yeah the simplified formula of the second season is a mild letdown. the setups for season 3 is still intriguing and the detective work is still satisfying. but future of the sport remains the best the show has to offer

Poker Face!

Looks like Ian Paice has been consistent

Richmond, VA has a few of these. the most famous one is GWAR

and in the times you must speak to a human, it’s someone who’s coming to you deeply interested in your big tree diagram of reindeer

this is also who ICE has been all along. Black people and irregular migrants have been trying to explain it for 2 decades now. people with access to power to do anything just simply didn’t listen

you also made gridiron football watchable, and have never gotten the credit that the CFL deserves

amusingly, strategically in gridiron football it is to your advantage to run the clock any time you have any lead no matter the down, distance, or quarter. the load management of the game makes it so that it’s to your offense’s advantage with a lead to keep the opposing defense on the field as the clock runs.

gridiron football is a game of action in which the goal of the action is to maintain inaction. contrast with the other american pastime sport, baseball. that’s a game of inaction in which the goal of the inaction is to suddenly spark action. and the very most exciting game in baseball is the one where one pitcher renders the other team completely inactive.

us americans are a confounding bunch. there’s a reason Canada had to be who invented our third most popular sport, basketball

food! food is such a great communicator of who you are and what you’ve experienced

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Grange

fraternal order with an overall left-wing populist stand on most things founded right after the civil war. fundamentally, granges represent a form of mutual aid with a bit more structure, a bit more hierarchy, and a bit more pre-existing connections into local communities than starting a new mutual aid project from scratch.

they’re a bit more direct in how they seek to help people through politics than things like the odd fellows or rotary clubs, but also a little bit more explicitly political. that said, for the experience of being in a church and removing harmful aspects, they have a lot of the same features:

• community meetings
• broad coordination of support across long distances
• a purposeful attempt to influence society at large through outreach and financial influence

look for granges and mutual aid projects. that’s been my experience. they offer the community and the mutual support, put without the guilt, shame, and hate

places with above ground lines are effectively low priority for the municipality and utility companies. it’s the common way in places where it’s common because short term benefits are always treated as more important than long term benefits

ah! a duck foot friend! i’ve had my best luck with vivobarefoot for closed toe options

i’ve had really good luck with Klean Kanteen’s TKWide line. highly recommend. they’re also the only one i know who has any ethical certifications. the others as far as all i know are run ethically, the board of directors promises

the biggest hurdle i see right now to expanding the threadiverse is how often people here are just absolute assholes to each other.

i think bicameralism has a place IF we actually learn from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy instead of just half ass copy their homework like we did last time. we gotta do it right and actually build anti-authoritarian systems into our ways of being. our founding fathers were a bunch of oligarchs who were still pretty sure an enlightened autocrat might be the way

not trying to. just trying to imply that in order for the youth to listen i have to talk to them in a way they’d wanna hear

there’s a lot of good replies here that approach the issue from different angles. the biggest one being “who benefits from mass surveilance.” in this current climate, that is the cops. the cops have spent the last 15 years showing us that they are not accountable to anyone or anything. you propose that video evidence will help hold cops accountable. my issue is that we already have video evidence in many cases and they’re still not. take it back to Rodney King, if you want. the cops have never faced consequence even when it’s clear they’re in the wrong.

so then what happens with more surveillance availabe? the police have an easier time carrying out their activities, which so often includes extra judicial killings. the reason us americans are wary of expanding the surveilance state is we’ve been doing that every year since 2002. none of us are safer. the extrajudicial killings have not stopped, they’ve only gotten more visible and are used as a form of terrorism. i understand where you’re coming from that you find our attitude odd, but a lot of it stems from first hand experience that more evidence of police wrongdoing continues to not bring us closer to any police reform

chopped as in the AAVE use, or the co-opted TikTok use?

To piggy back onto what @[email protected] has said, it may be worthwhile for you (depending on your threat model) to also add the Molly repo to your f-droid client of choice and install Molly as your Signal client. It’s wholly compatible with signal with some additional security features. However, the more repo sources you add the more risk you’re at for a bad actor taking control of one of those repos. It’s not a question I can answer for you directly, it’s just what I’m doing.

(and I realize now after writing all this that @[email protected] already said this)