Yeah, likewise. I can see that cycling here is taken super seriously, which I appreciate.

I saw someone at the bike market with the exact same Cannondale rig I left behind (with much better parts and accessories); I stared without shame lol

Yeah, I did that rabbit hole a while back; the apex predator are forest rangers, which got the thin green line

(there's an MTBA joke here somewhere)

get me on the signal anytime 😁

aaahhh, a man of good taste 😁

That they folded so eagerly (along with basically all other nongovernmental institutions, e.g. universities, law firms, big employers, etcetc) is easily a worse signal re: the health and prospects of American culture and society than any election result

It's been a long time already tbh; everything happening is in a lot of ways the truest manifestation of american political culture in a long time. No one serious thinks that there is a policy switch somewhere that flips perception and reputation back to "normal"

What's new is the US no longer guarantees due process to white, white-passing, and "valuable" (doctors, engineers, etc) non-white people. You don't get to wax lyrical about the "failure of the constitutional order" or without actively acknowledging how it already has, repeatedly