I don't see kind, sensible, people in political or leadership positions more broadly, sadly. This era is sadly not rewarding kindness as far as I can tell.

Stah, a lovely Polish guy that ran a local bike shop, told me about a couple that had come in to look at bike pumps, then proceeded to take out their phone and buy one that he recommended... from Amazon. He asked why. "We don't want to have to carry it." He closed the shop down shortly afterwards.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZThYcyWSp/ sharing from TikTok because I found this to be motivating

We could do so much more quality of life improvements like this across the whole nation!

But US "politics" wastes so much time rearguing about solved problems,

like "Should we bring Jim Crow racism back?*"

And "Should trans people exist?**"

And "Is ethnic cleansing OK?***"

*No.
**Yes.
***No.

Real convo I've heard:

NYC finance bro: SF sucks. Human 💩 on the street? Get it together.

SF tech bro: But if we add public restrooms, people will do drugs in the bathrooms.

NYC finance bro: Dude *I* do drugs in the restroom! I've done drugs *with you* in the restroom! What are you talking about?

I know I’ve said this before, but Tolkien lost almost all his friends in the Somme, and certainly knew the seductive appeal of despair, and built an entire epic with the constant theme of the power of hope to effect triumph. Aurë entuluva!

Be safe, friend.

a thing i've been thinking about posting for a long time is "back in those days, the workers didn't say "eww factories were created by capitalists to enrich capitalists, we should abandon factories" they said "we should seize them and direct their output for the good of humanity"

🦍

Nailed it

Hot new trend "dogfooding." I can 100 per cent see the article in the NY Times. True masculinity absolutely requires that you eat animal food. Kennedy and Rogan as poster boys for the new chow.

gm gm.