Here’s the thing…yes, wearing a helmet is less safe than having bike infrastructure. No doubt about it.

But I don’t fucking HAVE safe bike infrastructure. Also, I am very involved in bike safety advocacy, so I’m not exactly just shirking all safety responsibility onto a silly hat and expecting things to be fine.

We can throw off the dualistic thinking for a second and acknowledge that, yes, helmets are a very imperfect solution that puts the onus of protection onto riders. Also, it’ll save your goddamn life.

If I didn’t wear a helmet, I never would have gotten married and my kiddo would never have been born. I’d have died on a sidewalk (or in an ambulance) on the side of a residential street on a multi-use path where a dumbass teenager was going 35mph the wrong way on an electric scooter at night.

Nationalize

Regardless of whether or not these particular comments are US intelligence, I am 100% convinced that Trump is going to try and make Alberta the Canadian Donbas.

They’ll do their little Wexit vote thing and they’ll lose, but there will be a massive amount of disinfo in all of the places you’d expect saying it was rigged, and they’ll just escalate from there. Who knows when the guns break out, but I feel like there are people down south who are planning on this leading to a military “liberation”

If you’d have told me even 4 months that there was a slight chance to beat PP, I’d have been ecstatic. I hope that his career (and the political feasibility of faschy candidates like him) implodes after tonight.

Ball bearings

Maybe a bit out of scope for “gardening”, but get to know how to sustain the life in both your garden as well as your community with as many sustainable inputs as possible.

Make your own compost and save your own seeds.

Network with people in your area.

Learn about the CSA farms in your area and see if you can contribute your little garden space to their effort in a collective manner in exchange for a complimentary CSA share (aka you use your entire plot to grow a large amount of some random veggie or herb to contribute to their program in exchange for a full season of their subscription).

Contribute excess veggies to the food bank.

Also, I hate to be “that guy”, but being a Canadian/American who pays attention to news headlines in both countries, I’ve gotta say that a shockingly substantial amount of your neighbors have no idea how fucked their world is going to be for the foreseeable future. Shit’s hitting the fan in a way that may be even bigger than 2008, and I feel like so many of us never actually recovered from that…

All that to say, “gardening” is really, really important now

Infrastructure and/or stagflation

They are going to destroy things we deeply love and hold to be sacred, as casual as we may normally feel about defining things as “sacred”

I mean, not yet. Give it a few months.

I feel like The Onion should host their own PeerTube instance, just for the sake of using an incredibly cheeky domain name like ifuckinghatewatching.video or something cooler like onion.media or something

My body is not ready for the amount of alcohol and dancing I am going to force myself to take part in on the day this motherfucker dies and goes to hell.

Literally, the most destructive and evil human on the planet since Hitler. I can’t wait until the worms get him. I kind of feel bad for them, but I guess it’s part of the job.

I’m not saying that governments are the most trustworthy institutions in the world, but as someone who tried to be an early adopter of blockchain from both a tech and a financial perspective, I immediately assume that anything that has the word “crypto” in it is deeply flawed and inherently untrustworthy. I’ve unfortunately learned this from experience.

I trust governments with fiat currency a hell of a lot more than I trust anything that has to do with crypto.

For me it’s the sensory of the hot water, breathing in the steam, and having a place to be alone. My life is wall-to-wall tasking these days…being a parent with ADHD who has a toddler and a type-A personality partner who loves to delegate tasks is existentially exhausting.

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This is amazing, thank you!

I’ll have to check out Bike Talk! I’m a HUGE war on cars fan, I donate to their patreon and have merch haha.

I also live in Canada so the fact that it still feels relevant to you is great.

One finger victory salute

“Be Evil”

Taking the insanely massive emissions of the AI industry, it may not be genocide in the traditional sense, but it’s contributions alone will lead to people dying