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Matthew Lawrence

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5 months

@pinkopog As an engineer that works in geotechnical engineering: people should not be doing their own DIY tunnel systems. Scary this needs to be said but the risk to yourself and others is dangerous. Tunnel work is one of the most dangerous niches in the trades.

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@xheirjordanx Nah this is definitely not it, folks especially mestizo folks can pass at times especially in more accepting areas. Then there’s areas where folks stare at you people say shit like “we don’t like your kind here”. Whiteness is a social construct that changes bc of context.

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@allyssamadri @kuya_manggi It’s cuz she beat him into it. In another video it shows her holding the plank she used to smack that dude.

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@pinkopog It’s kind of like the spectator sport they used to have where they’d smash trains together. It’s interesting in a morbid way but I’m worried an innocent bystander will be harmed by this.

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@AdamSinger @sweatystartup Can’t wait for that remote EMT when I need medical care. Same goes for the remote nurses at the hospital! That’ll be a really great system. Remote work doesn’t fix decades of underbuilding housing and preventing new housing from being constructed.

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@blackquantums Folks realize it and they process their emotions differently. No need to throw shade at these kids for it, trust me they deal with it enough growing up...

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@dieworkwear Any workwear suggestions for someone doing a DIY tunnel? Not really a fan of DIY tunnel work but folks might as well look sharp if they're going to do so.

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2 years

@schmangee It is certainly a possibility and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with folks taking precautions. We in America seem to have given up on mitigation with even minor amounts of effort. It’s similar to folks complaining about wearing seat belts because they’re not cool.

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Matthew Lawrence

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6 months

@constans Nah job hunting just kind of sucks for entry level stuff. Even while doing this and having experience it took applying to well over 100 jobs also had to take a few crap jobs till I got to where I’m at and that’s as an engineer in a hot market. Things work out eventually though

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@opinonhaver To be fair given that a random billionaire bought an entire Hawaiian island for his personal use, I can definitely empathize with the case that Hawaiian land back should be done. Imo I think more opportunities like this should become a model for land back in urban areas.

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@inallcreashun @pinkopog It’s all fun and games till someone dies. William Mulholland did so for years and then had a massive dam failure that killed hundreds. He is now a case study for civil engineering students.

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6 months

@opinonhaver Ehh really depends on what you're doing and if you like your coworkers. Working from home and not dealing with people you dislike is great. Working in the office with folks you like adds a lot to your job.

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@Birdyword They've got a pretty clear policy of wanting to be left alone generally speaking and not wanting to join modernity.

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4 years

@alexandrashlee Definitely agree! This map is off though bc the regions that grow your food definitely extend up into NorCal. Don’t get why folks need to put other people down

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9 months

@steamyporkbuns Doesn’t surprise me, similar situation in college town with students. Rent is a lot cheaper when split multiple ways, but ideally we should build housing for this niche.

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Matthew Lawrence

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8 months

@aquaimperium8 People complaining about Jazz not being real music because it’s unstructured, or really anybody who is way too into classical music as the “peak” of music.

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@Detrimatey @inallcreashun @pinkopog I think people should build things safely. Tunneling work is dangerous and is something people should not do without full understanding of the risk and liability involved and the knowledge do work safely is paramount.

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7 months

@BayAreaREMatt They’re probably maximizing zoning given absurd land values. Fixing the zoning and building code along with a land value tax would probably fix this.

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9 months

@lefttwick Because the actual risk is so low it’s negligible. Bull terriers in the US harmed about 500 people, and there’s ~ 5-18 million of them. Apparently in the UK last year this breed was involved in 15 incidents. I think this is more owners than dog breed and could be any large dog.

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2 years

@SCarlsonia @DurhamFella @_fat_ugly_rat_ Basically you can get inversion layers in winter where the cold air settles on top of the smog creating a blanket of heavy air that keeps the pollution closer to ground level and not moving.

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@DarkLas_ @pinkopog She's been interviewed and I commented somewhere else with the link. She's not an engineer and is doing it DIY but has read a few manuals (with semi relavent information)

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2 years

@sweatystartup The density of any of these places is a joke compared to major cities globally. The issue is poor planning. Car dependence and single family zoning make huge swaths of land idle most of the time. We can absolutely house more people and build better infrastructure.

