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He/him. Lover of my wife, trains, and better housing systems. WAFC

Winston-Salem, NC
Joined April 2014
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47 years ago today the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. In this thread I'm going to discuss a few things: - The actual story - The Gordon Lightfoot song - The different roles of an artist/storyteller and an educator - Why it's ok to say we were wrong
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Raleigh, NC is the most car-dependent city in the USA. Even in the high density downtown area, living without a car can easily lead to social alienation.
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Wake County, North Carolina, voter registration is higher than 8 US states 813,729 Wake County 755,560 Delaware 740,098 Montana 708,718 Rhode Island 594,733 Alaska 581,379 North Dakota 577,570 South Dakota 494,272 Vermont 280,489 Wyoming
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Modern Americans have been sold a cheap, dangerous version of freedom. It’s freedom from obligation to others. Freedom from interaction with others. Freedom from consideration of others. It affects: - Relationships - Politics - Cities - Places of Worship And so much more.
What is the most dangerous thing that people don’t realize is all that dangerous?
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I'm having a very fun time rn asking my wife to guess these
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Who's the one Green Party early voter? 😂😂
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"Nobody can opt out of paying for parking. People who walk, bike, or take transit bankroll those who drive. In so doing, they are making driving cheaper & thus more prevalent, which in turn undermines the quality of walking, biking, & transit."
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3 parked cars take up the same space as one house. Or ten houses if you have Multifamily homes. – at Brooklyn, NY
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I don't like the color green when not in nature
what is your most benign unpopular opinion? i don’t mean like “the earth is flat” type of unpopular opinion, i mean like “I think golden retrievers are annoying” unpopular opinion
Here is @A_W_Gordon's writeup about our panel last week and what can be done to reduce NY construction costs. vice.com/en/article/xgym5j/h…
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Instead of tiny home villages that are sheds, why not have a bunch of $50k (or less!!) 1 bedroom mobile homes? factoryselecthomecenter.com/…
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Or legalize these as ADUs!
Is this one of the Parker's? @blaseball
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I had no idea that car sales were banned in some states on Sundays
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Futures of the South on Labor Intensive Art tabithaarnold.substack.com/p…
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"We’re not trying to stop buses we just need someone to listen to us.”- A GTA bus driver says they are not on an official strike. @WFMY He says they’ll get back on the road when they come to an agreement with management on their benefits.
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My grandfather was a an electrical engineering student (at Drexel) at about the same time
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One of the things that shocked me was learning that an Eastern VA district just closed all the schools, and gave vouchers to privates to white kids rather than integrate.
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Good news: It ends here.
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