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Kevin Verhoff
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I like bikes, e-bikes, cargo bikes, and cargo e-bikes. Also trains and buses. My Posts = My employer's innermost thoughts. he/him
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Getting ready for my first zoom of the day
An office worker dressed as Gandalf the Grey
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Staring at this chart wondering why the hell every business in the country isn’t clamoring to just have government pay for this so that they don’t have to
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
A chart show h the rising cost of health insurance. Increases have largely fallen on employers providing health coverage
October 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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When people ask me if my e-bike was expensive, I like to tell them that it only cost a few car payments
A financing plan for the Ford Mustang e-bike. There are two options 12 months at 0% apr which comes to $365.83 per month, and 24 months at 15% apr which comes to $210.35 per month
October 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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It seems like they’re doing everything they can to hurt the voters that voted most for them.
A chart showing the increased cost of healthcare by age and income. People making less than $65k will all see their healthcare costs go up, and people over 60 will see their costs go up.
October 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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What kind of threat is this? Will Trump cut federal funding to the state because we only give him 78% of the seats (even though he only got 58% of the vote)?
Catch up quick: "If we try to drag our feet as a state on it, probably, we'll have consequences of not working with the Trump administration as tightly as we should," Braun said last week on Fort Wayne's WOWO radio.
September 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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The best way to use the sun for energy is to convert it directly to electricity. (Interactive Version of the Plot can be found here: kevinverhoff.github.io/random/solar...)
A plot showing how many miles a car can go powered by 1 acre solar electricity and by corn ethanol for one year of production. A car powered by the sun can go 803,586 miles while a car powered by ethanol can go 9,523 miles
September 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Wrote a first draft of my talking points. I may edit it down
You call yourself an environmental activist? You’re worried about the environmental impact of a god damn solar farm? Let’s look at what the current state of affairs has gotten. Oh would you look at that? Indiana fucking sucks when it comes to the natural environment, ranking 37th and 50th in air and water quality respectively. Let me spell this out for you: The top causes of air pollution are (1) transportation - currently this farm produces corn for ethanol which is a dirty way to move things around - and (2) coal/oil burning for electricity - I don’t think I need to explain how getting power from the sun is better for the air than burning coal, but maybe that’s being too damn generous to you idiots. The number one cause of water pollution is farm runoff - this farm grows #2 commodity dent corn that requires massive amounts of fertilizer and herbicide to grow, that shit goes in our water and makes it so that 70% of Indiana’s waterways are too dangerous to swim in. If you’re worried about losing farmland. There’s good news: this solar project will preserve the farmland - in fact it will still be used to raise sheep, which last time I checked is agriculture. Indeed it will give the land a rest from the strip mine industrial farming that’s been going on there for decades. And bonus: while doing so, it will produce 30x more energy on a per-acre basis. 1 acre of solar for a year can power an electric vehicle for over 800,000 miles. The same acre of ethanol can power a car for less than 10,000 miles. If you give a shit about the environment, you should be fighting to convert every ethanol field to solar. It’ll be better for air quality, it’ll be better for water quality, and it’ll produce more 30x more energy in the process. But you don’t give a fuck about that. You’re hiding behind your fake-ass concern for the environment. That or you’re just a fucking idiot. Either way, fuck off.
August 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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The Vince McMahon Meme, where Vince gets happier and happier. Panel 1: Democrats win Iowa special Election Panel 2: In a district that trump won by 20 points Panel 3: by 11 points, a 31 point swing! Panel 4: Breaking the Iowa republican supermajority
August 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Bumping this and sharing some more. SB1 is going to devastate our communities. Small towns, suburbs, cities, and especially schools. Heck out sb1hurtshoosiers.com
A map of Indiana with Putnam county highlighted. The map explains how sb1 will affect Putnam county schools and local governments. The text says: SB1 Hurts Putnam County 2028 LOST REVENUE: $-2,783,250 (-6.7% of total) Most Affected Schools Greencastle Community School Corp $-489,680 (-6.5%) Cloverdale Community School Corp $-112,100 (-5.9%) South Putnam Community School Corp $-264,240 (-4.7%) Most Affected Local Govs Jefferson Township $-10,590 (-11.9%) Washington Township $-15,510 (-11.3%) Russell Township $-5,710 (-11.3%) Learn More at SB1HurtsHoosiers.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Hoosiers - if you’re not aware of SB1, check out the site below. It’s going to devastate our communities if we don’t stop it sb1hurtshoosiers.com
Welcome page for SB1hurtshoosiers.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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My congressman hates democracy. Trump got 58% of the vote, but they're not happy with 78% of the congressional delegation.
