“Beijing, which is systematically destroying freedoms”

Importantly, it’s not a mandate. It’s a choice between vaccination and regular testing. Please stop calling it a mandate.

I think the idea is that there’s a grocery store in the development so you can make more frequent/smaller trips and not face a huge walk/bike home with them. This is the “5 minute city” concept at work. Cities like Amsterdam are like this with a small grocery store on nearly every block along with all other amenities.…

I went to the Netherlands and have been pissed non-stop since returning. Our infrastructure is fucking stupid. It’s entirely built, designed, imagined around driving everywhere as fast as possible. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

That it’s practically required in 99% of the country, enslaving hundreds of millions of people with a lifetime of massive expenses and health problems.

Further evidence that laws exist to keep YOU in line, not them.

Newsflash: Elon Musk fucking sucks.

Infrastructure, environment, and health. When you add in all of the externalities the US, between citizens and the gov, are spending likely $2 - $3 trillion/year on maintaining our car-centric lifestyle. By comparison, we spend about $60 billion on transit. EVs are not going to significantly solve that problem (only…

I’m not shaming you for not making the same choices I did, which is a strawman preferred by the no kids club. I’m shaming you for gleefully proclaiming that money is more important to you than kids. Seems like a pretty vile world view, but I suppose this is the US of A.

Let’s also not forget that this is the same family responsible for the Valium epidemic. Betty Ford remembers.

I suppose if you value money more than kids it’s good that you don’t have kids.

I became so addicted to NBA 2k on the Dreamcast that I had to ritualistically destroy it on my front porch to stop myself from playing it. Definitely wish I still had it, but if I did, I’d probably be homeless right now looking for an outlet to plug my Dreamcast into.

I’m bewildered every day when I drop my kid off by e-bike every morning watching aggravated parents waiting in giant vehicle lineups. I know it’s not an option for everyone, but it’s an option for way more people and I don’t get why they punish themselves. Lack of imagination I suppose.

I too like money more than family.

Another bland criticism of crypto devoid of any facts or insight. Most of the critics are just mad they missed out on the early returns. 15 minutes of research would show the many uses of crypto and where it’s going. Easier just to impotently rage against something one doesn’t understand I guess. 

Folks should probably stop using their cars as rain jackets.

“Catastrophe” is hyperbolic. Leaving a country you’ve occupied for 20 years while a fundamentalist insurgency is reasserting control is messy. The important part is that we left.

I would simply buy the only nuclear-powered cargo ship in service from the Russian company that operates it. Refueling would be like a once every 20 to 40 year occurrence. Install desalinization capabilities, a massive vegetable/fruit garden, plenty of non-perishable items and a stockpile of medicine and you could…

Are the hundreds if not thousands of western journalists in the country also in on the cover-up?

Well, there are hundreds if not thousands of western journalists all around the country, so what are they saying?