I havemn’t been able to donate.
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Very bad migraine yesterday evening and today.
I had an eye exam today, to check for possible vitreous detachment; nothing showed up.
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There are a lot of blinkers at local intersections, making it harder to walk around. I thought they might be temporary measures during new construction, but it’s been months. I am planning to contact the dmv, is there anything else I should do?
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Contact your city or county road commission, or department of transportation.
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Done!
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I did, explaining that I can’t safely cross with these lights and have to detour to intersections without them, and got a pain call back explaining that they can’t help because this is the new standard and they’re replacing all the lights at all the intersections.
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I have now contacted the federal department of transportation. I’m angry that they approved these things.
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When I’m trying to read and relax in a little space in the middle of the area where dogs aren’t allowed, and someone comes up with a dog, so I have to drop my book and back away, and they stop to sit down in the middle of the area where dogs aren’t allowed, and I’m waiting to see if I can pick up my book again when they’re done, and then someone comes through with another dog and I’m cornered between the two dogs in the area where dogs aren’t allowed, and I scream in panic, andthey keep at it because I guess they’re used to people screaming in panic…
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I have a hard time coping when I start talking about my safety issues, and people respond by saying that the strobes are perfectly safe and/or that if they’re not safe for me then I should wear blindfolds every time I step outside and/or shouldn’t be allowed outside, I really have a hard time coping with it. I pretty much depend on other people to stop endangering me, and so … if they’re not willing to stop, then I’m dead.
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Walkability Ratio
I’m going to define this as the ratio between the straight-line distance for a trip and the actual walking distance. [Or chair distance, not sure the appropriate terminology.] This will, of course, vary from person to person and day to day. and doesn’t take more enjoyable routes into account.
So today, I only had to go 1 km one way. Which works out to about 2,500 steps round trip.
But I had to detour to avoid a busy highway, to avoid some dangerous intersections, to avoid 2 batteries of high-powered strobe lights, and to avoid 3 dogs. Which made it 13,876 steps round trip.
Walkability Ratio 18%.
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So apparently the flashing safety signals which are standard in America, and often required, are banned in Britain.
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Has anyone here used an adult tricycle?
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Yes, we have one. The seat is problematic for my son. I’ve not ridden it since 2019.
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After a lot of frustration, I’ve mostly figured out how to create form-fillable pdfs for character sheets.
However (1) It switches all my fonts to Helvetica, and if I manage to fight that and retype everything in a more appropriate and/or readable font, if I slip, it switches it back to Helvetica because fuck readability, and (2) the option to request images does not work.
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Can’t sleep. Keep getting woken by flashbacks of past encounters with strobe lights, and migraines from these.
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I have been thinking about 1. how religious experiences and supposed miracles rarely seem to point in the same direction, and 2. how human depictions of angels have gradually replaced inhuman ones, and 3. how religious teachings have often been poor fits for human experience.
Sorry, but Ancient Aliens Beliefs Still Wouldn’t Justify a Cult of Tradition
Imagine, for a moment, that most miracles and religious experience come, not directly, but indirectly, through sometimes-misguided spirits. Some might come from older and hopefully wiser worlds. Some from our own world, like saints and boddhisatvas. Human population growth would gradually replace visions of inhuman spirits, like wheels of fire, with those of human ones.
Their psychologies might differ from ours. Some might find oaths and sacrifices help them stick to what is right, and never make them stick to what turns out to be wrong. Some might find power relationships harmless, and think a little kindness will make them work for us. Some might find crowding harmful, and think a good long time in the wilderness or on the top of a pillar will help everyone. Some could have very different ideas of gender and sexuality. Some might not recognize the risks of viviparity.
So they could have unsuitable teachings for some or all human beings, and humans who follow them too closely could carry on those teachings.
So as always, we have to think for ourselves.
Not rely on revelation or a cult of tradition.
by Monsieur Triporteur here This street in Arnhem, Netherlands : fuckcars after ErmirI
Image: 2 photos of the same street in Arnhem.
Caption: This Street in Arnhem used to be a very dangerous place for cyclists. Now it has cycle lanes.
Top photo: Battlefield photo from the 2nd World War, facing 2 German Sturmgeschütze.
Bottom photo: Same place now.
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