Reid Dossinger

The Other Reason Americans Don’t Use Mass Transit People will take buses and trains only if they feel safe while riding them.

Don’t totally agree with the presentation of crime being the prime deterrent for more people using public transpo, but it’s also a huge mistake to ignore it as a big factor. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

God, this is awful.

Jens Lekman, "For Skye" (2025) Jens Lekman - For Skye "Do the world a favor and come out tonight" is one of the most heart-melting compliments I've heard. Imagine someone saying that to you!

🎵Jens Lekman, "For Skye" (2025)

"Do the world a favor and come out tonight" is one of the most heart-melting compliments I've heard. Imagine someone saying that to you!

Anyone else see the issue with this? It’s not the bleak vision of having to be skeptical of everything. That’s certainl here. It’s the rosy vision that human-created things were all wonderful and well-crafted and made with love and passion. It was—is—not.

A reminder that you can follow all of the Bluesky accounts that are affiliated with the National Academies in a single click! Okay, two clicks if you count clicking to *get to* the starter pack, but point being that it's really easy.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

I’ve come to disagree with this line of thinking. I don’t think said annoying lefties are shifting people to support fascism. People setting their views simply in opposition to the people they find annoying are not thinking deeply and are going to be swayed long before the annoying people show up.

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive) Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
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I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

What wine pairs well with rage?

I have, but it's a part of my life I'd prefer not to revisit.

“This administration will only operate by the rules of confirmation bias.”

This paragraph nails my thoughts about the TS album, "appears to signal a disinterest in evolution" especially. I made my kids listen to George Michael's "Father Figure" after listening to TS's and the production is os much more interesting. And that was the late 80s, a low point for production!

Superman writers: “Well, everyone knows Superman can defeat anyone. What this movie presupposes is...maybe he can’t.”

Damn, that Superman movie was terrible. Fantastic acting--they all brought their A+ games--but spend some damn money on writers, Hollywood.

That is a great song! I had no idea it was supposed to be about TS.

Definitely a thing.

Is that "Actually Romantic"? (which, btw, you can put the guitar part from "Where Is My Mind" on top of) I guess it's always going to be hard to separate her celebrity from her music for most people. Which is why I wish she had taken more chances!

I’ve been surprised about how the reviews I’ve seen talk about how it’s a daring new direction. I don’t get that at all. It’s exactly the album I was expecting from her.

I would argue with the craft on display, and not really the themes. But I like your review.

The melodies on the verses are wonderfully Korzen-esque.

First listen to #LifeofaShowgirl with my 9 y.o. over breakfast. Production is, of course, the first thing to catch me. Still pretty safe, but I'm glad to have much harder beats and dropping the weirdly muted beats that dominated so much of TTPD and 2024 pop music in general.

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

True, though

Oh wow. Excellent point. I didn’t even see that. It’s all upside! Why won’t they do it?!

Why don’t the baseball players just hit a home run every time? Idiots.

There are no wins here. It’s just trying to make it so that people lose less badly. It’s not sports.

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
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