Urban Greer Space Coalition

But yeah on shorter, daytime runs I don't see the point. The coach seats are great.

Roomette is totally worth it on the Coast Starlight (Bay Area to Pacific Northwest and back) as it's 11+ hours overnight.

Coach ain't bad. But having privacy for fully horizontal sleep and breakfast delivery is great.

"Map's Too Big" was, if I'm being honest, actually my favorite thing about the books, and which I was super annoyed they just got rid of in later seasons of the show. It was the piece of "realism" I most enjoyed.

A Calvin & Hobbes comic strip from the 80s, where Calvin is jumping out of bed and talking to Hobbes, saying "I love Saturdays! Every Saturday, I get up at six and eat there bowls of crunchy sugar bombs. Then I watch cartoons till noon, and I'm incoherent and hyperactive the rest of the day." Hobbes asks him, "Does it work?" and Calvin replies, "No brothers or sisters SO far!"

My parents had this on the refrigerator for YEARS. Decades. It was there even as the paper yellowed, curled, and started to crumble.

Fun fact: I'm an only child.

If someone wants to give you everything you want with no strings attached in service of a dire religious outcome that will never come to pass (because you believe their religion to be false), there's a strong argument to just let them do that.

Israel's government has long been aware of the particular goals of conservative American evangelicals and has been more than happy to exploit them in service of their own project.

Huckabee could give an End Times speech at Megiddo and the Knesset would shrug as long as the weapons kept flowing.

I mean, the White House is infamously short on office space. If they don't skimp on the construction quality it could be converted.

Heck I was taught that even if something isn't *actually* your responsibility, you still take on the responsibility if you're in a position to help.

And while that can certainly be taken too far, at least the heart is in the right place.

The thing which most frustrates me about the manosphere is that so much of it is about avoiding responsibility, especially for personal fulfillment. About shifting it onto nefarious Others.

Which--to me--is the complete opposite of the masculinity I was taught.

<Trump Youth pastor voice>

Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “It makes me sick that she is claiming to be a victim. This is the same woman that grabbed my arm and forced me into a room to be raped by Jeffrey. She had this evil smirk on her face. And she enjoyed it.”

ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social

Y'all clearly play a kinder version of Wingspan than we do.

This is very insensitive to people in loveless, miserable marriages and who have not yet filed for divorce.

Did Congress rescind the legislation that created the CPB? I thought they just zeroed out its Federal funding.

Really just uncritically reviving everything that existed in 19XX to soothe the nostalgia-poisoned base (and Trump, himself).

But but but OP didn't list every possible exception to the implied standard in their short, humorous, reaction post on the microblogging site!

Imagine someone pulls out their "purse tuna" at a sushi place (because they won't eat raw fish or somesuch).

A key indicator of a good sushi restaurant is that it *doesn't* smell like fish, because everything is fresh and clean.

If suddenly the whole place smells like canned tuna it is VERY BAD.

Screenshot of skeet: "Who gives a fuck, seriously? You're at an Italian restaurant and you see someone pull out a burger from a bag. Why do you even have a thought or opinion about the stranger doing that? Its such a non-issue. The only reason I see it unacceptable is for that to be possible being health code violations"

So obviously it is a health code violation, and it negatively impacts the restaurant with an occupied seat generating no revenue, BUT ALSO:

If I'm eating at a nice Italian restaurant, I don't want to smell your greasy burger. That ruins my meal. A dinner out is an *experience*, not just fuel.

The allergen listings in Ireland are AMAZING. Even the little cafes have complete listings.

Also a lot of places I wouldn't have expected had allergy-friendly options; I suspect having to list everything makes restaurants more aware that, "shit, we don't have anything for <category>."

I Love Lucy

...or are we only allowed to choose contemporary "prestige" dramas?

Godlike was great, but the worst game ever if you had a bad gamerunner. Very easy to make glass cannon villains who are useless except to specifically kill the players.

Eh... Might have had Harlan Crow build him an addition specifically for the draft.

Not for nothing, but I'm still unclear exactly what six deals they're talking about.

I can count to five including ceasefires that weren't honored, ceasefires where the belligerents were very clear the US wasn't involved, and a ceasefire that was just a return to a less overt status quo ante.

I am interested to know how the Harris team managed to fully pivot from inspiring, aggressive, and value-driven insurgency to "And here's Liz Cheney to explain how we're less bad than Trump to people who will never vote for us," in such a short campaign.

Not sure this'll be the right book for that.

Yeah save for freight use almost all 747s are white elephants now (doubly so "executive" configurations) and even that market will slow as parts and service become more and more difficult.

The unique and particular mission of Air Force One still makes the 74 a good fit, but you can't sell that.

Just gonna add here that after Trump gets, maybe, one year of official use of the 747, taxpayers will have to pay *again* to partially unretrofit it for civilian-ish use.

And also Trump isn't rich enough to operate a 747 for personal use. There's a reason even petrostates are getting rid of them.

And that zero-sum mentality that dominates the Right therefore must destroy America's vibrant urban spaces. If kids today have something good it can only be because they're taking it away from their elders, who surely deserve it more.

It's gross. And wrong, of course. But why sow when you can burn?

And this is just a wild guess, but I think maybe the same Xers and Millennials who are nostalgic for the 90s are also motivated by a bit of jealousy. What we had as kids and young adults wasn't bad. Global-scale it was amazing.

But what the youth have today is better.

I loved some of the run-down, overgrown, and borderline dangerous (Portland-scale, if you were dumb and/or very unlucky) bohemian neighborhoods of my youth. But I'd be hard-pressed to argue those were *better* than today's bustling and lively urban spaces.

At *best* they were just different.

That said, practical lifetime earning and career prospects *were* better for my parents' generation, on average. So there is a balance.

But as much as I miss Brasserie, La Luna, the Pied Cow, Esparza's, and the 7-Up sign, Portland is inarguably better now.