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@JeffSpeckFAICP BrEaK uP tHe MaSsInG! ArTiCuLaTe ThE fAcAdE! Once you see these things you can't unsee them in all the buildings you glance at and it's really sad if you want a better built environment.

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Matthew Lawrence

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3 years

@PeachJarsSimp @allyssamadri @kuya_manggi Yep, the OP asked why the dude was in a stretcher and I responded to that. The old lady gave that waste of space what he deserved.

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Matthew Lawrence

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1 year

@SaintPennyanna @zoraslovechild Yes the Euro equivalent is viking/spartan imagery. Nobody wants to be an onion and cabbage farmer or goat herder.😂😂

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1 year

@dieworkwear Wish Ralph would make a book out of this. I own only a few pieces of Ralph Lauren stuff but man I’d love to just see the archive.

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8 months

@the_transit_guy UC Davis has to be in the running. It’s got bus service through the entire town and a bus to a major airport. Also has specific buses to get to Berkeley and Sacramento and has an Amtrak station.

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@Ceresbane @pinkopog My not legally expert opinion casual glance: uhh yeah. The groundwater pumping concerns me because it’s murky and that’s a risk of sediment transport. The lack of protection from overhead debris (no safety cages or shotCrete). Lack of gas testing. Lack of folks to rescue you.

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@TyronMcDaniel Yup people really don’t understand how much rents and mortgages have gone up. Locally lots of people fight affordable housing and simultaneously complain they can’t hire teachers or firefighters. If we don’t build housing, folks can’t afford to live here.

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@atulio At least for large civil projects: huge cad file that acts like a folder with layers and layers. Then it's also broken up into sections to get more detailed.

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9 months

@IDoTheThinking Sure but I’ve been hearing about this long before COVID. It’s not that online learning and school closures didn’t have an impact but I think it’s wrong to attribute it to COVID.

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11 months

@promiseli0 This dude is upset he didn’t get into Harvard and had to go to Cal. The worst part is that he’s a Canadian speaking on behalf of the Asian American community. It almost seems like satire.

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2 years

@the_transit_guy Don't know how this hasn't been shared more. It's the cable car transit in Medellin and La Paz or really anywhere for me. Seems super cool.

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@BayAreaREMatt I don’t think it’s selling out, the city is maximizing within its zoning it’s tax base and residents. You live in the Bay… it’s one of the most desirable locations on the planet. The fact that more areas of California didn’t experience this is surprising to me honestly.

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@antonia_mdprjct I talked to a VP of a huge construction company who was also a civil engineer and asked him what technology was most “disruptive”. I expected something big but he answered it straight away with BlueBeam. It’s just a pdf editor but it’s well designed for construction plans

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@LeighWolf @drvolts @nytimes @CNN The data is clear: California and New York’s housing policy props up red states across the US…

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Matthew Lawrence

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4 years

@kayagbayani She's not the last traditional tribal tap (tatak) artist. She happens to be one of the last of her particular group but she has trained family members too. She is still a master at her craft but we should be quick to not proclaim she is the last one period.

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@zoraslovechild In the Filipino/FilAm context kind of? Not always the same but the usual crank history is we wuz Maharlika or we wuz Ophir (mystical fakey kingdoms). Among FilAms there's also weird we were all ancestors of the polynesians because tattoos and vibes. Can't speak to other groups

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@dieworkwear This is why I appreciate your content. I don’t want to downplay expense, but lots of people (myself included) have had large wardrobes with cheap clothes. There’s considerable cost to that and honestly your writing (and some others) have made me reconsider what I buy.

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@TheQueenmigrant @pinkopog No she’s not. From what I can find she’s got a background in business and finance, and is a software engineer. Given her construction methods I can tell you if she has any qualifications she’s certainly not following best practices when it comes to safety

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@BeijingPalmer Have you ever actually met debaters that competed in these events? As someone who used to do it, it’s never been a great way to convince people.

