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Stand Together Dia De La Mujer GIF by Hallmark Gold Crown
 
Means, or medium to an end ... be gentile now ... cause later it could get worse! Conflict resolution is an obvious need ... and lord are folks conflicted with their wills and conscience! Some even trash the conscience as prodigal ...
 
A woman in Bulgaria posted on Floorworld that it was 20C in Plovdiv so Spring is definitely happening in some places.
 
Mendalla said:
Even here in London, transit is a PITA in parts of the city. I would probably be forking over a lot of money to Uber or Lyft drivers if I lost my car.
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It is difficult in some areas of London, England too.

In the early 60's I could get to work by bus. It took 45 minutes to walk to the bus stop, wait for a bus, travel, and walk the last bit to work. I could ride my bike and get there in 15 minutes.

Where I live now there are no buses, a taxi is sometimes operating, I can't walk to anywhere that I need to get to. Good thing I don't have a job to get to!
 
I can walk to work, no problem, it's less than a km. I can walk home, too, but it's a steepish hill after a 5 hour shift standing on my feet, and if I have to buy a few groceries, it's a pretty big calorie expenditure to get me and some bags up the hill. I can walk to the big guy's as well, it's only 1.5 km, but then I have to walk home, and sidewalks after dark are frankly dangerous this time of year, with black ice, etc. (I walked home last night; slipped, caught myself, didn't fall; if I'd fallen and hit my head, no-one would have been aware until I'd frozen to death.) My biggest problem is that the big guy's car lost a critical part and is undriveable as well, day after.
 
LAST, as there's also a stable of non-drivers from my church who regularly need rides.

Public transit in a small city is problematic. When that's coupled with a city built around a bay of a very deep lake, it means that both walking and cycling necessarily involve a LOT of hill-climbing (and up is bad, but I also remember misgauging and hitting the back of a car on a bike going down one of these hills and I went right over the handle bars, over the car, fortunately onto a patch of grass). Two of my favourite walking, cycling cities are Peterborough, and Montreal. Both flattish, with preferential lanes/signage/enforcement for non-drivers. My City is the pits.
 
Just shy of 14C today...I have lake-front property right now as the large snow pile on the other side of the street from me has really melted and the water is covering half of the driving lane
 
DST is stupid. So why does Ontario have a law on the books making it our permanent option if we ever go there?
 
Speaking of stupid.....

Stupid comment I heard Friday while delivering papers - "Thank God we have Daylight Savings Time or we'd never have daylight after 6 PM!"

I pointed out that as the days are getting longer, we would (not as abruptly as after this weekend's time change) and I was told "I" didn't understand the concept of DST
 
I guess it's telling that we on planet earth can't agree on such a simple matter. We will still have confusion if some parts of the world stay on DST permanently and others switch back to standard time.

It makes Snoopy's brain hurt. But at least Snoopy gets to be LAST while making this comment.
 
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