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  • She fucking killed an entire family while speeding in her Mercedes SUV and they’re not going to even take her license away

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  • At her age that would be a life sentence.

    If the actual crime was driving when she’s no longer capable, then killing people, any justice needs to start with no longer driving. Plus, aren’t the people not taking her license also complicit with letting her drive when she’s is no longer capable?

  • Shout it from the station rooftops

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  • That was always my dream if I lived more rurally. Imagine having a garage so big that you could work on several cars all the time!

    As it turns out I found more interesting things to build and fix, so my peak “car guy” was like 17 and I never did anything more complex than replace brakes and springs

  • A succulent meal

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  • Not without feathers but a bird is a bird

  • If you ditched your car, could you afford to leave the suburbs for a great urban neighborhood?

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  • You could argue this is where I am now, in the us, in an inner suburb of a major city

    • I can walk to shops, restaurants, trains, and do most weekends
    • I could walk to a grocery but I usually drive so I can carry, especially when my kids are home from college
    • I’m part time work from home
    • I’m on the edge where single family zoning starts.
    • but no one I know lives in the city anymore
    • but my job is no longer downtown nor walkable

    I would really miss all the suburban niceties like a deck, grill, basement, garage and driveway, my own spot of land, a house.

    I don’t drive very much anymore but it’s an EV. However a lot of that is between online shopping and part time work from home I’ve really cut back on routine drives, so my percentage of longer trips to car usage is higher

    EDIT: on the other hand a lot of it is attitude. Especially with discussions over why some people never clear snow from their sidewalks, it’s very clear that even here many people don’t see walking as an option for anything. There’s no reason to clear the sidewalks in winter because the idea that people may want to walk is just so alien

  • If you ditched your car, could you afford to leave the suburbs for a great urban neighborhood?

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  • All of the above, depending on exact conditions

    • when I was entirely without a car, I just walked. I was single so carrying groceries usually worked ok. As a first Thanksgiving when I got married I Walked to the grocery like 5 times for all the stiff we needed and didn’t think of ahead of time
    • I saw plenty of people with carts and tried that a few times
    • I briefly tried delivery
    • I saw people using taxis - I didn’t realize at the time but many of them compromised by walking to and taxiing back
    • I have usually had a car though, even if groceries was my only weekly trip (plus occasional needs)

    Actually now that I live in an urban suburb, I could do a lot without a car but carrying groceries is not worth the fight to find an alternate way

  • If you ditched your car, could you afford to leave the suburbs for a great urban neighborhood?

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  • YMMV but if you look around online you’ll see much higher overall costs are more typical and more importantly most people greatly underestimate them

  • A succulent meal

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  • A roasted bird? Why not? Y’all are making assumptions that this is a chicken and the peasant a small farmer but why not a traveling mime trapping pigeons from the square?

  • A succulent meal

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  • This is an argument that it’s morally fair to be chickenarian

  • Every Puerto Rican is an American citizen. Enjoy the Super Bowl.

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  • Yeah, this is such a shame: we could have been at like 13 planets by now!

  • Phoenix Police officer kills homeowner who disarmed home invasion suspect

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  • The officer entered the house and saw people fighting. They didn’t listen to him so he started shooting

  • The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think

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  • These do annoy me. Of course Newsom is not the best candidate but they are distracting everyone from how much better that would be than the current shitshow

    And I have to ask y’all, are we really going to an insists on an ideal candidate regardless whether they are electable?

    I have no idea whether Newsom is but he has name recognition, presidential presence, and a successful “populist” strategy. He has successfully positioned himself as a leading foil of Trump. All that stuff that seem necessary for getting elected even if they have no part in whether they would do well for their constituents. …. And they’re building a train!

    I do always wonder if this is just republicans trying to astroturf “both sides the same”.

