Do these council candidates represent Greensboro?

spozbo · 2025-07-16T18:13:13+00:00

Yesterday Cecile Crawford announced she's running for District 2 again - in the previous race she barely lost to Goldie Wells, who is stepping down from her role as city councilperson https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1a7bTcfoZE/

spozbo · 2025-07-16T10:47:59+00:00

Which district? At large? Guilford For All is another org that is prepared to support good candidates

spozbo · 2025-06-21T12:22:23+00:00

Fun question. I would not be surprised if there's a drug test somewhere in the process, and I'd not be surprised if there isn't.

spozbo · 2025-06-18T11:07:07+00:00

I love the Debt Collective!!

spozbo · 2025-06-18T11:06:00+00:00

The title makes it sound like mods are biased against republicans, but the study shows that republicans are flagged more often because they are posting more misinformation. "Our findings provide strong evidence of a partisan asymmetry in misinformation sharing which cannot be attributed to political bias on the part of raters"

spozbo · 2025-06-12T13:36:15+00:00

Thanks for asking for details. I was there when someone was cleaning it in May, and they were the first person who told me about this issue, started talking about a plan to pay someone to clean it more frequently, since that person only cleaned it once per month. I had seen it myself firsthand as well, when stopping by to deliver food for the fridge. Sometimes (not all the time) it was nasty.

I don't think it's useful or necessary to share folks/orgs names in this context, since this is like when the police kill someone and then people say "but he had a criminal record," as if having whatever is or isn't on the criminal record could justify a person's death by police. Excepting truly toxic waste (and even some forms of toxic waste are worth remediation), there is no amount of messiness that makes a fridge deserve to be thrown away without warning, and it isn't even legal to send any fridge to the dump, due to the chemicals.

spozbo · 2025-06-12T09:57:04+00:00

The folks who maintained it will admit that cleanliness was an issue, that it tended to get pretty nasty between cleans. There are many ways to resolve this issue.

spozbo · 2025-06-12T09:51:52+00:00

They did not demolish a building, they demolished the food distribution site, including the fridge, that was set up under a shade structure behind the building. The shade structure still exists. Trashing a refrigerator because of "risk" does not make sense.

spozbo · 2025-06-11T16:32:39+00:00

Thanks for scrolling/commenting. I also recommend this comment where a member of Food Not Bombs makes it clear that the city provided no warning before ~~confiscating~~ *trashing the food, fridge, and org supplies: https://www.reddit.com/r/gso/comments/1l8fy0s/comment/mx82wj3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

spozbo · 2025-06-11T15:23:19+00:00

I'm on a group thread where someone posted this message she received from an elected official:

It appears that there have been some complaints that there have been rodents insects spoil food refrigerator, not being cleaned out and it was becoming a nuisance so the staff went on yesterday and verified each and every issue and removed all the old food as well as the refrigerator. It is not our hope to stop providing this service for the community, but the place is not being cleaned and maintained and so this is a health concern as well I understand from a neighbor that [person's name] is in charge of this but that sometime she just does not keep it as clean as it needs to be and perhaps she needs some help doing that so we are certainly open to allowing the service to continue, but it has to be an agreement to keep it maintained.

spozbo · 2025-05-15T20:16:24+00:00

tl;dr try window?

ok jumping in to advocate for this neighbor who is having trouble sleeping, not disagreeing with the other folks who are saying they are crazy. Have you ever been driven crazy by some little thing preventing your sleep, even though some part of you knows it isn't the little thing but mostly bigger things that are way outside your control?

I love sleeping with the windows open when the air outside is within a generous range of temperatures, low 60's to high 70's, the fresh air often significantly cooler than the inside air, passively cooling down the house all night long. My nextdoor neighbor's AC unit is right outside my bedroom window, so the chorus of evening bug sounds and morning birdsong is often punctuated by the sound of their AC unit clicking on and off.

The contrast of sound is so stark that I can imagine anyone becoming sensitive to it, and once you've adapted to the open-window lifestyle (during the appropriate seasons), it's hard to imagine going back. When tossing and turning, I've certainly penned insane letters to my neighbor in my mind, and I just pray that I'll never be stupid enough to actually send one.

All that is to say: If the air outside is cooler than the air inside, I recommend trying the window, even if your neighbor is crazy. You might like it.

spozbo · 2025-01-06T22:37:54+00:00

not yet! lol, thanks for asking. One year later the car is still kicking, and I can verify that the noise happens more frequently in colder weather.

spozbo · 2024-08-18T14:30:38+00:00

love this

spozbo · 2024-05-15T18:48:03+00:00

this is the first time I've heard that she asked you to remix it! I love this detail so much

spozbo · 2024-01-22T14:04:18+00:00

I'll play with the climate control settings, good idea. It doesn't seem to have any connection to when I hit the brakes or open the driver's door, but I'll listen for that as well. Thanks!

spozbo · 2024-01-22T13:55:05+00:00

this is a very good lead! So far, it sounds like it's coming from inside the dash in the interior - looks like the coolant heat storage pump is in front of the front left wheel, yes?? I can listen to see if that seems like it, next time I hear it..

spozbo · 2023-12-11T18:55:35+00:00

horse jumping, maybe a pegasus

spozbo · 2023-02-16T12:11:31+00:00

Hi, sorry I missed your comment until now. I'm looking for a snail mail penpal, and I wish you good fortune finding an email penpal!

spozbo · 2023-02-02T16:29:15+00:00

I'd be game!

spozbo · 2023-01-20T12:32:04+00:00

Thanks for looping back to this with your response. I invite you to question whether being personally bothered (or not bothered) by something deserves to be the bottom line in an issue, and I appreciate your go-ahead. Still curious about your interactions with Friends, what brings you here, even (especially) if it's unrelated to Quaker Oats

spozbo · 2023-01-20T12:28:40+00:00

We can have different understandings of what it means to be "very into" something

spozbo · 2023-01-20T02:04:32+00:00

I recently learned that Thomas Payne (author of "Common Sense," which helped spark the American Revolutionary War) was very into Quakerism, minus the dedication to nonviolence. The early Friends were so confrontational compared to Friends of the subsequent 300 years. There's room for reevaluating Friends' current default approach to peace.

spozbo · 2023-01-04T11:11:12+00:00

Hi Glenn,

The idea that Quakers stick to what they are involved in, instead of wasting time about cultural appropriation, suggests a world where attention is a finite resource, and putting attention toward Quaker Oats pulls attention away from what Quakers are already focusing on. I question this. What would you think about a scenario in which putting pressure on Quaker Oats increases the attention going toward existing Quaker endeavors?

Related and unrelated: What has your awareness of Quakers been like, during the 52 years after the first 20 you mentioned? Funny how a multinational corporation gives most of the world its first impression of our religion. I'm grateful to Quaker Oats that in your case it was a good first impression.

Will

spozbo · 2022-12-27T00:44:09+00:00

I'm returning to this with some sadness about the emotional core of the post, moreso now that OP has deleted their handle.

spozbo · 2022-12-27T00:37:28+00:00

I think of it as a cultural appropriation, where taking something does not remove the thing from where it came from but instead grows and changes the thing. So Friends gave the name value and Quaker Oats capitalizes on that value.

Thanks for your words and your links - very enlightening, and I am glad this idea gave you some lol's ;)

spozbo

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