Perhaps to turn on something like 'Bicycles ahead' warning lights for an upcoming section with poor visibility, or a tunnel or similar.
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Or a simple bicycle counter - authorities are interested to know how many cyclists are using this route and at what times of day etc.
Hmm, something like a chip timing station so you can time your climb?
Presumably there would be similar ones at the bottom and top also, and perhaps at other points along the way.
It is on the uphill side.
Aha, now I see.
Further guesses: Place to pull over and rest; Place for cyclists to make a U turn - perhaps just before a particularly steep or difficult section.
A pullout area to allow backed up vehicles to pass?
It's strange that it's on the downhill side and not the uphill, though!
Other guesses: Brake check area (stop and let brakes cool...); U-turn area as we sometimes see for the 'j-turn' configuration; The pullout is for uphill cyclists but they have to make a u-turn to use it.
Assuming the Santos seat flips Democrat, the house goes from 222-213 to 221-214.
So a 9 vote margin to a 7 vote margin.
It is mighty thin indeed...
For comparison, in the previous Congress the Democratic majority mostly ranged from 218 to 222 (for the last couple of weeks of 2022 it was as low as 216-213 due to resignations etc). See
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/117th_United_States_Congress
"I just don’t like anything which creates a lords and peasants kind of thing."
Excellent. Then you're the world's greatest supporter of unions and would never allow a non-union shop situation, where the billionaire class can take advantage of workers completely unfettered and with no accountability.
You know, a "lords and peasants" kind of situation, where the lords have all the power and the peasants have none. That sure would be horrible. Glad we all agree on that.
I haven't read it myself but by pure luck I happened to read a piece by Henry Farrell today that had his take on the book:
These ideas were turned into novels by Vinge himself, including A Fire Upon the Deep (fun!) and Rainbow’s End (weak!). Other SF writers like Charles Stross wrote novels about humans doing their best to co-exist with “weakly godlike” machine intelligence (also fun!). Others who had no notable talent for writing, like the futurist Ray Kurzweil, tried to turn the Singularity into the foundation stone of a new account of human progress. I still possess a mostly-unread copy of Kurzweil’s mostly-unreadable magnum opus, The Singularity is Near, which was distributed en masse to bloggers like meself in an early 2000s marketing campaign. If I dug hard enough in my archives, I might even be able to find the message from a publicity flack expressing disappointment that I hadn’t written about the book after they sent it. All this speculation had a strong flavor of end-of-days. As the Scots science fiction writer, Ken MacLeod memorably put it, the Singularity was the “Rapture of the Nerds.” Ken, being the offspring of a Free Presbyterian preacher, knows a millenarian religion when he sees it: Kurzweil’s doorstopper should really have been titled The Singularity is Nigh.
Not having read the book myself, I can't say if I agree with that or disagree. But there it is, for your consideration!
Well at least they got the column of light right:
The rest seems to include a considerable amount of artistic interpretation. For starters, any rock column or butte or mountain or, uh, (far more likely) minor hill or river bluff around here would be maybe 1/20th the height of the ones shown, at very most.
The giant land squid is scaled about right, though.
You can see my extended explanation above, but in short it was due to a glacial moraine outburst flood upstream, releasing two-thirds of the water of Lhonak Lake in one go. The lake was known to be at high risk of bursting the moraine.
The lake itself was caused by glacial melt due to global warming, first appearing in the 1960s. The bursting of the lake this summer will almost certainly be traced to the record high temperatures recorded this summer, which led to an increase in size of the lake and overtopping the moraine that held it in place.
This article has satellite images showing the recent growth of the lake and then the recent release of most of its waters:
And, why did they not have some kind of early warning system set up to give them more notice of the breaching of the Lhokan Lake moraine? The moraine was known to be in imminent danger of breaching.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X21001914
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Hmm, Ed Martin is from Missouri and we are well acquainted with him here. Far, far right, Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum, big "Stop the Steal" guy, and all that.
Couple of highlights:
"They found that Martin had used his state office in 2007 improperly to encourage opposition to Attorney General Jay Nixon among anti-abortion groups, as the Democrat Nixon was likely to oppose Blunt in the next election."
"[Eckersley] filed a lawsuit against Martin and Blunt for his firing, saying he had been trying to enforce the state law for retention of emails . . . On May 22, 2009, the Missouri Attorney General's office announced that Eckersley's lawsuit against Blunt and others had been settled for $500,000."
[Tldr: He illegally fired a guy to illegally stop release of state records that showed a bunch of illegal and shady stuff he and others he was working with were doing.]
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-nominates-stop-steal-organizer-advocated-jan-6-defendants-dcs-to-rcna192451
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Martin_(Missouri_politician)