  • The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think

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  • There’s an argument that most of the stuff done in trumps name would be “ok” if he did it legally and that’s what people wanted. It’s the abuse of authority, the personal enrichment, violating the constitution, holding people above the law, enforcing personal feelings, violating checks and balances that are the critical issues.

    I wouldn’t want to live in such a society but it would at least be “legitimate”

  • The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think

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  • A few years back the Boston globe did an expose on panhandlers and yeah, there are scammers and you need to recognize them but most people in need are truly people in need.

    My take on it was that aggressive panhandlers in prime locations (major tourist spots, intersections with chronic backups) are most likely scammers. People sitting quietly looking defeated are in need. The hard part is deciding whether/how to help all those in between, but it’s good to remember that most people who look homeless are homeless

    Then there’s that weird guy who approached to talk about his knife, probably to try to steal my dog while technically not threatening - I so regret not calling police

  • Can I prevent someone breaking into my car?

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  • And move your car once in a while, or otherwise make it look like someone is paying attention to it.

    I had a car stolen: ten year old cheap econobox, over 100k miles, nothing in the car. I suppose it could have been an impulse, or it could have been that I had to move the car for street cleaning, left it in a bad spot (unlighted, no foot traffic, under a bridge) and left it there so I wouldn’t have to move it again for next street cleaning - the perils of living in a city and going mostly car free but not entirely giving up your car. Anyhow, I came back a week later and it was gone

    Police were useless but offered the opinion that stripped parts for a ten year old econobox were valuable

  • Every Puerto Rican is an American citizen. Enjoy the Super Bowl.

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  • And if you do try to define object science-based criteria, you get things like New Zealand is a continent

  • Bastards evicted an autistic person from her home, with the approval of a judge, after the rich Fuggers to whom she paid her rent didn’t pay the rich Fuggers who owned the building.

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  • Fwiw I’ve seen this in YouTube ai slop - if you’re not there to argue in court that you weren’t notified then eviction goes ahead. I have no idea if reality or hallucination but it is consistent with this story

  • Governors won’t hold Trump meeting after only Republicans invited

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  • Including “five territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.”

  • A new study found that approximately 18% of americans are interested in living without a car

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  • The option I didn’t think to try while I was car-free was taxi, but one way.

    I considered taxis too expensive to take to the grocery so never did. But I also never considered the compromise of walking one way while taking the taxi home with your purchases.

    Less expensive and more convenient

  • Every Puerto Rican is an American citizen. Enjoy the Super Bowl.

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  • Crime statistics generally show immigrants charged for crimes at a same or lower rate than non-immigrants. There is no validity to the claim that immigrants cause crime.

    Immigrants appear to be people, doing pretty much what people do, and maybe keeping their head down to avoid unwanted attention

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Looking for garage heater, US, 240v, 5000w

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    AA5B @lemmy.world

    Euro-Lemmings: do you see common charger rules beyond computer devices?

  • Apple @lemmy.world
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    Delayed

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
    AA5B @lemmy.world

    The 8 U.S States With the Highest Car Accident Fatality Rates in 2025

    nchstats.com /highest-car-accident-fatality-rates/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Two Texas moms were forced to wait for urgent care after pregnancy loss. They died — The Dallas Morning News

    apple.news /Ar4R4ruBOT8KVK3Xi9bBeAw
  • Cooking @lemmy.world
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    RECIPE

    Crispy salmon in Avocado sauce

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    AA5B @lemmy.world

    Do dams pregame?

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
    AA5B @lemmy.world

    How is it going with “Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition”?

  • aww @lemmy.world
    AA5B @lemmy.world

    Someone got some new sweatshirts

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Thread for Inovelli Blue?

  • AssholeDesign @lemmy.world
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    Unfortunate ad placement

  • Cooking @lemmy.world
    AA5B @lemmy.world
    QUESTION

    What to look for in an Olive Oil?

  • iPhone @lemmy.world
    AA5B @lemmy.world

    Is it worthwhile capturing personal photos as spatial?