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   Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 08:49:45 JST Tek say resist

   A friend just asked if we're affected by the fires in LA.

   It's easy to underestimate the size of California. It's a shorter trip from Paris to Stuttgart than from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

   No, we're safe from this one.

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     Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 09:21:16 JST Tek say resist

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     • Draken BlackKnight

     @drakenblackknight LOL! I've heard similar. “Want to have dinner?” No. No, I don’t. I’ll meet you for the weekend or not at all.

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     Draken BlackKnight (drakenblackknight@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 09:21:17 JST Draken BlackKnight

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     @tek
     I keep hearing stories about people getting tired of "Oh, you're in SF? I'm going to be in LA for the weekend, we should hang out!" It'll take around 6 hours to drive from LA to SF, and it's roughly the same distance from NYC to Raleigh, NC.

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     Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 09:26:57 JST Tek say resist

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     • Draken BlackKnight

     @drakenblackknight Oh, you're in Buffalo? Mrs Tek's from Tonawanda!

     But yeah. She talks about people asking if she was OK on 9/11. Umm, yeah.

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     Draken BlackKnight (drakenblackknight@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 09:26:58 JST Draken BlackKnight

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     @tek
     A few years back...
     Someone else: "Are you okay? I heard it was snowing pretty heavily in New York!"
     Me: "Not here."
     SE: "I just saw it on the news that it's snowing in Buffalo!"
     Me: "Buffalo's at least 7 hours away from my place by train not including commute time to Penn Station."
     SE: "...oh."

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     Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 09:27:22 JST Tek say resist

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     • Draken BlackKnight

     @drakenblackknight Oops, NM. I read that in reverse.

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     Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 13:43:37 JST Tek say resist

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     • Nate Bartram

     @nateb Hah, yeah. “It was a 3.7 in Fresno. We weathered it, just barely.”

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     Nate Bartram (nateb@mastodon.thenewoil.org)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 13:43:38 JST Nate Bartram

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     @tek When I lived in Cali my friends and family would text me every time there was an earthquake anywhere. "You okay?" "That was literally 3 hours away from me. But thank you for the concern."

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     Json Doh (jdoe@freeradical.zone)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 00:09:10 JST Json Doh

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     @tek How considerate of them!

     I have contacts overseas. And every now and then I'm asked if I'm ok when they read news about a natural disaster, mass shooting, or civil unrest "over there in the US"

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     Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 02:35:16 JST Tek say resist

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     • Json Doh

     @jdoe Heh, I’ve had that. “Did that blizzard affect you?” “The one in Denver? Uh, no.”

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     Json Doh (jdoe@freeradical.zone)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 02:47:04 JST Json Doh

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     @tek "But it was in the western hemisphere where you live, right?"