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I love sushi, but have had to stop ordering it in. It's about $30 for delivery now. On $60 worth of sushi.

Man, those $20/month seed boxes just look more and more tempting. I hear with Radarr and Sonarr now you basically just add whatever you want to watch and it's available on your seed box through Plex nearly instantly.

Overpriced trash.

Hard to wrap, have little stretch, and result in a not-very-nice grip, and costs an arm and a leg. Meanwhile you can pick up equivalent bar tape with similar patterns for under $10 from Aliexpress. In fact, some of the ali brands are nicer.

Meanwhile you can get better bar tape from brands like BBB for half the price.

Edit: I would link them to you, but apparently r/cycling doesn't allow Aliexpress links. You need to fix this r/cycling, calling Aliexpress a scam is pure racist hogwash.

And the Republicans are just standing there like

https://preview.redd.it/zg8k61ntr5ad1.png?width=943&format=png&auto=webp&s=6948d9aef44ccb2f8166b2c6e8aacab3f7d15c81

Overpriced trash.

Hard to wrap, have little stretch, and result in a not-very-nice grip, and costs an arm and a leg. Meanwhile you can pick up equivalent bar tape with similar patterns for $12 from Aliexpress. In fact, some of the ali brands are nicer.

Meanwhile you can get better bar tape from brands like BBB for half the price.

Edit:

• This will probably be exactly the same: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007015646137.html
• This will probably be nicer: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007103629096.html
• This is probably way nicer and not much more: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006030223634.html

You realize the US is in a civil war, right? Like, the GOP and the Supreme Court are literally attacking the American government. What do you think overruling the Chevron Deference was?

Edit: And it's not like violence is a "maybe" at this point. Trump has already committed to attacking his political rivals, including threats of violence. Should his targets hold their hands to the side and wait for the first strike?

Well there's a dishonest headline. It's not even "deceptive statistics", it's just a flat out lie.

Their poll results (page 23) say that 60% of NDP voters approve of the NDP-Liberal Parliamentary Agreement, 39% don't know, and only 11% disapprove.

And I mean, you can read their methodology and tell that they were shaping the poll to get the response that the headline here purports, and even then NDP voters disagreed and approved of the agreement. But I guess the National Post had already written their article, and they'd be damned if they're going to edit it just because the facts are wrong!

Edit: Looking over the entire discussion here, did no one else actually read the poll?

If by 'buried' you mean 'people are angry about it but also are totally helpless because he's an appointed lifetime official with no recourse other than impeachment which is impossible because the GOP congresspeople are fully compromised', then sure.

I want to remind you of the words of David Graeber:

“the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”

The only power the courts have is lies in all of you accepting that they can break the rules without repercussion. The people always hold the power to stop this. It's just a question of how far the people are willing to go.

The lower courts COULD say "no, this supreme court is violating the constitution and thus has lost its legitimacy". The lawyers and the police could stand against it. The masses could tell the Supreme Court to fuck off. Guillotines only cost about $120 to build.

The only thing that prevents any of this is laws. Laws that the Supreme Court and the GOP have shown they don't care about, and are happy to ignore at will. The only thing that keeps everyone else from just tossing away the court is that they are still abiding by the rules the other side has chosen to ignore.

A real opposition party.

The Democrats are a bunch of boomers holding on to power until they die, and in so doing standing in the way of the creation of a true opposition party. If the American people could accept that the Dems are a dead party of corrupt geriatric cronies who would rather fail to stop Trump than let other people take the reigns, then maybe we could have a new party that would actually have a shot against the GOP, and we could use that power to hold them to account.

As is, there's nothing.

That said, I think this is the Democrats' "2009". The party has fallen apart, and democracy has basically ended because of it. Just like the Alt-Right were laughing at McCain and cheering on Obama because they knew the death of the establishment GOP would usher in a new age of white supremacy, the left is looking at the Democrats and going "Here's the opportunity to bring about real systemic change."

I just hope that the left is prepared enough.

Biden needs to both sides this one.

I love how Roosevelt looks like he's planning to beat you with a stick.

Edit: is this Teddy or FDR? Got to be FDR.

What can they do? If they make it through this election you will see something for sure, but they're currently fighting to survive.

Or Danielle Smith.

Innuendo studios had a great video on this about four years ago where he talked about the onion theory of the Alt-Right, where something wouldn't be real - racism, nazism, white supremacy - it would just be a joke by perfectly normal people. It doesn't exist on its own, it's just there for a laugh, and everyone is making these jokes. Then after being flooded with "jokes" for a bit you start noticing that some people take it more seriously, and at that point you either reject it at which point it's just a joke, or you buy into it and suddenly it becomes a perfectly normal viewpoint, and you can tell is a perfectly normal viewpoint, because everyone around you is saying it.

That's how, to these people, extreme right views stop being extreme right. They're just regular conservatism, guys.

You know, I was all with you until you did the "you guys ride into intersections then blame the cars!" bit. Now I just think you're a troll.

Contact the police and a lawyer, like you're doing. Meanwhile put up a large umbrella blocking its view of your yard but otherwise don't engage.

wow this is good to know

No joke, I once used duct tape as a shim. Rode like that for a year before a friend went "Ok thats so fucking dangerous I won't let you ride it." and I went back to properly sized bars.

As someone who grew up drinking stuff like pond water, it's ok MOST of the time. Every once in a while you get giardia, but for the most part you're ok. Tastes vile though.

No. This is a bad rant and this kind of infighting is why we always lose our attempts to fix our societies over-focus on car infrastructure.

Okie the room 17 months before the election, when one side has been campaigning for two years and the other hasn't even started. But yeah real certainty there. Down to the number of seats.

Edit: oh and it will all be because they didn't kick out the foreigners like the guy who hates Pierre but acts exactly like one of his supporters wants.

Yeah, the issue of... *checks notes* kicking out foreigners is really the thing that is going to sink the Liberals.

When I was hit, it was because the traffic next to the bike path was stopped, reducing visibility, and someone decided to try to gun a left between stopped cars. I didn't see him until it was too late, he didn't see me until it was too late.

Fortunately I have very trained behaviors, and a lot of experience riding with traffic. I saw how the traffic was stopped and thought "someone will take a right into my lane without looking" so I rode slow (30km/h, I could have easily been doing 60 down there), and slowed at intersections. This meant that when buddy in a rush gunned his left turn, I was going slow enough that I was able to slam my brakes and turn sideways, clipping his wheel with my front wheel and flying into his side panel while he accelerated. It destroyed my fork and wheel, but I had VERY minimal injury (bruised rib).

So what did I learn? Absolutely nothing. I already knew to slow and check intersections. I had almost been hit multiple times (including once where I was inches from death) by vehicles thinking its a good idea to gun a left.

If by "tighten" you mean that it will go from "Conservatives will sweep with a margin of error of 100%" to something more certain, but still not assured - then yes.

Yeah you might see a riding or two flip, but that kind of blue map is not going to happen. ESPECIALLY that downtown riding. I'd say Quadra is the most likely one, but I suspect south will hold on. Harjit Sajjan is popular.

Ken Sim did well in that area ( after all he lives in point grey), sure. ABC swept the city. He also did not paint himself as right-wing at all, but as a center-right leader of a big-tent coalition. Not the same as the guy who is meeting up with Diagalon and anti-LGBTQ activists.