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11 months

@_johnsonator Hard disagreement, LA has its urban components. Then the racists downzoned most of the city and between them and car companies we destroyed our non-car infrastructure. That being said living in the right areas and you can get by in LA without a car.

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@JalbyMD This seems like a bad take, I don’t think its Pit Bulls so much as bad owners and inexperience training pits. Yes the breed is powerful but that doesn’t mean they’re all aggressive. Like most working breeds they did plenty of tasks and require training and care.

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7 months

@DylanEnright_ @whstancil Walking a fine line between violating DOD rules and just attending an event. I wonder how showing up in uniform to this event goes over with their commanding officers.

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5 months

Before the software engineers get angry: I don't care, software engineers should not be designing or building tunnels. Geotechnical engineers, Shoring Engineers, Professional Geologists, etc are all fields with credentials for a reason. Please don't DIY this stuff

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yeah she’s not a real engineer, she’s a software engineer who read some fema books and takes advice from people in the comments and anyway she got shut down

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@hemuphobia Bruh, I’ve heard both of these with regularity. Plenty of people will use the term Persian to describe themselves or the food. Same goes for Burma and Burmese.

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2 years

@Alex_Autistic @SarahTaber_bww While you’re generally correct, a lot of cooking has been pretty much figuring out ways to preserve things that might not otherwise survive so you have nutrients during off seasons. Jams, fruit leathers, alcoholic drinks, etc. were all ways folks preserved fruits out of season.

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@sitka__ @pinkopog Well for one thing, no tunnel engineer I know does it for free in their spare time. Secondly her lack of safety standards when excavating, the fact that her form work failed because it’s DIY, her installing ventilation after the fact, etc

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@UnionDrip @The_AFM @garthbrooks I’ve always liked Garth’s music but it’s great to see that he’s also a good guy too. Rare thing to find among music stars.

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6 months

@numble Let’s not forget the claims of vandalism he made when it was utility markouts done by the folks investigating the pipeline leak near the right of way.

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5 months

@Ceresbane @pinkopog In general: I won’t go into confined spaces alone. People should gas test before you go underground and have a monitor going. No going into holes without shoring and a shoring engineer (>5ft is required but you can be injured by smaller collapses). These aren’t tunnel specific

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Matthew Lawrence

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4 years

@arizonablueme Dude cheap online courses are a thing, lots universitIes already publish lectures and syllabi. Some old MIT videos helped me through math and physics. Universities just don’t mention these things they’ve already done!

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1 year

@dieworkwear Is there any place to get this second hand or is it all custom? Even among my friends who are menswear enthusiasts I know of one person to actually own tropical weight wool suits and they had those suits made bespoke in India while they were living there.

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@Appyg99 @notstemmajor The platitude money can’t buy taste is accurate. Silicon Valley is a modern day equivalent of a gold rush camp. It’s truly a shame how little the US does to make better cities. For somewhere so innovative you’d think they’d have vision to what something better than strip malls

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Matthew Lawrence

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2 years

@NBAathena @K4RM4C0M4 @MarxInCrisis In terms of crappy takes on the internet it’s really mild. It’s mostly a menswear channel that says have basic hygiene and wear clothes that fit. I think it was inspired by pushback against dudes telling folks to walk around in tailcoats looking like British royalty.

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@steamyporkbuns Eh just personal experience, some of its car brain but it feels like Bart ran better than LA trains. Buses both struggle when trying to go longer distance. I will say DTLA has the DASH which works really well during the day to get around

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@about_dave Yeah either they’re sovereign people or not. Can’t see how Berkeley grants them the land but ignores this. Not saying that they have to build but that the Ohlone people should be able to tell the city to pound sand if they want to.

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@GrathRyner @BeauTFC You’re misusing both demonstrably and empirically. Beau is making a legal and logical argument on interpretation of law not data...

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@sick_of_winning @opinonhaver Agreed, killing the tourism industry would wreck Hawaii’s economy. I think the core idea that Native Hawaiians should have their land and be able to decide what they want is a good one even if the vocal proponents on Twitter have plans I don’t think are good.

