My wife works at a knitting store and has a vlog, but this is a discussion about the Star Wars chronology, as explained to her boss. (10 minutes)
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Excellent illustration of what knitters really talk about when theyāre hanging out.
[Off to watch the whole thing and check out those awesome striped cardis some more. They make me want to make a Hanne Falkenberg jacket at long last.]
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Not just Minnesotans:
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When things as simple as ādisplay this fontā arenāt.
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The reason people canāt zipper merge is because we canāt trust each other on the road. That is the beginning and end of it, and it wonāt be fixed by just telling people that it would be more efficient otherwise.
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Itās also the law, which most people donāt realize.
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There are so many laws people ignore on the road. I get the reason for it, but if people wonāt do it, they wonāt do it.
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if the same people were on foot, they would all merge intuitively and even let people in.
put them behind the wheel of a cage, the lizard brain takes over, and this is why we canāt have nice things.
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Example:
The endless arguments about how people should cross the street at the crosswalks and while the lights are saying cross instead of donāt cross.
Now for me thereās the added deathtrap that the crosswalks are at intersections, where the cars are often firing turn signals, the lights are often firing their own brainscramblers, and so on. So I often have to avoid intersections to avoid getting safetied into the street again and potentially killedā¦
But thereās the common deathtrap that the lights say to cross at the same time as cars are driving through. For example, right turn on red is standard here, so if you donāt wait for cars to finish, then you get hit by drivers looking left while turning right. If you do wait, you might get to cross as the light fires orange brainscramblers, or in the next cycle, after waiting for the next set of cars. For another example, somme intersections are set up to time the left turns through the crosswalk when people are supposed to use the crosswalk.
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Itās not generally possible to cause a half-mile-long flaming pile up on foot, even on an escalator. The escalator has to catch fire itself. Maybe if everyone wore cheap taffetta made of nitrocelluloseā¦ but people donāt wear explosive clothes for a reason.
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right, well, weāve normalized using machines that can and fairly often do cause a flaming pile-up, and saying thatās crazy only makes everyone think the sayer themself is crazy.
itās like an entire culture gaslighting you.
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Maybe the refusal to zipper is a subconscious protest. Like, if we have to be professional about our driving, then pay us for our commute and we can all live in a worldwide MYami not YOURami.
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Which one is Glenn Danzig?
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the band is far better known than the film these days but believe it or not the film is the source of the bandās name
1977ā1978: Formation and Static Age
Misfits were formed in 1977 in Lodi, New Jersey, by Glenn Danzig, who had previous experience performing in local bands. He named the band after actress Marilyn Monroeās final film, The Misfits (1961).
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I donāt even have the trouble with blinking lights, but I agree. In my experience, itās just safer to cross in the middle of the block, where traffic will only be coming from one direction until you get to the center of the street, and then only from one other direction, (and is likely to be moving relatively steadily and with the drivers more likely to be looking forward) then at an intersection where traffic is randomly stopping or going in 8 different directions and the drivers are distracted by looking in all the other directions or trying to figure out if this is where they need to turn.
And then as you mentioned, there are the intersections where sometimes red means āgo if you feel like itā instead of stop, or the crosswalk timers are all wrong.
But people think Iām crazy whenever I say crosswalks should be in the center of the block where itās safer instead of at an intersection.
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