Popping in to celebrate 30 days of sobriety. I felt alone for a long time, but less so now. I've started working out in the morning, which gets my days off to better starts and will help immensely come mountaineering season. Cheers to you all.
JFC, cut that shit in half and you’ve eradicated hunger, provided healthcare for all and made education free for all Americans. What the fuck are we doing?
Do these people ever stop?
The extent to which many individuals will go to fight against innocuous, positive change is truly astounding, and in a sadly perverse way, admirable.
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Unpopular opinion: superhero media is the laziest thing to be into.
The uniquely American attitude that strangers are, by nature, dangerous, conniving, and plotting against you and your family is the progenitor of our societal hell. The soul of America is the hunting of iron-fisted paranoia-fueled control over everyone else. It is sad.
Naming highway-scale car infrastructure after civil rights leaders feels like such a slap to the face of the people who fought against what urban renewal and freeway construction did to our cities. Especially when that infrastructure is paradoxically downtown and veritably underutilized #mlkpkwy
Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
They spent all that time complaining about crime in cities so they could implement their solution of killing people in cities.
#weekwithoutdriving off to a groggy start! #strongdesmoines #strongtowns
Hope I look a little less tired now!
Mighta had a hand in this, lol...
The car-centric lifestyle turns everyone else around you into an obstacle. In a city, I can think of few things more misanthropic.
Chris Arnade was the keynote speaker at the ST National Gathering in Providence this year. His thoughts in this article address how mistrust and overregulation in the US sometimes conspire against the greater good. Where do you see this happen locally?
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Two-wheeling around the new Fleur/Locust/Grand area!
Hit the 2k mark on the E-Bike earlier this week!
Reminder: When billionaires take control of communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
And when those billionaires justify their business motives by citing “freedom,” what they really seek is freedom from accountability.
Don't be fooled.
Dutch metal and a cool 11.67 mile commute? Can't beat it. Rad Runner 6 Des Moines, IA -> Norwalk, IA
Our first newsletter of 2025: the story of the latest housing development in Des Moines to get shot down and what you can do to support it.
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