Has Adams escorted any other murder suspects as mayor? Seems wild he's there.

David Graeber going to rise from the dead over this.

Never feeling more like the normie of the site than reading these answers. You guys re-read some incredibly dense and/or challenging books on the reg.

Mine is a simple pleasurable book by Kevin Murphy of MST3K fame (he voiced Tom Servo from season 2-10). A Year at the Movies. His goal was no matter what he was doing, where he was, what day it was, he had to see a film. Film, as in celluloid, once a day for a year. This involved doing things like sneaking a Thanksgiving turkey into a film theater and taking a small film projector with him hiking. The book is a diary of sorts of him taking on this self-imposed challenge and each chapter covers roughly a week. Repeats are allowed, so he ends up seeing some films that no one should have to see more than once many times, but given his "day job", this isn't much of a problem for him.

It's a very silly book, which is why it's so easy to pick up and just re-read. Murphy is a delightful life-long midwesterner and genuinely, deeply, loves movies.

Almost their whole discography is so good, but especially the last three album run they've gone on is just a real chef's kiss moment. They're getting to be like Every Time I Die was, where they just can't stop putting out bangers over multiple decades.

If you like Rage, I'd recommend Stray From the Path, which in a lot of ways is Rage Against the Machine fan fiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rlIav2RSD0&themeRefresh=1

I'm more into hardcore punk than the sort of straight punk you're into, but I'd also recommend Fucked Up if you don't mind a bit of a journey in hardcore. Not always revolutionary, but they do have some anti-capitalist songs. Here's their most popular song anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJwgcSjIjMQ

Guy that beat her is a 74 year old with cancer that he didn't disclose until after he won his election. Feels like a big "fuck you."

Always good to see Roth on the pod. They need to rescue him from Drew Magary constantly talking over him on The Distraction podcast and give him a permanent spot in Chapo.

As a fellow NT, this hits it on the head. This can be considered rude for exactly what you say: it can come off as one-upmanship or an inability to not have the conversation be about you. Obviously, the flow of conversation, relationship, tone and topic can change just what exactly this feels like, because there are situations where it can come off as empathetic or an attempt to showing common ground. Like most things in human interaction, there are not hard and fast rules. But if OP needs hard and fast rules because of having trouble parsing things like tone and flow, I would err on the side of not sharing personal story unless specifically asked.

Game was a mixed bag, but this is one of the best video game soundtracks out there. Run the Jewels, HEALTH, The Armed and Converge all have great tracks on it as well.

It's not for everyone for a variety of reasons, but my wife and I switched to taking the train with a sleeper car for holiday travel the last two years and it's so much better. Instead of dreading the airport, I'm looking forward to the train. It works out for us because the cost to fly that close to my parents and their small airport is honestly close to the same cost as the sleeper train and we both have the vacation time.

Kiddo loves it. He doesn't have a bunk bed, so that alone gets him hyped up. He can walk around the train as it goes. He brings some toys and has room to play with them. Most airplanes have power in the seats these days, but it's very nice to know we have power for the Switch and what not. We get to take it easy (arrive only a half an hour before leaving), no security line, no checked baggage, you just take everything on with you. And we get in midd day. In order to make that time on the plane, we'd have to be up by like 5:00 AM to catch the flight. Instead, we sleep on the train. A about 18 hours or so to just decompress and get out of work mode and into holiday getaway mode.

Good in that it has reached a critical mass of good people to follow? Probably.

But its enshittification has already began. It's let crypto firms on to its board and taken their money. They're looking at introducing personalized ads and having a subscription service to begin the slow process of stopping the VC cash bleeding.

Because it's not truly decentralized, everything still runs through the main Bluesky servers, this type of enshittification will affect the whole user base.

Dragon Quest IV, which came out in 1990 allowed you to choose between male and female anyway. Definitely early pioneers.

That's definitely a great approach to the ebike. It can't necessarily replace all car needs for all people because, if nothing else, our infrastructure is fucked and practically requires cars for some things. But it can drastically cut down on car use, almost regardless of situation.

Very much makes me think of this woman on LinkedIn that went viral like two years ago

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Definitely tracks with me. I had a bike share subscription for a few years that I used pretty regularly and then I got a hybrid bike used and I certainly used it, but once I had the ebike, I was just taking it everywhere. Now that my brother and wife have ones too, that's how we get around town when we're doing stuff together too.

I bought an ebike about 2.5 years ago and already have over 2,600 miles on it. It’s my primary form of transportation, but I also do monthly ~40 mile rides with my brother who also has one. They are real game changers. I often put the assist low and basically ride it like a normal bike, but when I’m commuting or in a time crunch, the ability to put on assistance helps immensely. I don’t show up a sweaty mess to things, I go faster than traffic with it set to less than half total power. Honestly cannot recommend them enough.

Real Bullshit Jobs hours in here.

The Poppy cover of this track is also great.

I’d say you’ve got it figured out, but if you feel barbell rows calling to you again, maybe try Pendlay Rows to start. It takes a lot of the guess work out of rows and it’s my personal favorite type of row.

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