A tweet from Congressman Jim Baird on August 18, 2025 at 7:28pm.,that says, "Hoosiers are fed up with our voice being drowned by partisan gerrymandering in liberal states like Illinois. Trump won Indiana by nearly 19 points - our congressional map should reflect that. I stand with President Trump on redistricting to bring fairness back to the...." Note that Trump's win in Indiana was with 58% of the vote, and the Indiana republicans have 78% of the House congressional seats.
August 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Venting a bit of frustration on TikTok over another conversation I had with someone about walkability at a Zoning meeting last night…
August 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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The insistence of putting AI everywhere is so silly. This adds nothing to my experience, and isn’t even a good summary of my workout - I did 30 on / 60 off; not a 10 min effort
Strava intelligence describing a workout. The actual workout was 7x 30 seconds at 415 watts + 60 seconds at 220 watts. The summary talks about a ten minute average power being high, which wasn’t the goal of the workout at all. Anyone who’s ever done interval training knows this. The AI is not helpful at all.
July 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Checking in from Greencastle, IN (pop: 10k)- headcount is 210
A courthouse with protesters A courthouse with protesters
June 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Yes please
June 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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It's time for a new meme: imgflip.com/memegenerato...
The CNN market tracker showing a meter on level 4 (extremely low). Text next to it says, "Extreme Fear is driving the meme generator"
April 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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The Indiana legislature looking at virtual schools www.chalkbeat.org/indiana/2025...
Tobias and Lindsay from Arrested Development talking about whether an open marriage could work for them, with Tobias saying, "No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but... but it might work for us."
April 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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LLMs are going to take our jobs
A screenshot of a chat with a google LLM. The user has input: "How many r's are in the word stawberry (sic)?" The LLM responded, "It appears you've made a slight mispelling. The word is strawberry, not stawberry. Therefore, if we are talking about the correct spelling of the word strawberrery then there are 2 (sic) r's in the word"
March 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Yep - basically the pink line on this map
A potential high speed rail map with high speed rail lines connecting the country. It’s beautiful and we should build it
March 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Average driver who thinks going slower than 30 mph in a residential area is an affront to their honor
A black and white photo of Michael Jordan with a quote “Fuck them kids” because drivers going fast through residential areas do no give a damn about the people who live there.
March 14, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Hugh Janus strikes again!
A response to Heritage Foundation’s bullshit survey where they ask leading questions to trick people into getting mad and donating. They don’t care about the opinion of their readers or supporters; they think they’re a bunch of rubes that are to be fleeced. Hugh Janus, who responded to the survey in the screenshot, answered their bullshit questions correctly. The text of it is: Do you believe the federal government needs to be responsible with taxpayer dollars and not spend more money than it takes in? Hugh says “No” Do you support significant cuts to the federal budget to eliminate budget deficits and pay down the national debt? Hugh says “No” Do you believe The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will be an effective tool for eliminating excessive government spending? Hugh says “No”
February 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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What’s your sign?
A sign that says, “We love our kids. So, slow the fuck down.”
February 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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It’d help if you looked at the report. Streetlights are mentioned 3 times in the entire 79 page report, in the context of a crash that happened on 5-lane arterial where there were no crosswalks. I think having 5-lane arterials with no crosswalks is probably the problem here, not the lighting.
A search result for the report. Searching for the term “Streetlight” which shows up 3 times. The section is describing a crash that killed a pedestrian in a 5 lane arterial road at night.
February 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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A German social democrat political poster from the Weimar Republic era. It features three fists holding three arrows. The arrows are aimed at symbols for Traditionalism (Papen), Fascism (Hitler), and Soviet Communism (Thälmann).
February 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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God damn trains are fucking awesome
February 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM