Seems to be from a 1970s edition of a book of Russian folk poems for children, possibly collected by Korney Chukovsky, but I’m not sure. A translated version is online, and I don’t see any agenda on the webpage, but I’m flying blind here:

http://freebooksforkids.net/magpie.html

Mine has insisted on being a car rider. Okay then, well I figured out that leaving late minimizes my time in line. I am not looking to get there 30 minutes early only to pick her up five minutes faster.

She’s an only child anyway, being in the last ten percent of kids picked up (never last… that feels… excessive) just means a little longer actually interacting with peers.

Right? I know we don’t like reading the articles around here, but this is about a $20 million submersible being commissioned from a company that has successfully gone down to Challenger Deep before.

It’s still billionaire wankery, but it’s much more reasonable in its budget.

It’s not exactly sophisticated, but you can absolutely imagine a bunch of drunk dudes laughing their asses off at that one.

Apparently on clear days it’s now a trudge in line with everyone else, just with death a completely plausible end to the day.

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/climbing/everest-summit-traffic-jam/

I try to be. I at least feel like I’m making completely different mistakes than my parents did, LOL.

Also, zooming in and my iPhone’s blown-out white balance (or whatever) does the pictures no favors. The scan lines and color look better in person.

Relax, you guys. It clearly says to use non-toxic glue. SHEEESH. People with their anti-pizza-glue agenda.

Gladis is latin for ‘sword.’ There’s a militia of a dozen angry boat-sinking orcas with a badass SpecOps nickname, preying on the material resources of the yachting class.

When do we post this one to wholesome news?

Sure, and interestingly, it’s right there in the name. Nostalgia is from Greek and could be crudely transliterated as something like “knowledge pain.”

do something with the center space

A simple shared courtyard on most floors could be valuable, but yeah, it sounds like one of the biggest challenges is making attractive housing out of them. With real estate being somewhat non-fungible though, that becomes a pricing issue. People would live in the high-rise equivalent of a single-wide or container house for free. They wouldn’t for 10 million bucks. Does the inflection point in-between match with the economics of doing the conversion? Every building and every city will have a different calculation.

And yes, there is a nagging sense of boring dystopia going through my brain in all this, though tempered by the sense that we shouldn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good safely and affordably housed. When do we force Hiro Protagonist to move into his storage unit?

Agreed. I’m willing to allow that the dog was probably never going to be a skilled hunting dog, though I don’t trust her to have determined that. It may even have been dangerous, though I rather doubt that had to be its destiny, and, again, we have some credibility issues with our decider.

There are just so many layers between a nippy, excitable working dog that’s struggling with the (likely inadequate) training, and shooting it in the head in front of people. Then the goat thing confirms that she isn’t isn’t some sort of calm and skillful rural badass; she just likes the power inherent in hurting things that don’t do what you want them do.

Maybe most of our politicians are a bit sociopathic, but for fuck’s sake can we please elect the ones that are more skillful at masking and methodically figuring out what the emotionally functioning humans want them to act like? It’s cynical, and a depressing level of low expectations, but that used to be the bar.

At a minimum, we’ve already heard rumors that she was simply pissed off and embarrassed, and that people were way closer than they should have been to a person angrily wielding a firearm.

Some of the concerns I’ve seen are that while electrical should be fine for the type of stuff America uses 110v for, overkill even, the plumbing is all in the wrong places and likely inadequate for how many people will need showers and baths, the HVAC isn’t really meant for the granularity people would want, and it would be a challenge to get the ventilation and heavy duty circuitry to every unit to safely allow for cooking.

What I do think they could do is convert to dormitory style housing with shared kitchens and baths, and while that limits your target audience, it limits it to the people most in need of affordable housing. Refurbing existing office blocks is certainly not a panacea, and I am already cringing at some government that thinks it would be, but I don’t think we’re too far off from denser cities considering it in some cases. I think the bigger opportunity is in new builds and more drastic redevelopments. With very few exceptions, I don’t think any urban core needs to be building dedicated office buildings anymore. Seems it would be way easier and sufficiently cost effective to allow for conversion later even if it’s not in the plan now.

I know conversion of office space to apartments is not trivial (location and “bandwidth” of the building’s infrastructure, etc.), but they are buildings that are designed to hold many people for many hours per day, and often occupy some of the best locations for transit and larger parking structures in a given city. At the very least this should result in more residential and mixed-use projects and fewer dedicated office buildings going forward.

DFW area of Texas. There’s a lot that’s good here, but the number of people who combine various levels of being small-minded and short-sighted are indeed very frustrating.

Maybe the same but Coruscant?

As a dedicated TLJ fan, I recuse myself.

Did you just win the thread? I think you just won the thread.

LOL, all I really meant is you get to learn that they don’t really engage with the language beyond translating sounds into letters. No real thought is given to why they say or write the things they do. It’s useful information.

I cannot believe that the show is still going, mostly because I’m amazed they have any audience left.

Looks like it has eroded significantly over time, but I guess with a sticky core audience and a shrinking expectations for network TV, it’s got its niche.