Mike

It would have been my B5 S4 avant (11 years) but I think the Syncro eclipsed it this year (yes I am a masochist)

You continue to assert “safety,” but when faced with actual research contradicting your position you ignore it.

What are you basing your safety concerns on?

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

For real. I guess the ‘argument’ is that the car is a show piece, and you can’t buy those tires today, so you’d buy new wheels/tires to drive on and keep the OGs to show, but it feels like a stretch!

I’m aware of a gen 1 viper about to go up on BAT on its original tires 😱

I have bowed to this sign multiple times

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Will these guys ever shut the fuck up?

No shade to this particular person but I hate how often we have to learn this. If you lay down they will trample you, if you surrender they will kill you, if you’re “peaceful” you’re a sitting duck

Friends, this is why class analysis is important. The ruling class is small, but they are in lockstep.

They are not ordinary Portlanders no matter how many times they assert it or create PACs with names like "People for Portland" or "We Are Ordinary Portlanders"

They have different interests.

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Worth noting the FBI used its resources to find someone who pointed a laser pointer at the unidentified helicopter flying over the ICE building, found them with 4 people "suspected" of being here unlawfully, and they are now in ICE custody.

Surveillance is at an all time high, act like it.

At least you’re aware of how tedious you sound. That’s rare in right-wing trolls.

perfect timing to have encountered this rebecca solnit quote this morning

Read some Jane Jacobs: this would do something to address what you’re whining about.

“Heartwarming: Poor People Discovered to be People with Feelings”

Instagram account connected to Gilroy shooter pushed staple of white supremacist internet forums

Anti-Semitic open letter posted online under name of Chabad synagogue shooting suspect

Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect threatened Jewish groups, pushed migrant caravan conspiracies

New Zealand mosque shooting: Attacker's apparent manifesto probed

These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.

what happened to charlie kirk is a) fucking horrible and b) the exact thing, word for word, that he spent his public life advocating for and cheerleading, and any coverage that isn’t frank about that second part is massively irresponsible

Yes. So is the USA. I am talking about public transit in my post.

Reading this in Oslo with zero memory of where I live: “yes, and I can’t imagine living any other way”

Portland study reveals city's loudest neighborhoods Noise pollution hits hardest in low-income and racially diverse areas, a new study shows.

It’s cars. It’s always just the fucking cars.

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-ish, but high consequence

Your Ignorance Doesn't Make You An Expert Let's go chasing waterfalls.

I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...

The air-cooled one gets swepco, everyone else gets liqui-moly or pentosin.

Yeah I really like it!

Glad someone built their dream car but I like mine a little more subtle. I’m just a brokie with an SC so 🤷‍♂️

About Face Death and surrender to power in the clothing of men.

A good, relevant time to pause and re-read @natepowell.bsky.social's classic and consider how well the final frame called it: these were indeed the "future" fascist paramilitary participants and their ushers.

More than hot dogs!