Perhaps the two areas should recolour as one another for the next Halloween season. It would make for quite the postcard.
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Ours is steel, so that would probably help. Though if you have raccoons in your area, it might require a large safe to keep the bin secure.
For some time we had a bin lined with a bag in the garage large enough for two weeks of our waste. Within the house were small bins, about the size of a shoebox stood on its end, with no bags. When they fill, we tipped it into the garage bin. Two bags a month is pretty good in my mind.
Smell, vermin, rotting exposed food waste were all solved by the garage bin having a lid.
Don't tell Santorini that.
It might have been the sixth closure of the day that person was involved in.
Surely the definition of 'recession' would just be changed again. Easier to move goal posts than to admit you lead the horse to a mirage.
I'll echo food banks. $10,000 isn't much money for a municipality of more than 100 people, but a food bank might be where that money goes the furthest.
Knowing from my local outfit, while they would of course accept a donation of actual food bought with that money, they can do much more with the money than the food it buys in the grocery shops.
They do that by reaching out to vendors themselves and getting discounts that would put Costco out of business. I once heard that monetary donations being stretched 5x is typical, oftentimes going 10x or more.
I realise this is a parody, not a cover, but it immediately came to mind when I saw this post.
Slip n Slide by the Beastie Boys.
I understand disliking those things. I dislike them too. What I don't understand, is associating those things to every car enthusiast.
Off the top of my head I can think of about a dozen enthusiasts I know that drive politely, don't purposefully make their vehicles louder, and don't make alterations like removing converters that result in worse emissions.
One of these enthusiasts has a few Japanese imports that have barely enough power to drive on the highways, and he certainly wouldn't be passing anyone in those things. Another regularly rebuilds Honda engines and transmissions. One drives a car that I swear has been on its last leg for a decade, but he maintains a couple racing cars and gets his fun out on the track. A few I know have switched from combustion to electric cars. They're still car enthusiasts.
We shouldn't be painting every member of a group with the same brush as would be used for its most extreme members. You and I don't want to be referred to as stupid bicyclists because some people that also ride bikes have a habit of cutting lanes, hopping sidewalks, and riding across private lawns.
'Car enthusiast' is such a non specific term, as can be seen in this very post. These people don't deserve to be judged by the actions of street racers, for example. It's like judging an entire nationality or race or language or diet solely based on the worst individual that ever was any of those things. To do so is rather shortsighted.
People don't change their positions just because you act nicely
For what it's worth - which may well be nothing but I've written this much already - I have myself experienced people changing their minds when approached with open arms, after multiple brutish attempts had failed. Even if trying kindly fails nine times out of ten, that's still better than failing ten times out of ten with a brutish method.
Cars are an appliance.
Wouldn't you think a toaster an appliance?
Do you think the people in this post have any decision making power over the type of infrastructure that gets built in their respective municipalities? Your comments here don't show someone that wants safer biking through their city, just fruitless yelling at the wind.
Join an advocacy group in your community to pressure your councillors for modal separation. If there isn't such a group, start one. Start a bike bus for your local elementary school. Start a bicycle based trash collection service for your neighbourhood. Do anything other than shit on people that may not have another option than driving due to their infrastructure. Antagonizing people only serves to harden their position.
Showing up to a huntering lodge and shouting about veganism isn't going to help the cause. Instead, try inviting them to a barbeque and have plant based sliders for them to try.
Do you have a long commute or take road trips often? I ask because I used to have an hour commute. I enjoyed my car, but to your example, I enjoyed it only when I 'wore' it.
After I realised I didn't enjoy the car when I wasn't driving it, I realised something else. 90% of it's life, 85% of my waking life, and 95% of my time away from work, it was just sitting somewhere waiting to driven again - not being 'worn'. So I sold it and got something much cheaper in every way; to purchase, maintain, insure, refuel, etc.
Once I'd downgraded, it was funny to me how many people I knew were asking me if I were okay, as if I lost the nice car in a divorce or something haha.
I gotta say, it's wild behaviour to come into a vehicle appreciation post and call them toasters hahaha.
Your bike is an egg timer, but if you're passionate about egg timers then so be it, enjoy that countdown. When you find yourself in an artisanal grandfather clock festival, keep the egg timer in your pannier.
