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I haven't heard people talking about this much, but I feel like it's important for people to know. Especially since SB 63 essentially bans bail funds by not allowing organizations, charities, individuals, or groups to bail out more than three people per year and requiring them to register as bonding agencies.
This is a direct response to all the protests happening here in Atlanta. So far, spreading the word can help as well as donating to The Atlanta Solidarity Fund .
In the meantime, here's some phone numbers of politicians you can go bug.
Randy Robertson (Guy who's sponsoring the bill): +1-404-656-0045
Brian Kemp (Governor of Georgia): +1-404-656-1776
#atlanta#stop cop city#politics#project 2025#cop city#prison abolition#Georgia#Brian Kemp#Randy Robertson#activism#intersectional activism#black lives matter#SB 63#weelaunee forest
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Short version, they are trying to get rid of cash bail for things protesters and the very poor are likely to be arrested for. It also makes bail funds not a things as they'll be limited to posting bail thrice a year. It's a way to clear out protesters and render the 1st Amendment mostly a dead letter.
If you live in Georgia, please make your voice heard now, lest you lose the ability in future.
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SB 63 — which would criminalize bail funds in Georgia — passed the Senate on 2/1. The bill would make bailing more than 3 people out of jail per YEAR a crime for bail funds and nonprofits. It also increases the number of non-bail-eligible offenses.
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23/VI-1963. Class IV detention unit, State Security department No. 138, Středočeský region, People's Union Republic of Czechoslovakia, EESU.
[From the interrogation record of the arrested "SB-7067" ("Radím Štušek") on 23/VI-63]
Question: Where did you and comrade Veverka receive the content of the leaflets you've been writing?
Answer: I've written it all by myself.
[From the actual interrogation, recorded by State Security lieutenant Blažek for Minister of State Security comrade Günther]
[Class 2 interrogation techniques implied.]
Comrade Přibyl: Where did you and comrade Veverka receive the content of the leaflets you've been writing?
SB-7067: Does that bother you, you scum? Anyone gonna write it when they've had enough of you...
Comrade Kopecký: Watch your mouth, traitor.
Comrade Přibyl: Look in the eye. Now! Where did you get them? Obviously you didn't write it all yourself. I might even know a couple of boys from Prague that helped you...
SB-7067: Bullshit... I don't remember anyone from Prague...
Comrade Kopecký: Look there, that bastard's lying to us. Maybe whip him up a bit?
Comrade Přibyl: Fine, a bit. Get one of the guys to ask if room 45 is ready - let's clear his memory up there.
Now, one more time. Who did you take the text on the leaflets from? Who helped you write them? Where did you find that anti-socialist shit?!
SB-7067: I've written it all by myself!
Comrade Přibyl: What's this? Don't want to answer? Now this is gonna hurt for you.
[Class 3 interrogation techniques implied.]
@whumpuary #3: "This is gonna hurt"
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I posted 331 times in 2022
That's 331 more posts than 2021!
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I tagged 310 of my posts in 2022
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It has occurred to me that I haven’t draw moon in some time 🌙
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Hello!!What are your favorite Sadistic beauty fanfics.
There aren't many SB fanfic out there. On 63 in ao3 and 15 in English. I wish I was a polyglot 😭
Anyways, here's a few that caught my attention
I don't wanna make you cry anymore
Short but a good character study done from wookyung pov about him realizing his feelings for Minho. Mostly canon compliant. I hope they'll continue. He suffers here so bonus point. Hehe
A Piece in a Stained Glass Window
with an oc, deals with Minho's trauma. They both bond with each other. From friends to lovers. Ongoing
What it could have been
From multiple POV but mainly Minho's inner thoughts. Doesn't glorify rape and actually talks about the damage being caused to Minho's body and mind, unfortunately on hiatus. Hope they'll update soon.
The end of Spring
Can't tell anything without spoiling but wookyung suffers here which is always a welcome and Minho is free from torment. But not the way you think.
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BTS 방탄소년단 August 2023
August 2023 part 1
1st August - 5th August 2023
Jin - 317 days (10 months 12 days - 45 weeks 2 days ) until discharge from military (221213 - 240612)
JHope - 444 days (1 year 2 months 17 days - 14 months 17 days - 63 weeks 3 days ) until discharge from military (230418 - 241017)
August
1 August
Instagram: Big Hit (1) RM (1), (2.) (3). Weverse: JK (1).(2) (3). (4). (5) (6). (7). (8). Jimin (1) Jin (1) Tae (1).
230802 SEVEN #9 BB Hot 100 (1). SEVEN #1 BB Global 200 (1). SEVEN #1 BB Global 200 excl US (1).
230801 | Yoongi x Samsung Mobile (1).
230801 | JHope x Louis Vuitton (1). (2).
230801 | Tablo (1). Peakboy (2). Audacy (3).
230801 | Tae Weverse live (1).
2 August
Instagram: Yoongi 1.
230802 SEVEN #9 BB Hot Trending Songs (1).
230802 | BTS won Seoul Music Awards "July World Trend Artist". (1). Tae won the July Fan Choice of the Year (2).
230802 | Jimin x Tiffany and Co (1). (2) Esquire (1). (2).
