jack speyside

a funny tbing about commuter trucks is how most have a hard cover over the bed that stats o 99.99% of tbe time and you use the tailgate to slide things into the covered bed space, thats just a trunk, reinvented from first principles

it is kinda funny that (outside of p niche diagnostic use like telling if kids in a very specific age range might have developmental delays, telling if old ppl in a specific age range might have cpgnitive impairment) thinking a high IQ makes you smart is a good predictor of someone being stupid.

i am interested* in the new call of duty, which is set in a fictional 2026 Korean war, like. it is very funny how Call of Duty is going to implicitly chastise North Korea. "They're all hyper-indoctrinated, militaristic zealots who think only of imperialist conquest!", bro...

one of my healthy lifestyle changes is i just get sushi and maki at my lunch place instead of the best deal, which is the tempura bento, and now days when i crave fried food they still say "same as usual?" (meaning sushi) and i just reflexively say "yes please". virtuous cycle.

I always think about what Mac from Always Sunny said about his transformation

anyway last one but if you are mad we voted for "decreasing immigration to more sustainable levels, prioritizing economic migration and giving Albertans first priority on new employment opportunities", i hope you are mad that this is already the Liberal government's immigration policy for Canada!

it's honestly kind of wild to watch 50+ years of "noooo the coups and corporate malfeasance weren't part of the plannnnn we were just trying to promote democracyyyyy" liberal revisionism get one-shotted by the stupidest man on the planet

i am normally a drop set guy but i saw the rock using 2 rest pauses on his last set, idk looked really hard, might have to try

theres a similar number of traffic fatalities and murders in our city every year, and unlike murders we could prevent basically all the traffic deaths, like, for sure; the tools and techniques are tested and proven and we already have them available.

an annoying thing for shooter games is that most guns that need to eject a spent casing before firing again have the ejection port on the right, to deflect hot brass away from right handed users (90% of users). this means if you model/animate the action faithfully, the player won't see that work.

thought all lunch about how when we find out about the nice stuff that bosses and rich guys have (or their fancy food or their wasteful hobbies) we get mad at the nice stuff, instead of the fact that it's only for rich guys. fucked up. we need to believe that progress is possible again.

i miss bao bao :(

the thing is, nobody knew they wanted star wars before they saw it. nobody had a latent yearning they were vocalizing in inner monologue alone for space samurai/wizards to fight nazis. people do not know everything they want or everything they like; discovering these things about yourself is a joy!

from the man himself

if you live in the suburbs or the exurbs or the country like, fucking stay there and let people in the city run the city. you get the benefit of the city being there without contributing. what a sweet deal, you get like, an airport and a pro hockey team, w/o the work. so let us do the fucking work.

it's very funny how we should have direct democracy for the reactionaries and extremists, but not to like, to let people elect a local government. but i am heartened that letting rural voters dictate how big cities run should hurt them in the one place that matters next year, calgary.

when i left to walk the dogs i said "dang, stock-making weather' but by the time i got home it seemed more like bbq weather.

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

its hard to be optimistic about the future when the present is at its most backwards. but fascism is the death rattle of this world order, its decay in excess. not an aberration, but its contradictions sharpened to their finest points. they invoke fascism out of weakness, not strength.