Absolutely correct, but also it's going to be a thermonuclear shitshow when McD's or BK move to making a plant-based patty the default instead of an option, 10,000x worse than whatever blowup over government action. And, as a function of effect on climate, this will be warranted.

On this day, we remember those greater powers over which we hold no dominion and from which we can expect neither mercy nor grace, as well as the price paid in blood in the name of the building of a better life for ourselves and our posterity.

In memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald and her crew.

It's not as though there isn't an ongoing epidemic of self-harm among queer teenagers today! But the ability to make that conceptual connection, separates those for whom those are kids to be loved and helped, and those for whom those are cudgels to be used to bludgeon the infidels into submission.

Amtrak is a very tradcon-friendly thing, just saying.

I was once, briefly, the Ohioan in NYC, and it's a simple answer: that's snapback distance for NYers one generation removed. (My mom was born in NYC and my parents met in Butler Library at Columbia.)

Same reason why the small towns people are from in Hallmark Movies are in Eastern PA, +20 years.

I genuinely fucking hate to hand it to Charles Entertainment Schumer but I kind of have to bsky.app/profile/usil...

People have no idea how much human suffering would actually accompany an open war in the First Island Chain.

YVR-ANC-NRT, and I will not be taking any questions.

(Because 90% of those questions have answers that contain the word "Mirabel".)