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Cake day: August 13th, 2023

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  • Georgia public transport is shaped by racism and class politics. When Atlanta first started building MARTA, Cobb county didn’t want it so they established a 300 foot wide township that ran along the border of Cobb and Fulton counties. The only law this township had was that no public transit could be constructed in it. The township effectively blocked MARTA from reaching into Cobb county.

    Why did this happen? Because when civil liberties came to be Atlanta experienced a “white flight” where white people moved in large numbers out of the city. Most of the white flight landed in Cobb county and wanted to keep black people out.

    That’s one of the major hurdles that mass transport has had in Atlanta, there are plenty of others.













  • It doesn’t need to refresh the whole screen at once. However, if I have more than 1 other node visible to me and could be active, it would have trouble keeping up. The inkhub UI handles it much better and once I see the joystick integration hit the beta branch I will use that instead.

    For now I do most of my messaging via the phone app so it’s mainly just a very low power display for notifications.



  • Worse. I wouldn’t have been able to get a house if it weren’t for an unexpected inheritance. By the time I was my kids age my dad had taken me all over the country and I’ve only been able to take my kid to places within a few states. All the investment vehicles that my parents told me to trust have just sucked money away so I have no retirement savings other than whatever is left of theirs when they pass. My vehicle just turned 20 and while it’s reliable, I can’t afford for something to happen to it.

    All I have going for me is that I’m not in tremendous debt but that means my credit is poor because I don’t constantly owe people money. My parents were able to get loans without automatic denial based on credit checks because those didn’t exist when they were buying homes. They were able to get a house, watch the value double or triple over the next 15 years, and sell it for a huge profit.