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This is the main reason I bought an old Toyota truck. (I added backup camera and CarPlay).

Oakland Ready Mix

"It's just pattern matching." I think the scariest thing about LLMs is realizing the limits of human thought.

This is what Rumsfeld would call an Unnoem Unnoem

Caisson structure and water reflecting the sun

Park St Bridge III

Bridge steel structure

Park St Bridge II

Reflection mirrors attached to the bridge to view oncoming traffic

Park St Bridge

Working on an affordable project now…wood frame, surface/tuck under parking, no bells or whistles, coming in at $800k/unit and is probably never going to get built. What are we even doing here?

Already like $4.80 here but that's the normal price.

Life got you down? Leave your worries behind, walk down to the docks, and embark on an adventure of hand-to-hand combat with 100,000 pound sea monsters.

American men are missing masculine role models and achievable dreams but it's all written down for anyone to read in Moby Dick.

Juicero, RIP

What people had in their heads when pitching the Finch LRT... vs. what we got.

Steve Buscemi was speaking about Tottenham Hotspur

I currently have over 10 lenses for this system and the 35/1.4 is the oldest and also one of the least expensive (bought new at $400 in 2015), but it gives me an overwhelming percentage of my favorite images.

What I love about this system is stated right up front: the 35/1.4 is not the ultimate in sharpness, it has been surpassed by many newer lenses, but resolving power is just one component of overall image quality and not even the most important. Size and weight are also compelling design constraints.

Focus on Glass - Untold Stories - / FUJIFILM [Subtitles available] YouTube video by FUJIFILM X Series

Fujifilm just posted an hour long deep dive on their lens design philosophy and opens the show by spotlighting my favorite lens, the 35mm f/1.4. youtu.be/9-6BrA7cFDA?...

To reply to Mattie's original post, it's because "body positivity" is marketing fluff and never addresses the root causes of how and why society harms fat people... usually in ways more severe than fat people are actually harmed by being fat. Positivity is not liberation.

And like amphetamines the problem is not with people using these drugs but the enormous structure of people profiting off selling these drugs, the societal pressure to use these as performance enhancers with no concern for consequences, and the corrosive nature of this on our culture in general.

One of my partners is in a similar size category and trying to get her insurance to approve GLP-1 bc it helps with her ED. I support her goal and she should have access to it. But the marketing and cultural messages around this drug are still body fascism.

The drug is just a small polypeptide, it's not evil or not evil, it's just a molecule. But like all technology it exists in a commercial and political structure where different groups profit in different ways by promoting it, and like all technologies it has harms.

You're going to have to trust the lived experience on fat people on how they say society treats fat people.

Yes, it is.

It's an OG streetcar line, what is the rationale for killing it?

The Rise and Fall of the Bay Area Streetcar Transit System | KQED All nine counties of the Bay Area had robust streetcar systems at the start of the 20th century. In the East Bay, rumors swirl about how and why the Key System failed.

Curious about the history of the San Francisco Bay Area's now defunct electric streetcar system?

Check out this deep dive by @danbrekke.bsky.social, where I try to dispel the conspiracy theory about their demise:

www.kqed.org/news/12073762

zero universe in which this uses less energy than just growing vegetables in a regular ass field in Illinois and using literally any cargo vehicle of any kind, even a fucking helicopter, to deliver it to chicago

Gas is nearly $10/gal in parts of Europe today and the poor there have a much higher standard of living than the US.

The Pergola

The little bird sanctuary islands in the lake @ 300mm

Drummers at the pergola @ 300mm

Pelicans @ 300mm

Lake walk w/ 70-300mm

Moon rise over Lake Merritt

Moonrise over Lake Merritt (forgot to post on Sunday)

I have the Fujifilm 23/2.8 and 18/2 pancake lenses, trying to decide if I should add the 23/2 and/or the 18/1.4. Maybe both.