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Hazel

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loafposting

January 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM

Hazel

@hazy.bsky.social

with the addition of MARC, West Virginia now has representation on the Google Maps Transit layer

Google maps satellite view showing a beautiful orange rail line through the west Virginian towns of Harper's ferry and Martinsburg

December 7, 2024 at 6:44 PM

Hazel

@hazy.bsky.social

yeah. sucks. although some of his colleagues spoke highly of him even after finding out. both the quoted ppl in the nyt article gendered him correctly despite the article misgendering him

December 5, 2024 at 5:09 PM

Hazel

@hazy.bsky.social

pan pizza saturday

December 1, 2024 at 3:37 AM

Hazel

@hazy.bsky.social

happy taco Tuesday

November 27, 2024 at 1:19 AM

Hazel

@hazy.bsky.social

aloo tikki with rice... love a good potato based dumpling fritter thing

aloo tikki(North Indian potato patties) with a very square plain white rice block

November 24, 2024 at 5:19 PM

Hazel

@hazy.bsky.social

check out this cat video I found. it's like he's talking hahaha

November 21, 2024 at 2:40 PM

Hazel

@hazy.bsky.social

reading a book about bread baking and naturally there is an anecdote about NIMBYism, truly there is no escape

BUT FOR THE SMELL OF BAKING BREAD
When I moved to Eugene, I assumed all I needed to do to start my enterprise was get a business license, build the bakery, and begin to bake bread. To my surprise, a community uprising against my little venture developed, and the intense energy with which my neighbors pursued their goal created a public NIMBY fuss that landed on the front page of the newspaper, on the local TV news, and in a pair of two-hour public hearings where one neighbor after another took the stand to rage against, among other things, having to smell bread baking every single day: “like Sisyphus, pushing the same rock up the hill, every day into eternity,” according to their attorney. Smoke from my chimney stack was going to exaggerate respiratory problems for one family, whose house was several hundred yards away. Sparks from the chimney were going to burn down the entire neighborhood. The bakery would turn into a tourist attraction, causing too much traffic in the neighborhood. My driveway was too steep for a fire truck to navigate in the event of a fire. Ashes from my oven were going to change the pH balance of the soil. Trash from the bakery was going to attract rodents. It was an Alice in Wonderland construct where just saying something makes it true; the process seemed to me to be anything but a court of rational appeal.

The residents of eleven out of eighteen homes in the small neighborhood wrote letters protesting the plans for the bakery. Here is a favorite excerpt of mine:
Flour dust can be very explosive. A dropped bag of raw flour can be ignited in much the same way as volatile fluids. This may be one of the hazards of baking, but it does not belong in a residential area.
In the course of due process, the legal burden was on me to refute any and all claims, no matter how seemingly absurd, like the exploding bags of flour. I produced a certified letter from the State of Oregon's climatologist identifying the direction of prevailing winds by month. (Away from the neighbors 44 percent of the time, but that didn't account for days of air stagnation, it turns out.
Who knew?
I had certification from an
environmental engineering firm stating that the emissions output from the oven would be no greater than that from a standard woodstove. I should have tried tossing a bag of flour in the courtroom to see if it would explode.
After a pair of lengthy public hearings, four months of angst, and county files at least eighteen inches thick, the final ruling was to deny my application for a business license to run my little bakery in a zone that allowed home businesses. It was time to shift mental gears.

November 20, 2024 at 5:31 PM

Hazel

@hazy.bsky.social

I was recently reading over the transcript from the interview where he said it would be fine if he lost as long as he "gave it his all", and he just deflected to that after a question about his fitness as an 82 year-old in a second term, this was so bad

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: You talked a lot about your successes in-- at the beginning of this interview. And-- and I don't want to dispute that, I don't want to debate that. But-- as you know, elections are about the future, not the past. They're about tomorrow, not yesterday. And the question on so many people's minds right now is, "Can you serve effectively for the next four years?"

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: George. I'm the guy that put NATO together, the future. No one thought I could expand it. I'm the guy that shut Putin down. No one thought could happen. I'm the guy that put together a South Pacific initiative with AUKUS. I'm the guy that got 50 nations out-- not only in Europe, outside of Europe as well to help Ukraine.

I'm the guy that got Japanese to expand their budget. I'm the-- so I mean, these-- and, for example, when I decided we used to have 40% of computer chips. We invented the chip, the little chip, the computer chip. It's in everything from cell phone to weapons.

November 20, 2024 at 5:20 PM

Hazel

@hazy.bsky.social

pan pizza friday

delicious whole pan pizza with half vegan pepperoni on a wooden

November 16, 2024 at 3:54 AM

Hazel

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November 14, 2024 at 11:28 PM

Hazel

@hazy.bsky.social

polarizing housing on ideological lines is not great for getting reform done nationwide, but it will probably help in new york city to get liberals in favor of boosting the housing supply

the housing discourse is already becoming an extension of national politics

Tweet from councilwoman Vickie Panadino(R)
When the deportations begin, it will relieve a tremendous amount of pressure on the low end of the housing market where it matters most.

Then all we have to do is scrap our absurd and outdated rent control laws and inventory will increase dramatically, and rapidly lower costs...

November 14, 2024 at 12:17 AM

Hazel

@hazy.bsky.social

good question, looking at this quinnipiac poll from a couple weeks ago in PA it looks like

-undecided vote share is slightly higher than in the pres. race, but not quite high enough to account for all of the gap

-refused to answer is actually *lower* than in the pres race