230802 | Jungkook "Seven (feat. Latto)" #Seven4thWin on Show Champion (1). (2).
230802 | Guinness World Records (1). (2). (3)
Jimin : ▪️ Fastest K-pop soloist to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify- 393 days - 230522 (1)
▪️ Most streamed track on SoundCloud - 330,000,000 total number - 230617 (1)
▪️ Most streamed track on SoundCloud in 24 hours - 8,500,000 total number - 181231 (1)
Jungkook: ▪️ The most streamed track on Spotify Charts in one week (male) - Seven with 89,748,171 streams (1)
▪️ Fastest time for a music track to reach 100 million streams on Spotify (male) (1)
230802 | Japan Fanclub BTS CORNER Wallpaper #26 - Jin (1)
3 August
Instagram: RM 1 Weverse: Tae (1) Tik Tok JK (1) (trans)
230803 |JK SEVEN MCountdown SEVEN 5th win - M!Countdown triple crown #Seven5thWin (1).
230803 SEVEN #2 - BB Top Selling Song (1)
230803 | 슈취타 EP.16 TEASER (ft Hwang Minhyun) (1). (2).
230803 | [EPISODE] Jung Kook’s Calvin Klein Commercial Shoot Sketch - BTS (방탄소년단) (1). (2).
230803 | Samsung mobile Yoongi (1). JHope (2).
230803 | 정국 - Seven (feat. Latto) - Sky Cam (1) . 정국 - Seven (feat. Latto) - One Take Cam (1) You tube shorts (1).
230803 | Tae Weverse live (1)
230803 | JK weverse live (1).
230803 | BT21 (1)
4 August SUGA - Agust D TOUR ‘D-DAY’ THE FINAL KSPO DOME Day 1
Twitter: Big Hit (1). Instagram: RM (1), (2) Weverse: JK (1), (2). (3).
230804 | SUGA - Agust D TOUR ‘D-DAY’ THE FINAL KSPO DOME Day 1 (special guest JK) (1), (2). (3). Ft JK (4).
230804 | Jimin Tiffany and Co - Elle Singapore instagram (1).
230804 | Jimmy Fallon instagram story (1).
230804 | SBS official photos JK SEVEN - inkigayo stage (1). (2).
230804 | BT21 (1)
230804 | JK Weverse live (1) Yoongi’s comments (1). Tik Tok live.
5 August SUGA - Agust D TOUR ‘D-DAY’ THE FINAL KSPO DOME Day 2
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230805 | SUGA | Agust D TOUR ‘D-DAY’ THE FINAL KSPO DOME Day 2 (1). (2).(3). (4) Tony Montana (1). Jimin - Like Crazy (1) Jimin’s speech (1) Jimin Full (1)
230805 | Arrival - RM (BTS), Incheon International Airport (1). (2).
230805 | "Seven (ft. Latto)" by JUNGKOOK won its 1st win on Music Core #Seven6thWin (1). (2).
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Para muchos le gusta afirmar que Tashigi es un personaje que Oda creo y es un desperdicio de personaje… Pero le mostraré que es una de las mujeres que Oda toma como relevantes en la trama de One piece.
Tanto Tashigi como Kuina suelen llevar el nombre de “Aves no voladoras”. Este simple nombre es de gran importancia para Oda ya que en el SBS 16, el mismo hizo referencia a este, afirmando que: "solo porque un pájaro no pueda volar no significa que nunca lo hará". Tomando por ejemplo, a un pato que vio volar en un anime.
Esto demuestra, que Oda quiere dejar en claro que Tashigi es un personaje que aun no ha volado, pero llegará un momento que pueda extender sus alas. Me imagino, que ese momento será cuando tenga un desarrollo de batalla relevante en el manga. LO ESPERO CON ANSIAS.
2. Tashigi es la segunda mujer Marine en aparecer en el manga. La primera fue Bellarme (mamá de Nami y su hermana). Pero a pesar, de esta primera, Tashigi es la primera mujer Marine en mantenerse en todo la historia del mundo manga/anime.
3. El sueno de Tashigi. Si algo ha caracterizado al mundo del manga de One Piece es la construcción principal de sus personajes. En la introducción de Tashigi, ya de primera Oda quiso dejar en énfasis la solidez de su sueño. Siendo la segunda mujer de One Piece de proclamarlo.
Todos los sueños de One Piece, son el desarrollo o la meta de cada personaje. Para muchos -para mí misma- el sueño de Tashigi es como una utopía, es decir, algo imposible de conseguir. Para conseguir las 83 espadas, debe de hacerse mucho más fuerte, ya que, por sus propias palabras, con sus propias manos liberará a las espadas de los malvados que la llevan. Tomará muchísimo tiempo hacerlo.
Algo que me dio una luz de este sueño utópico, es la introducción de Sword-Organización de Espadas-, algo me dice que esto debe de tener una conexión con Tashigi. Sosteniendo que, Tashigi en la portada 560 del manga aparece como profesora de espada tanto para Koby como Helmeppo. Su enigma es el símbolo de espada. ADEMÁS QUE ES UNA MANIACA DE LAS ESPADAS. Con Sword, seria muchisimo mas facil llegar a las 83 espadas, claro si Tashigi sería una de los capitanes de dicha organización.
