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Water engineer, cyclist, walker, talker, weirdo. A better world is possible. ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ

Oakland, CA
Joined February 2021
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
@elaifresh
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@karma_gardener
๐—ž๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ฎ ๐—š๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ
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men: what things give you gender euphoria?
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3 months
โ€œAmerican cop immediately mag dumping at the slightest provocationโ€ is not an exaggeration or stereotype
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3 months
The deputy misinterpreted the sound of an acorn striking the patrol vehicle as a gunshot.
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1 year
Internet is so good man
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28 days
Lmao
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1 year
There's nothing more infuriating to me than seeing an video of a street food vendor making some incredible stuff and people getting "grossed out" because they're "not wearing gloves" or somesuch You deserve nothing, eat Kraft Mac and cheese for the rest of your life
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2 months
When you find a 464-view YouTube video that explains the exact obscure sump pump configuration you're working on and the stock music soundtrack goes unbelievably hard:
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1 year
Your EQ needs to be so fucking high to pull this off
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14 days
โ€œAnd then you hear a crunch, and then you keep going, and-โ€œ Oh? You kept going?
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2 months
Tesla Cybertruck โ€œbasecampโ€ attachment How it started vs how itโ€™s going: It costs three thousand dollars and the instructions tell you to activate โ€œTent Modeโ€, which does not exist in the car
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1 year
TIL Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz basically came STRAIGHT out of some keyboard preset loop lmao Work smarter not harder
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2 months
Iโ€™m constantly seeing people get DoorDashed breakfast as I leave my building to walk the dog Like, one bagel and a coffee delivered This is insane right? Unless youโ€™re disastrously hung over with no food in the houseโ€ฆ?
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3 months
Rich Chinese guy flexing his tea/cigarette collection is crazy lmao weโ€™re not ready for this
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5 months
These guys are trying to prove that Tesla FSD is better than Waymo and their car attempts to murder them no less than 3 separate times lmfao You gotta see the ending too
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29 days
I feel like this is an underrated social phenomenon
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1 year
This TikTok is actually an incredible summary
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1 month
Cybertruck drives off lot, immediately breaks with critical steering issue
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28 days
this is the typa shit that makes me feel incredibly patriotic toward America
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We made a pilgrimage to Smoke n Ash Tex-Ethiopian BBQ in Arlington, TX. We ordered the BBQ sampler for 2 and extra veggie sides. We liked the beef ribs best, though brisket was close 2nd. Doro Wot's chicken was smoked first. Injera + Texas Toast
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19 days
Cybertruck is a deathtrap man
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16 days
Cool yeah I should be able to open carry an RPG-7 on my bike to blow up any car that impinges on my freedom of movement by parking in a bike lane
@brucefenton
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In any civilized society it should be legal to run people over who block traffic, beat them, shoot them or anything else needed to get them out of the way. Freedom of movement is a human right.
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โ€œDonโ€™t feed the trollsโ€ has always been great advice but sometimes itโ€™s funny to get in the mud a little
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1 year
@kobenipeacesign @000Cana giving myself life-shattering hemorrhoids to own the vegetarians
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1 year
Has Michelle Tandler been kicked in the head by a mule or something
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1 year
@srpsski This you?
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1 month
Also, touchscreens and capacitive touch buttons in cars should be illegal
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2 months
Anyone wanna meet up and do this
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3 months
The writing in Halo has always been good-enough schlock but you gotta admit, โ€œPillar of Autumnโ€ is a S-tier spaceship name
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3 months
OK but really has anyone reconciled these apparent scientific facts withโ€ฆthe existence of Asia? This bacteria is real, itโ€™s heat resistant, itโ€™s deadly, and yet nobody in the Eating Rice Every Day parts of the world has ever heard of this, we gotta be missing something
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Wait, did yaโ€™ll know this about reheating rice? ๐Ÿ˜ณ
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2 months
@drearysleeper If this is a chronic situation then get groceries delivered (a dozen bagels and coffee grounds)
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5 months
YouTube premium prices are insane for getting almost nothing
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14 days
Median American driver:
@Swosa2
Swoskii ๐Ÿฅท
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heres what i think about your stupid stop sign ๐Ÿ›‘
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One of the purest demonstrations of how conservatives think the law is only meant for punishing Others and never Themselves Every single one of these commenters would say โ€œcanโ€™t do the time donโ€™t do the crimeโ€ etc in other circumstances
@GershKuntzman
Gersh Kuntzman
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I caught this recidivist perp in Crown Heights. Check out this guy's record. #criminalmischief
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3 months
I canโ€™t fucking believe the way he just starts spamming dodge rolls like itโ€™s Dark Souls
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1 year
The receipts...
