2024 McConaughey vs Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson campaign slogans

"Alright, alright, alright!" vs. "Can you smell?"

In San Antonio, drunk drivers frequently got onto highways going the wrong direction. This happened so frequently that the city installed radar-activated flashing red lights onto the big, red, reflective "wrong way" signs that already existed. That seems worse than anything that happened back home, at least in terms of a policy response. But anecdotes aren't data. :shrug-outta-hecks:

This is why I like Denver. There's a train in the airport and a train outside of it!

Also some very cool art to ponder.

in rural areas this is stripped away and you see the US for what it really is; a shit painted gold (sorry to offend shit).

Haha, I got to watch a dude who transplanted from NYC to San Antonio learn this first-hand as we drive thru rural Texas to a client's office. He was literally agape at what he saw just from the road, which was two-lane and paved, which is to say that we were just scratching the surface.

I hadn't realized until that point just how much some people (probably most of us) live in their own bubble.

It's definitely more quiet out there and that's nice.

Remember, kids, change happens by random happenstance, not as the result of prolonged organizing and action!

"No see the nazis Germans were such hard workers that the commies had a begrudging respect for them and gave them individual graves beneath the railroad ties"

I literally cannot imagine caring about this.

If the dogshit is what rises to the top (which is true), then that's not a me problem, that's an us problem.

"Trans people only exist when I see them AND perceive them as trans"

Last sentence is technically correct but using that to back into the position of "transgender bad" is either bad logic or bad faith.

Yeah that sounds right. Literal drop in the bucket.

Of course, it's not really meant for us, hence "strategic." But they do this shit anyway.

Getting pinned down by a pin-up in a gunship :big-cool:

Probably. It's headline generating bullshit, as I recall from prior SPR releases. If prices go down, it's not because of this increasing supply.

China’s new nuclear weapons

They don't even have any! They've built a bunch of silos, which most experts believe are empty and will be for some time. They've tested a hypersonic vehicle, but it's currently (as far as anyone knows) not armed with a nuclear warhead.

But the western media will exaggerate and lie.

China almost certainly is interested in sharpening the edge of their nuclear deterrent, and rightfully so, obviously. There is zero indication that they want to build an offensive, first strike-capable nuclear force. They continue to have a No First-Use policy, which the US does not. The NYT will bury that fact at the end of any relevant article they write on the topic.

We do "defense" and they do "provocation"

It's different, you see

Why watch this movie when you’ve already watched that movie? They’re both movies.

This is unironically true with the current stream of dreck coming from the movie industry.

Access to better bars + clubs for 2 hours of fun oblivion at the weekend?

Had some kind of epiphany the other day about this. Why visit another city? What, drink in a different overpriced bar? Eat in some restaurant with slightly different decor than what you're used to? It's all the same, not even talking about the homogenous chain establishments.

Museums are about the only good reason I can come up with. And one day that's going to lead me to goddamn Dayton, Ohio.

Of course, if you live in a city with bad or nonexistent transit services, you still have this problem, but worse.

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