One MILLION percent this. I wind up biting my tongue every time I see someone citing the Vimes Boots Theory because so much expensive stuff is just as crappy as the cheap stuff.

This is utter bullshit. Using lead was a choice because it was cheaper than the alternatives. We had alternatives, corporations decided not to use it to save money despite knowing that lead was bad. The lead lobby made tobacco firms look like halfway decent people

The former headquarters of Magic Chef in St. Louis, now operating as a U-Haul, featuring a recently restored ceiling installation by Isamu Noguchi which had been, for years, concealed by a drop ceiling.

I blame Reagan for everything.

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Meta is marketing their generative AI tools with explicitly antisemitic imagery. via @alte.klezmor.im

I saw part of the transition to this up close in the late 80s as a young kid in the Covenant Church. All the "feed the poor" pastors were old and retiring, the younger ones were much more fire and brimstone, death to unwed mothers, and God will bring believers prosperity on Earth.

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

I'd started saying on meeting invites that I will leave if there's an AI notetaker and the first time I made good on that threat felt so good, let me tell you. You don't have to accept this shit!

if no bias is present, the probability of hiring 9 white people in a row in the US is less than 1% if no bias is present, the probability of hiring 9 men in a row in the US is less than 0.2% if no bias is present, the probability of hiring 9 white men in a row in the US approaches fucking ZERO

This is more than 11x the amount that Minneapolis has spent on bike infrastructure in the past decade. Milan GDP: $250B Mpls GDP: $350B For comparison, the 494 expansion from Edina to Richfield will cost $377M. 494/35W interchange: $255 million. We can have nice things. We just choose not to.

It'll be super cool if our train goes through a storm, I hope it happens.

We've seen pols retract their planned resignations before, and he's clearly not sorry. But don't fully buy into a politician saying they "plan to" resign.

The train, it moves. I will be home tonight. Possibly even when it's still technicallytoday. Choo choo, motherfuckers.

I don’t even like her or her music that much but when you realize that Roan, who left her talent agency when she found out the CEO was in the Epstein Files, is getting more hate than half the people in the actual Epstein files, you do have no choice but to become this woman’s strongest soldier

Seriously, is the Empire Builder just cursed?

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

Oh look, my train is delayed. What a surprise.

My ability status is so highly varied right now. Last night I was fine on just a cane. Today I've gotta use my sticks and I've destroyed my fingerless gloves. They're ancient so it's not that surprising, but still.

At the train station. My arms are gonna be so fucking buff from all this crutching, even at 75% weight on my leg.

Noooooo!!!! But I accept this. Work takes time. Hugops to Jaz and I'm thankful to Ian for keeping us updated. We might need to make a hashtag #awooo for Thursday's bonus tornado drills.

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

Maybe it'll be a bit quieter with one less plane harassing the city.

As someone used to the general background buzz of "what a freak" I deal with whenever I go walking around in Minneapolis, the Chicagoan "I don't give a fuck" is kinda refreshing.

Had a pretty decent breakfast. Sometimes I like to get food that we make at home so I can compare and contrast, today was ropa vieja at Cafecito. It was about what I expected, though there was something about the rice that I can't put my finger on. The coffee is fine, but I'm spoiled by my regular.

Trying to get mad about this description from Josh’s newsletter and I’m just not able to do anything but say that he is correct: “Cake is like They Might Be Giants if they were trying harder to get laid and didn’t care about teaching kids about science.”

Remember Planthony? Well, we could use him again so here he is bringing us much needed levity in this growing dire times. And once again, if you’re in Seattle please visit his store

Was walking the dog and this van stopped me in my tracks

How the fuck are the Twins the second winningest team in the AL right now?

So, conceptually, this is divination via LLM. Which would be valid if not blasphemous, but the actual line it crosses [sic] is personifying the divination.

was once New Amsterdam.

From this article, he was pissed off a woman he was with had peach fuzz on her lip. If he thinks any woman with peach fuzz is trans that would explain his obsession with trans women and why he thinks we're everywhere. It doesn't take much to poison an idiot's mind.

Totally blew my mind when someone pointed out to me that women asking for fancy jewelry for Mother’s Day, anniversaries, etc was not vanity or frivolous spending; it was the only way to accumulate & save their own wealth

Again there's simply no comparison between the scope, scale, & tone of the JOE BIDEN EPICALLY AND INCOMPETENTLY FAILED IN AFGHANISTAN coverage of August/September 2021 & the "just the facts, very measured" reporting of what's going on with Iran & Trump now.

Look. Protestants should not be able to do heresy. You just schism, and then you're theologically golden. But I think this time they've actually managed it. Also idolatry. It's impressive, really.

Probably the best thing I ever posted on that other site, wish I could permanently transplant it to my timeline here.

REMINDER: Saudi Arabia does not want the war in Iran to end before there is regime change. The Saudis are paying a top U.S. negotiator, Jared Kushner, tens of millions annually. The negotiations just ended without a deal, exactly what the Saudis wanted.

It's so nice being in a city where the cab companies weren't utterly destroyed by Uber and Lyft. We walked out of the train station, walked up to a cab, and paid less than we would have even after a big tip. The drive was fucking terrifying, though.

If you’re going to make a list of rights women need, banking and credit in their own names is probably the number one item.

One of the comments to this is like “of all the things to be mad about, not being able to get a credit card is low down the list” and y’all being able to leave shitty men is so important and cannot be done without money.

I gotta say it feels a bit weird to be booking it at almost 80mph though a small town downtown. Well, mostly immediately behind said downtowns.

Oh nooooooo Freight train stuck on the tracks ahead of us with no estimate on when we'll get moving again.

My new hobby is watching what people pay for food or gas in films shot in the past. Just watched someone buy a big lunch for him and his friend with a $10 bill and he got several singles in change and I want to burn the entire world down.

There's an engine here still in the Kansas City Southern livery. Neat!

You remember the Uvalde school shooting and how angry everyone was at the police who just stood back and didn't even try to stop the shooter? That's why so many people who hate Trump also hate the Democrats.

"Well what are they supposed to do when they don't have a legislative majority?" Does your favorite sports team forfeit every game that they think they might lose? Would you expect them to get lots of loyal fans that way?

The last time I went to Chicago, as opposed to just passing through it, I was on crutches. I'm going there for 48 hours and guess what? Unexpectedly on crutches again.

I am once again asking you to get involved with what your friends love. Even if you're not as into it as they are, the excitement and joy on their faces when they get to info dump and geek out to you is everything.

Apparently DHS is handing out these awards to some of the people who participated in Operation Metro Surge here in Minnesota. Absolute lunatic behavior.