4. La conexión de Tashigi con Zoro
Sin duda esta es una de las razones principales de la existencia de Tashigi. Tomando en consideración que Tashigi al momento de ser creada por Oda, la refleja como Sargento Mayor de la Marina y exponiendo la impresión de Zoro al verla.
Lo más importante, es que desde el comienzo de One Piece, Zoro no había vinculado ni explotado su pasado con nadie de la tripulación, no hasta que aparece Tashigi en el capítulo 96 del Manga-63 del anime.
Hay tantos hilos que faltan unir para establecer el significado esencial del camino de Marine de Tashigi ¿Como llego a ser Marine? ¿De donde proviene? ¿Cuál es su apellido? Su pasado aún es un misterio: su introducción fue para deshabilitar emocionalmente a Zoro y crear una conexión de enemigo a amantes (Que es otro tema que hablaré en otro post). Aunque, para mi Tashigi y Zoro nunca los he visto como enemigos en su totalidad, desde el momento que cruzaron miradas, hubo muchas emociones intercambiadas. Tashigi como la persona justa y buena que es, vio en Zoro desesperación y lo comparó con un mendigo xD, y quiso ayudarlo. Zoro vio en Tashigi a una mujer torpe e usurpadora de personalidad.
Luego, en Punk Hazard tenemos un desenvolvimiento en su relación. Para ambos, era más importante proteger a aquellos que debían salvar. Trabajaron juntos (aunque fue un “yo ataco y tu rematas”), pero fue lindo de ver, ya que, desde el primer vistazo de Zoro a Tashigi con Law, se ve su preocupación por ella, en la batalla de Monet se intensifica.
Zoro como el hombre estoico y serio que es, no debía poner a salvo a Tashigi y curar su herida, pero aun así lo hizo. Bueno en Tashigi su momento de timidez y vergüenza al ser cargado por Zoro, revela su gran cambio de la percepción que tiene por el cazador de piratas. Como el mismo Oda dijo en el SBS 70, Tashigi está avergonzada por otra razón, no por la simple idea de ser vista en los hombros de un pirata. HABÍA ALGO MÁS QUE HACIA QUE ACTUARA DE ESA MANERA ¿SERA AMOR?
5. Sentido de Justicia de Tashigi
Cada pelea de Tashigi ha sido una derrota pero en sí, cada una de ellas le ha dejado algo del que aferrarse. Es su camino buscar una union entre su justicia y su deber como marine.
Como se ve en Alabasta (ayudando y dejando marchar a los Sombreros de paja).
En Marineford (al no creer el porque de "justicia de los Marines y Piratas").
En Punk Hazrd, en su intencion de unir fuerzas con los Mugiwaras y Law, para poner a salvo a los peques. Asumiendo toda la carga y responsabilidad de ellos, con el fin de ponerlos a salvo (aun en Egghead, se nota que aun los niños siguen con ella).
Para concluir, tanto Smoker como Tashigi, son personajes valorados por Oda, ya que , Tashigi y Smoker han aparecido en más arcos que cualquier otro personaje fuera de los Mugiwaras, apareciendo actualmente en los arcos: Loguetown, Alabasta, MarineFord, Punk Hazard, partes de Dressrosa y Water 7, y finalmente en Egghead.
Algo un poco humillante pero revelador son las frases que le dijeron tanto Trafalgar D. Water Law y Cocrodile:
PARA MI ESTAS DERROTAS HARÁN MÁS FUERTE A TASHIGI, NO CREO QUE ODA CADA VEZ QUIERA HUNDIRLA ANTE ALGUIEN MÁS FUERTE POR NADA.
ELLA BRILLARA.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a measure that will overhaul the state’s alimony laws, after three vetoes of similar bills and a decade of emotional clashes over the issue.
The measure (SB 1416) includes doing away with what is known as permanent alimony. DeSantis’ approval came a year after he nixed a similar bill that sought to eliminate permanent alimony and set up a formula for alimony amounts based on the length of marriage.
The approval drew an outcry from members of the “First Wives Advocacy Group,” a coalition of mostly older women who receive permanent alimony and who assert that their lives will be upended without the payments.
“On behalf of the thousands of women who our group represents, we are very disappointed in the Governor’s decision to sign the alimony-reform bill. We believe by signing it, he has put older women in a situation which will cause financial devastation. The so-called party of ‘family values’ has just contributed to erosion of the institution of marriage in Florida,” Jan Killilea, a 63-year-old Boca Raton woman who founded the group a decade ago, told The News Service of Florida in a text message Friday.
The years-long effort to do away with permanent alimony has been a highly contentious issue. It elicited tearful testimony from members of the First Wives group. But it also spurred impassioned pleas from ex-spouses who said they had been forced to work long past the age they wanted to retire because they were on the hook for alimony payments.
Michael Buhler, chairman of Florida Family Fairness, a group that has pushed for doing away with permanent alimony, praised the approval of the bill.
“Florida Family Fairness is pleased that the Florida Legislature and Gov. DeSantis have passed a bill that ends permanent alimony and codifies in statute the right to retire for existing alimony payers,” Buhler said in a statement “Anything that adds clarity and ends permanent alimony is a win for Florida families.”
