I wrote an essay about how freeways divide our urban fabric (largely inspired by my personal experiences living a couple blocks from the Kennedy)
pencillingout.substack.com/p/life-next-...
The idea that there was ever a point where working class households could live comfortably with only the dad working is a fucking lie, a core tenet of fascism and happily repeated by a lot of people who consider themselves leftist or feminist. It’s so wrong that if you say it I think you’re stupid
Imagine the progress could be making as a country if we didn’t have to spend so much time, energy, and resources fighting Trump’s wars and defending our freedom from his power grabs.
see transit fare evasion -- only suckers would pay every time; real ball knowers know how to jump the turnstile or sneak on the back. some might 'win' individually, but collectively the whole system loses
in between first and second woke, I think there is a notion in the environment, like miasma, that civic virtue is somewhat of a sucker's game -- that anyone foolish enough to put faith in mere principles or civil institutions will be left behind by astute cynics who know better to play 'the game'
Vouchers were first created for two reasons -- profit and to discriminate against children of color. Not much has changed since.
In fact, research shows they often only exacerbate inequality and discrimination. We must keep them out of Minnesota. #mnleg #edmnvotes
considering antecedents from history challenge (impossible) bsky.app/profile/bumb...
jfc, repeating the arc of the bombing of north korea from first principles -- wasteful, excessively destructive to the civilian population, and did not move the needle on them quitting the war!
the democratic party needs to embrace regime aspirations
marx wanted capitalism to go into overdrive. he wanted massive corporations. he wanted unfathomably large/efficient economies of scale that would create endless abundance. he wanted this machine of hyper-concentrated economic power to come into being - and *then* be seized and run by the proletariat
Everyone stop what you're doing, the Mariners are selling fries, nachos, and fish and chips in ferries now. www.mlb.com/mariners/bal...
i’d like for some people to grapple with the fact that “the most important election of our lifetime,” if you actually mean it, implies that the governance period following it is also the most important governance period of our lifetime, and adjust their demands/expectations/behaviors accordingly
truth nvke
see also: US housing discourse (and building heights generally for that matter)
Thank you to ALL our soldiers in the fight against climate change:
Battery designers
Solar panel designers
The Chinese Communist Party
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Joe Biden
The Islamic Republic of Iran
bonus points if a flashlight can be attached to a PV cell with a "modular rail system"
(come to think about it, just peppering the words "system" and "operator" vis-a-vis clean energy might be 40% of the PR battle)
there needs to be solar panel assembly and disassembly videos on youtube with bolt-like mechanisms and words and phrases like "trunnion" and "captive pin"
the most dead-eyed soulless capitalists can read fossil fuels’ writing on the wall and are investing in clean energy. the problem is there are more people exist who romanticize fossil fuels because coal miners and roughnecks are men
local techbro discovers CK3 not a manual
we used to be a real country, etc. etc.
I suspect environmental considerations may have had something to do with it (poor soil, flood-prone)? some redlined areas in cedar rapids line up almost perfectly with demolished blocks after the 2008 flood media.muckrack.com/portfolio/it...
I really can't speak to the methodology of apple breeding, but there seems to be some notion of change over time to bright red colour + loss of flavour news.cornell.edu/media-relati...
very konto 5-coded en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bribery...
sioux city elevated railway in the 1890s. we used to be a real country etc. etc.
we must retvrn
sioux falls used to be the second-largest city in iowa! part of the iowa demographic lore post-1950 is the triumph of cedar rapids-iowa city, at the expense of the missouri and mississippi river towns, waterloo/cedar falls, fort dodge, etc.
something I am curious about is the redlining of 73%(!) of sioux city, iowa, and then the subsequent flatlining of its population post-second world war, presumably at the expense of sioux falls, SD
my dart boards at home are reserved for robert moses and earl butz
lore has it that it used to actually taste good, and then over time was bred for a shiny skin and bright colour, at the expense of a pulpy internal texture and tart flavour (I believe the "hawkeye" apple might taste closer to the original red delicious)
https://mynorthkorea.blogspot.com/2025/03/pyongyang-air-defense-by-hectare.html
compared to perhaps one of the stranger examples of mixed land uses, where in north korea agricultural land is so scarce (and the government so obsessed with self-sufficiency) that land is tilled for crops right up to the revetments for antiaircraft guns
