oh my god this looks AMAZING 🤩

Anyways, you now have a moral obligation to never use Cursor ever again. Sorry.

oh god I can't even imagine the Mojave no matter what gear you wear! 😂

Yeah I’m pleasantly surprised by how much I don’t even think about it/notice I’m wearing it. My track kit is leather, and my commuter kit is waterproof, so those are already saunas. I so rarely get to wear my breathable stuff 🤣 and SF doesn’t get THAT hot very often.

The reason I take it seriously is that I want to either die or be fine. I am not interested in losing a limb or having my expensive tattoos scraped away. Having to learn to walk again. Etc. My choices are binary, and I’m not ready to make my pets orphans 🤣

Oh same I love my textile stuff, but I also recognize that it’s not as protective as other gear. There’s degrees of protection, and sometimes I sacrifice some of that for a little comfort 😅

Yeah there’s a built in back protector, plus all the inflation. That way the back protector is closest in to your body, rather than yeeting out with the airbag as it inflates 🤣

This is one that goes under instead of on top. I think it'll be warm on a hot day, but not significantly more than any other gear that I would actually trust. The back protector is a bigger footprint. The bag isn't breathable 😂 but even vented quality gear is warm!

This is one that goes under the gear. And yeah, it'll be warm. The tex areas are actually good at airflow, but the areas where the bag is are, obviously, not able to let air pass through. The back protector is pretty warm. I don't think it's significantly different from any other back protector tho.

Now I simply must become wealthy enough that I can buy these for everyone I love.

I caved and picked up the Alpinestars TechAir 5 Plasma airbag vest. I am.... so impressed with this thing. It is astoundingly comfortable, and the auto-arm/disarm when you zip it up is fuckin' rad. I was a doubter, but I am now a convert.

The only A.I. I support is Abolish ICE.

Dunked on this yesterday but in reality the first order of business needs to be punishment. I'm not kidding. We can't start fixing anything until we punish, and punish hard, the people who put us here. That needs to be done to send a message. And if we don't punish, nothing else will matter.

God I miss that. Also the tiny iPod shuffle that clipped onto a pocket or whatever and only held a tiny amount of music but had the lord's own battery life and satisfying clicky controls. It was so simple and good.

it's whatever is the reverse of what triggers people with trypophobia

it's so................. bulbous

This is such a good distinction & I feel like quote posting is one of the main culprits for destroying it on social media. That brief thrill of slapping someone who upset you across the face while also putting a target on them so they get slapped 50 more times & start punching back? Not worth it.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Record profits are unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.

also, you know, as folks mention in the comments: everyone's terrified of losing their employer provided health insurance on top of everything else, just at the moment they decided to destroy subsidies so no one can afford to get insured on the exchange, and covid wrecked so many people's health

So far the only SF senator campaign mail I have received is a deluge of anti-Saikat stuff from "Abundant Future" and it is impressive just how much this makes me more likely to vote for him.

as far as i can tell pope leo has never mentioned trump by name hes just like “killing people is wrong” or “concentration camps arent good” and theyre all taking it personally

I love how in ballet when a guy wants to show how manly he is, he demonstrates how many times he can twirl while also jumping very high, and also how very tight his pants can be. I think we should return to this traditional expression of masculinity.

samuel beckett was born on this day 120 years ago. astonishing to think that if he had survived, and could run 100m in 9.57 seconds, he would be not only the oldest but also the fastest man in the world - together with his nobel prize for literature, an astonishing trifecta

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

Dilley is evil and must be closed. It's a goddamn concentration camp. A moral abomination. People are going to Hell over this.

I think a lot about how the percentage of American men not reading is less because there aren't books that could appeal to men (duh), and more that genuinely dark forces have worked to suck all of their attention towards self-destruction.

The same people who "not all men!" get really mad if survivors of sexual assault assumed that maybe not all men.

Yesterday I was behind a clapped out 90s Tacoma with a bumper sticker on it that said "One Less Tesla" and I loved it then, and I love it even more now.

EARS EARS EARS 🥺