Along with DeSantis’ veto of the 2022 version, former Gov. Rick Scott twice vetoed similar bills. The issue spurred a near-fracas outside Scott’s office in 2016.
This year, however, the proposal received relatively little public pushback and got the blessing of Florida Family Fairness and The Florida Bar’s Family Law Section, which fiercely clashed over the issue in the past.
Along with eliminating permanent alimony, the measure will set up a process for ex-spouses who make alimony payments to seek modifications to alimony agreements when they want to retire.
It will allow judges to reduce or terminate alimony, support or maintenance payments after considering a number of factors, such as “the age and health” of the person who makes payments; the customary retirement age of that person’s occupation; “the economic impact” a reduction in alimony would have on the recipient of the payments; and the “motivation for retirement and likelihood of returning to work” for the person making the payments.
Supporters said it will codify into law a court decision in a 1992 divorce case that judges use as a guidepost when making decisions about retirement.
But, as with previous versions, opponents remained concerned that the bill would apply to existing permanent alimony agreements, which many ex-spouses accept in exchange for giving up other assets as part of divorce settlements.
“He (DeSantis) has just impoverished all the older women of Florida, and I know at least 3,000 women across the state of Florida are switching to Democrat and we will campaign against him, all the way, forever,” Camille Fiveash, a Milton Republican who receives permanent alimony, said in a phone interview Friday.
In vetoing the 2022 version, DeSantis pointed to concerns about the bill allowing ex-spouses to have existing alimony agreements amended. In a June 24, 2022, veto letter, he wrote that if the bill “were to become law and be given retroactive effect as the Legislature intends, it would unconstitutionally impair vested rights under certain pre-existing marital settlement agreements.”
But Senate bill sponsor Joe Gruters, R-Sarasota, tried to assure lawmakers that the 2023 version would not unconstitutionally affect existing alimony settlements. This year’s proposal “went to what is currently case law,” Gruters told a Senate committee in April, pointing to the court ruling.
“So what you can do right now, under case law, we now codify all those laws and make that the rule of law. So we basically just solidify that. So from a retroactivity standpoint, no, because if anything could be modifiable before, it’s still modifiable. If it’s a non-modifiable agreement, you still can’t modify that agreement,” he said.
The bill, which will take effect Saturday, also will set a five-year limit on what is known as rehabilitative alimony. Under the plan, people married for less than three years will not be eligible for alimony payments, and those who have been married 20 years or longer will be eligible to receive payments for up to 75% of the term of the marriage.
The new law will also allow alimony payers to seek modifications if “a supportive relationship exists or has existed” involving their ex-spouses in the previous year. Critics argued the provision is vague and could apply to temporary roommates who help alimony recipients cover living expenses for short periods of time.
Fiveash, a 63-year-old with serious medical conditions, said she can’t afford another legal fight over alimony.
“My fears are that they can take you back to court, and I don’t have the money for an attorney. I literally live off a little bit I get for alimony. I work part-time, because I have all kinds of ailments. And now I’m going to be left without anything, absolutely anything,” she said.
Health insurance, Fiveash added, will “probably be the first thing to go” if her payments are reduced or eliminated.
“This is a death sentence for me,” she said.
#us politics#news#republicans#conservatives#2023#alimony#permanent alimony#gov. ron desantis#nbc 6 south florida#SB 1416#First Wives Advocacy Group#The News Service of Florida#divorce laws#Florida Family Fairness#Rick Scott#family law#Florida bar#Joe Gruters
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On Monday, February 5th 2024 the Atlanta City Council voted to adopt a ordinance for signature match for referendum petitions. It's already difficult for referendum petitions in Atlanta since you have to be in person with a witness AND have been registered to vote in the last mayoral race. Now, on top of all that, your signatures have to be verified and an exact match.
This is despicable and makes it almost impossible to pass anything through referendum to ballot. With SB 63 essentially banning bail funds and not allowing anyone to bail someone out more than three times it basically makes it impossible to protest lest you be arrested and not be able to gain bail.
Be assured, Cop City will never be built. We'll keep fighting and writing. It ain't over until the Citizens of Atlanta say it's over!
#stop cop city#atlanta#politics#environmentalism#weelaunee forest#cop city#atlanta southern river forest#tortuguita#city of Atlanta
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When state lawmakers this past week put the brakes on a plan to rescue BART and other ailing transit systems, a key concern was that the proposed toll increases at Bay Area bridges to pay for the bailout would wallop low-paid workers who cross those spans to get to their jobs.
But the question of who would bear the burden of a $1.50 bridge toll hike — the working poor or the well-off — is hardly settled, as both sides of the debate point to data and arguments that back their claims. The answer will be key to selling the bailout plan as legislative advocates strategize a fresh pitch for early next year.
In a letter this month to Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislative leaders, seven Bay Area congressional representatives with deep reservations about the toll hike plan demanded an analysis of its impact on “low-income or car-dependent commuters.”
The congressional delegation cited Metropolitan Transportation Commission data that 59% of bridge toll payers come from Alameda, Contra Costa and Solano counties and research that delinquent toll fines are concentrated in impoverished ZIP codes. The Bay Area Council, a business-sponsored public-policy advocacy organization opposing the toll hikes, said its research found toll payers are “statistically lower income, have lower levels of education and are disproportionately people of color.”
