Aidan

Also, I have to fly through it at least once per year, and Atlanta is way more pleasant than it should be given how *gargantuan* it is.

Globally: Munich. Beautiful and efficient.

In North America: Vancouver, Ottawa, New York-LaGuardia

The common understanding of the fall of the Western Roman Empire ushering in a superstition-driven Dark Age of intellectual and scientific stagnation is, historically speaking, wrong on so many levels, but this crop of reactionaries seem determined to make sure it goes that way this time around.

The old Newark Terminal A, which I flew in and out of *a lot* from 2019-22, was possibly my least favourite place in North America.

Now that it's been replaced by a bafflingly nice new Terminal A, the crown of shit goes to LAX. My commute to work is quicker + shorter than getting an uber there.

The man goes for the jugular of the most grotesque version of Catholicism in The Grand Inquisitor when meanwhile the ROC was operating as an official arm of a brutally absolutist, reactionary state in his literal front yard.

these motherfuckers stoked the flames of bigotry for decades for political gain. now they’re acting like someone who drove drunk, crashed his car into a tree, and wants to blame the evil dems for not taking his keys away. sorry you lost control of the beast it and ate your party whole

All-Minneapolis and All-Detroit picks get *bleak* in a hurry.

LA is like if you had all the pieces and the manuals for the best twenty LEGO sets ever made, but you stopped building all of them about 20-30% of the way through. And instead you spread all the remaining pieces across your entire house and threatened to kill anyone who tried to clean them up.

The Great Khan understands what time it is.

getting your post read out loud by a lawyer, directly to the person you made fun of, and entered into public record is the poster's dream

The funniest part of the current definition of bribery in The Year of Our Lord 2025 is that somehow Eric Adams and Turkish Airlines still met the legal threshold to be indicted for it.

Vermeule's conception of divinity is God as the Shawshank prison warden of all that is seen and unseen.

He's Jorge of Burgos and The Grand Inquisitor wrapped into one joyless, miserable cretin of a human being.

“There have been men before who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself…who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.”

C.S. Lewis understood Adrian Vermeule before the wretched bastard was born.

Note that Satanists too are above this. These people worship nothing, kneel to nothing, submit to nothing. Their creed is more than satanic, it is *irreligion* incarnate

bragging about being a giant pussy is integral to the conservative mindset

Non-alcoholic beers and spirits are night-and-day compared to 2019-20 (NA wine still has a ways to go).

My only objection is that it has made finding open rack space in my office's bike parkade much more competitive than it used to be, and frankly that's a pretty great problem to have.

Cities being nests of evil (diversity, bike lanes, culture) is a necessary delusion so that suburban life seems less objectively awful by comparison.

"Everyone has the right to a legal defence"

"Including the guilty?"

"ESPECIALLY including the guilty"

Both the Old and New Testaments make significant moral demands of their adherents in terms of an incredibly expansive view of who is deserving of grace and dignity.

In western society, public defenders are one of the few institutions that comes close to actually being in line with those demands.

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

This is basically what my boss did: bought an Ioniq 5, and within a year had traded the old family minivan for a PHEV Pacifica.

I'm honestly kind of excited for when they get insane enough to try this in Philadelphia.

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I have been saying for a long time that Dubai is a bug light for dumb guys and I'm glad people are coming around on it

The part they don't tell you is all those coffee shops and niche boutiques are kept afloat by visiting city-dwellers (myself among them lol)

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Exactly the one I was thinking of (plus Brockville and Arnprior).

A dirty secret about Hallmark movies is that they're a) largely filmed in Canada, and that b) the trio of Eastern Ontario "Picturesque Small Towns" that predominate location shooting are all within a 45min drive of the fourth largest city of the country. Many of them have commuter transit systems!

(Full disclosure that I am a huge fan of the NCC's broader 2021 Master Plan for the Lebreton Flats area)