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Steven Lucy
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Steven Lucy
@slucy
I run a produce store, a florist, a wine shop, and mostly post about bike lanes.
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Hyde Park, Chicago
Joined January 2009
My partner is sending me slides from orientation at her new job and it's all like - No more than 80 hours per week! - 4 days guaranteed off per month! - Shifts are capped at 28 hours!- My partner yesterday: “Do we have to drive to the eclipse? What if it’s cloudy? We’ll see a 90% eclipse here in Chicago!” My partner 30 seconds after totality ended: “Let’s go to all of them.”
- The high speed railway between Madrid and Barcelona was built from scratch in for $11b and offers hourly service which takes 2h30m. The one between SF and LA in California -- same distance -- is currently at $105b and counting.
- My new quick criterion for "real city" is "you don't even think twice about someone wearing a suit waiting at a bus stop".
- Look at that acceleration! A whole train disappears in like 12s.
00:00 - People forget that plane tickets used to be like this till the Feds regulated it, so now the price you see on the search screen is the price that hits your card.
- This is the traffic policeman at most American intersections. This is what happens when the min wage is too high. Liberals think they are helping people, but they’re not.
This is the McDonald’s at the Minneapolis airport. This is what happens when the min wage is too high. Liberals think they are helping people, but they’re not. - Midwestern guys will be like “I know a lake” and then take you to a lake the size of Austria with 200 foot cliffs.
- Writing tickets is probably fine, but an easy way to get everyone to stop smoking on the train would be an extremely loud and very sensitive smoke alarm.CTA smoking tickets have spiked as police crack down on puffing passengers. blockclubchi.co/49lR9zI
- Like a true American, I just assumed tornadoes didn't happen in other countries.Tornado causing damage this morning just east of Milan city centre in Northern Italy 🇮🇹 Day turned into night as this storm rolled through, the streetlights even came on.
