Youre good! I use calibre to load ebooks from other sources to my kindle

This is so stupid.

Im an avid siri user, yeah it doesnt get it right all the time but its super useful for homekit and helpful in the kitchen. I couldn’t imagine them just abandoning it without introducing an alternative.

https://nitter.net/...

Nitter link so you dont need to open Xitter

Save A Lot locations under the ownership of a company called Yellow Banana have opened on the South Side and the West Side. Save A Lot locations have closed unexpectedly, and Yellow Banana owners have acknowledged poor store conditions and expired foods. A location closed briefly in 2022 due to a rat infestation.

Not a day goes by I don't appreciate being walking distance from a Pete's.

If you want a good sense of how bad it is in the states here are two episodes of Freakomomics that do a job of exposing the issue.

"The Perfect Crime": https://freakonomics.com/... (From 2014)

Then a follow-up episode: "Why Is the U.S. So Good at Killing Pedestrians?": https://freakonomics.com/... (from July 2023)

“What this tells us is that voters see DeSantis as the sort of guy who could really just spend a whole evening nursing a Heineken alone in a dark corner of a bar"

Finally! A candidate I can relate with.

Oh hell yeah! Did you follow a recipe for the crust dough?

Damn this blew up! (I removed the comments with the really annoying/over-the-top emotes. )

Big fan of the use of "fat-cat" here

"It's not that bad, its a dry heat"

Griffin doing okay?

Sad to see these guys are closing their doors. Apparently they never bounced back post COVID, too bad, I enjoyed most of their offerings that I've tried.

Maybe I should be drinking more beer, you know to save the local economy... 🤷

Ive been thinking about the city speed limit since that report came out in June. 30 absolutely too high, it should really be 25 or even 20, especially on residential streets.

Chicago ranked 161st out of 163 big cities and scored a seven out of 100. Speed limits tanked the city’s bikeability. The report’s analysis considers streets with a 30 mph speed limit — a standard for most Chicago streets — or higher as unsafe for cycling.

“The person who wrote the People For Bikes report told Streetsblog last year that if Chicago had a 25 mph speed limit, we would shoot up to being the 15th best city in the U.S. in their rankings.”

The Federal Highway Administration has found that a car traveling 30 mph that hits a pedestrian has a 45% chance of killing or seriously injuring them, while at 20 mph, the likelihood of death drops to 5%

Im not pretending to be an expert in city planning but lowering the default limit seems like a good place to start.

People still driving crazy? Advocate for a camera(both replies i got said it was the only way it’s enforced and I agree, and lets not bring a cop with a gun into every speeding violation), or for traffic calming devices(speed bumps, narrowing streets with bollards, etc) . If you make it harder to speed on side streets people are going to go back to the thoroughfares as it should be and enforcing those lower limits elsewhere becomes less of an issue.

I’m just spitballing.

…Damn, thats making me feel like I finally need to try it.

Ive been here 4 years and still haven’t mustered up the courage(not really a take-a-shot guy myself). I see the chicago handshake all over the city too, maybe next time I’m out and craving an old style I’ll check it off the list.

Private trackers have a smaller footprint and are less attractive to LE than the bigger public ones. ISPs may not be tracking traffic to the smaller sites either so you’re probably less likely to get one of those annoying “we know what you’re doing” letters using a private. Being invite only restricts the amount of bad actors(LE) that get in too.

Private trackers also have rules around seeding and have incentives to encourage more seeding, so they tend to have a good amount of them across all sorts of content.

As for anime trackers, thats out of my wheelhouse, but any good private general tracker should a decent anime collection.

Just my two cents

We have long way to go but we aren't nearly as bad as this makes it sound.

The fact Philly scored better is actually kind of astounding(4th place large city), I used to live in Philly and that was the city that scared me off a bike, it wasn't until I moved out here that I felt safe enough to ride in the city. Kind of hate that Block Club is giving this report the time of day.

Chiming in with Catnip. I grow it for my cats, Its a super easy grow(mints just seem to be easy plants). They love hanging around it and eating the leaves and flowers. If you have cats its definitely worth a try!

Ive heard of people using it in teas as well but I’ve never tried.

Oh nice, just added it to Foobar, thank you! I'll have to check out some of Jose's programs later, "Bop, Straight Ahead" sounds promising.

I think she made the right call