fuck if it’s this easy why do they close the goddamn road for like five months shit
all outta soub 😦
I work for the road crew in the summer. Crack sealing (the process you see above) is fairly quick and simple. (Though holding a hose that pumps literal tons of 350F tar into the road in the middle of the summer is NOT easy)
I think what a lot of people underestimate is just how much road there is in your city. And just how many directions the crew gets pulled.
For our city of around 50k people there are 8 of us.
Also, crack sealing is a wholly temporary measure, meant to slow the break-up of the roads, it’s not a permanent fix.
Roads tend to get closed for months on end because we have to tear the whole thing up, then, depending on the class of road, we either have to hammer-drill into concrete to lay rebar and the pour concrete, or we can get straight to paving. If it’s a road requiring concrete we’re required to wait at least 24 hours for it to set.
So after 2 days we’re finally able to pave. But the city allocates one (two if we’re lucky) 5 ton truck to transport material.
A relatively short paving job requires at a minimum of 60 tons. So that’s 12 trips to the asphalt factory and back. Each ton is around $80.
TL;DR
There’s a lot of road, not many of us, and soup is expensive.
the azure jay is a large, blue corvid native to a small range in south america. mainly feeding on the seeds of the auracaria tree, the jays are omnivores and will opportunistically take fruit, eggs, and insects. while similar to several other species, their size and black head and throat are ways to distinguish them. like other corvids, azure jays are social flock birds that are known for intelligence and problem-solving behaviors.
i love shrikes because they’re horrible little carnivores whose feeding habits are grim enough to earn then the nickname ‘butcherbird’ but they look like this
can’t wait for the final boss battle of duolingo when you fight the 50 foot owl armed with nothing but your wits, a sword, and your shaky grasp of verb conjugations
oh my god… duel lingo
Die Eule habe hat Hunger
True to form, I actually messed up the verb conjugation when I first put the words on this. XD
I don’t know how many of you enjoy watching people make things, but it gives me a great sense of relaxation. I rarely even care what they are making. I just like the process. Especially creative problem-solving.
Laura Kampf is a brilliant woodworker/metalworker/any-material worker who combines art and craftswomanship into beautiful industrial-ish pieces.
She is a queer maker to boot, so for those looking for more representation in the maker space… she’s pretty great.
Imagine that: giving time and attention to somebody that everybody else hates and keeps at arm’s length might possibly help them show the world that they’re not a freak?!?! What a concept!!! /sarcasm
ok i was gonna put this in the tags but i’m really passionate about this so fuck it:
i strongly believe this is something everyone, especially teachers, should fucking have in mind at all times. i just became sort of an assistant guide for the cubs of my scouts group a couple months ago, and there was this one kid everyone warned me about, and i understood what they meant just minutes after our first meeting began.
this kid, let’s call him k, is around 8yo and is just super energetic and can barely stand still, and usually doesn’t listen to whoever’s talking. i didn’t get to interact much with him that day as i was trying to figure out the group dynamics and how i’d manage to deal with those kids once a week for god knows how long, and he didn’t go to any of the meetings for over a month. that is, until a couple weeks ago.
i was the first person at our meeting place, and he got there just after me. i didn’t recognise him at first, but he seemed just like most of my kids there: excited to be there, if not a little hyper. so listened to what he said to me, and just sat there and talked to him for five minutes or so, until the other kids started to come in. when we officially started, i brought him to the circle and kept him next to me, helping him calm down a bit, and stayed with him for the rest of the hour and a half we had, walking in the woods and talking to him about aquariums and what sticks looked like the best ones for us to take.
my conclusion: k’s actually a really sweet, thoughtful kid, but the treatment the other guides usually give him (which usually amounts to shushing him and saying they won’t let him participate if he isn’t quiet) is fucking shitty as hell. he just works different than the other kids, shushing him ain’t ever gonna do any good, and calling him a problem child ain’t gonna help either. expecting every kid, and every person for that matter, to fit certain boxes of what you’d call “acceptable” behaviour is bigoted at worst and ignorant at best.
“The Times reviewed more than 270 pages of reports generated by the system — records that reflect just a portion of Facebook’s wide-ranging deals. Among the revelations was that Facebook obtained data from multiple partners for a controversial friend-suggestion tool called “People You May Know.” The feature, introduced in 2008, continues even though some Facebook users have objected to it, unsettled by its knowledge of their real-world relationships. Gizmodo and other news outlets have reported cases of the tool’s recommending friend connections between patients of the same psychiatrist, estranged family members, and a harasser and his victim. Facebook, in turn, used contact lists from the partners, including Amazon, Yahoo and the Chinese company Huawei — which has been flagged as a security threat by American intelligence officials — to gain deeper insight into people’s relationships and suggest more connections, the records show. Some of the access deals described in the documents were limited to sharing non-identifying information with research firms or enabling game makers to accommodate huge numbers of players. These raised no privacy concerns. But agreements with about a dozen companies did. Some enabled partners to see users’ contact information through their friends — even after the social network, responding to complaints, said in 2014 that it was stripping all applications of that power. As of 2017, Sony, Microsoft, Amazon and others could obtain users’ email addresses through their friends.”
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