I’ve lived in cities and in rural towns. The crime rate is about the same, the run like shit is worse in the small towns, and I like walking places where there’s sidewalks and places to go and I’m not liable to get buzzed by a logging truck going 70 in a 50 downhill.

Why go once a week when you can grab a few things at your corner store on your way home? Need more stuff? Have them deliver it to you! This is what people did before everyone had cars, even in rural areas. It was a lot easier for a grocer to have a truck or a couple of bikes and some teenagers and deliver the order to…

Yeah, that’s what people did in the before times. You know what else they did? had grocery delivery. You’d go to the grocery store, put in your order, and then get this: The store would then deliver your order to you!

Tern GSD or HSD, end of discussion. ($$)

Yeah, I lived in a small town between Portland and Seattle for a couple of years, I know the type. The same type that thinks that digital electric meters cause cancer and that COVID vaccines have 5g chips inside, and they hate the cities. The problem being that rural poverty is endemic and the same policies that the…

Well, one person, one vote means when you’re a minority you gotta make allies or quit.

Dunno, I lived in a small town, was three blocks away from the bar, store, downtown and such, walked all the time, and it was fine, except the usual problems of “not from here” and politics. Now I’m in a much larger city that went through the usual unplanned suburban sprawl and I miss the small town’s walkability. I…

Exactly, and this is why I see most of the truckers in the PNW are immigrants on the first rung of the american ladder or are owner operators who do specialized jobs like logging trucks, tankers, ag, and dump trucks.

UGH, I’m fucking living this RIGHT NOW.

Yard Sale!

I’ve had some really terrible/absurd/dangerous routing through waze, enough so I just switched to google maps and never looked back.

In so so many ways 

I like driving in some circumstances, but mostly I find it a chore. I like cars as technical artifacts, but understand that the idea that we need to drive everywhere all the time is deeply flawed and sucks the fun out of driving. basically we should take public transit, ride bikes, and have either Miatas or 2 door…

The right way to fix the problem would be to require anyone selling a drone to verify the person they’re selling it to has the necessary qualifications, either commercial or recreational.

We already have a shit ton of methods of counting time, what’s one more? Also I don’t really want to write the year as 18,345 all over the place so fuck that. Maybe we should just count the years since the beginning of the nuclear age and then I can write the year 76 on everything. That would be convenient (for me).…

I’m a consultant and I’m supposed to bill to the tenth of an hour on projects. I know this deep in my core. 

Time is an illusion that we have all agreed to believe is real. Also the current method of numbering years bothers me very very much as the zero point makes taking about very old dates confusing. we should just pick something roughly 18 k.a. and move on from there as that’s roughly the end of the last ice age, give or…

temps are mild

This. I spent most of my late 20s drinking gin straight, often with a twist of lemon rind. Why pay for some fancy drink when you can get there straight away?

Gin is vodka that someone else has flavored for you. Might as well just get a good collection of mixers and flavor it yourself.