I think if my apartment complex’s recycling bin had a chicken bucket, I would be tempted to put more things there instead of the river.

That is going to be such a brilliant collaboration. His character on On Cinema is perfect for an Alex Jones pivot.

So now you’re getting bizarre initiatives like a partnership with KFC for “charge and eat” service stations:

Could this be the key to getting Americans to electrify? We could even integrate fried chicken into other socially positive behaviours like taking the bus or recycling.

I’m not losing I’m not losing I have hella french fries actually STOP

It’s the best framework I’ve found for Marxist scientific philosophy. I’m not good enough at mathematics to thrive in a lab, but I can absorb interdisciplinary theory to spot contradictions and resolve them. Science becomes a holistic feedback loop driving community and ecological participation/wellbeing, creating the conditions for others to do natural experiments instead of just passively observing and classifying. The revolutionary project tied to it brings a moral and ethical framework that can’t be corrupted in the ways bourgeois science is.

One of my favourite theorists is the Marxist evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin. In books like The Dialectical Biologist and Biology as Ideology, he studied the dialectic between organism and environment to understand biology in its wider context. The role of a Marxist scientist is to be anti-Cartesian, pushing for a broader intersectional understanding of a subject with the intent of changing something through political means instead of reductively isolating things until they reinforce existing power structures. My horticulture and socioecology work is doing Marxist geography with plants that I understand through Marxist ethics/biology. Nature is the proof of dialectics and each plant is nothing but internal and external dialectics across spacetime. The praxis of the work is creating the most scientifically valid space that achieves the greatest socioecological mission over time, transforming the city’s greenspace in line with my Marxist urbanism, art theory, and pedagogy views. Nothing has been more important for my work than a formal and applied understanding of dialectical materialism.

I am tired of seeing people raw dog pavement at motorcycle speed.

nature’s cheese grater. The first motorcycle crash I responded to taught me that the face is the crumple zone of the skull and that it doesn’t always feel good to save a life. Even the debridement for severe road rash is where medicine gets medieval.

I just took a trip to NYC. By and large it wasn’t bad- I really didn’t have too many complaints about the early accomplishments of his administration- but the police kept stopping me and asking if I had a license to not be pregnant. When I told them I didn’t know it was the law, they called me “bourgeois”.

I call that the Dog Move. If I’m in an argument with someone and I need an easy way of asserting dominance, Dog Move. Full eye contact, full dog.

Congrats! That looks like a solid basic model for getting into them.

• With it being a cheap bike, my main concern would be vibrational stress on the frame and components. You’re going to want a multitool that fits every bolt on the bike. Tighten everything between rides.

• Cheap tyres have poor grip and are easy to puncture. You’ll get a lot of benefit on bad terrain by upgrading to Schwalbe tyres with a sealed inner tube. I use Schwalbe Marathon Plus on my commuter bike, Schwalbe Pick-up on my cargo bike. Inside I use a sealant called Slime.

• Pannier bags are your best option for cargo, but with that frame and size of battery you’ll want to keep it light with 2-4 bags of groceries. A milk box on the back would also work well and can be combined with side panniers.

• You can’t spend enough on your helmet. I also use a reinforced motorcycle jacket, reinforced crash gloves, and when it’s cold out I use heated gloves and a balaclava. At 32kmh you’re basically falling off a one floor building and ebikes feel deceptively slow. Even if you splurge, the cost of your safety gear will be less than the time/opportunity/financial cost of breaking any bone.

• Security comes from obscurity. Every lock can be broken and what you’re buying with a better one is the number of minutes it takes. I use a kryptonite ulock with a cable lock weaved through the frame as obnoxiously as possible. I always park near better bikes or ones that have worse locks, always in the most public place possible. The goal is to just make my bike the most inconvenient one they could steal for the risk.

• They sell cheap fire bags for batteries. I use this one (https://www.amazon.com/Zeee-Fireproof-Charging-Explosionproof-Capatity/dp/B0BPSDY844/) for charging safety and transporting them outside of the bike. If I parked outside overnight I’d bring the battery inside for safety and temperature regulation, covering the empty port so water doesn’t rust the mount.

I do wish I had gotten one earlier, it’s a lot of fun. A little too much fun. I worry this is going to unlock a yearning for a motorcycle

Whenever I think “wow a motorcycle/moped would be the more capable version of this”, I ask myself if I want to ride in traffic or not. The good thing about my ebike is the total freedom of movement over the most convenient and safest surface. It’s what allows me to ride almost every day of the year even if I’m just slowly crawling over ice. On a motorcycle I’m stuck paying for the privilege to use infrastructure I hate as the least safe thing on it.

Social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism.

To me that’s a case of “Tragic: the worst person you know made a good point+that point hurt them”. Right-wing “antizionism” is bad because it’s rooted in antisemitism instead of antifascism, but Israeli funding is concentrated in the right wing of both parties. Heightening the contradictions benefits my goals more than maintaining continuity since it’s fewer votes for Israel’s interests that would otherwise be guaranteed. His assassination proved to be a rupture point for the right-wing grifter ecosystem that was previously uniformly supporting zionist politicians. If Israel killed him, it’s a big miscalculation that ended up limiting the cultural reach of the US right and its support for Israel.

Yes but you get Kitsap Bangor and galleys with a panini bar. Non-dolphins get slop on a ship.

My reactionary parents definitely soured marriage and parenthood for me. Ethically I barely feel comfortable with conditional pet ownership. Causing CPTSD in a child with a dysfunctional environment would be the most destructive thing I do in my life. Climate change is still my big deciding factor, but I’ve seen how those power dynamics fail and how the material stressors of both feed into those toxic dynamics. If I can’t guarantee I wouldn’t fall into the same trap I’m not willing to expose a kid to that risk.

At the same time, it’d be nice to be a positive influence for a kid. I’m not opposed to adopting if I’m in a stable long-term relationship with another communist and own a homestead. That child’s environment just has to be a sanctuary from an otherwise dehumanising society.

I love that it’s actually a conspiracy. Hell yeah whoever did it, hell yeah for whatever reason.

I was going to go with “Trump = no bipartisanship”.

This is going be the one that FINALLY achieves it. I am READY and PREPARED. Someone is FINALLY going to look at my sign and say “nice sign dude pretty funny”.

I see it like submariners getting the best food and pay in a navy. The moment you pay attention to your environment or consider the hope of rescue, you’re the most vulnerable human alive. You’re in a bathtub at the top of a burning skyscraper and all the forces of nature want to kill you instantly if a single component fails. If I couldn’t distract myself with jokes, it’d be like emergency medicine or leftist politics where the reality is horrifying beyond comprehension. I’d last like a week in space before I’m kissing soil for being safe.

Agrovoltaics would be such a nice technology for countering a lot of the problems facing Colorado. We don’t have enough rain to support most agriculture, but we also don’t have enough snowmelt to fulfill the river contracts they’re entitled to for artificial irrigation. Our fossil fuel plants face a problem where the Rockies trap and recirculate air, compounding pollution effects. We get like 25-50% more UV radiation than sea-level and we’re in the historic dustbowl from soil erosion. The corn and cattle they dedicate land to are a market consumers can no longer afford, only existing to poison and degrade the landscape.

I think I might print these as vinyl stickers with the websites of local rescues/shelters underneath to slap everywhere.