I’m not making excuses for the dems complete lack of backbone, or their complicity in all the current horrors, but I do think this conversation should always acknowledge that many millions of (poor, undocumented, disabled) people would be utterly fucked during a total shutdown.

For dinner, anything from Alison Roman. For dessert, anything from Claire Saffitz. It’s a pretty basic take but their recipes are simple and incredibly tasty.

They have not increased their activity in Minneapolis since they announced the drawdown. They weren’t gone right away, and they’re still using the Whipple building for detention and outfitting vehicles, but most of the abductions are happening in the greater metro area and even then they’ve decreased.

What’s your budget exactly? I haven’t tried them, but Consumer Reports has high ratings for the DustBuster CHV1410L and the ION HHVI315JO42. You can get either one for under $50.

It’s for women to wear in their vaginas when they believe sexual assault is unavoidable. It has spines pointing inward that will hook onto a penis to stop the assault and punish the assaulter.

Oh, I fully believe community is the most important resource. I wouldn’t be driving off somewhere to fend for myself, I would just want my car to be functional.

I’m so sorry you had to experience that. I wasn’t there, but I think about that night a lot. I go to a lot of shows and festivals, and it’s therapeutic to be able to take drugs and dance in the dark with my friends. The idea of a tragedy happening during such a joyful time is just unspeakable. I’m glad you’re safe and I wish you all the healing in the world.

My last car was an EV. I loved how it drove, I loved charging at home and never having to stop at the gas station, and I told everyone around me, “If you can afford it, you have an ethical obligation to buy a hybrid or an EV.” Since Trump 2.0 I’ve been concerned about some form of collapse that would make me flee my home - natural disaster, violent military occupation, etc. I started to wonder, “What’s stopping Elon from limiting access to all these superchargers?” Public chargers are much slower than gas, and they’re easily vandalized. The whole thing just seems like a liability at this point. At least in a Mad Max scenario I could barter for a can of guzzoline.

I hate that I’m even considering any of this.

I got a TCL last year and it wouldn’t let me use the TV until I set up the internet. After 4 factory resets I figured out how to put it in store demo mode, and plugged in a separate streaming device that connects to the internet. Now I realize I could have connected the TV to the internet and then blocked it at the network level.

In 2020 Bernie and Biden were the front-runners, and then all the other candidates dropped out and endorsed Biden. So it wasn’t ratfucked in an illegal way, but in a “torpedo a popular leftist in favor of a right-of-center establishment neolib” way.

This would have been my top line comment. I wish anime wasn’t such a glaring blind spot for me, because it’s something so many people connect on. But I see it like reality TV. There’s 1000 shows with 1000 episodes each, and some shows are probably great, but I’ve never been interested.

It’s so special and it has a lot of really important messages. Everyone has parts of their lives you don’t see, it’s okay to laugh at yourself, and we’re all in this together.

They did such a good job with S02E01, I wish we got a chance to see how they’d portray the pandemic.

High Maintenance on HBO. It’s an anthology show (different characters every episode) that centers on a guy who bikes around NYC selling weed. It manages to be hilarious while focusing on some very sad and strange experiences. It feels very grounding to me and I always feel a sense of “we’re going to get through this.”

Those people perform at such a high level. And they do it every night without missing. I can’t wrap my head around it.

It’s an unbelievable gift. You can pretty much play anything on Criterion and it will be somewhat nutritious (as the Buddhists would say)

Yes. They project the text from an angle so it reflects towards the speaker. Just like windows are transparent but can still reflect images in the right lighting.

This guy found that his production software had a hard time isolating the tracks, probably because the music was all generated at once, rather than track by track. I’m not smart enough to know any more detail than that.

That’s what I thought also. Maybe she thinks DHS is itself a cabinet and she’s leading the meetings.

Another nitpick I’m surprised I haven’t seen: she said The Dow was up to 50,000 DOLLARS. She even hedged for a bit because she doesn’t know what units we use to measure the Dow.

I just started leaving my car unlocked for this reason. There have been a few times over the years that I left it unlocked and someone rifled through my shit, but last week they smashed the window. It’s amazing what a mess it makes.