i grew up in a shithole american suburb, one of those housing developments with no sidewalks, no streetlights, just an enclave of cheap houses 4 miles up a 55mph canyon road with no shoulders. it was literally impossible to walk to any type of shop for the first 22 years of my life. i hated it so much i put all of my life’s energies into getting the fuck out and living somewhere urban. after getting priced out of one metro area, we were able to relocate somewhere cheaper and buy a home. now, i measure how good my weekend was by how little i needed to drive. i’ve got bars, shops, and restaurants within 1 mile in every direction. it really is a blessed existence. i work with suburboids who are too scared to go on walks. if it isn’t a walk from the parking lot to the store, or up the driveway, to their house, they won’t do it. i desperately want to visit one of those european cities that was developed before the existence of the automobile so i can experience life how it was meant to be lived - locally, on two feet.

america is a deeply sick place.

loves a deal

wait a second this isn’t a tip screen

for those who aren’t clicking the article, they annoyingly don’t show the numbers, but here are the regulatory levels mentioned:

Federal Baby Food lead limits: 10 parts per billion.

California Baby Food lead limits: 6 parts per billion.

FDA Toothpaste lead limit: 10,000 ppb for flouride-free and 20,000 ppb for flouride toothpaste

None of the tested toothpastes exceeded the FDA limits

Washington state enacted a 1,000 part per billion law and several toothpastes exceeded that limit

Fun fact, the ingredient hydroxyapatite in toothpaste comes from cow bones

only bad authoritarian people imprison political enemies (trump, china, russia), which is why democrats made sure trump never faced jailtime for his various crimes. thank goodness, or else the us might become a bad place

sixty million dollars is about a sixteen-thousandth of the trillion dollar annual pentagon budget.

it’s nice we get to do 2020 again, i was getting nostalgic. now, just wait for the cops to get progressively more aggressive with protestors, amping up the tension, until people start protecting themselves from the state’s abuses until we have massive standoffs in every city and then and then they can talk about how the movement lost direction and they can’t endorse violence and all we can do is wait and to take back the house next year

We didn’t start this war, but we will finish it

planet of the apes and also netanyahu

mealy-mouthed coward. glad she lost

1. we know the market is inflated
2. the market is deflating
3. nothing could have predicted this

yeah, my internal definition of it is “scary sounding word meaning bad thing”

distance from taiwan to mainland china: 100 miles

distance from usa to hawaii: 2400 miles

does chinese imperialism know no bounds?

they’re gonna privatize it or strip it for parts

when spotify recommended 3 french punk bands to me that i really liked but had never heard of before, i thought this exact scenario was playing out, but it turned out they were real bands. this time.

the guy who drives this is embarrassed by his huge hog and is trying to compensate

yeah i try to keep mine at file-only length because otherwise i’ll grind them against rough surfaces or pick at them or bite at them. big fan of files

fingernails: clip or file?

when i’m on a force round, i support Famas

they got this all wrong. the card is supposed to say,

“No, Cease fire!”

what’s a battle?