Never mind the bird; everything else about this is fucking ridiculous! I’m talking about both the concept of sending the waste to be composted that far to begin with, and doing do in a truck instead of a train. It’s stupidity².

I’m surprised there aren’t massive protests scheduled for July 4.

I’m contemplating making a sign for my bike trailer that says “IF YOU ARE ANNOYED I’M HERE, TELL YOUR LOCAL COUNCIL TO BUILD A BIKE PATH”

I’ve been thinking about doing similar for a long time, but I’m worried it would trigger more road rage.

That’s conceptually just such a crock of shit anyway. It’s fucking ridiculous reporting on the rate of change of a rate of change in order to distract/obfuscate from the actual amount of the quantity being measured.

What you’re doing is white-knighting for the gestapo. That’s weird.

Quit trying ‘to be fair’ towards thugs who absolutely give zero shits about being fair to you.

To be clear: I’m not saying you aren’t factually correct. I’m saying that, in the Thunderdome of public sentiment, that sort of comment comes across as excusing fascism and that’s why people are rightfully getting pissed off at you for making it.

Not economic decline; spiraling inequality. Which is even worse, in some important ways.

Never kill yourself for something that’s somebody else’s fault.

Why isn’t Lisa Tate being arrested for labor law violations?

$1,000 gets you a Lectric XPress e-bike, possibly the cheapest option that meets all my city criteria. If you want a more established brand

I’m pretty sure Lectric is one of the biggest e-bike brands in the US by number of sales. How much more “established” can you get?

Moreover, a number of Beltway insiders have accused members of both houses of abusing their positions to gain access to hundreds of 1920s-era idioms that have been kept in reserve for decades.

“Well, bully,” said Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), who claimed that the Capitol was not expecting a shipment of fresh idioms for weeks. “Americans have to collar all their jive, and take us cats at our word: Everything’s copacetic, daddy-o, so don’t flip your lids.”

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That’s just the excuse they use to get their base to turn their brains off.

Well of course, but they’re a roaring success for the people the instigators of the policies actually give a shit about.

Could very well be. I’m using OpenWRT and basically did the bare minimum to get it to work.

I read an article once about a guy who grew up in a poor rural area in the US that changed my opinion a bit. He talked about how progressive and left leaning people want to help the poor and uneducated, but typically only in major city centers.

I think I know the article you’re talking about (although I’m having a hard time finding it again), but I don’t think that’s quite what it said.

It’s more like progressives are perceived by rural people as not wanting to help them, because the type of help they offer is assistance in moving or retraining or otherwise changing in order for their lives to improve. This is because the progressives understand (correctly) that the jobs that used to sustain the small towns are never coming back, regardless of how much the rural people want them to.

The writer then pointed out (also correctly) that this “elitist” approach was not effective in solving the problem.

Unfortunately, I don’t remember what the author’s conclusion/recommendation of a better strategy was.

We’ve been doing the same policies since Reagan and they continue to fail and continue to be doubled down on.

You say “fail” as if they aren’t working exactly as intended.

Why is The Telegraph using “pc” instead of “%”?

It seems high as Lemm.ee had 1k daily active users for the last week.

What’s the count from the week before the shutdown announcement?

Brody, 20 years older, in a bolo tie.