Hey, I think I cracked it, folks!
Central to all of this, unsurprisingly, are councils’ shrivelled post-austerity budgets, and the ever-increasing challenge of keeping road networks up to scratch when their other statutory obligations such as special needs.
Turns out, roads are really bloody expensive.
When were MAGAs ever free speech advocates? The whole “freeze peach” thing was about mocking how unserious they were about it.
Along those lines: If somebody sends a “friendly reminder,” you know that they had the unfriendly kind in mind. Otherwise, they’d just send a reminder.
It’s Elle, which is not a common name, but there are a couple of semi-famous ones, like Elle Fanning.
Yup.
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Puzzle #1076
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I finally started to read the words aloud to catch homophones.
Unlike yesterday, I’m confident that I got all four groups almost immediately. I guess I’ll find out once it goes live in CDT.
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Puzzle #1075
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Umm, cans and peaches bring to mind a different body part. But maybe that’s the result of being a '90s kid.
This makes sense when you see it from the Israeli perspective. Remember, most Israelis are now basically like Nazis. They think that the rest of the world are huge, racist shitstains like themselves. Videos of IDF goons sexually assaulting brown people and shooting brown children should win them praise, they think, because the whole world are racist POS like themselves. But, along the same lines, they think that videos of sadistic Israeli thugs brutalizing white people will damage their image.
Is this a common problem for Bri’ish men?
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I was multitasking while doing this puzzle, and so I got caught up looking for something a lot deeper or trickier about purple!
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I did enjoy the “High Intensity Internal Training” red herring.
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I’m not from Seattle, but the clues tell me that this is 4th Avenue N. (OpenStreetMaps has the cycle track, Google Maps does not yet.) Probably you’d do the same thing as before the change: Use the parking lot that’s on the left side of the image. It appears that none of the angle-parking spots that were removed were van-accessible. Most notably, the aerial imagery shows that the 7-11 across the street has an accessible spot with space marked for van unloading.
Same!
::: spoiler I participated in a knowledge competition back in school, here in the U.S. Midwest, and we didn’t call it “quiz bowl.” I had to let DDG search auto-complete find a list potential words for that one. At least I learned another regionalism.
“Cut a rug,” I had heard of; it’s an American English idiom for social dancing. :::
No worries! It’s far from the only fun train in Japan.
Well, yes, exactly. A nation cannot remain an economic superpower by frittering away its wealth on expensive, but suboptimal shit like a “highway” for high-speed buses. If it’s no longer able able to build effective, cheap infrastructure because it doesn’t benefit an entrenched industry, then collapse isn’t far off.
We can comprehend just fine. There’s a project, California High Speed Rail, under construction to connect these two cities. The trouble is that our political and economic systems have become so sclerotic that China has built an entire HSR network since work on this line began, and it won’t even be done before 2031.
We can still build highways, because the political and regulatory mechanisms to create them were fine-tuned as the system crystalized into inflexibility.
Frankly, this exact inability of U.S. society to change and adapt to new conditions was the signal indicator of the incipient collapse, for me.
I support the death penalty for private equity executives.
Oh, there he is!
True, the turkeys, sandhill cranes, and seagulls browse the bare soil, so at least some animals benefit. I’m thinking about it from the perspective of somebody who sees green crop plants and thinks it’s healthful nature. The empty fields provide a better visual indication of the actual devastation caused by industrial ag.
This is really freakin’ obvious around my part of the world. Farmers don’t tend to plant winter cover crops, but rather leave acres and acres of barren soil after the corn harvest.
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empire and phantom caught my eye first thing.