As a bicyclist, I see that we have Schrödinger's Cyclist: Too poor to be able to afford a car like "normal" people, but also a rich elitist who can afford to commute by bike.

Also, Schrödinger's Bike Lanes: A conspiracy by car-hating politicians to punish drivers, but also an amenity that only rich elitists get in their neighborhoods.

Isn't this the doofus who wanted to send a submarine into a cave? Dude doesn't have the intellectual heft necessary to manage a QuikTrip in Topeka.

But, take this drivel seriously. They like it when rural, red areas report their vote totals first, so that the news outlets will report that Republicans are "leading" early in the evening, before the blue cities finish their counting and overtake the early totals. It's a cheap trick to sell the claim that the election was stolen to their followers, y'know, the people who think that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.

Flat design is clinical depression in graphical form, a reflection of the contemporary existential/mental health crisis. It's a societal cry for help, basically.

Remember, it's only genocide if it originates from occupied Poland. Otherwise, it's just sparkling mass extermination.

Taylor Swift is fine, her music is enjoyable, but ultimately kind of forgettable. Her popularity comes from the social-cohesion function of popular music.

I guess I might say King John signing the Magna Carta at Runnymede, because it was the foundation for the rule of law in the West. But it was just a bunch of smelly dudes in a marsh. A lot of historical events are important, but not that spectacular to see.

So if I'm honest, it'd be Queen at Live Aid.

So stupid. If they were smart, Iran's leadership would use this opportunity to gain international support and clout by behaving like the reasonable ones while Israel is going rogue.

Poe's Law strikes again. Based on the community, I'm to take it as a right-wing meme, but this feels like a parody of a right-wing meme, or at least a parody of something.

But assuming it's real, holy wow, that list of things that the meme-maker thinks people spend money on is the clearest, most-explicit result of right-wing projection I've seen in a long time.

So you're telling me that some hick named "Markwayne" from Oklahoma wanted to settle things with a fistfight? Seems pretty on-brand.

Four deaths per 300,000 boards? Hoo-boy! Wait until the CPSC hears about cars!

In retrospect, was probably the Battle of Seattle in 1999. Not that I wasn't aware of the issues before, but that really ripped off the mask to show me that the U.S. is fundamentally rotten at its core: The police are not the good guys, they don't serve and protect, they are there to visit violence on the enemies of capital. And if innocent people in their homes or going to work get caught up and harmed, fuck 'em, they're not wealthy enough to matter. The media will flat-out lie to maintain the good-cops-vs.-evil-protesters narrative. Our leaders will eagerly sell out American citizens to the interests of global capital, with only lip service to democratic traditions. And Americans are too disengaged to really question any of it.

For me, it provided the keys to understanding the events since, from Bush v. Gore to today. At least now the rot has become so obvious that the younger generations are forced to notice.

Goddamn, the United States really is a shithole country, isn't it? It's obvious that shooting was the homeowner's first resort, because this was a drunk guy who thought that it was his own house. Any sign that it was not, like lights going on, or yelling, would have at least made him pause in confusion.

But yeah, Americans be like killing somebody before even issuing a threat is totally justified.