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@AZLandInvestor Most YIMBYs are pro-immigration, but aside from that: there’s lots of dysfunction YIMBYs want to address. We have entitlement and permitting timelines that are unreasonable anywhere else in the world. Same goes for parking and FAR. People focus on what they can impact.

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@elaifresh Goes to show you how wasteful our sprawl is. Having designed some modern stormwater infrastructure, it’s great but it’s progress is hobbled by LAs issues with land use/housing policy.

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@spooglyeyes @MattSorrell3 Yes the budget and material costs would be astronomical today but didn’t matter as much back then. It’s why things like the Hoover dam and other old concrete dams will stand for likely centuries. If you overbuild buy a factor of 3 it’s really simple

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@IwriteOK He also has great threads about workwear and sourcing clothes/ethical pricing! Honestly his account has a surprising range of knowledge.

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9 months

@mnolangray Lets not forget a shill for the New World Order trying to usher in 15 minute cities into suburbia. Which is something I've been accused of for suggesting we allow empty parts of our local mall and the parking lot to get converted to housing along with some old industrial RE.

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@Joeweekender @maxdubler For some reason I have to think this is a lie because unless they weren’t applying to some of them, they would’ve gotten in. In fact if you’re in ~10% of California students there’s a guaranteed UC admission program (it’s not your pick of the UCs but it’s a guarantee to a UC)

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@SledgeJohns @ettingermentum @Very__Regular Plenty of things that need fixing. We could have people fixing up national and state parks, local public works projects, etc. There’s a key need for more skilled trade labor, no reason the gov couldn’t set up programs to train and work on government projects.

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9 months

@mnolangray There’s a lot of mild racism wrapped up in missing middle discourse. Lots of planners say we don’t want to be overly dense like “China/India/Japan/Brazil” we should be like “Insert European Tourist city”. I say we give people the option and the market will sort it out

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7 months

@PatrickSiegman Civil engineer here: it’s a large generational gap. Younger civil engineers are generally designing traffic calming, advocating for better transit, etc. Authority doesn’t like being challenged and CalTrans is a great example of that.

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@mnolangray Not an expert by any means but this came up frequently in the transportation policy class I took. Probably the simplest thing to reduce vehicle emissions is to literally build things closer to each other. We found out that a lot of transportation issues are land use issues.

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@suburbanist_B It’s kind of forgettable, imo the problem isn’t the architecture but lack of quality. That’s not unique to this style though.

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3 years

@bloggerlibanesa Because you’re not looking in the right places for them... Look up things like Castello do Amorosa for something (in castle terms) built recently.

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@bellachu10 Have you not listened to the California coastal commission😂. But yeah FAR, parking, ADA, maybe engineering conditions, old NIMBYs, the list goes on.

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@IDoTheThinking Agreed, aside from the fact that the government could act as a developer: where do these people think the labor pool to build comes from? It’s not like the government can magically make one appear, and things like skilled trades can’t magically multiply overnight to do this.

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@theprovenwinner Lol seems like the answer is always: how much do you want to spend to do something

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@lingerie_addict Some of these could be had for less (~5-7k) from what I know of friends who do reenacting of the revolutionary war/napoleonic era. That being said it's not dissimilar to the prices for bespoke suits. There's usually nothing stopping folks aside from the money.

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@increase_la @lillybilly299 There’s books, websites, etc. honestly though I’d say following the menswear guy isn’t a bad place to start and branch off from there. It’s not always relevant but there’s a ton of great info. Also talk to any friends or family who’s style you like!

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@CohenSite Sen̓áḵw 2: the Santa Monica Boogaloo? Memes aside, I do strongly believe that land back movements and federal recognition of tribes particularly in SoCal are important. It’s a huge injustice that is ignored frequently especially in Southern California.

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@mortuarymann @pinkopog Forreal, even when doing everything right by industry standards and precautions issues come up! I can't believe this has to be said.

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@SenatorLuma @opinonhaver Yes, and an abuser, and a Republican, lecturing people using social justice language. Honestly you couldn’t make up satire that’s this unreal.

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@Masonnryann @ohmujungle @justbeink @MatthewACherry I mean I’ve seen paystubs. It’s based on working either private fire, or you work for a larger public department and they give overtime and travel pay. There’s folks making easily 5-6k a month. They lose a lot in taxes. The point is convicts make dollars a day.

