The only criticism I have of the shooter is that he targeted non-entities whose value can be measured in their organs, almost certainly not even donated.

Our local recreation department, the ones who manage pools, seems like a great place to work. They also manage the concert halls, museums, and spots like the community farms within parks. There’s so much diversity and once you’re in with the city you can easily transfer wherever. I’d totally apply there if I wasn’t specialised in plants.

That can be a tricky circumstance but one that my local department would work around. At least here they always operate in crews of 2-4+ for safety reasons and my coworkers have no problem divvying up the driving duties. For inter-park vehicles like Toolcats, Gators, and mowers there’s no license required and those are the only things non-horticulturists drive.

Is your local parks department hiring seasonal workers? As a stop-gap, there has never been a job I’ve enjoyed more. You get to do real work for your community and they’re grateful for it to the point of thanking you multiple times per day. The pay sucks but it feels like the kind of job I’d do under communism.

I’m glad Colorado cities, Denver included, are starting to use photo and radar-enforcement of speed limits. Aggressive and reckless drivers still have to be reported over the phone but speeding is automatically penalised. It’s so much safer for me to hold an AR-15 than drive my car to work through my city. That AR-15 points in exactly two directions- down or at a specific target. I can guarantee nothing will happen whether I’m alone or in a huge crowd because I strictly control the safety. No matter how safe I drive, I could kill someone or an animal the next time I do so. It’s so much easier to manage chaotic situations on a bike.

Since getting an ebike last November I’ve become a proper micromobility evangelical, but I hate these companies. They use gig workers as mobile mechanics and otherwise never seem to actually interact with their fleet, allowing users around here to throw them into waterways and block wheelchair access on sidewalks. When I move the bike it screams at me because I didn’t pay it for the privilege. My city refuses to just do those rentals through a municipal fleet or contract it out to the bike co-op that is a massive community asset. Instead we get all the externalised costs of Uber with terrible bikes/scooters and no safety equipment.

Make them bleed.

The Happybadger Plan: replace the Olympics with the world invading Germany every four years.

I wish I had the public speaking talent to do it. This format of video gets a huge amount of engagement and would be perfect for a socialist to go one level deeper than Bordenaro or Uneducated Economist go. As far as I’ve seen, only Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t does something similar.

Lmao. Either way, lmao. If he’s dying, lmao. If he’s lying, lmao.

I’m used to the mountains where everything struggles to survive in a low-density environment. Florida’s swamps feel so alive compared to that. Half a dozen trophic levels stacked on top of each other in the same small space, each tree its own complex ecosystem. Then you get down to the lower Everglades and I’ve never seen anything like it, a literal sea of grass.

He’s the left’s version of this guy and does the best version of the genre as a result. There’s a proper sense of dérive to his videos while the right-wing Floridian with sunglasses never goes into the urbanism or how that creates the botany.

Kayaking with them at the mouth of the Everglades was a remarkable experience.

What’s your excuse for being this stupid?

I’m tired of being told that I can carry one medium dog by myself if I’m a Pell Grant recipient who starts a business in a disadvantaged community for three years. We need more from our elected leaders.

What if I go into a bank and there is a pair of robbers carrying a big dog?

Two people carrying a big dog together is a buddy system to ensure safety. We trust our troops with the buddy system, yet in society we entrust a big dog to a singular person and force them to carry it.

Real Shrek Fans are too busy watching Shrek 2 in our FULLY-anatomically correct Shrek suits.

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Very jealous. They’re so hit-or-miss in Colorado. I’ve only seen a couple in years of foraging.

I’m glad at least SOMEONE still cares about Easter. Everyone else conveniently stopped celebrating on 21 April.