100%. I don't think I've spent more than $2K, let alone $3K on my family's current camping gear from tent to cooler and everything in between.
Resident normie on this site.
100%. I don't think I've spent more than $2K, let alone $3K on my family's current camping gear from tent to cooler and everything in between.
You buy the type of handmade tents they use to climb Mt. Everest for less than the cyber tent. It's such an amazing scam. Almost gotta hand it to 'em.
So glad these guys are back.
Nothing makes me feel older than how much content on the internet these days is video. Bring back blog posts, man. Let me read your thoughts. I know this is mostly a symptom of monetization practices, video is much more lucrative, but I dislike it so much.
Just to add:
Bears Among Men - album
I am a bike guy. I don't own a car. Haven't for over a decade. But I've been hit by cars a couple times (only one major one that luckily only put my bike out of commission and not me) and had close calls way more than that. I live in a city with decent, for America, infrastructure with 100 miles of protected bikes lanes. And I get why safety wise, people aren't ready to do it. I am taking my life into my own hands in a way every time I get on my bike and try to share the road with motorists, who are insane.
Like, I think the term 'carbrain' has gotten over used a bit by urbanists and anti-car folks because it is such a tantalizing term. But it's certainly not without its use. Something happens to people when they drive cars. They become impatient and entitled on a way that borders on psychological transformation. I've never seen an average American more entitled to break the law than when they are a motorist. The speed limit is a suggestion, if you're not going at least five miles over it, you're not really driving. There is almost no other activity in American culture I can think of where people suddenly become rule breakers like this (and there should be many times where it would actually be good to break the law and they don't!), but they suddenly think the most important thing in the world is for them to get where they are going and literally fuck everyone else.
How many times have any of us seen people double park or otherwise put their car in everyone's way and just throw on their flashers as if 'fuck everyone else, my shit is more important' than we do with motorists? I can't really think of any other situation where this happens so publicly, so nakedly as it does when people drive.
And the anger driving causes in folks, I think mostly comes from the cognitive dissonance of their behavior in their car and knowing, deep down, that it is wrong. That they shouldn't be doing a lot of things they do in their vehicles. Stuff like pedestrians and bikers, who they literally have license to kill (look at the average criminal punishment for murdering someone with a vehicle versus literally any other way one can kill another human being and notice how little consequence there is for ending a human life while driving), remind them of the fact that their decisions are bad. Similar to how certain people get so angry about vegans/vegetarians. It's the guilty that drives fear and turns it into rage. And that rage, in turn, makes them even more deadly.
Driving is hard. It's demanding. And honestly it should have a much higher bar for who can do it because it is so dangerous. But, we've completely destroyed people's ability to get to most places in our society without cars. So, until we make it safe and easy for folks not to drive, we're stuck in this hellish predicament.
Rambling today, I guess.
Man, how have I never heard of this? Looks like a Godfrey Ho film, or Samurai Cop. Definitely going to watch this.
This whole album, front to back, is perhaps my favorite release of the year so far. Just non-stop hits for each track. I can see why they basically released half of it as singles ahead of time, every single song is probably worthy of being one.
Petition to force anyone calling their political rivals "skinny fat" to post their squat personal best or shut the fuck up.
Forcing all our users to engage in equal air time laws that don't even apply to major news corporations any more. This is all very normal.
Nice. Cool thing about MBT is that it basically runs along the red line of the metro, so if you get tired of walking/biking, you can just grab the train on the way back. Enjoy. It's honestly a cool city and I think most people that hate it confine themselves to the politics part of the town, which is not a small part, but there's so much more to the city than just the strivers on the hill and the neighborhoods they live in.
Definitely take advantage of the fact that all the museums and the zoo are free. Few major cities with this level of amenities just let you walk in and pay nothing. The art galleries on the mall are very good if you're into that sort of thing. The zoo is reasonably good if that's appealing as well.
Rock Creek Park is a pretty uniquely rustic park for being in the middle of a city. Good hiking/biking paths. You can use capital bike share easily enough to take a scenic ride. Especially down Beach, which the southern half of was completely closed off to cars. The zoo can actually be got to off of Rock Creek Trail very easily.
If you like urban bike baths, the Metropolitan Branch Trail is also very good. Goes from Union station up to neighborhoods that aren't often seen by tourists. You can hike this too, of course. On Saturdays, there's a brewery on this path that has good BBQ set-up outside.
I second the Air and Space museum that's way out in Virginia, near the Dulles airport. It's kind of a pain to get to and you have to pay for parking, but you get to see some seriously historical craft including the space shuttle Discovery.
Get some Ethiopian and El Salvadorian food while you're in town. Sadly, most of the good ethnic food in the area is in the suburbs, but those two have great representation in the city and are a bit unique as well.
Oh, I haven't thought about The Browning in a minute. I should go back and listen some. They seem ahead of the curve these days given all the electronic elements in the new Bad Omens and Bring Me the Horizon albums that just came out.
Enjoy, man. Knocked Loose definitely putting the hardcore element of metalcore back at the forefront and it rules.
I agree the lyrics rule, but I just don't get that stank face, ready to run into a brick wall feeling I get from a lot of the other tracks and the first Slaughterhouse. Maybe that's not what they were going for and it's a me problem.
Slaughterhouse 1 goes so hard, one of my favorite gym tunes. Maybe it's because of that or just because the rest of this album fucks so much, but I found this track to be a bit of let down by comparison.
They originally started off as more moderate, even liberal if memory serves. They had a couple older videos on their YouTube for a while before they found their niche with some random more conservative video. They were always just looking to be influencers in the political sphere and literally let the algorithm push them to saying whatever got them the most hits, fame and money.
This is the correct way to wipe out an internet account. Get all your info off first.
Facebook has also been confirmed to create "shadow" accounts of people that fit into holes in their web of social networks. Honestly, your best bet may may to just delete everything from your account but not your account itself to maintain at least a little control over who "you" are to Facebook.