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3 months
Americans will not be safe until everyone drivers their own M1 Abrams Also, walking to school is now illegal to protect children from being run over by M1 Abrams
@barrettjoneill
Barrett O'Neill
3 months
Ignore this at your own risk. Do not put your family in a small car. Yesterday, my wife was driving my son to school and an oncoming delivery truck crossed the center lane and hit her head on โ€” the driver had a seizure was going 40 mph. I was on my way to work in a separateโ€ฆ
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2 years
@MorePerfectUS Accepting a scab contract then doing possibly-deniable industrial sabotage sounds like a fantastic time
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2 months
There are endless options to make very good coffee at home for extremely cheap this is mystifying to me
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3 months
@bethbourdon Somehow I donโ€™t think that was her only mistake
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1 year
Gonna start carrying my rain brick around
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29 days
@SallyKamille Thereโ€™s a reason 100 Years of Solitude was not written by an Englishman
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19 days
Btw if you post this anywhere on Reddit youโ€™ll get banned by these subs even if youโ€™ve never posted there before
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1 year
It's the kind of video a cute 3 year old would make but this is a grown adult lmao
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How to pitch walkable cities to Americans:
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1 year
@meowingabyss my sister, since I have laid eyes upon this accursed video this question has tormented me. I have not known peace
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29 days
Everybody that lives in the arctic circle goes insane right?
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2 months
I have seen multiple homeless encampments that look more well engineered than this thing
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2 months
Username โ€œtownbizโ€โ€ฆodds this is the same Oakland owner as this iconic image??
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1 year
@yikingtons I attended a frat party in college once where almost everyone blacked out. To this today nobody's sure if someone spiked the punch, or if it was a consequence of the party starting at 4pm to avoid noise complaints, and nobody remembering to eat dinner (my personal theory)
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2 years
@Lefty_Jew small subreddit vs large subreddit dichotomy is real. small ones has the hallmarks of older forum communities: daily threads, active mods, notable posters big ones are full of bots, karma farmers, reposts, real lowest-common-denominator stuff
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My unified theory of why road-blocking protests get people so heated Car drivers have been sold the idea of total autonomy, but they also KNOW theyโ€™re at the mercy of traffic and obstructions You canโ€™t just turn a car and โ€œgo aroundโ€ like a bike, yes, the confinement is scary!
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Cool yeah I should be able to open carry an RPG-7 on my bike to blow up any car that impinges on my freedom of movement by parking in a bike lane
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2 years
@verysmallriver All the no-fun puritanicalism of hardcore veganism without any of the environmental benefit. Truly the worst of all diets
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Those inscrutable Orientals live ant-like in towers, thatโ€™s why they wonโ€™t breed - unlike us enlightened San Franciscans, where young families simply purchase a $2,000,000 stucco 2 bedroom like a civilized society should
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@EricaJSandberg
Erica Sandberg ่ˆŠ้‡‘ๅฑฑ็š„็ฅžๅฅ‡ๅฅณไฟ 
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Busan, South Korea. endless rows of tower blocks in real life shook me. was told theyโ€™re part of the reason young people donโ€™t get married and have children.
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On a lifecycle basis, keeping a base model civic running for 20 years is more environmentally friendly than scrapping the civic and buying a new EV
@grtamericanovel
BestBet
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@elaifresh LOL my 05 Civic w/electronics from that era (not much/no computer screen) runs well & it's kept outside. In 2023 I had to replace the ignition system, my biggest expense in 19-1/2 yrs besides a 100K mi maintenance bill. Reg maintenance is the usual. Oldie but goodie.
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3 months
Todays workplace tip: do not, under any circumstances, call your HR manager on the phone and confess to double homicide and DUI
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5 months
So many good Trump impressions but you rarely hear an excellent Biden like this
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2 years
@skepteis so much of the entire field of Environmental Engineering is just multi-bazillion dollar campaigns to undo this kinda stuff
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1 year
@LAmag How dare you? What about the lives the two kids were supposed to live?
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@Forever_Wario Takes so much courage to have that many followers and be like โ€œno I donโ€™t have a take on that I donโ€™t know enoughโ€
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Might go to Fresno just to eat here
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1 year
@gregoryjmckenz1 Smiling in public for no reason is an American thing
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2 months
The thing is they should absolutely add Jesus to Fortnite
@legotrillermoth
Le๐Ÿฅธ Triller Moth
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most well adjusted adult percy jackson fan
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1 year
@BlindMansion Professional vibe inspector
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2 years
@adamgently I mean did you see his final photoshoot? Dude laughed in the grim reapers face and told him he had no drip
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2 years
@Lefty_Jew Within a few hours, I got *27* comments in the r/electricians subreddit when I asked a question about a light switch. Multi-paragraph expert responses. Actually incredible
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One of the most profoundly Reddit posts of all time
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2 months
Putting a SPEED LIMIT 50 sign right above a BIKE LANE sign should automatically trigger an investigation of the the traffic engineerโ€™s Professional Engineer license. Like, IN the design software, if you do this, a flashing warning should pop up Instead itโ€™s just normal policy
@PoliticsAndEd
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I wonder why everyone insists on riding bikes on the sidewalk here? ๐Ÿค” Hmm, total mystery.
