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bobbo 13 points 3 years ago

It’s really crazy just how quick politics flipped in this state once we passed the redistricting referendum. Like, I knew there’d be a shift in power, but holy wah. The MI GOP basically owned this place for decades.

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bobbo 12 points 3 years ago

That’s a great way to do it, but that solution excludes a lot of people renting or in condo HOAs that don’t have easy access to overnight charge points in their complex’s or city’s lots. Hopefully those missing pieces are addressed soon so EVs feel like an option to everyone driving an ICE car, not just homeowners with garages.

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bobbo 10 points 3 years ago

An overdue change imho. I wouldn’t have expected Ayao to be picked but he seems knowledgeable in his field and well liked from what I’ve read about him. I hope he finds as much success transitioning to the TP role as Andrea Stella and James Vowles have.

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bobbo 9 points 2 years ago

I’m only saying this because we’re on the subjects of education and correcting spelling/grammar.

*it’s spelled citizen

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bobbo 9 points 3 years ago

This whole debacle was the final straw for me to finally kick Reddit and move to a decentralized non-corporate platform, and I know I’m not the only one. Really hoping the general migration picks up a ton of speed after July 1st and more people learn that the federated model isn’t too scary or hard to understand🤞

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bobbo 8 points 3 years ago

I knew Williams was underinvested, but wow. They need like 3 Ryan Reynolds to catch up.

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bobbo 7 points 3 years ago

It was noted here that a German server was chosen due to their better data privacy laws :)

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bobbo 7 points 3 years ago

Not the most original choice but being a yooper I’m biased towards Lake Superior. It’s cold to swim in but you get used to it and it’s always clean and clear. There’s a lot of nice beaches in Marquette too.

There’s a Superior beach in the Keweenaw peninsula in particular that’s my favorite though. It has beautiful “singing sands” and is shallow so it’s usually warmer water and has a really nice turquoise hue, almost Caribbean-like. And hardly anyone is ever there, only locals really know about it.

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bobbo 6 points 3 years ago

Hey! Yooper reddit refugee checking in, was pleasantly surprised to find a midwest-focused instance! Hoping there's another yooper on here, there's not too many of us though :)

I do not-so-exciting software development for a property & casualty insurance company, but try to add spice to my life with lots of bike rides, motorsport, and travel. I'm into nerdy tech and financial topics, Scandinavian culture (am Swedish/Finnish American), and F1. Glad to be here!

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bobbo 6 points 3 years ago

I had to search !iasip@lemmy.ml in All communities and refresh/start a new search page before iasip loaded. I think simply searching iasip now though will work for you now that it's "cached" on the midwest instance (someone more knowledgeable about this federation model please correct me if I'm wrong).

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bobbo 6 points 3 years ago

Say yah to da UP, eh!

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bobbo 6 points 3 years ago

Having lived in Sweden for about a half year and visited a few other times (study abroad and lots of family there), geographically the whole country kind of reminds me of the midwest (barring the more frozen part way far north where the trees get smaller). The more wooded and snowy parts of the north remind me of the upper midwest, the south more akin to the large rolling fields of the farming parts of the midwest. Vänern feels like a Great Lake. The archipelago filled Baltic coastlines remind me a bit of the rockier Lake Superior coastlines of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. I could see why my grandpa and many other Swedes felt comfortable emigrating to this part of the country about a century ago.

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bobbo 4 points 3 years ago

"Gut punch" feels weirdly accurate.

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bobbo 4 points 3 years ago

Holy wah, another Yooper on Lemmy.

“This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!”

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bobbo 3 points 3 years ago

Do I look like I know what a jpeg is?

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bobbo 3 points 3 years ago

Pretty amazing work by the mechanics to get the #311 Cadillac back out, but they sure have a lot of laps to make up to get back into the race (17ish laps behind the leader atm).

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bobbo 3 points 3 years ago

Or Canada, which is what I'm doing lol. ~$450 for a grandstand seat at the hairpin all weekend. But I think Zandvoort might be in the cards next year, I've heard that's a pretty reasonable race to attend as well.

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bobbo 3 points 3 years ago

I know I’m not in the UP anymore whenever I start seeing these on Wisconsin and LP road trips lol

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bobbo 3 points 3 years ago

Same for Memmy on iOS

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bobbo 3 points 3 years ago

After Ferrari’s performance during yesterday’s hyperpole session, I have renewed hope in them! Granted I’m ready to be hurt again by them 😅

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thanks for using Leebra!

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