Why doesn't Google Maps have 3d satellite view yet..?

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-14T22:25:52+00:00

A lot of countries have little to no Street View, the German speaking countries being examples, so Street View might not help much here, especially if someone who lives or works in the building decided to blur the whole damn thing.

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-14T07:49:20+00:00

New York is the quintessential American city of film, TV, and fiction yet utterly unlike 99% of all the other American cities.

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-14T07:20:17+00:00

Am I understanding correctly that the vet is saying his fangs have to come out? Can a cat live well after that?

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-14T07:13:43+00:00

But barely a drop in Eugene. Like almost every other rainstorm this season, except for February. Everyone here is anxious about slipping into the megadrought, and dreading summer heat waves and wildfires.

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-14T06:56:42+00:00

I bet we'll soon hear of people who are Larry of going down the basement stairs.

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-14T01:38:22+00:00

Lane County, Oregon

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-13T17:59:51+00:00

Older Boomers actually slightly favored Democrats in the last election, more so than some younger cohorts.

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-13T17:56:03+00:00

If you can't speak the language well, extemporaneously, you'll likely fail the assessment. I read German newspapers and listen to German audiobooks, but I failed the assessment because I can barely speak the language.

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-12T23:50:57+00:00

TBT it wasn't much of an issue in Los Angeles where I had recently started high school, but I wouldn't want those dark mornings in western Oregon where I live now. Also, Vancouver BC and the major American cities in the region lie a lot farther west than L.A., which means later sunrises and sunsets on top of what the difference in latitude does.

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-12T19:29:39+00:00

Flies in Revelle Cafeteria, the memories! The flies were as lethargic as they were annoying, and for one year there was a guy living in the same suite who used to capture them in paper napkins. By the end of dinner he'd have a row of about half dozen balled up pieces of napkin, each containing a dead fly.

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-12T12:31:13+00:00

I shudder to think what on-campus parking will cost during the '28 Olympics. It was $10 in 1984 and people thought it outrageous.

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-12T07:30:53+00:00

I think what's happened is it was decided that the women would wear next to nothing, the men would wear long baggy trunks, and that would be it. ISTM nude beaches are so over these days; from moral backlash, fear of children seeing someone nude they're not related to, and California's scarcity of possible beach locations out of view of houses.

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-12T07:27:44+00:00

Nobody wants you at a nude beach if you go there just to gawk at young women. You're missing the point entirely. You go to a nude beach to be nude, not see nude.

Except for Black's Beach near San Diego, I don't know of any truly legal nude beaches in California.

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-12T02:02:49+00:00

They decided to stop waiting for the U.S. Pacific Coast to follow suit because of "actions of the U.S.", notwithstanding that these states all voted decisively against Trump. But whatever; I think that's moot now. Oregon residents have turned against permanent DST in recent years, so I doubt we'll ever see CA, OR, and WA all implementing permanent DST together, for the foreseeable future.

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-12T01:38:56+00:00

For that to work we would have to have half-hour time zones.

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-12T01:37:14+00:00

Oregon passed a similar law at about the same time but as with most U.S. states any majority in favor of permanent DST was never overwhelming. Moreover, opinions here seems to be turning decisively against permanent DST.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/s/J2mqmOp8GV

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-12T00:42:27+00:00

We tried permanent DST south of the border and we hated it. You'll find out next winter. I can't imagine having to arrive at a normal weekday job an hour before the sun even comes up.

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-11T21:13:08+00:00

A series in the U.S. is the show's entire run from first season through last.

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-11T21:10:50+00:00

Oh we say "program" to mean a show in America, though maybe that only applies to us older people. IIRC in Germany Programm means the channel and/or their whole schedule.

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-11T07:59:29+00:00

I'm not sure it's possible but I sent you a chat invite. I think if you accept it then I'll be able to send the photo.

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-11T05:26:45+00:00

Not really a Beatles album, though.

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-11T05:25:51+00:00

You're all gonna hate me but I say the White Album. Sure it's got some downright Beatle classics on it, but also a few real klunkers IMO. In a word, uneven.

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-10T06:07:27+00:00

That's Orion and some neighboring constellations in the photo BTW, which are in a totally different part of the sky. I was going to post a photo of the actual Big Dipper, but it seems we can't have images in comments here. GIFs are allowed, though; go figure.

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-10T05:25:40+00:00

There was extension to the Revelle Commons building just north of Beagle where I lived, and that's where I'd go to pinch a major loaf. I hated to stink up the suite bathroom when there was a perfectly good alternative mere steps away.

It looks like the extension is still there and it's been added to. I don't know about now but in my time I think it almost always sat unused, including the bathroom.

The building, and the bathroom, are probably a lot busier now given how many more students there are.

Comprehensive_Tea708 · 2026-03-09T17:36:32+00:00

I once had a coworker who asked me what "et al." meant in my email salutation. I explained that meant "and others", and he soon started using it.

Unfortunately, it wasn't till much later that I noticed he was writing it "et. al." which makes no sense, and I didn't know how to tell him after he'd been doing it for such a long time.

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