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The movie Cars and the whole Carse XU makes me uncomfortable. Why is there human scaled infrastructure and roles but no humans? Whi di the taxis haul? The plane crop dusts crops… for what? Why are there fighter jets?

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Guys, I think the WSJ found the smoking gun of what happened to the American Dream starting in the late 70s/early 80s , and guys, it wasn’t immigrants.

The chair!! Any Latino who grew up in warm climate knows the chair. It is also the official chair of Miami backyards, and often kitchens or even dining rooms.

Since it was only on screen for like half a second.

If you can’t follow the lyrics it’s ok. I’m a native Spanish Speaker and let me give you an analogy. A new Kendrick Lamar song comes out where he’s rapping fast and how well can you follow every lyric in real time? And does it matter?

For what it’s worth, I always thought American Idiot the Musical was really good and it appears there’s currently a US production touring. Including Columbia, MD this summer.

This is like a jumble of magnet words on a fridge about their movement and somehow put together.

Apropos of literally nothing, an AI image of Albert Einstein first with hair combed, and then clean shaven, reminds us how physical iconography matters for many famous people.

I should note, however, he was writing in the minority on that one. But the legal framework and idea is still insightful.

He goes on:
“The mere fact that law enforcement may be made more efficient can never by itself justify disregard of the Fourth Amendment. The investigation of crime would always be simplified if warrants were unnecessary.”

“Even if the warrant requirement does inconvenience the police… It is merely a part of the price that our society must pay in order to preserve its freedom.”
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California vs Acevedo (1990)

The Wagnerian music in the old Wonder Pets (ca 2008) is far, far better than the Sondheim-ish style the Wonder Pets in the City (2024) goes for. The former is far funnier and campy. The latter tries to be too, literally, a musical.

And you can’t beat the hook: 🎼”What’s going to work? Team-work!”

Fed return to office had large direct and indirect effects on this in DC

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In all honesty I don’t see how cold climate places can get to 100. Or just in general. There will be a likely need for ~5-10% gas powered vehicles for things like heavy trucks and utility functions, etc. At least until tech and charging catches up. Like, by 2035-2040

To be fair there are only a few dozen seats that are substantively competitive

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I mean, *technically* we did beat the crap out of Confederate rebel scum. In that specific case I’m glad Lincoln bullied those states into submission with forcing arms. Just being pedantic. lol

Dan Ariely was signing his email "Honestly* yours" the same year he was publishing a paper full of data fabrications.

Both of my parents in Miami will vote against her, their first D Congress vote in decades.

While I’m decidedly Team Dog, at least in Super Kitties they have super powers and magic charms so there’s kind of fewer questions to ask. Plus their purview seems to be just helping other animals, not the primary response to all public safety and disaster response.

Re: Paw Patrol: who the hell funds this operation? That’s like hundreds of billions of dollars of militarized equipment that this kid has in his compound. And why is safety and disaster response privatised to these shadow-funded dogs? I’m sort of concerned. Is this a failed state city ?

She’s just gonna double down

We all need orange whistles for practical purposes, and a sign of solidarity.

Just listening to GreenDay’s American Idiot which encapsulates politics in my formative youth: hating Iraq War stuff, and questioning the malaise of suburban doldrums.

I have a fringe thing that we might see 3A case law if they keep compelling hotels to quarter their goons without right to refuse service.

Honest question: why aren’t we seeing more hat mounted GoPros out there? I get not everyone just has one. But more surprised the people going out to fully prep gear don’t choose a GoPro type camera to free up their hand.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

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