RETVRN but to bikes

Drunk-driving is a policy choice: www.fingers.email/p/drunk-driv...

I feel like a lot of the time, people forget WHY we have a licensing regime. We as a society recognized that cars are multi-ton death machines and that you need to prove you can competently operate one, a privilege that can be taken away. 1/2

Chronos waiting on his rock in hades 2 while I rummage through my trinket box instead of talking to him

If not *the* line, he can draw *a* line. Its evident by his refusal to draw his own line that there is no bounds in which he finds himself. Drawing a line would require a level of authenticity and accountability that I don't think Klein has.

Timeline cleanser 🐈

Some transgender people see only darkness in front and behind them. The current climate is especially accelerating this. Transgender people just want to love the people they love and live their lives as themselves. Let's all join hands and change the world🫶🌏🫶

C'mon man, the PED should not be posting AI art of Hispanic women in a predominantly Hispanic state. Surely, there's A SINGLE picture of Hispanic girls reading a book

Lots of (appropriate) dunking on this article, but I haven’t seen many people with this particular dunk: cars are HUGE now! The biggest SUVs are SEVEN FEET TALL and have a FIFTEEN FOOT front blind spot. My teeny tiny 8yo doesn’t stand a chance against these.

writing is such a sophisticated and varied art form that i hesitate to prescribe any immutable rules of writing, except for this one: no matter what you're writing, be it fiction, personal narrative, an academic paper, or a patent application, you should begin every paragraph with "Erm ..."

Nihilism is cringe, and the people who practice it are cringe. Give a shit about something, anything, and your life is made better by it.

I'm leisure maxing. Chill-Pilled. Certified lollygagger. I live life to beat of my own drum and that beat is like, 40 bpm. You'll never make me go fast, its incompatible with my lifestyle

My man's is about to have the ride of his life. Godspeed Mr. Onion

Albuquerque Rapid Transit if Tylenol caused Autism

I've said it before and I'll say it again, these maps always seem to ignore the extremely vital I-40 corridor! A third E/W connection below the Rockies has been and continues to be important!!

You know what's cool about this place is that there's a lot of transportation dweebs that I can follow and I think that's neat.

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good morning from new mexico, where once again a gorgeous sunrise is paired with a crescent moon and just above it, jupiter visible to the naked eye

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

when I was a kid, I ruled out both journalism and politics for my future because as I understood them, they took a level of integrity and selflessness that I frankly wasn’t prepared to give. turns out no one else was either

People still buy Teslas despite what seems to be a 13-year old running the company

Ultimate Companion for Windows (US Dreams, Windows, 1994)

You can still get a big cheap McMansion but your neighbors will want a race war and think knowing calculus is a sin. Your kids will be poorer than you if any of these policies the hooting morons who make up the electorate now want actually get passed. Do you take that Texas job offer now?

Jesus Christ, its like looking in a mirror. Thank god something inside me changed and I was able to break out of the online-poisoned hellscape that I was in during this time in high school. Scary to think what could have been and what became of those in the same place a short 12 years ago.

The medical wizards are getting bold with their magics

my baseline for an "acceptable" amount of crime is i put 3 pies on a window sill. If a man in a bandit mask floats by & takes one? ok. If he takes two & leaves a note "sorry mac, dems da breaks!" that is also ok. If takes all 3 & says "Boss sez all pies go tru HIM foist" uh oh

As a young person who barely drives anymore, its also damn expensive in an increasingly hostile economy to move my personal living room around the city.

Life after cars

Something scary about the hagiography of Kirk is that people who aren't terminally online or who otherwise didn't pay him much attention will now seek out his videos and other content and become radicalized precisely because they are being told he practiced politics "the right way." Dark stuff.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Trying to live my life so people are genuinely sad if I die, and not merely in a "well, this will only beget more violence" kind of way

"The country is full of loaded guns in shaky hands, swinging back and forth, from target to target." www.discourseblog.com/p/the-americ...

How am I supposed to listen to my anti-car podcasts and send my silly little emails in these conditions?

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

every day i eat lunch and feel insane

The normalization of political violence continues. Not good!

"It is quite bad because it represents a massive escalation—the norm against assassinations is a strong one, but it is weakening a lot... Hamas’s political leadership was in Doha because Washington asked Doha to host them... And now they are dead as the result of a covert assassination." Bleak.

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There are many versions of this kind of image out there. The best ones illustrate why “better cars” will never be more than part of the answer, and actually help “lock in” the #CarDependency that’s the real problem. They also show why status-quo interests usually want to focus on the vehicles.

I often tell people that we pay for policy analysts with our tax dollars. We pay our politicians with our tax dollars. Its up to them and their staff to digest concerns and create laws that address those concerns. That's why we pay them, that's what they're there for!

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

better things are possible!!!!

Mild take: The vilification of "virtue signalling" was a political project designed to make even the most subtle reminders of what decency is uncouth and it fucking worked.

That is very kind but I already assume all road signs do not apply to me when biking

✨ French CanCan 10 years anniversary! ✨

so for those keeping tally, so far today we had: SCOTUS re-firing an agency head a lower court had reinstated trump saying domestic violence is nbd trump's pedophilia celebration birthday card to Epstein released SCOTUS green lighting racial profiling and "papers, please" policing