there once was a time that when boomboxes were pretty common
I’m from the boombox era. They fucking sucked way harder than people playing music on their phones, because they were way louder. The music was better at least, although I didn’t appreciate that at the time. Nowadays I love hearing old-school hip-hop out in the wild.
I just did one of my 50 mile rides this morning on a bike trail, and I passed a bunch of people with their phones mounted on the handlebars, watching videos of some sort. Like, I guess I could see having a GPS app open, but watching videos? Why the fuck are you even out here? Get a stationary bike and be safe at home at least.
Many people riding and walking on the trail are playing music through their phone speakers instead of using earbuds. It’s somewhat less annoying since you don’t have to be around them for long, but it’s still annoying.
Nah, they all just moved somewhere else. Easy portability is the one upside to homelessness.
HOAs are intended to harass and discriminate against black and brown people so that they don’t move in
Lol I was going to make a joke here about “Redline Homes Inc.” - but it turns out there really is such a company, in Oklahoma of course.
There’s a new-ish genre of Youtubers these days, Arizona home inspectors showing what a gigantic clusterfuck new house construction is there. I can’t decide which is my favorite disaster: exterior walls that are just paper and stucco, or the gas leaks at literally every house. In AZ, the HOAs are the least of people’s problems.
My township finally decided to do something about our homeless problem … by fencing off the area they were congregating in, natch.
John “Trump Signs Are PA’s State Flower” Fetterman not talking in good faith? Say it ain’t so!
My favorite Fetterman moment was when he castigated Democrats for mentioning trump’s felony convictions, saying we were supposed to be the party of “forgiveness and redemption”. Imagine consciously throwing away a political advantage like your opponent’s crimes - it’s like refusing to blink when your opponent throws sand in your eyes.
Gestapo was the German abbreviation for “Geheime Staatspolizei” which literally meant “secret state police” - exactly what ICE is.
Why would that money mean higher wages for the grunts on the ground, when it can be absorbed by higher-ups in the organization? Walmart has tons of money coming in and that doesn’t result in higher wages for workers.
Are we sure ICE agents even get healthcare? They usually look like just random dudes pulled off the street and given a balaclava and a rented van and told to round up brown people. I’ll bet they don’t get much more than minimum wage and no benefits.
I suspect the $175B isn’t going to matter a whole lot in terms of the number of boots on the street. Most of that money is just going to be absorbed by the higher-ups.
Ghislaine Maxwell hasn’t killed herself yet.
defects galore
A friend of mine from high school attended the GM Institute and became an engineer for them. One of his first projects was on a team that bought a Lexus and an Infiniti when they first came on the market and took them apart to see how many production defects they had. He said a typical American car at the time (and this was in the '90s after quality had rebounded somewhat from its disastrous nadir) had 300-400 defects. The Infiniti they took apart had 2. The Lexus had 0.
I live in the Philadelphia area and they’re about to cut public transportation service by 45%. It’s beyond insane what kind of catastrophe this is going to cause. Unfortunately public transportation here is heavily dependent on state funding and the GOP-controlled state legislature is in full fuck-the-blue-cities mode.
Robert Moses needs to be more (in)famous as the pioneer of this kind of bullshit. The Power Broker by Robert Caro is a must-read book for anybody that wants to know how the US got so fucked up.
The point of being an executive is depositing huge checks while serving on the boards of other companies and voting for their executives’ huge checks. Are you new to this planet?
“Nothing’s on purpose, ma’am.”
She claims that she was never interested in women until she met her current wife. She is the absolute archetype of a butch lesbian so I don’t know what to say about that.
I like how the top Google response to “what are the ten commandments?” lists eleven of them.
Whenever I encounter someone advocating for the Ten Commandments, I always ask them to name all ten. Nobody ever gets them all.
I briefly had a Windows Phone circa 2010 and it had fantastic sound. It even had a little folding stand so the speakers could be uncovered.