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Not to be entitled white suburbanite on main but for the love of fuck could we ban gas leafblowers in this city? Or how about just ban running three of them simultaneously as the gardeners across the street appear to be doing at the moment?

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You'd think everyone being ordered to shelter in place and only go out for essentials would mean people's gardeners wouldn't come and I wouldn't have to listen to leafblowers all morning yesterday and today, but apparently not.The house across the street has also continued having a large stream of activity. They've moved out and had been prepping ( Read more... )

According to the Registrar of Voters website, my mail-in ballot was not counted; it was not even received.
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Former Bay Area base on short list for Trump immigration detention camps, report says

YOU WHAT

I don't mean that in a NIMBY way (other than that I don't want this in anyone's backyard because I want it not to exist in the first place). But.. I... WHAT.

U.S. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, who learned of the memo in the TIME report Friday, said ( Read more... )

AUGH, Microsoft, whyfor you break my enlarged system font sizes with your latest update (1709), like you had already broken them once with Creators Update last year? Why do you think those tiny font sizes are at all reasonable to read at 1920x1080? Back to Advanced System Font Changer it is, then.

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Followup to this post: The new streetlights are indeed brighter than the full moon. With the orange lights, obviously the moon was not extremely bright as out in the country, but everything was clearly awash in bluish-silver. But now (January 1), between the lamp across the street behind the house that I was complaining about in that post, and the ( Read more... )

I was really confused by the full-moon-like whitish light spilling over the back fence into the yard just now. Isn't it near new moon, I thought? Maybe I got way off in my memory of the lunar cycle, somehow? ... nope. They've apparently just replaced those orangey sodium vapor streetlights with white LEDs. Normally I'd be in favor of LEDs as longer ( Read more... )

Sometime in either this version (15) or the previous version of Thunderbird (fuck Chrome-style version numbers.. fuck them up their whatever they have), it's started to fairly frequently forget the setting for View > Sort By > Threaded in all my folders, and sometimes to also forget the customized column headers in the message list. Not all folders ( Read more... )

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