Aidan Knight

the scene with them in his living room is so pure

also, canonically, they go to great lengths to acquire the naming rights to "the band"... after a mixup when they receive a cease and desist letter about their name.

out of the corner of my eye i spotted cherry blossoms and instantly was like "it's time to go camping on my bike" like a sleeper cell lmao

"There was no consultation with the community whatsoever, it just came out of the blue!" - Ancient NIMBY Proverb

halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

a man in a suit is sitting in the back seat of a car and smiling . ALT: a man in a suit is sitting in the back seat of a car and smiling .

tfw ur on hour 3 of the local council meeting and every amendment is a watered down version of what's actually needed for housing affordability, density and walkability

generative ai in music should be the ethical boundary that no musician worth looking up to can cross. if you use suno you can't come over for the co-write and i WILL be dunking on you with other musicians in the green room.

I've contributed to Propublica in the past and made sure to chip in some more today.

linking to cumtown is too little, too late sir

A lot riding on Okamoto now. Like the pitching, like the overall hitting picture but we need George and Varsho reaching at least 90% of their production from last season. Defense will continue to be elite.

John. No.

I'm not a statistician but I actually might read that as "flat since 2011"? That might be a more holistically true picture of where things are at in Vancouver, but I also get what you are saying - it's not healthy to have everything be negative.

listen i don't really know what people want from being online anymore it's all pretty terrible at this point. twitter, ig, fb all of it is bad. everything is ads. everything is ai slop. everything is a comment section filled with morons. i yearn for the sweet release of a couple fried data centers.

haha this sucks

a man in a blue shirt has his hand to his mouth ALT: a man in a blue shirt has his hand to his mouth

now Cloid i can get into

this sucks dawg delete this

My new bit is taking letters to the editor from my local paper and making them the intro text to Star Wars

you never see a mf doing it for the tea and crumpets anymore and i think that's sad imo

groundbreaking in the sense that they broke the ground and fell into the hole

the big tweak that's worked well so far is starting with the low hanging fruit: recycling and garbage in the room goes first, everything else is a bonus! your lizard brain is like "yes progress nice" and we almost always end up doing a couple more things.

started doing this new house cleaning system:

- 25 minutes per day (+25min if you feel like it)
- every day is a new room (ie. monday = bathroom, friday = dining room, etc)
- each room has a checklist (ie. put away xyz items, dust, vacuum, water these 4 plants)

so far so good!

"He served a purely cloacal purpose" is gonna be with me the rest of my days.

So NYT is intentionally muddying the waters with the headline and the article imo. Focus should be on the horrendous rates of death from motor vehicle crashes, but if this limits regular people from riding e-bikes they aren't mad about it. Kinda annoying tbh

Also it's, again, *already* dangerous for children riding bikes (analog or electric) in cities because of cars. Even if kids are injuring themselves on e-motos +110% year over year, it's gonna be decades until they catch up to kids dying from cars hitting them on their bikes.

But think of the CHILDREN (on e-bikes)!

imo I would be comfortable with my kid riding an e-bike at 12 with no throttle at 15mph/24kph. Helps going up hills, and allows them autonomy to get places without me driving them.

You could prevent thousands of deaths - A far more meaningful number than banning e-bikes - by simply limiting automobile speed in cities to 30km/h. So if the impetus is "protecting the youth", there's no better law to sign than "cars now go 30km/h max in cities".

My lukewarm take is that Illegal and hacked bikes are not good lol. Class 1 e-bikes are good, they are appropriately speed restricted, but (spicy take) cars should also contain the same restrictions.

No one ever talks seriously about putting a ceiling on car speed. Ever.

Unless you live under a rock, you've seen a throttle e-bike. My hot take is that throttle e-bikes are just okay. Not evil, not great. Somewhere in the middle. I think they are safer than cars, better for the planet but prefer pedal assist.

I've seen a few replies saying "Read the article" so... I read the article. TLDR: Surron-type throttle e-motorbikes ridden by 16 year olds might be dangerous.

Okay.

(bUt ArE wE sUrE eBikEs iN GeNeRaL aRe SaFe??) 🙄

Notice that the above article seems to hit the NYT trifecta of Moral Panic: young white woman, harmed by leftwing cultural signal, and SHE'S FIGHTING BACK.