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It's only called regret if it comes from the Regret region of France—otherwise, it's just sparkling remorse.

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If only we could solve:

- Car culture: 42,795 deaths in the US in '22 and rising; ave ~20% of household expenses per year
- Guns: 48,830 firearm-related deaths in the US in '21, 54% suicides

...then we could tackle...LAWNS:

"Nationwide, landscape irrigation is estimated to account for nearly one-third of all residential water use, totaling nearly 9 billion gallons per day." (Based on the PDF version at link, this was 2013.)

19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/www3/watersense/pubs/outdoor.html

US Outdoor Water Use | WaterSense | US EPA
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US Outdoor Water Use | WaterSense | US EPA

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I mentioned USA fatalities and costs IRT car-centric transportation modalities. I got curious and thought about time. Not time actually driving, that is its own thread and kind of obvious. Other time. Turns out >50% of police interactions are traffic stops, and >50% of court cases are traffic-related.

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Cars are like a neurological parasite, culturally speaking. They reach into every aspect of our lives.

What's maddening, after one spends the 10 minutes needed to realize it, is that we intentionally undid the infrastructure that could have prevented it. Dallas and LA *had* extensive street car networks.

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Much has been written about how the construction of this highway in particular destroyed a storied neighborhood south of downtown Dallas. But that pile of rubble in the middle of this screenshot is a recent change. Before said neighborhood decimation, it was a temple. Then a bunch of apartments for mostly artists. I got a tour during my very first visit to this city in 2003. That pile of rubble is symbolic of the potential I've seen squandered again and again over the last 20 years.

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"Texas is one of a few states with officials who still seem to think that bigger highways help improve traffic despite data showing that it solves it nothing."

When Jalopnik is ripping your car-centric state transportation budget, you know it's bad.

jalopnik.com/texas-will-pour-billions-more-into-pointless-freeway-ex-1851632104

Texas Will Pour Billions More Into Pointless Freeway Expansions That Just Don't Work - Jalopnik
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Texas Will Pour Billions More Into Pointless Freeway Expansions That Just Don't Work - Jalopnik

The Texas Transportation Commission just approved billions in highway expansion spending for the state, setting a new record. If you’re Texan and had any hope of major transit infrastructure expansions, you’re sadly out of luck.

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If you scroll down a Jalopnik page, they just change the URL for you. 🤦 Multiple people thought that was not just reasonable, but a good idea.

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"It occurs to me that to read everything, including the news, like a novel—to be cognizant and accepting of discontinuities and conflicts, of multiple interpretations, of symbol that sits alongside more objective truths—is maybe the skill we most need to employ in navigating the world of news today, when there is so much news, and so few ways of making it all cohere."

aworkinglibrary.com/writing/all-prose-is-fiction

All prose is fiction
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All prose is fiction

Here’s Le Guin, responding to criticism of The Dispossessed: So The Dispossessed, a science-fiction novel not only concerned with politics, society, and ethics but approaching them via a definite p...

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Spanish veteran Luis Maté (Euskaltel-Euskadi) is celebrating his retirement by riding the 600 kilometres from the Vuelta finish in Madrid to his home in Marbella in the south of Spain.

“It’s partly to get used to the idea of leaving my pro career behind, but I’m going on being a bike rider, and this is like a transition, riding home from being a pro to riding a bike ‘for real’"

cyclingnews.com/news/from-madrid-to-marbella-luis-mate-celebrates-retirement-with-650-kilometre-ride-home-from-vuelta-a-espana/