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I'm not exactly on Bonnie Tyler's level as far as needing a hero goes. I definitely want one. A hero would kinda go hard right about now. But am I holding out for one? Not really. And I wouldn't say he's gotta be strong, fast, larger than life etc. I'm flexible. He could be equivalent in size to life - maybe even smaller, you know? That'd be adequate for me. I ain't picky.

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My most redeeming quality is the autism, my most damaging quality is the autism

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is it bad that i didnt know the switch 2 was out until i read this

All of the flop theories seem to be not holding true

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I don't mean to be pedantic, don't think that's Columbus, OH, as claimed in the full story.

I was recently doing research on exit signs (because of course I was), and learned that Chicago has exit signs that say "STAIRS", and are pretty much the only ones that have them. And, you can see one in the background! This is CHICAGO! (which makes sense, it's where The Onion's headquarters is)

Locked into a steely focus while readying himself for the task at hand, area IT support specialist Jeff Miller reportedly prepared to address a tech issue Thursday by slipping on his carpal tunnel braces with the calm of a soldier prepared to die in battle. “Okay, let me take a look,” Miller said in a measured-yet-intense murmur, taking a sip of lukewarm coffee as if it might be his last and slipping on the braces with the stone-cold, unfeeling disposition of a grizzled veteran, his furrowed brow suggesting he was prepared to make any sacrifice in his attempt to troubleshoot the tech issue before him while preventing strain to his wrists. 

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i hate driving. here are the laws! if you break them there will be consequences! except youre also expected to break the law just a little bit. people will get mad at you if you dont. you dont have right of way but the person who does is waving you forward for some reason. here's the speed limit! it's not the speed limit, the actual speed limit is that plus ~5-10. the light is green but you're in the turning lane. can you go? should you have gone just then? the person behind you is honking at you. there's a weird noise coming from your engine; if you try to do the right thing and get it checked out, will you get scammed? you are driving a 1-2 ton metal machine rocketing at speeds unknown to humankind for most of history. around a million people die in car accidents every year; that's about one person every thirty seconds. if you take that seriously and try to drive safely then people get mad at you.

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The next pope should be some gay 27 year old slutty former catholic

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Can you elaborate on the flags?

Kurdistan should be a country and has facing genocide by the Turks since the 1920s

I like just like Taiwan, it should just be a separate country from China

Armenia really deserves support, the Azerbaijani government again has been attempting an ethnic cleansing of Armenians

And I just like Bosnia, it's neat to me.

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at the grocery store with celiac like

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So do people realize that we aren't building new train tracks when we expand the amteak network, I have multiple times seen people say that we shouldn't expand the network because it would destroy protected lands, which would be a fair criticism but Amtrak doesn't build new tracks, we use existing tracks. We are not destroying protected lands, we are using land that has already been clear for a century

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Not a joke, not unreality-

It's coming up a lot right now so please know this blog posts some political humor and its writer is a leftist Jew who's on at least 3 different spectra, who holds strong political views against trump, nazism, fascism, zionism, terfs, racists, misogynists, and other such stuff, and regrets he can do little more about the world right now than write a blog, so the blog will continue not to hide my views.

If you can't take political humor right now for your mental health, I understand and recommend monitoring my tags or unfollowing if needed to stay safe and sane, with my respect and best wishes.

If you can't take political humor because you think there's such a thing as neutrality and polite apoliticality, please look up some clever quotes/essays about how silence endorses the oppressor and such.

If you can't take my politics here because you support trump, nazism, fascism, etc, please unfollow and shut up forever. Just take a vow of silence and never speak or type or otherwise spew your infectious idiocy again, especially in my inbox. Just listen for once and learn about the harm you've done to everyone and everything good in the world instead.

TL;DR blog run by lefty, unfollow as needed.

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CINCINNATI WOOOOOOOOO!!!! hell yeah

Coming this fall

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Uk peeps!! Let’s get this going! 🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧

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i cant think of anything for this week's mutcd monday so uh this will do

Everytime I see a road referred to as a turn-pike I think of something like this

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MUTCD Monday - No one even looks at these

MUTCD Monday is an unscheduled weekly post where I review a (usually) nonstandard road sign that I'm (usually) criticizing.

The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, or MUTCD, "defines the standards used by road managers nationwide to install and maintain traffic control devices [road signs and stuff] on all streets, highways, pedestrian and bicycle facilities, and site roadways open to public travel".[1] It's The Bible for US road signs, markings, and lights.

This week, I have no ideas. Doesn't matter. No one gives a shit about these anyway. So I'll throw together a few disjointed ideas and other garbage and call it a day.

