Austin Wu

Covid deniers and vaccine deniers bear some responsibility for this attrocity.

The US is the most Eastern European country in Latin America

The entire sound and fury around ‘abolish/defund’ vs. ‘reform’ was honestly very stupid. Any reform meaningful enough to matter would consistitute aboltion of policing as it currently exists, any abolition that would be actually workable would in fact just be a form of reform. Very stupid divide!

The chad "just do stuff you think will work" civil law government vs the virgin "we cant make any changes to the built environment without conducting 5000 studies to cover our ass for future lawsuits" common law government

Did you ever want to cos-play going to war, but were too scared to fight real soldiers?

Now you can round up grandmothers in full commando gear!

Join ICE.

Just like gun violence, there are far too many people who look at traffic violence as a problem without a solution, despite oodles of evidence from around the world. The difference is that devotion to guns is largely a thing among the right, while car brain is a bipartisan affliction.

I mean it takes a bunch of normie liberal YIMBY ideas and staples them to pro-sprawl, pro-oil and gas, pro-crypto and Big Tech bullshit. I think the issue most people have with it is the latter stuff (and its proponents' footsie with Nazis)

<whispers> fixing the buses requires de-prioritizing cars

49 Years Ago Today: National Mood Ring Green

49 Years Ago Today: National Mood Ring Green

chat, is it bad to be contemplating such matters in a not-completely-unserious manner

Read his original thread about the report

A tweet from David East that reads: "starting to think that the rest of the world was actually fine in Children of Men and Britain just chose to be like that"

I am once again contemplating this banger.

somehow, diogenes returned

I WANT BAND OF BROTHERS FOR (insert union regiment here)

Blue state Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance when?

The Great Khan has scored another victory, and I want more states to do this.

Wurman isn’t just a reliable hack, he’s now making up entirely anti-Constitutional justifications for outrageous authoritarianism. He’s this era’s Great Value Carl Schmitt.

Stop. Wrapping. Transit.

Comic. [airplane connected to airport terminal by jet bridge] VOICE FROM PLANE: This is your captain speaking. As you’ve probably noticed, we’re still grounded due to weather. But the first officer and I have been looking at bridge clearance maps and our top taxiing speed, and we have an idea.

Grounded

xkcd.com/3124/

So, anyways, our annihilation hangs on the ability of the US to tell our neighbors, through delicate pantomime, the subtle logic of our nuclear strategy and I was not confident about that BEFORE the suggestion that nuclear actors may be putting Grok on the horn

John Menard Jr. has an opportunity here to become the ultimate "Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point"

vis-a-vis its interior location, population, and status as a transportation hub, wuhan is lowkey more like a chinese chicago

>hyper military based society >tries to convince itself it's the strongest aryan military on earth >fights one (1) war >loses

evergreen

@DHSgov on X: We’re taking father/son bonding to a whole new level. JOIN.ICE.GOV 06 Aug 25 [Young man and old man in ICE gear]

Wehrschiessen des Deutschen Volkes 1944 [Young man and old man sharing a rifle]

Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.

America is having a housing crisis because it chooses to have a housing crisis. Americans are being displaced because we want them to be displaced. Our cities are world capitals of homelessness because we invest resources in making them so.

college towns are absolutely fantastic, one of the great American concepts, and for unknown reason the people who live in college towns absolutely loathe them and want to ensure no one else can live there

Liberals say that our democracy is broken. But we've never had a democracy, we've always had a republic.

Northstar weekday schedule, southbound. Source: https://www.metrotransit.org/route/nstar

Northstar Saturday schedule, southbound. Source: https://www.metrotransit.org/route/nstar

2nd simple truth about transit: If you build an expensive transit line, actually provide service on it.

From the beginning, Northstar provided 6 trains in the peak direction during rush periods. That's it. Post-pandemic, it got worse: 4 round-trip trains a day. Weekend service is just for sports.

Tesla engineers built a proprietary tool to flatten patties for the smash burgers with crisp browned edges, held together with caramelized onions and cheese, which seemed to be on most tables. It lent the dish a superficial whiff of innovation, but the burger didn’t stand out in any meaningful way.

The Tesla Diner is a perfect metaphor for the whole Tesla brand: a bad facsimile of something that already exists, made by people who don't understand what they're recreating, with a thin veneer of superficial futurism on top, for people with no taste or self-respect

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