Organized raccoons could wreak havoc on any city

A pun is its own reword.

There was once a minstrel who joined a pirate ship. One of the pirates was a bit of a musician and thought maybe they could perform together. So one day he pulled the minstrel aside and said secretively, "Aye matey... where do ya keep yer lute?"

Just remembered this guy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_...

North Berkeley station is mostly west of Downtown Berkeley station, not North

Wait these are green, not yellow? TIL (I'm red-green color blind)

Here's a related joke, but you have to say "book" with a kind of chicken voice... www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comm...

Yes, our chickens say "buck buck buck" which sounds pretty close to "bak"

Looks like a cat, but we may have to do genetic testing to be sure

Oh and there's a thread where someone says that it would cost them $100k to comply, with no explanation of why it costs so much

I don't think much thought is involved, let alone common sense. They all say that 5 feet won't matter with strong winds. If the fire is close by, sure, but the proposal is literally called EMBER. The 5 foot zone is to prevent falling embers from igniting a new fire, but they never mention that

I've had to restrain myself several times from commenting in the Nextdoor threads

One post linked to the recent Berkeleyside article (which discussed the research extensively) and the comments made no mention of the article and just said there's no research to support the proposal

I'm non-n-ary

What about people who park their cars blocking the sidewalk? I want to help do something about it but haven't been brave enough yet to leave a note or whatever

This thread has everything. A preacher named Word, another named Blessing, and the son of a preacher man

misread this as olive green technology and was confused

So are these plant NIMBYs or technically plant YIMBYs?

seems obvious. no one's even heard of the Ketchup Clinic