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3 years

@louisdenfir @jonburkeUK It’s in Southern California in one of the least likely places to ever have a serious winter climate.

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@dieworkwear I don’t think they’re steel toes but they’re just leather boots😂.

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1 year

@oldmancandyvan @sick_of_winning @opinonhaver Because in specific cases we can recognize that there were cases where to government forcibly took land and we’d like to right that. In the same way the states control land, we could see that for indigenous peoples to have their land back to use for their prerogative.

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@jerrybazzo @GeringerAdam It's all fun and games until it's windy, or rainy, or you're out of distance from base stations, etc. Drones are great but they're just a tool.

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@SukritGanesh @TommyL49790247 @roddreher @JDVance1 Or had less bad hours or less annoying managers. The same pay but some flexibility in schedule and a good boss makes a huge difference for employees.

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1 year

@seandsweeney Did you have to do site remediation for the gas station? Really love the gas station to apartment conversion! And the building itself looks good.

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@williameburns13 @opinonhaver Yes, but it’s not a monolith. There was writing during the early colonization of North America, with Kondiaronk being a notable example that Graeber and Wengrow bring up in their book. He’s just one example of an indigenous perspective and critique of the Europeans.

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@ob_cycler It's not like San Diego is one of the most expensive cities in the US or one of the oldest in California. It's just a quiet seaside town that hardly anyone knows😂

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@dieworkwear If someone were looking to have a business do this for them, would they take their suit to a dry cleaner or would you ask a tailor to press your suit?

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@dieworkwear Another thing if you’re trying to make the shirt budget go farther: Charles Tyrwhitt has their introductory offer of 3 for $99 (plus shipping) still works out to ~$150. Solid quality for an unbeatable price for that.

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Matthew Lawrence

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1 year

@the_transit_guy Hard to say, Riverside metro area has to count for something. It’s got 4.5ish million people and yet it hardly gets talked about outside of SoCal. Most states have fewer people and yet people care more about Iowa or Montana than Riverside.

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@schmangee Sure you can’t eat and wear a mask, but you can wear a mask (more helpful a respirator like an N95) plenty of other places which helps lower case rates and lowering rates means that you’re less likely to get covid when you can’t wear a mask.

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Matthew Lawrence

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@styrorov I’m a yimby because California refuses to allow enough housing in where we don’t have hellacious commutes or wildfire danger and I’m tired of my friends and family putting themselves in harm’s way every year. Also because NIMBYs oppose projects here whether affordable or market

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Matthew Lawrence

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11 months

@mateosfo Ok but one of the things that drew me towards being pro-housing really is a focus on building where appropriate. The hills really should have less new development. The coast should be building more housing maybe not right on the bluffs but there’s plenty of land!

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2 years

@VPrasadMDMPH I too love opining on things wildly outside of my understanding. those are just like all of those silly water treatment plants, it’s not like I’ve met anyone who’s had cholera. I honestly thought this was sarcasm at first, disappointing to say the least.

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Matthew Lawrence

@m4ttl4w1

5 months

@constans He’s in many ways like that journeyman boxer that keeps fighting despite a middling record. Sometimes there’s a need for a person to stand in and derail a hype train.

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Matthew Lawrence

@m4ttl4w1

4 years

@julianakilrose I agree with this and it can be important to those people, but you have to make sure you’re listening to the community too. Sometimes the program isn’t what the community needs at times and that’s ok.

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Matthew Lawrence

@m4ttl4w1

5 months

@about_dave Santa Monica has been considering what to do with its airport…

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Matthew Lawrence

@m4ttl4w1

9 months

@krondtzks @lefttwick Honestly not opposed, I think anyone owning a dog should have some basic training along with spaying and neutering being offered because we have constantly overcrowded shelters.

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Matthew Lawrence

@m4ttl4w1

10 months

@aesthdistance1 I’m glad that you haven’t experienced colorism and racism from other Asians. As someone who grew up experiencing this, it really sucked. There’s definitely issues within the larger Asian American community

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