LA MapNerd
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Longtime LA resident, local history buff and map nerd. Rockets'n'space stan from waaay back. All em dashes organically generated.
Los Angeles
Joined June 2010
I seldom post original tweets - I mostly reply to other people, so if you're wondering who I am, check out my "Replies" tab. Also, I mostly navigate with Lists rather than Follows, so my "Following" list is a disorganized mess. š
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This.
In elite writing circles, itās a very well known (and effective) rhetorical & stylistic device called ācontrastive parallelism.ā Just like the em dash, thereās a reason AI favors them: great writers throughout the Western canon loved to use them. Theyāve long been the stylistic
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Well, be honest: Would YOU hire any of those people for a real job?
People say 70-80 year olds are unemployable because of mental declineā¦ yet somehow theyāre running the country.
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Welcoming in the New Year with DEATH11:
@thejackbeyer They did a couple of loops in a racetrack holding pattern right over my house in the east SFV, syncing up for their cue. Heard the engines, went, "Hmm.. odd sounding jet. And it's maneuvering. Hard." We get airliners out of BUR, but they don't do generally do power turns!
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I'll do you one better: I can explain why gay marriage SHOULD be legal, using religion: Basically, same rationale enunciated by Justice Edmonds in Perez v. Sharp, the case that invalidated California's anti-miscegenation laws: The law unconstitutionally restricts subjects'
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This. With bells on.
I'm going to try, one more time, to explain something: Due process isn't about protecting the offender. It's about protecting the innocent from false allegations. EXAMPLE: If there isn't due process for people who are accused of being here illegally, then the government can
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Okay. Honestly: No, because I'm not a 12-year-old whose favorite word is "Badass".
Come on, Dems. be honest. Deep down, isnāt there at least a tiny seedling-sized trace of testosterone left in your brain that looks at this BATTLESHIP video and thinks: āā¦okay, yeah, thatās kinda awesomeā Be honestā¦
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@SergiyKyslytsya All flat map projections necessarily distort spheroidal reality. If you want to compare areas, use an equal-area projection. There are several to choose from. Mercator was perfectly aware of his projection's area distortionsāhe warned about them in his introduction to the
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Additive: Start from Black. Add RGB primaries until you get the color you want. Subtractive: Start from White. Subtract RGB primaries until you get the color you want. The "additive primaries", CMY, are what you get when you subtract R, G, or B from White: -R = C -G = M -B
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Oh, FFS. I know of at LEAST four different cultures where older female kinfolk, no matter the precise relation, are collectively called "aunts" or "aunties." Bro needs to get out more.
The āauntā who Zohran Mamdani said was too afraid to wear her hijab on the subways after 9/11 is actually a deceased distant cousin, he clarified Monday. Via @HannahFNYP and @Matt_Fischetti
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TBC, POTUS' "vision" for global space leadership' is that NASA needs to do a big, splashy space spectacular while he's in office, so he can claim credit. In 2016 he asked for a Mars landing during his first term, offering to secure all the needed funding and to re-orient NASA to
A milestone to advance @POTUSā vision for global space leadership! Japanās HTV-X1 cargo spacecraft successfully launched aboard an H-3 rocket from Tanegashima carrying vital supplies for our @Space_Station crew.
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Twitter is the only place where well articulated sentences get misinterpreted. You can say āI like pancakesā and somebody will say āSo you hate waffles?ā No bitch, thatās a whole new sentence wtf is you talkin bout
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A reminder:
@LinkofSunshine LA sprawls because of the PE Red Cars. Individual developers built rail transit to their (unwalkably distant) parcels, subdivided them, then sold the (franchise-regulated, unprofitable) rail lines to anyone who would buy it. In LA, that was Henry Huntington. He converted all
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Listen to Ryan here. He completely nails it:
The race for āboots on the Moonā against China is a distraction. We donāt need a flag-planting lander ā we need the ability to put real mass on the lunar surface. The real competition is for permanent infrastructure at prime sites. In space, law is thin and control follows
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š« During the Palisades Fire, a drone struck a firefighting aircraftāforcing it out of service at a critical moment when every second mattered. Flying a drone near a wildfire isnāt just illegalāitās reckless. According to the Los Angeles Daily News the case resulted in a 14-day
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As part of his plea agreement, Peter Tripp Akemann agreed to pay full restitution to the government of Quebec, which supplied the plane, and an aircraft repair company that handled the necessary fiā¦
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What she said:
The people celebrating or mocking Charlie Kirk's death are toxic scum. The people who are blowing this up into "millions of people on the left want you dead" are also toxic scum. The end.
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I think y'all might be vastly overthinking this. She's a game. show. contestant. And, while I can't be sure, I suspect she's just a bright, cheerful, cute young woman (likely a theater major), playing a character to the hilt, from the costume on up. She knows >exactly< where
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Reading the replies to this, I'm beginning to see why some of y'all are having trouble getting dates...
When Aaron Beck, the founder of CBT, was a young, single researcher studying courage, his colleague teased him for being afraid of talking to women. So Beck decided to face his fear, walk up to 100 attractive women, and point blank ask them out to dinner. He met his wife on #9
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Area man shoots self in foot; blames medical establishment for unhappy diagnosis.
In case you wonder what we ā and President Trump ā are up against. 100% NEGATIVE coverage from so-call āmainstreamā press in the first 100 days. PERFECT SCORE. (Come on @RobertKennedyJr & @elonmusk , you guys can do better!)
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Plus Ƨa change...
30,000 people are in New York for an "America First" rally, protesting to try & keep USA from going to war with Nazi Germany. Celebrity aviator Charles Lindbergh says it is "obvious that England is losing the war" & must seek negotiated peace with Hitler.
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