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title: "Notes on 2025W03"
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slug: weeknotes-2025w03
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date: 2025-01-19
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categories: weeknotes
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tags:
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- Weeknotes
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- Me
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- Birthdays
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- Public Transit
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- japanese
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- Space
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- Politics
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- Mass Transit
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My birthday was this week. I'm 37, which is a
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[pretty neat number]({{< ref "/blog/2025/thirty-seven" >}}), as it turns out.
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Blue Origin [launched][newglenn] their New Glenn rocket [on Wednesday
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night][newglenn-yt]. A very cool launch of a very large rocket.
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Conversely, SpaceX launched Starship 7 and it .. [blew up
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catastrophically][starship] and spread debris all over the Gulf of Mexico. I
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hate seeing the environmental and human impacts of such accidents, but it does
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give me small joy when Elon takes the L. :upside_down_face:
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Some articles I read this week:
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* [The Abuser Economy](https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/abuser_economy)
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* [A Secret Weapon in the Fight Against Trump: Better Public
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Transit](https://newrepublic.com/article/189842/public-transit-democrats-trump-climate)
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An acquaintence referred to [Bunpro](https://bunpro.jp) in a conversation we had
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on social media about Japanese grammar. This site has lots of detailed
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information about the language and how it works.
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[newglenn]: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/16/blue-origin-successfully-launches-new-glenn-rocket-into-space/
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[newglenn-yt]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hmOwYOO1G4
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[starship]: https://apnews.com/article/spacex-elon-musk-starship-e165e81ed2350ce684c7ed8d9357d7ba
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