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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

"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

#cars

In my head, _everything_ gets its own conspiracy board.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_board

OMG, St. Vincent will support the New York and Boston dates of the Nick Cave tour.

"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

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/

New Nada Surf record out 👀

youtu.be/Z52PCKWq4Ig?si=01QYwGfe20sa6IhY

#BikeTooter

recommended:

johnlefler.bandcamp.com/

Why not. My friend went to the Cake show last night, inspiring me to unearth this oldest of my writings, from 2001: daniel.industries/writings/cake/

#cake #writing #music