Not so fast, said SPUR, an urban-planning research group backing the toll hikes. In a new analysis this month, SPUR said “transit riders are more likely than bridge drivers, and the population as a whole, to have low incomes, to be people of color, or to be members of other disadvantaged groups,” while “drivers crossing bridges as a whole are financially better off.”
Who’s right? The two sides say it depends on how you slice the numbers, though there’s little dispute the transit systems face a sobering financial reckoning.
The Bay Area’s bridges and transit systems have been on divergent paths since the pandemic. Road and bridge traffic has largely returned to pre-pandemic gridlock, but many transit riders haven’t come back since the lockdowns, in part due to the remote work rise and what surveys show are crime and cleanliness concerns. Caltrans data show monthly traffic on the Bay Bridge hit 3.7 million in June, close to the 4 million a month in June 2019. BART had 4.2 million monthly riders in June, 41% of the pre-pandemic 9.8 million.
That has crippled the finances of transit agencies that rely on fare revenues to run their trains and buses, and have hollered they’re heading off a “fiscal cliff” in coming years as federal pandemic aid runs out. Transit agencies say that will force drastic service cuts without a financial bailout.
State officials made additional transit funding available in the current state budget. And SB 532 by state Sen. Scott Wiener proposed additional help from a $1.50, five-year toll hike on seven state-owned Bay Area bridges — the Antioch, Benicia-Martinez, Carquinez, Dumbarton, Richmond-San Rafael and San Mateo-Hayward and Bay Bridge — but not the Golden Gate.
The toll hike was to provide interim transit funding while regional authorities consider asking voters to bless a 2026 long-term funding measure to help stabilize transit finances. But Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, said this week in the face of growing opposition to the bill that it needs more time and won’t be considered until next year.
A $1 increase already is scheduled starting in 2025, the fourth hike on those bridges in six years, which voters approved in 2018 to fund road and transit improvements.
A Bay Area Council analysis using MTC and U.S. Census data found that 63% of Northern California workers who must cross a state-owned bridge to get to work are employed in San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. The group found median incomes were $3,400-$15,000 lower for the bridge commuters driving in from more affordable communities than for workers who didn’t have to cross bridges to get to work.
SPUR in its recent analysis said MTC and Census data “provide an incomplete picture” of bridge-crossers. So the group teamed up with data company Replica to analyze information from the census, traffic counts, cell phones, credit card transactions, Fastrak and toll payments, and other public and private sources to assess toll hike impacts.
SPUR’s analysis found household incomes of bridge drivers on average are $22,000 more than incomes of BART riders, with more than 40% topping $150,000 a year. And more people took BART to work (26%) than bridges (17%) last fall. Two-thirds of bridge crossers traveled just once a week, with just 5% crossing five times a week, indicating most bridge crossers aren’t regular commuters.
SPUR added that the findings show a toll hike could be tailored to ease the burden on those regular drivers, with perhaps weekly toll caps or means-based discounts.
Bay Area Council spokesman Rufus Jeffris said the group doesn’t dispute SPUR’s findings, “we just looked at a different subset of bridge crossers that we think is more reflective of the people who would be most impacted by a toll increase, frequent commuters who are the ones that most regularly use the bridges.”
At the Berryessa BART station in San Jose, Parag Phadke, who had ridden BART home from the San Francisco airport and admitted he’s an infrequent bridge crosser, said he’d be fine with a $1.50 toll hike to help keep the transit system afloat but that it should be put to a vote.
“BART’s not cheap either,” said Phadke, 53. BART from SFO to Berryessa costs those ineligible for discounts nearly $15, while it currently costs $7 to cross the bridges that would be subject to the toll hike. An extra $1.50 would still be less than the $8.75 Fastrak cost to cross the Golden Gate.
Wiener said the bridge toll plan, which would only cover half of transit agencies’ projected shortfalls, remains an option to be considered.
“Everything’s on the table,” Wiener said in an interview.
The impact of tolls on lower-income motorists isn’t the only thing giving lawmakers pause about approving more transit bailout money. Critics also cited concerns that transit ridership won’t return to pre-pandemic levels and the agencies need to adjust and also demonstrate progress on addressing crime and cleanliness concerns that surveys show suppress ridership.
Sen. Dave Cortese of San Jose, who supported both Wiener’s transit bailout and the BART extension to downtown San Jose, said “the original plan is dead” given other lawmakers’ concerns. And it’ll be hard to get lawmakers and voters to agree on more money for transit systems whose ridership isn’t what it once was.
“The world is changing,” Cortese said.
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You sure are a lucky bastard for getting tons of like when it comes to using many characters as slapstick in your fanfic especially in Bring the Heat Soulburner. What inspired you to do a vrains rewrite about SB as the protagonist. I am not being condescending but sometimes I feel your comedy tends to be forced especially when you make characters act OC. I guess you're a insufferable psychopath who loves fucking every characters you write lol.
Alright, first of all, you are coward for saying all of this shit to me while on anon.
