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Salad_Fries

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Gonna sound stupid, but local government. Specifically on relation to road planning and land use.

Like i have all of the state’s/city’s design manuals saved on my computer & review road projects against them. I make a list of questions along the lines of “this section of the planning manual says that 2 lanes are sufficient for the traffic volumes you are designing to, why does your design have 4 lanes?”.

Take these questions to the public meetings to ask. It sounds so dry and boring, but has actually been quite fun!

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Love the modularity of the tools! It seems to fit right in with what we’ve seen with the city services. I feel like this setup makes a lot of sense & am super hyped!

My only qualm is now that ive seen these tools, i have no desire to even look at cs1 lol. Way too hyped

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I would love another season of scrubs!

I know the last season (med school) was wildly unpopular, but i actually started warming up to it near the end. I feel like another season would have actually been pretty good

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A bar near me has a few cocktails that use 5mg delta9 THC instead of alcohol.

All of their alcoholic drinks can also be upgraded with 5mg thc for a few bucks more.

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My city’s DPW recently performed 2 traffic studies as part of their pedestrian plan.

One was driver yield rates at unsignalized crosswalks. The results of this study indicated that of the 825 yielding oppurtunities observed, drivers yielded only 173 times (aka, 79% of drivers failed to yield in violation of state law).

The other was a speed study. Of the 35 observed roads, all 35 had a measured median speed that exceeded the speed limit. 34 of the 35 had measured average speeds that exceeded the speed limit…

Based on these findings, An overwhelming majority of drivers fail to abide by basic traffic laws. I would argue that breaking basic traffic laws makes one a terrible driver, so yes. A large majority (like 79%) are terrible.

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For me, it was Cities:Skylines. My old PC couldnt play it (first game i wanted to play that it couldnt run), so i upgraded.

Now that Cities:Skylines2 is coming out in a few months, i anticipate needing to upgrade again lol.

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Cities Skylines 2 is the 1st game i ever preordered.

I figured CS1 is one of my most played games & i was gonna buy CS2 when it launched anyway, so why not do it now? By doing so now, its 1 less thing taking up space in my mind & theres really Nothing to lose with steams refund policy.

The incredible transparency they have been providing via the dev diaries + the fact that they hired a bunch of the top modders from CS1 to help develop the game is what got me to pull the trigger.

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Lately, ive gotten back into cities:skylines. The hype for cs2 got me in the mood for a good city builder.

Other than that, mainly just civ6 when im in the mood for somewhat mindless clicking & transport fever 2 for when i feel motivated to hardcore concentrate on optimization…

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Totally agree with the local elections! When i was young, i used to skip these elections, but i vote in every single one of them now. Hell, im also the nerd who spends free time attending council meetings & stuff to voice my opinions!

It really does make a difference voting in these local elections! Even things you might not see as useful (school board was always that way for me) have significant ramifications on day to day life. Ive seen it first hand.

With that said, i have a bone to pick regarding the presidential primaries. Sure there are 10 candidates for (some) voters, but many voters get effectively excluded from the process entirely. My state is fairly late in the primary process and almost never actually gets a choice. People always say “just vote in the primaries if you dont want the geriatric moderate”, but that is all that is left on the ballot. The last presidential primary for example, while biden hadnt technically won the primary yet, he was the only name on the ballot as all the other candidates had dropped out. Real fucking awesome selection i had… Id like to be enlightened where my choice was. From my perspective, it looks like it was decided before i even got the chance to vote. its a super fucked up system that im very bitter about.

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Titanic: adventure out of time (im assuming is what op is talking about).

Its an open world point and click adventure game aboard the titanic. Its a fantastic game with some really memorable ambient music.

I assume this is the track op is talking about. https://youtu.be/UK4vF43a8AQ

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