Reading is magic What will happen in our second peasanthood

Too thought provoking not to share.
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‘I feel like I’m losing her’: the families torn apart by older relatives going far right It starts with a ‘back in my day’ nostalgic meme – then suddenly your elders are sharing AI-generated ‘boomerslop’ and repeating conspiracy theories …

Wilford identifies “nostalgia porn” as a common first step on a radicalisation pathway. Good old-fashioned “back in my day” content is now getting the AI treatment.
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child in the 80s who watched this, yes

No nightmares tho!

“Skyconomy”

That is a lot of onions! I miss it for some things, but then I massage my thumb scar and I’m like “no, it’s okay, these scalloped potatoes can be a little rustic”

A related point I like to make: The act of riding a bike is inherently very safe. The danger comes from cars.

Close up of a scarred thumb On

Thumbs up to that! With my mandolin-scarred thumb.

(We ditched the mandolin)

Here’s hoping you make it to 204!

I propose July 23 as an unofficial Manitoba holiday — the 204th day of the year.

(Yes, I know we have Manitoba Day on May 12. Both is good, let’s have fun.)

(July 22nd in leap years.)

There’s still a federal sales tax on bicycles.

Why weekends are under threat Just like Uber and Facebook, weekends thrive because of something known as network effects. Always-on work culture weakens them.

On the network effect of the weekend: “The essential characteristic of the weekend is not just the having of a day off, but rather that other people have the day off.” [thehustle.co]

I know I know it’ll never work.

Yes, transferring a windfall from the government instead to the oil and gas industry.

A better option would have been for Carney to take this “found money” and use it as a one-off fund for something like EV rebates (including e-bikes), or public transit.

Can we talk about the real gas tax, which is that we’ve designed cities that require expensive vehicles to get around?

As a fellow hit-by-car-became-bike-activist, welcome to the club, I guess? Glad you’re okay — your post about exhaustion brought back visceral memories. It gets better! Glad you’re okay. Take good care of yourself!

Yeah, need more of a disappointed tinge, at least to describe my personal and anecdotal experience. Anyway, very Canadian of us to not work harder for measurable results.

For sure. Could some of it be lack of language for this? Maybe this is less of a boycott and more of a shunning.

Make this a puzzle @aplante.com

I don’t know of any data, but it’s certainly plausible that redirected Canadian tourism/shopping spend has reinforced intra-Canadian ties, or ties with Europe, say.

“Breaking up with my toxic ex gave me the space to make new friends” is good, even if said ex stays toxic.

I know what you’re saying, but sometimes you break up with people because you *can’t* change them.

Girls Just Want to Have Lunch YouTube video by "Weird Al" Yankovic - Topic

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Oh I know, that was a humorously intentional misunderstanding

Honestly, 3-4 bags would test me too

I want a bag of sour skittles right now

Just to crib Jan's great chart here a little bit - here are just a few of the headlines that came out when growth somewhat slowed in 2024

Many, many media outlets do not really know how to handle technological change like this

Yes! And it’s also far better to have said “non bike rider” getting in your way on a bike than that same person getting in your way in a car or truck!

Yup. It’s one reason I try to get car people just to dip a toe in the walk/bike waters. Expanding their lived experience can help a lot with developing empathy.

Most of the time I think they are just impatient and not malicious, but they don’t realize how menacing it is to be on the other side of the hood!

I feel the need to note, hubris is *really commonly* misused in English.-

Hubris (ὕβρις) is not just arrogance or pride, but rather it is an *action* (there's a verb, ῠ̔βρῐ́ζω) - an insult or affront to an equal or superior designed to humiliate them which is born out of excessive arrogance or pride.

Nice. More foods should have double entendre names.