Second of all, what do you mean using characters for slapstick for comedy? What, because I enjoy writing slapstick for my characters that make me laugh when I read it? Its harmless as it doesn't permantly harm the people only temporarly. Also I don't only use slapstick, some bizzare scenarios also work with funny dialouge.
When I was watching EP 61-63 I had this idea of having SB be the main character instead of Playmaker.
It is what makes iz funny. To see these characters in bizzare situations and to see them act in a way that Is different from Canon. Sorry that I wanted to make people reading my stories laugh and not make them extremely edgy plots that a 13 year old would write while bashing every mean character on sight and making the Hero the most unlikeable person ever. Sorry that I wanted to have fun while writing.
Lastly, I am an insuferable psychopath? For what? Making jokes with character while respecting their original personalities and act OOC at times for jokes? Ahh, yes how dare I not make the serious characters 24/7 serious all the time and make them as Bland as Bread.
In short, piss off
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Whumper: 16, 29; Whumpee: 50, 24, 6
Thank you for asking!! Sorry for being so late again🥺
I've had a really tough time last month but now I'm finally back on track💫
16) How possessive you are about your whumpee?
29) Did you know your whumpee before capturing them?
"Possessive isn't the right word, comrade. You wouldn't say "possessive" of any other property, would you? It's called being vigilant. You need it a lot in our work. One can't protect our country if he can't even protect his own belongings."
"My comrades in Czechoslovakia reported a riot in May '63 with some photos and tape records. There was a boy on a couple of them, standing at the top with that old bourgeois traitor flag. That was him. When the next uprising started - this time in Prague - I arrived there when our patrols were cleaning it up. There were crowds and crowds of corrupted capitalist parasites. Infesting the towns like invasive cockroach despite our Commander's best efforts.
That day I've seen him firsthand. He wasn't just some poor metal factory boy who listened to Radio Free Europe too much - it's a cold-blooded vicious enemy, with values of the West, trained to destroy. Look at him there for a second - it would be obvious. I've ordered to look out for that boy right then. Where there are vermin like him, there is destruction, revolt and decay. They cannot be cured - only put for the right use. That's what class 4 was made for.
Oh, it'd be a disrespect if I'd conceal from you, comrade. SB-7067 isn't only socially dangerous - he's particularly pretty as well. Incredibly pretty. A perfect state-supplied plaything."
-Erhardt Wilhelm Günther, Minister of the State Security
7/V-1964
6) Do your friends or family know you're here? Do you think they miss you?
24) How often does your whumper punish you? Why?
50) Share one of your happiest moment of freedom for us!
"The thing is, y'know - they all count me dead. That's it. You're sorted class 4 and from that there's no "you" anymore. Everyone say you're dead, the gov says you're dead, by law you cease to exist. I thought exactly like that back then. They all told me if you're gonna get class 4 it's a nine gram bullet to your head that awaits you. Even West radio said so. I get it why they did. The stuff they do to you, it's much worse than a bullet. It'd be an outrage if anybody found out.
I'm sure they miss me. Mom, dad, grandpa... I didn't know I'd miss them so much... My friends as well. They were all with me in the underground, I've seen half of them snatched. Chances are the rest were caught too. I don't want to imagine what they're going through. If only I could do anything about it...
I love them all but... after all of that i wish they'd rather forget me. I don't want anyone to see me like that."
"What did Günther "punish" me for? For talking back, for not doing exact what he said, for resisting anything, for asking wrong questions, for snacking on his food or drinks, for getting out of bed at night, for not studying Marxism-Leninism enough, for not cleaning room or office enough, for speaking Czech, for hiding, for running... Can I just say "for anything"? And of course when he just feels like it. Fucking sadist. Not surprising he made such a career."
"Happy moments in my life? Let me think... It'll be quite a lot. Wouldn't say life was any easy, but when you're locked for life, it's like... almost everything before counts as a happy moment.
For what I miss really much - definitely the summer of '62. Me, Evžen, Martin, other guys, we had so much fun back then. Everything was calm, no martial law, no curfews, no patrols out there. Not gonna lie, we already knew the government was shit, we snuck out to listen to radio in the woods without fear of getting caught somehow. I could just lie on the grass, maybe with the boys, or with Evžen alone, counting the clouds and snacking on the berries we picked along the way. In these moments you think like, hey, everything's gonna be fine, life's a great thing! I know it sounds so funny but me and Evžen dreamed of sneaking off to Austria and starting a new life there. We even discussed how tasty Austrian chocolate would be... Silly, isn't it?
... May I ask you for a small favor? If you ever see him anywhere, could you please send him a little bar of Austrian chocolate? If you have any, of course. Just don't tell him who it was from. Don't say anything about me. And try to give it in secret - having Western goods can get anyone arrested. Except those in high government of course.
-Class 4 subject SB-7067 (Radím Štušek)
7/V-1964
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All the elements of the periodic table in the Kichwa language
Jose E. Andino-Enríquez, Manuel A. Andino-Enríquez, Francis E. Hidalgo-Báez, Sisa P. Chalán-Gualán, Santiago D. Gualapuro-Gualapuro, Simone Belli and Michelle B. Chicaiza-Lema recently published in the Journal of Chemical Education a proposal to adapt the names of the 118 elements of the periodic table to Kichwa (Adaptation of the Periodic Table to Kichwa: An Ecuadorian Native Language; J. Chem. Ed., 2022 99 (1), 211-218, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00383).
