It feels to me like Kathy Hochul becomes a new interest’s useful idiot every other month. I don’t know anyone else who’s more frequently someone’s pocket idiot politician besides Eric Adams and Donald Trump. They say she’s politically savvy. I think it’s the opposite, she’s an airhead who doesn’t know how to say no to money and in the grifter political waters of Albany that makes her buoyant. Like a big dumb motorless barge.

Srsly Wrong ep 215 - “Read Theory!”

Wow my drug dealer is an asshole, shocker.

Source? I wanna share this with friends but I know that’s the first thing they’ll ask me.

Degoogling your phone entirely can be a tough transition as they’ve embedded their services into so much of our life, but in my experience completely worthwhile.

Alright then. That means there’s some obvious follow-up questions to explore: Are Americans just fundamentally bad? Or, are there popular grievances in America that it’s institutional systems prevent or otherwise fail to address, resulting in pressure releasing as perverse outcomes? Or, is there some sort of corruption in American culture which is causing those perverse outcomes? Something else? Basically, what is inspiring Americans to make these choices that you say earn them the collective blame for the downfall of their nation?

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I’m confused. Is this where the daddy is the baseball and mommy is the catchers mitt?

I think they’re referring to the DNC’s insistence on a transparently corporatist neoliberal agenda who’s candidates are barely electable versus even open fascists, and their habit of deflecting blame for continual strategic failure onto constituents.

Swiss “neutrality” is just branding. They bend under several conditions.

Local media has been trying to frame this issue as a Republicans vs Democrats story because it’s treating ODOT priorities as a foregone conclusion, I find it incredibly frustrating and disingenuous and dangerous.

Up in Portland, Democrats are also fighting ODOT waste every single year as we repeatedly smack down proposal after proposal to widen the section of I-5 that cuts right through the center of Portland’s east side neighborhoods, a folly that would exceed at least two billion dollars. I’ve likened ODOT to a titan that does Attack On Portland at least once a year, it knows only highway expansion and it will never stop it’s assaults even though we keep defeating it.

These regressive highway expansions are ODOT’s greatest price increase pressure. Maintaining and replacing infrastructure wouldn’t yet require us to double the gas tax (Regardless of the fact that we probably should anyway, this is just about baseline need), but expanding highways sure does.

Urban Democrats protest by stumping at planning meetings and pushing back on local boondoggle highways. Rural Republicans protest by threatening a tax revolt and showing up at the state capital. I wish local media would acknowledge that we’re ultimately protesting the same waste, tenuously allied in the same fight, and examine ODOT’s budget priorities. When Republicans complain that ODOT should stick to maintenance and fixes, they’re right. We do transit through other agencies that often don’t even touch gas tax. ODOT is a highway monster, by design.

The old man in the costume jumps into the Mystery Machine and just rips off his mask in front of the whole crew. Then steps back out and returns to terrorizing the abandoned theme park.

Except that besides the quotes that section is nothing but objective measurements: Noise complaint numbers, injury counts, air quality changes. Equal or greater number of objective measurements as the other sections.

He’s been a music & software mainstay on youtube for years but he’s been on an absolute tear recently as kind of de facto public voice of the anti-AI surveillance push. Check out his releases from the past six months, each and every one is a banger.

Telling how NYTimes shoves “Better Quality of Life” to the very bottom of the article like it’s a footnote. I’d lead with that.

When I was working on a TV set in a not great part of Brooklyn they used to have us production assistants walk to the subway together when leaving for the night. It kept a black member of our crew safe when NYPD decided to pace us and single him out for harassment for a whole city block.

Maybe I’m confusing his system with Take The Lane defensive cycling.

I used to 😅 but I’ve also had my share of near-death experiences doing so. And even back then I would have preferred seperate facilities. Anyway sorry for comment hounding.

I think you meant to reply to my comment. Yes they do all go squish eventually, really it’s not a great idea for anyone. I used to be one of these young athletic assertive riders and it’s not sustainable. It’s just that only athletic and assertive riders would even be comfortable attempting it, or ever feel that it’s adequate for their needs (And they’d be wrong, it’s not good enough for anyone, even athletic assertive cyclists are better off with a paved, grade-separated cycleway).

Quite the opposite, Forrester insisted that cyclists should ride in the center of the lane, with cars. The central idea of his Vehicular Cycling was that cyclists should be using the road in exactly the same way as drivers.