To my surprise, you're right. Brigades letting buildings burn didn't happen - at least not by company decree.
The most I'd ever looked into it was to see what those plaques looked like. I appreciate you countering the idea, it led me to an interesting read of this correction article that seems a great summary of what really occurred.
Primarily it seems they all just worked together for reasons that, after reading them, are painfully obvious and I can't believe I hadn't considered even the first one.
- preventing fire spread from buildings uninsured to those insured
- quick efficient response was good advertising for the insurance company
- resolving fires in uninsured properties is an act of charity and displays goodwill
More recent writers have more firmly rebutted the notion of letting uninsured buildings burn. In 1996, an insurance company history referenced, in 1702, “the first of many recorded examples” of insurance fire brigades working together to fight fires. The insuring fire office recompensated the other offices whose men who had assisted.
The “erroneous myth”, is said to have originated only in the 1920s.
Originally writing in 1692-3, Daniel Defoe noted that the firemen were “very active and diligent” in helping to put out fires, “whether in houses insured or not insured”.
Only two occasions have been reported (in 1871 & 1895), though, where insurance companies threatened the authorities that they would cease attending fires in uninsured properties.
With no reward, no water, and no insurance interest in a burning building, it is not difficult to envisage firemen standing back on occasion, jeering and generally interfering with rival brigades fighting a fire in which they did have an interest. Or, alternatively, simply packing up and going home. Arguably, therefore, the legend of insurance fire brigades letting uninsured buildings burn originated in the first half of the 18th century.
Edit - Turns out, this just isn't true. Thanks to Teft for the correction. Details in another comment.
Once upon a time fire brigades were private entities operated by insurance companies. When they heard of a fire nearby, they'd roll up and only take action if the plaque on the building had their company name on it. Domestic authorities these days certainly resemble that behaviour.
According to the open letter those donations to Organic Maps were used for a personal holiday. Along with everything else in there, I'm not using it any longer.
I'm glad to see this is a concern of someone else. I commented about customizable backups in another thread and it got a rather different response than what I'd expected.
My thought was that I'd like to be able to backup messages year by year and leave Signal to maintain the current year's backup and disregard anything older. This way the backup file on the device would only take a few gigabytes instead of a few dozen. I had to stop sending media through Signal a while back just to keep the backup file from ballooning out of control, opting to send gallery links instead.
I suppose this could also be done by conversation thread, but having any level of control would be fine. As it is, backing up every conversation every day is a bit redundant. I've occasionally noticed a backup running when there was nothing new since the previous day's backup. Options would be nice.
While not about France, the prominent example that comes to mind is Star Wars personifying the United States as the Empire.
Golf carts in the city can be done well, with Peachtree City as the prime example. However they have infrastructure, and more importantly, laws surrounding the use of the carts.
Intoxication, unrestricted parking, and no rules combine to be a disaster waiting to happen. In your situation, I would attend city council meetings and speak out regarding the safety concerns you're witnessing. It would be useful to also begin documenting misuse of these carts to present at these meetings.
Parks in my area have signage forbidding motorized vehicles. There's no logical reason the people driving carts can't leave them in the same area as cars. Driving across park fields is bound to become problematic in terms of lawn maintenance. Once your area implements laws, it could be nice to replace some of the vehicle traffic with cart traffic.
A few of the larger electronics retailers here have open box sections on their websites. I called several smaller ones, but due to their size they either didn't have model units at all or only had one or two. One place I went to found they had some returned televisions in the back that they'd never put back on the sales floor, but being effectively brand new they only offered a ten percent reduction.
The website listings were ideal because as made it less arduous to compare specifications. In my case I was rather particular about certain technical details, so it might be simpler for someone that cares less about colour uniformity or input lag for example.
That said, I've now remembered that once I'd narrowed it down from a couple dozen options to three televisions, the deciding factor was nothing technical but instead it was the only user interface factor that I do see: it turns on and off with an animation reminiscent of old tube television. I'm not looking forward to replacing it because I find this power on visual so funny with a modern screen.
It might be handy for you to check out rtings accelerated longevity tests and see if you can find those models at a discount. I make use of their tests pretty often.
There are some little organisations like Pedal People that collect and dispose of waste via bicycle. I don't have something like this in my area, but it'd be nice.