I relate to this one so much. I'm amazed there isn't more death and carnage than there already is, frankly. It is that short season where the front door to the bookstore is open pretty much all day, and every day, multiple times a day, there will be some big pickup roaring down Higgins to make a green light or whatever. There isn't a single time I walk up and down that street during the day that I don't see some kind of a close call. It makes me crazy and I hate them. I could go on and on, Nia. I'm very cranky about them. As my dad used to say: "I wouldn't have one of those up my butt if I had room for a boxcar!"
I'm just waiting now for Very Big Truck people to start complaining about how our streets are too narrow and parking spaces too short and so we need to shave space off of sidewalks to accommodate Very Big Trucks. But mostly it's the risk to vulnerable human bodies that pisses me off. Higgins is particularly bad because it's so wide. I wonder if it could be redesigned with a boulevard down the middle and narrowed lanes.
Isn't it wonderful? And things are complex yet simple. Tomas Pueyo (Mr. Hammer and Dance :-) has a WONDERFUL series now on geography and impacts. His latest installment, it just bubbled to the top of my stack: https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/world-chessboard. I don't know how you read as much as you do and with such varied topics. I'm impressed and jealous :-)
Well, that's fascinating! All of a sudden my head is full of mountains here, there, and everywhere. Wasn't there someone who did a deep geological dive and found that slaveowning cotton-growing regions of the southern U.S. start exactly where the last ice sheet stopped? And it affected the soil quality north of the line in ways that meant south of the line was good cotton-growing country but north wasn't. Or something. I'd have to find it again.
(I share about 1/4-1/3 of what I read here. I try to pick things that might be interesting to at least one person but honestly I don't know how I read and listen to so much either. Or why some things take me forever to get through but others go quickly.)
Incredible about the ice sheet, and downstream (pun intended :-) ) impacts! You do a GREAT job sharing, I'm sure we all appreciate it very much, I know I certainly do.
I will judge fart trucks until the day I die. You can always tell the difference between a big truck and a fart truck. Big trucks are working trucks. They are sometimes dirty or have tool racks, that sort of thing. Fart trucks are shiny and new and bought just to make a statement. When people make such a statement, they invite judging.
I like every bit of this post. I am way way more judgmental than you. At age 58, I have no issue judging Very Big Truck people.
I might have found my tribe in feelings about Very Big Trucks ;)
I relate to this one so much. I'm amazed there isn't more death and carnage than there already is, frankly. It is that short season where the front door to the bookstore is open pretty much all day, and every day, multiple times a day, there will be some big pickup roaring down Higgins to make a green light or whatever. There isn't a single time I walk up and down that street during the day that I don't see some kind of a close call. It makes me crazy and I hate them. I could go on and on, Nia. I'm very cranky about them. As my dad used to say: "I wouldn't have one of those up my butt if I had room for a boxcar!"
That is quite the line!
I'm just waiting now for Very Big Truck people to start complaining about how our streets are too narrow and parking spaces too short and so we need to shave space off of sidewalks to accommodate Very Big Trucks. But mostly it's the risk to vulnerable human bodies that pisses me off. Higgins is particularly bad because it's so wide. I wonder if it could be redesigned with a boulevard down the middle and narrowed lanes.
I struggle with judgment all the time, and *try* to catch myself. Sometimes it works!
I love that drop of water link! See also: https://www.americangeosciences.org/critical-issues/maps/interactive-map-streams-and-rivers-united-states
I think my heart just exploded looking at that site. I could spend forever on there. There's an interactive map of groundwater monitoring information!
Isn't it wonderful? And things are complex yet simple. Tomas Pueyo (Mr. Hammer and Dance :-) has a WONDERFUL series now on geography and impacts. His latest installment, it just bubbled to the top of my stack: https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/world-chessboard. I don't know how you read as much as you do and with such varied topics. I'm impressed and jealous :-)
Well, that's fascinating! All of a sudden my head is full of mountains here, there, and everywhere. Wasn't there someone who did a deep geological dive and found that slaveowning cotton-growing regions of the southern U.S. start exactly where the last ice sheet stopped? And it affected the soil quality north of the line in ways that meant south of the line was good cotton-growing country but north wasn't. Or something. I'd have to find it again.
(I share about 1/4-1/3 of what I read here. I try to pick things that might be interesting to at least one person but honestly I don't know how I read and listen to so much either. Or why some things take me forever to get through but others go quickly.)
Incredible about the ice sheet, and downstream (pun intended :-) ) impacts! You do a GREAT job sharing, I'm sure we all appreciate it very much, I know I certainly do.
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I will judge fart trucks until the day I die. You can always tell the difference between a big truck and a fart truck. Big trucks are working trucks. They are sometimes dirty or have tool racks, that sort of thing. Fart trucks are shiny and new and bought just to make a statement. When people make such a statement, they invite judging.
This is why it's so fun to hang out with you! Fart trucks.
That River Runner site is wildly therapeutic in the same way that looking at the Maze screensaver was on Windows 98.
Isn't it? I might just zone out on it sometimes.
I'd totally forgotten about screensavers. They feel like they're from another world.
Also I liked your truck-words.
Haha, thanks :)
I'm not disassociating, I'm just watching a drop chase the waterways down to the sea.
Abso-freaking-lutely.