Wizard Hazel
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I’d like to shout out my timex running watch that’s still going with the same battery from when I got it ten years ago
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Okay, but you have to admit it’s funny that the url is “Kirk shot sauce”
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Obviously doesn’t work if you have celiacs, but at least gluten gets sold as a food (and is therefore regulated) instead of as an unregulated supplement
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It does feel particularly fitting that Trump’s version of the statue is not solid marble but rather marble bits and resin
From there, the fragments were shipped to the family's art studio in Centreville, where Tilghman's son, Will Hemsley, used 3-D scans to digitally piece them back together like a puzzle.
From that, a mold was made to shape a precise replica made of crushed marble and mixed resin.
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I think one other path (although maybe not plausible) would be to use control of Congress to make more blue states. If you split CA and NY in two and add DC + PR if they want to join, the Republican Party would have to shift left to be electorally viable
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Even if people discount the opposition of enslaved Black people, (some of) his fellow white politicians knew what he was doing was wrong and tried to free the people he enslaved
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Similar deal with Washington, who deliberately forced the people he enslaved across the Pennsylvania border on a six-month schedule so that they wouldn’t become free according to PA state law
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I’m confused—it looks like that says that cyclist and pedestrian head injuries are much more common per kilometer than driver head injuries. Did you write it backwards?
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I don’t see anything about a per-mile basis in that study.
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This chart has no units. Can you post actual data showing a per-mile basis?
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Do you actually have evidence for that? Also, I don’t see how “you should wear a helmet while driving” would mean that you shouldn’t wear a helmet while biking.
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I already said I don’t. Why are you asking the same question again?

Also, what’s your source for your claim that motoring helmets would save more lives, and why would that be an argument against wearing helmets while biking?
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No, my car has crumple zones and airbags and doesn’t fall over if I hit a bump wrong

That also has nothing to do with my comment
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I’ve fallen off a bike with zero cars around, and I’m forever grateful that I was wearing a helmet because it saved me from getting a TBI
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Feel like there’s a difference between “you should wear a helmet” (which was what they said) and “cops should punish you if you don’t have a helmet on” (which is what a helmet mandate is)
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And straight into everyone’s lungs, for that matter
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With how unpopular Trump is, you could “test” it to tie police funding to Trump and try to build consensus that it should be cut
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Looking forward to finding out how waterproof my bike lights really are
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Alsobrooks continuing to be an embarrassment
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7. Here are a list of Dems voting for and against the bill:
Democratic senators who voted against or did not vote on the NDAA included Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin; Cory Booker and Andy Kim of New Jersey; Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray of Washington; Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin of Illinois; Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts; Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden of Oregon; Chris Murphy of Connecticut; Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff of California; Brian Schatz of Hawaii; Tina Smith of Minnesota; Chris Van Hollen of Maryland; and Peter Welch of Vermont. Independent senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont also voted no. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada did not vote.

The bill now heads into conference negotiations with the House, where the version passed earlier this year is loaded with even more anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ riders. Many of those measures were championed by Rep. Nancy Mace, who infamously launched into anti-trans slurs on the House floor during debate. The House provisions go far beyond the Senate’s, including an all-ages ban on military health insurance coverage for gender-affirming care, restrictions on transgender athletes at military facilities, a bathroom ban on bases, a ban on pride flags, and a clause excluding gender identity from all military data collection. According to Roll Call, the Senate’s passage sets the stage for formal conference talks where negotiators could fold some—or all—of the House provisions into the final bill. The legislation will then return to both chambers for final approval and will likely reach the president’s desk before year’s end.
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Discrimination is when someone say “I am discriminating and that makes me a bad person”

Name whatever kind of bigot you like, that’s what they believe
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I’m sure there’s a nice 20’ alley with dumpsters they can name after him
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We definitely don’t treat tired driving as the danger that it is

Transportation should either require attention and keep you alert (biking/walking) or not need attention and let you sleep (buses/trains). Car are this weird combination where you should pay attention but they lull you into zoning out
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I mean sure, the people earning around $199k/year do, but unless I’m really misunderstanding something, the people earning $201k/year don’t