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Iโ€™ve never seen so many triggered Bluechecks in one place
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I caught this recidivist perp in Crown Heights. Check out this guy's record. #criminalmischief
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@josephabanuelos She's doesn't need fixing
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4 months
The word gentrify has lost all meaning
@JennyENicholson
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TIL a dispensary is trying to gentrify Rainforest Cafe Chicago instead of seizing the obvious opportunity to have a rainforest themed dispensary
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Conservatives when someone hops the turnstile on the subway: These thugs must be put down. Call five hundred of our bravest and most handsome boys in blue right now When stopped from evading fares and tickets in their car: How dare you snitch on me to the KKKapitalist pigs!?
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@LiaMeAl0ne How are you planning to graduate college if you canโ€™t make breakfast. I donโ€™t understand
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@sangerkatz @aliciaparlap Margot I hate to break this to you but the box isn't real The Pentagon budget is much bigger than that box Just make the box bigger wow incredible give me the Fields medal
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@LacisErnests This makes you look more deranged than any possible tattoo could
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1 year
@_ultraface_ There's no reference at all here, except Rat Kings which are real
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@DogIsABot And then walks away the MILLISECONDS they start thinking it through
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My right to not have to dodge someone going 100mph on a public road is more important than your right to go 100mph. If you donโ€™t understand this you are literally a child and donโ€™t deserve driving privileges.
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11 months
This mural in SF is crazy
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This man is not an engineer
@who_shot_jgr
The Goddamned Penguin
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Itโ€™s only just April and they already donโ€™t have nighttime whatsoever
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@CRMullins Iโ€™d pay for just no ads. The other features are atrocious the only time Iโ€™ve ever wanted offline is for airplanes and i have so long to prep for those that i can use other tools to stage videos
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Hidden feature on the cybertruck: vegetable chopper/finger guillotine!
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โ€œSF just needs to enforce the damn laws alreadyโ€ โ€œWait no not like thatโ€
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1 year
@Kingche2 You really think someone would just do that? Go on the internet and exaggerate?
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1 year
I love that a bunch of keyboard nerds found this and are like oh yeah of course that's the zootybooty5000 I have two in my garage Oh yeah if that's true how come you never noticed Clint Eastwood until now?
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2 years
@MFrederickM @TylerAlbertario A lot of politicians should learn from this
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3 years
@IrateMaxwell @2femcel2furious This one feels so illegal
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@GuyBeinDude I should have said โ€œthe sociological effects of this [physical phenomenon] are underratedโ€
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Minding your business when someone hops the turnstile: good, cool, you don't know what they're going through, no need to get the cops involved Encouraging people who could easily pay the fare to skip it just to spite The Man: childish, puts more pressure on the people above, sad
@sam_d_1995
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refusing to pay your fare isnโ€™t cool. fare revenue is what pays the workers who operate transit and goes towards making your transit system better. Iโ€™m not going to begrudge someone who canโ€™t afford the fare and has no other options but we shouldnโ€™t romanticize this
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Getting killed by an old man driving an SUV whoโ€™s cutting the line to a grocery store is just so fucking ignoble. Multilayered social failings here
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I really need to keep my work and personal photos separate because now this Google home thing I got as a gift just keeps playing slide shows of storm drains and construction sites lol
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Truly the answer to all engineering safety problems is justโ€ฆbollards
@BoldlyBuilding2
Kyle Costs Billions
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@who_shot_jgr The adjacent electrical pylons had more protection than that bridge
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@beetsbearsbeer I make toast and coffee for breakfast every morning I could literally do it with my eyes closed and it takes 3 minutes precisely Daily cost less than one dollar
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@MrEchoIsHere The technical term is "rizz"
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Dumbest part of this is โ€œfood sovereigntyโ€ You are not going to community garden yourself into a parallel agricultural industry, ever
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It took a few years to percolate but yes people in SF and Oakland are indeed realizing you can just run red lights and nothing will happen
@derivativeburke
Kevin Burke
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Do San Francisco drivers understand that there are basically no laws in the city right now.
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To be completely clear: you can and should be able to get one coffee and a bagel delivered, and you should also feel bad about it if you do, because itโ€™s silly and wasteful and you should have been more prepared
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@DakarAdana Thatโ€™s right
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UNFATHOMABLY BASED
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