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embodiedwoman2 t1_jedey0y wrote

Reply to Dentist by astorannie

When you say traditional x rays do you mean film vs digital? Most offices now use digital but you can ask ahead to be sure. Digital is wayyyy less radiation exposure than traditional film x rays

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threwthelookinggrass OP t1_jeddiyj wrote

Ok?

No one is forcing the city/county whoever to buy it. If a deal is brokered for them to buy it though, it’d serve the community better as a homeless shelter than as you suggest, a failing pizza place.

If a low barrier homeless shelter is not built wouldn’t there still be homeless people on smithfield street? It’s not like not building it will make them go away.

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omarlittlebig t1_jedcvk7 wrote

To answer one of your questions - start looking now. My husband and I signed a lease for the place we rent now in mid-March ‘22 for August ‘22 move in. Places appear to be moving pretty quickly since August is usually student moving month and most people move in the warmer months. Good luck and welcome!

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threwthelookinggrass OP t1_jedcpre wrote

I know that you’re someone who consistently has contrarian views and aren’t arguing in good faith, but access to any sort of stable housing is good. Lack of housing is the root cause of homelessness. Forcibly relocating people as policy is such an affront to personal liberty.

https://www.usich.gov/resources/uploads/asset_library/Housing-Affordability-and-Stablility-Brief.pdf

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just_an_ordinary_guy t1_jedcob2 wrote

Reply to comment by hcb9117 in ….? by ReginaldsMember

Lots of people on that sub (I've been there for a few years now) don't fully understand what makes a house a McMansion. That's why the "just ugly" tag exists there. t's not necessarily an agenda, they're just ignorant. Anyhow, actual McMansions are a symptom of many things, including land use policy.

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just_an_ordinary_guy t1_jedbplu wrote

I already responded down thread to you, but I'll put it here just for people to see. For some reason I flipped the concept in my head, you're right on the math part. They're actually running fewer millions of miles these days because precision scheduled railroading is consolidating shorter trains into much longer trains. So they travel fewer miles to move the same amount, if not more, freight.

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just_an_ordinary_guy t1_jedbe90 wrote

Yeah, I messed up, but derailments per million miles is actually up. Where I goofed is I got the numbers flipped in my head for some reason. They're actually running fewer miles because precision scheduled railroading is consolidating shorter trains into much longer trains. So they need to run fewer miles to run the same amount, if not more, freight.

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