The authors explain that the Kichwa lacks scientific tools to respond to educational needs, triggering the gradual loss of intercultural diversity. To adapt the periodic table to Kichwa, they took into account the different linguistic variations of the language and the opinion of the speakers. This is the adaptation compared to the Spanish version, the language most widely spoken in Ecuador:
Lo autores explican que que el kichwa carece de herramientas científicas para responder a las necesidades educativas, desencadenando la pérdida gradual de la diversidad intercultural. Para adaptar la tabla periódica al kichwa tuvieron en cuenta las diferentes variaciones lingüísticas del idioma y la opinión de los hablantes. Así quedó la adaptación:
Kichwa Spanish
1 H Yakutiksi Hidrógeno
2 He Hilyu Helio
3 Li Lityu Litio
4 Be Wirilyu Berilio
5 B Puru Boro
6 C Killimsa Carbono
7 N Nitrohinyu Nitrógeno
8 O Wayrasamay Oxígeno
9 F Flur Flúor
10 Ne Nyun Neón
11 Na Sutyu Sodio
12 Mg Maknisyu Magnesio
13 Al Aluminyu Aluminio
14 Si Silisyu Silicio
15 P Puspuru Fósforo
16 S Salliy Azufre
17 Cl Kluru Cloro
18 Ar Arkun Argón
19 K Putasyu Potasio
20 Ca Kalsyu Calcio
21 Sc Iskantyu Escandio
22 Ti Titanyu Titanio
23 V Panatyu Vanadio
24 Cr Krumyu Cromo
25 Mn Mankanisyu Manganeso
26 Fe Hirr Hierro
27 Co Ankasi Cobalto
28 Ni Nikyl Níquel
29 Cu Anta Cobre
30 Zn Zink Zinc
31 Ga Kalyu Galio
32 Ge Hirmanyu Germanio
33 As Arsyniku Arsénico
34 Se Silinyu Selenio
35 Br Prumyu Bromo
36 Kr Kriptun Kriptón
37 Rb Rupityu Rubidio
38 Sr Instrunsyu Estroncio
39 Y Itryu Itrio
40 Zr Zirkunyu Zirconio
41 Nb Nyupyu Niobio
42 Mo Muliptinyu Molibdeno
43 Tc Tiknisyu Tecnecio
44 Ru Rutinyu Rutenio
45 Rh Rutyu Rodio
46 Pd Palatyu Paladio
47 Ag Kullki Plata
48 Cd Katmyu Cadmio
49 In Intyu Indio
50 Sn Istanyu Estaño
51 Sb Antimonyu Antimonio
52 Te Tiluryu Telurio
53 I Iwtyu Yodo
54 Xe Sinun Xenón
55 Cs Sisyu Cesio
56 Ba Paryu Bario
57 La Lantanyu Lantano
58 Ce Siryu Cerio
59 Pr Prasyutimyu Praseodimio
60 Nd Nyutimyu Neodimio
61 Pm Prumisyu Prometio
62 Sm Samaryu Samario
63 Eu Yurupyu Europio
64 Gd Katulinyu Gadolinio
65 Tb Tirpyu Terbio
66 Dy Tisprusyu Disprosio
67 Ho Hulmyu Holmio
68 Er Irpyu Erbio
69 Tm Tulyu Tulio
70 Yb Itirpyu Iterbio
71 Lu Lutisyu Lutecio
72 Hf Hafnyu Hafnio
73 Ta Tantalyu Tántalo
74 W Ulpramyu Wolframio
75 Re Rinyu Renio
76 Os Usmyu Osmio
77 Ir Irityu Iridio
78 Pt Platinyu Platino
79 Au Kuri Oro
80 Hg Mirkuryu Mercurio
81 Tl Talyu Talio
82 Pb Antaki Plomo
83 Bi Pismutyu Bismuto
84 Po Polunyu Polonio
85 At Astatyu Astato
86 Rn Ratun Radón
87 Fr Fransyu Francio
88 Ra Ratyu Radio
89 Ac Aktinyu Actinio
90 Th Turyu Torio
91 Pa Prutaktinyu Protactinio
92 U Uranyu Uranio
93 Np Niptunyu Neptunio
94 Pu Plutonyu Plutonio
95 Am Amerisyu Americio
96 Cm Kuryu Curio
97 Bk Pirkilyu Berkelio
98 Cf Kalifurnyu Californio
99 Es Instinyu Einstenio
100 Fm Firmyu Fermio
101 Md Mintilipyu Mendelevio
102 No Nupilyu Nobelio
103 Lw Lawrinsyu Lawrencio
104 Rf Rutirfurtyu Rutherfordio
105 Db Tupnyu Dubnio
106 Sg Syapurhyu Seaborgio
107 Bh Puhryu Bohrio
108 Hs Hasyu Hasio
109 Mt Mitniryu Meitnerio
110 Ds Tarmastatyu Darmstatio
111 Rg Runtihinyu Roentgenio
112 Cn Kupirnisyu Copernicio
113 Nh Nihunyu Nihonio
114 Fl Flirupyu Flerovio
115 Mc Muskupyu Moscovio
116 Lv Lipirmuryu Livermorio
117 Ts Tinisyu Teneso
118 Og Ukanisun Oganesón
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Reprinted with permission from “Adaptation of the Periodic Table to Kichwa: An Ecuadorian Native Language. Author: Jose E. Andino-Enríquez, Manuel A. Andino-Enríquez, Francis E. Hidalgo-Báez, et al. Publication: Journal of Chemical Education Publisher: American Chemical Society. Date: Jan 1, 2022. Copyright © 2022, American Chemical Society”.
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Oooh i love this type of games!! I would like like to give my view in this and for the animangask: what do you think about, Shanks AN EMPEROR going back to Foosha village? (without taking into consideration his possible romantic relationship with Makino) Why do you think an emperor would do that? Do you think he knows he can't beat Blackbeard and that's why he visited her as a "maybe this is the last time we see each other"?
For me, and so this may be an unpopular opinion, but I'm going to say Makino's baby is Shanks's till proven otherwise.
Though it may not be good to draw parallels, but I'm seeing one with Shanks/Makino and Roger/Rouge. Roger decided to have a kid after Laugh Tale, however, the marines had cottoned onto his actions, and targeted Rouge's village of any possible pregnant woman/ woman with a baby because they didn't want Roger to have any offspring. However, thanks to Rouge delaying the birth of her and Roger's baby, Ace was born and Garp took him to East Blue. The fundamental mistake Roger made was making it obvious by acting fatherly, which was how the marines found out that a baby was due.
After seeing Shanks enter Mary Geoise without any of the marines knowing, he is clearly better at stealth than his old captain.
Everything I say after this is purely hypothetical. After reading a few posts that suggest that Shanks may die by Blackbeard's hands in the future, leaving Luffy to face Blackbeard as a way to surpass Shanks. I'm seeing the parallel between Shanks and Roger here, if it is possibly foreshadowed that Shanks will die. What if Shanks travelled to Windmill Village without the marines knowing and spent some time there with Makino, and she got pregnant during the time skip. Oda stated in SBS 63, that Makino's baby is 'probably that person', which I will assume is Shanks. Shanks may not have planned to have a kid, if he knows, he may have planned to, this I don't know, but if he did plan to, similarly to Roger, he handled it better than Roger without anyone knowing. This means his kid will be safe from the marines, in a way Ace's birth village wasn't for a lot of women and children. If Oda is foreshadowing Shanks's death, in a way that Shanks knows he cannot beat Blackbeard (two devil fruits, Shanks's scar, Shanks going to the Mary Geoise to discuss a certain pirate (assuming this is Blackbeard) etc), he may have decided to have a kid. Makino and Shanks had a close relationship during Shanks stay when Luffy was a kid, maybe Oda planned this from the beginning with these two. Though, I do have to say the marines won't react the same way with Shanks's kid as they did with Roger's kid, but who knows.
On a more positive note, if Luffy returns to Windmill Village after becoming Pirate King and finds out about Shanks/Makino baby, maybe the straw hat will go to this kid in the future.
There are clearly a lot of what ifs with this theory, with very little to work on the moment, but what are your thoughts?
To be honest, I'm still not updated with the manga. The info about OP I know so far is only limited to anime. I also think that Shanks is the father of Makino's child. As you mentioned, Oda confirmed the father of Makino's child is "probably that person". Other than Shanks, there is no other character we could think of aside from him and vice versa. I'd also like to stick with this theory.
My response for the rest is purely out of emotions rather than looking at the story so far objectively. For me, Shanks doesn't necessarily have to die in order for Luffy to end up facing Blackbeard. Inevitably, Luffy has to face Blackbeard, but what I'm thinking is Shanks may play another important role that is yet to be revealed.
Shanks is already an emperor for many years and I think he is fully aware of his position that every small action he does will make an impact whether he likes it or not. Assuming Shanks is really the father of Makino's child, wouldn't it endanger the child's safety if he went back to Foosha Village? There must be another reason why he went back to the village, a very important one, that he's willing to risk his family's life. Judging by Shanks's personality, I don't think he'd be the type to act based on emotions. One example would be during the end of Marineford Arc. Shanks had not seen Luffy for a long time, but he still decided not to meet him. So if Shanks decided to come back to Foosha Village, it might not be to see Makino and their child again (assuming they're Shanks's). Like you said, Shanks managed to keep the child hidden from the Marines, if that was Shanks's true intention, he just wasted the opportunity that he created. I don't know what the reason may be, but it has to be something important that may contribute greatly to the current plot. And at least, that's what I hope.
Lastly, I personally don't like the theory that Shanks will die at Blackbeard's hands, and Luffy will defeat him as a way to surpass Shanks. Doesn't that theory sound like what happened to Ace and Luffy? And if this ever happens, I'd be seriously pissed (not to the point that I will drop this series though XD). What I want to happen is when everything's been resolved, Shanks and Luffy will have a friendly match. And through that, Shanks will see for himself that Luffy had definitely surpassed him. A little cringe, I know. But this is what I want. XD
I apologize in advance if I wasn't able to address everything you've mentioned. (￣▽￣*)ゞ
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