1. R3-8 NO PARKING (symbol) sign confusion

Old editions of the MUTCD and Standard Highway Signs (SHS) publications show the R3-8 NO PARKING (symbol) sign with a black border (Left). This includes the updated 2024 edition of the SHS publication. However, the 2023 11th edition MUTCD shows it with a red border (Right), like all the other parking restriction signs. Who's correct?

2. Roads named after Martin Luther King Jr.

Many, MANY places across the United States have named roads after Martin Luther King Jr. However, his name is long, so different places have come up with different ways to represent it on street name signs.

Hamilton, Ohio, for example, does it a few different ways.

(Top Left) Splitting "Martin" and "Luther" into two different lines, but keeping "King Jr." normal.

(Top Right) Doing that but referring to his father by leaving the "Jr." off.

(Bottom Left) Abbreviating it to "M. L. K.", and once again referring to his father.

(Bottom Right) Spelling out the whole thing in tiny letters. There's also an example of this where they leave off the "Jr."

In Covington, Kentucky (Left), they abbreviate "Martin Luther", but keep "King". Columbus, Ohio (Right), does this with appropriate spacing so it looks less weird.

Baltimore, Maryland (Left), splits his name into two lines. Cleveland, Ohio (Right), splits his name into three lines, along with a little graphic.

Several other places just narrow the font and hope for the best. Also, side note, it's very inconsistent on whether abbreviated things get a period after them. Some places also put a comma before "Jr."

3. Community wayfinding sign arrows

Community wayfinding guide signs are signs for giving direction to local attractions or points of interest. They are more lenient with rules, allowing custom colors (as long as they aren't the ones used on more important signs), different fonts, pictographs, and mildly different shapes.

However, it specifically says arrows must conform to the standard set earlier. These arrows are the standard ones used on road signs.

But for some reason, virtually everyone uses their own arrows. Shown below are examples from Miami Beach, FL (fun fact: Miami Beach got specific approval from the FHWA to use Futura font on their community wayfinding signs), Columbus, OH, Cleveland, OH, Cincinnati, OH, Indianapolis, IN, and Albany, NY.

They ALL have incorrect arrows. Nearly identical incorrect arrows, in fact. In my 10+ minutes of searching, I only found one example, Akron, OH, of community wayfinding signs with correct arrows.

I don't even care that that's probably not the correct parking symbol. They got the arrow right, which is already leagues ahead of everyone else. They also used Highway Gothic font, a slightly boring but definitely good-looking and proven choice.

That is one point to Akron, OH, against the rest of the world's 20 million points (joking, from my little stroll on street view, it actually looks pretty decent).

I think that's about it for today. Mostly little tangents that wouldn't make a MUTCD Monday by themselves.

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What the media won't show

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MUTCD Monday - CA MUTCD

MUTCD Monday is an unscheduled weekly post where I review a (usually) nonstandard road sign that I'm (usually) criticizing.

The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, or MUTCD, "defines the standards used by road managers nationwide to install and maintain traffic control devices [road signs and stuff] on all streets, highways, pedestrian and bicycle facilities, and site roadways open to public travel".[1]

This week, I'm insulting California because it's easy to do. Specifically, I will be reviewing the CA MUTCD, California's version of the MUTCD.

California has this weird thing where, instead of creating a new MUTCD or an official-looking supplement, they took the federal MUTCD, crossed out parts they don't like, and add in new stuff in blue Arial text.

I'd also like to note that this is based on the 2009 MUTCD, not the 11th Edition 2023 MUTCD.

L: There's no way you're seeing these at highway speeds.

R: Who hurt you, California? What are these signs? Frankly, they look like shit.

L: Why? Please just say "TRUCKS USE THIS LANE" or something like a normal person.

R: Hey, I saw a sign similar to this in the Road Guy Rob video that turned me into a road sign autistic! What the hell does "KINGPIN TO REAR AXLE" mean?

There is so much I could say about the parking signs, but I'm not going to.

L: You know what? I don't hate this.

R: I hate this.

L: Am I the only one who thinks the circle looks weird? It looks weirdly squarish.

R: What does this even say? The text is so small and zooming in only makes it more pixelated.

L: I feel like the center Type 3 Object Marker is a weirdly specific thing to remove. They replace it with basically the right and left ones stitched together to make a double-width sign.

R: California still cuts out the black on the US Route shield because they're special and think they're so cool and still live in the 1930s and god damn the state shield looks strange without the "CALIFORNIA" text.

ok im bored

get it together, california.

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yes, but:

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