“If our candidate gets the most mild and common sickness, he becomes an incoherent mess. Please vote for him.”

Absolutely incredible. He’s edited himself into the debate. He has a fake moderator tossing him questions. He has an actual audience in the room with him applauding his zingers he’s saying to no one.

I’ll build on your 2nd and 4th ones. I truly do not understand the appeal of the TikTok aesthetic. Vertical video is already really ugly. But now we’re doing incredibly bad green screen of a floating head talking at me like I’m holding up the self-checkout line at a grocery store. And then the auto subtitles that I cannot turn off that change colors or some other nonsense rather than focusing on readability that are autogenerated and contain numerous errors (subtitles are very good, but should be VTT or the like files that can be turned on and off so the platform can place them properly on the screen). Then there’s just an ugly UI laid over it along with seeing reactions pop up on screen further just making a mess of styles and crowding the screen.

I feel like some old guy that loves paintings seeing these new fangled moving pictures everyone is talking about and not understanding how anyone can willing fry their attention span on them.

Guys, I’m starting to think elevating people just because your political opponents disliked them a decade ago on the internet is not a good strategy for building political movements.

I had not, but I’m listening now and it’s hitting the spot. Thanks!

One of them pillars I built my gym playlist around. It’s like Rage Against the Machine fan fiction and I’m fine with that.

Unearth so good. Can’t believe I forgot about them when recommending leftist metal bands.

Man, I just popped over to his instagram and like fifty posts in a row just all about Israel basically. Wild to see.

Look into metalcore bands, especially ones that came up in the hardcore scene. Stuff like Knocked Loose, seeyouspacecowboy, Dying Wish, Stray From the Path is firmly left wing.

This is the correct way to wipe out an internet account. Get all your info off first.

Facebook has also been confirmed to create “shadow” accounts of people that fit into holes in their web of social networks. Honestly, your best bet may may to just delete everything from your account but not your account itself to maintain at least a little control over who “you” are to Facebook.

100%. I don’t think I’ve spent more than $2K, let alone $3K on my family’s current camping gear from tent to cooler and everything in between.

You buy the type of handmade tents they use to climb Mt. Everest for less than the cyber tent. It’s such an amazing scam. Almost gotta hand it to 'em.

Happy Father’s Day.

Nothing makes me feel older than how much content on the internet these days is video. Bring back blog posts, man. Let me read your thoughts. I know this is mostly a symptom of monetization practices, video is much more lucrative, but I dislike it so much.

I am a bike guy. I don’t own a car. Haven’t for over a decade. But I’ve been hit by cars a couple times (only one major one that luckily only put my bike out of commission and not me) and had close calls way more than that. I live in a city with decent, for America, infrastructure with 100 miles of protected bikes lanes. And I get why safety wise, people aren’t ready to do it. I am taking my life into my own hands in a way every time I get on my bike and try to share the road with motorists, who are insane.

Like, I think the term ‘carbrain’ has gotten over used a bit by urbanists and anti-car folks because it is such a tantalizing term. But it’s certainly not without its use. Something happens to people when they drive cars. They become impatient and entitled on a way that borders on psychological transformation. I’ve never seen an average American more entitled to break the law than when they are a motorist. The speed limit is a suggestion, if you’re not going at least five miles over it, you’re not really driving. There is almost no other activity in American culture I can think of where people suddenly become rule breakers like this (and there should be many times where it would actually be good to break the law and they don’t!), but they suddenly think the most important thing in the world is for them to get where they are going and literally fuck everyone else.

How many times have any of us seen people double park or otherwise put their car in everyone’s way and just throw on their flashers as if ‘fuck everyone else, my shit is more important’ than we do with motorists? I can’t really think of any other situation where this happens so publicly, so nakedly as it does when people drive.

And the anger driving causes in folks, I think mostly comes from the cognitive dissonance of their behavior in their car and knowing, deep down, that it is wrong. That they shouldn’t be doing a lot of things they do in their vehicles. Stuff like pedestrians and bikers, who they literally have license to kill (look at the average criminal punishment for murdering someone with a vehicle versus literally any other way one can kill another human being and notice how little consequence there is for ending a human life while driving), remind them of the fact that their decisions are bad. Similar to how certain people get so angry about vegans/vegetarians. It’s the guilty that drives fear and turns it into rage. And that rage, in turn, makes them even more deadly.

Driving is hard. It’s demanding. And honestly it should have a much higher bar for who can do it because it is so dangerous. But, we’ve completely destroyed people’s ability to get to most places in our society without cars. So, until we make it safe and easy for folks not to drive, we’re stuck in this hellish predicament.

Rambling today, I guess.

Petition to force anyone calling their political rivals “skinny fat” to post their squat personal best or shut the fuck up.

Forcing all our users to engage in equal air time laws that don’t even apply to major news corporations any more. This is all very normal.

Nice. Cool thing about MBT is that it basically runs along the red line of the metro, so if you get tired of walking/biking, you can just grab the train on the way back. Enjoy. It’s honestly a cool city and I think most people that hate it confine themselves to the politics part of the town, which is not a small part, but there’s so much more to the city than just the strivers on the hill and the neighborhoods they live in.

Definitely take advantage of the fact that all the museums and the zoo are free. Few major cities with this level of amenities just let you walk in and pay nothing. The art galleries on the mall are very good if you’re into that sort of thing. The zoo is reasonably good if that’s appealing as well.

Rock Creek Park is a pretty uniquely rustic park for being in the middle of a city. Good hiking/biking paths. You can use capital bike share easily enough to take a scenic ride. Especially down Beach, which the southern half of was completely closed off to cars. The zoo can actually be got to off of Rock Creek Trail very easily.

If you like urban bike baths, the Metropolitan Branch Trail is also very good. Goes from Union station up to neighborhoods that aren’t often seen by tourists. You can hike this too, of course. On Saturdays, there’s a brewery on this path that has good BBQ set-up outside.

I second the Air and Space museum that’s way out in Virginia, near the Dulles airport. It’s kind of a pain to get to and you have to pay for parking, but you get to see some seriously historical craft including the space shuttle Discovery.

Get some Ethiopian and El Salvadorian food while you’re in town. Sadly, most of the good ethnic food in the area is in the suburbs, but those two have great representation in the city and are a bit unique as well.