfile lines are actually needed.
A lot of places have helicopter problems:
I heard back from the FAA, they can’t do anything about all the helicopters buzzing my neighborhood after midnight.
I think some of them are police helicopters, I don’t know about the others. I tried checking the liveries of some daytime helicopters, blue and yelow, couldn’t identify them. I wouldn’t mind emergencies such as medevac, but there are too many for that, and they sometimes make multiple low passes.
Got stranded for some time at the pharmacy be a UPS truck outside firing hazard lights at about 10 Hz. School buses tend to have similar safetyweap-- devices.
The color and frequency both increase the risk of seizures, and I thought frequencies greater than 3 Hz were already banned for non-emergency vehicles.
Any advice on writing to congresspeople?
I’m finally getting enough sleep, but I am still feeling utterly overwhelmingly exhausted when I wake up.
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That’s the 6th time that helicopter has buzzed here since midnight. Not getting any sleep before dawn at this rate.
When police doctrine equates non-compliance with threats…
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4:30 AM. Can’t sleep. Have been jittery, needing to track down reports of protesters killed in the Battle of Seattle.
According to Stefani Banerian, one anonymous protester died of asthma during the Battle:
https://www.seattle.gov/archive/wtocommittee/interviews.htm
And Key Martin died of wounds several months later:
I’ve heard a similar story, which may be Key Martin’s or a 3rd. Several accounts also describe grievous head wounds.
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Someone’s working on a glass windshield outside… using very loud power tools which are shaking the building… I’m not sure they’re safe for the glass.
https://www.shutdownwto20.org/
I wasn’t there. I got involved a few years after, and beaten down a few years after that. But I was just researching the protests, frustrated how many accounts had disappeared, and this looks like an amazing resource.
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Lately I’ve been thinking about American politics in terms of a 3-way fight: the left, the ruling class, and the right.
At the height of the counter-globalization movement, this was a clash between (a) the left and (b) the ruling class, while the issues divided the right.
The war led to a clash between (a) the left with a small part of the right and (b) the ruling class with the larger part of the right.
And the rise of the immigrant rights movement required a clash between (a) the left with a small part of the ruling class and (b) the right with the larger part of the ruling class.
That explains the rough break-ups of 2007-2008. The right complains that anarchists turned globalist-- most of us already were!-- while we complain that so many self-described libertarians turned Nazi– some of them probably already were.
The ruling class obviously has the most killing power, followed by the right.
The ruling class retreated from the Washington Consensus during classes with the left in the post-Seattle era. Each side had very different strengths, but overall, they didn’t have an overwhelming advantage. They are allying with the right and enabling fascist coups in the Gwot era. e.g. Bolivia, with the massacres now.
The right can’t get anywhere without the ruling class. In a shooting war, they tend to have the advantage over the left, but in ideological and culture wars they have been losing ground for centuries. Nationalism was their last big thing, and it’s been losing ground since the First World War.
The left-- we’re obviously at a disadvantage compared to the ruling class + right combination. In shooting wars, we’re still at a massive disadvantage, not least because we don’t want to see people die and the world burn. In culture wars, our worst defeats are at each other’s hands.
e.g. prohibition, including drug prohibition.
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Loud helicopter buzzing, blue and white, scarcely above rooftop height.