Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family
sleepy af
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re: cars as structural violence
@ljwrites it really feels that way, walking through them!
I sat thru three full light cycles the other day at an intersection before I realized the walk signal was a dummy — the one if the turn lanes would always have a green arrow into the crosswalk when opposing traffic was stopped
re: cars as structural violence
If you thought that was oddly precise, I watched a near miss version of that scenario play out on Tuesday (the SUV swerved and almost hit the bus I was in) only to have to get off two minutes later & backtrack two intersections that were only marginally more safe before I could get to my doctors appointment
I can’t drive for medical reasons. There’s never going to be 3000 pounds of steel protecting me from other cars. I just have to live with this, and hope that maybe someday enough people will give a fuck that we can actually change things
re: cars as structural violence
@urusan@fosstodon.org I've been told this is an unreasonable wish so, you know
re: cars as structural violence
@urusan@fosstodon.org yeah part of that calculation was me assuming increased maneuverability means it'd be more likely to clip me than hit full on
but yeah obviously my optimal world is "never being forced to cross streets where cars are going 50 MPH and there's no safe crossing"
cars as structural violence
okay if most people were driving arcimotos I'd probably be a lot more comfortable sharing the road with cars
like getting hit by one of those at 50 mph would still fuck me up, but it probably wouldn't kill me like a SUV
@mythologybot thats a pretty extreme response
@Cyborgneticz yeah I mean Montessori also generally starts at pre-k so you’re not necessarily aware its unusual until you get out?
& generally yeah but the fact that its not considered rude in context is supposed to be the point — you’re addressing them the way you would a peer
fwiw I have way less educational trauma than like…almost everyone I know so clearly some of it worked haha
@Cyborgneticz montessori schools do the ‘call teachers by their first names’ thing but its part of a larger set of expectations intended to reduce the power differential
@pagrus clustering?
textbooks, pricing
@pamela honestly my physical textbooks haven’t been too bad — it helps that history has always tended towards assigning papers over needing a single textbook & those always have institutional access
That said I’d like to issue a callout for Vista Higher Learning — their online homework software is very popular with the Spanish dept which means that I got stuck paying $102.50 for a e-textbook I’ll loose access to at the end of the semester
@Aevisia if it hasn’t already been said, welcome to the fediverse!
@Lady do you sleep for one minute every night
Okay but the real reason we write summaries in the present is because otherwise you're going to tangle yourself into a horrible conjugation knot
Ukranian Booze, Philly
«Pravda has switched to mixing and bottling Molotov cocktails – small homemade explosives thrown by hand – in repurposed beer bottles to help repel the Russian army.
While the beer operation is down, Pravda launched the Brew for Ukraine campaign, sharing its recipes and brewing techniques online, asking anyone and everyone to make their beer for them.»
Two local breweries, the Stickman Brewery and Wilmington Brew Works are taking up the effort & donating proceeds to humanitarian aid in Ukraine
https://whyy.org/articles/philly-area-brewers-join-global-brew-for-ukraine-campaign/
gun violence (no injuries)
@rabbithearth i’m glad you’re okay! That sounds terrifying
re: Sleep
@kiesa time change is the worst :(
@KittyUnpretty yeah I’d figured there was at least a chance of having 2 digits before the comma
Glad it wasnt completely nightmarish to sort out
@KittyUnpretty yeah the fact that it would have been so easy to avoid definitely compounds the effect
How do you even fix something like that?
sleepy af
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