I have a bottle of Dr. Bronners soap that I use for everything

He can’t even buy a chatbot’s love with 44 billion dollars.

Cyberdengism 2077

Yep. Working in emergency I’ve seen three important things:

1. What can technically qualify as “surviving” the sort of injury that would make me a candidate for organ donation. I don’t want to be a prisoner in my body and our MAID laws require that you can physically lift a cup of poison and drink it. Every part of that process seems unimaginably painful if I’m even capable of processing pain.

2. How bleak nursing homes are. If I survive that injury, the only place I can afford is one where a CNA makes near-minimum wage to handle 20+ patients with complex needs.

3. How hopeless being on the transplant list is. Organ failure seems absolutely torturous. With lung failure they come into emergency drowning on room air. With heart failure their legs swell until it’s like they have gout. Dialysis and liver failure are horror shows. Those people are forced to play a pain lottery to survive. If I go to my grave with my organs like a pharaoh I’m just killing X number of people arbitrarily as the last thing I ever do.

David “I murdered my own daughter and all I got was this lousy health insurance plan” Frum, a serious person

Very clearly laying out why the for-profit medical system murdered his daughter

Let’s see what David Frum thinks about the public medical system which would have given his daughter adequate treatment to begin with:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-practical-case-against-medicare-for-all/

Oh. Of course he condemns everyone else’s children to death while expecting sympathy for his little Romanov.

The Jake Paul 1 Million Grandpas Challenge

No grandpa is safe. Fans will throw their own grandpas into the ring. He will defeat them one-by-one.

Liberals when they find out their liberal funding base also gets delisted:

The mainstream media won’t, but all those telegram channels? The subreddits dedicated to drone gore? The actual mercenaries coming back and finding out that everyone hates them, they have no medical care, and it was all for nothing? Those are where I think the next donkey of the week assassin will come from. There’s a whole parallel media stream for being radicalised over Ukraine. And that’s to say nothing of the military-industrial complex demons losing out on what’s probably their most profitable war since Iraq/Afghanistan.

I’m looking forward to Ukrainian nationalists blaming him for their loss.

Objectively the right wing of the moderate wing of fascism.

I think he’s still destined for a spectacular crash and burn.

2025: his obnoxious bullshit and ego make Trump hate him even more. DOGE proves to be one of the most unpopular things about the administration and it cuts the social programmes that are lifelines for the average republican, maybe fucking their chances in 2026/2028.

2026: They have a big fallout, maybe in response to backlash over him cutting like a third of the federal budget or him trying to play shadow president

2027: Trump sabotages his federal funding out of spite/dislike for EVs. Tesla by this point is a MAGA hat you can drive and its share price is corrected to reflect the lost subsidies/sales. Maybe the economy is so bad by this point that Tesla can’t even afford to import components for cars that people can’t afford to buy. All the while Chinese EVs continue to get better and cheaper while the US market stagnates and ICE cars only become more expensive

2028: Ketamine overdose? By this point he’s probably dead, bankrupt, or did a Business Plot to try and overthrow the government that betrayed him.

I’m still ridin’ with Biden for 2028 though, can’t convince me otherwise.

Jimmy Carter gave up his peanut farm. He’s the only leader I trust to put country over self in 2028/2032.

I can do all of those things and I’m an adult.

That’s more or less what I plan to upgrade to eventually if I get a lot of value out of the one I just bought. There’s so much great camping within an hour’s drive, and minus the lack of bike lanes it seems like it’d be much more fun to bike those canyons than do the really stressful drive.

I ended up going with this level 15 ulock with a secondary steel cable until I can afford one of the really nice angle grinder-resistant ones: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08M6HST7G . That, a hidden GPS tracker, and an alarm system were all immediate purchases. I’m mainly banking on being secure by parking next to more expensive bikes though. That has kept me safe with my current bike and a basic ulock since 2020.

They really understate Mozart. My favourite scatalogical composition of his is “Lick My Ass Right Well and Clean” where he compares his ass to nicely buttered roast meat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mir_den_Arsch_fein_recht_schön_sauber

Super pretty choir piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkNePP0DX1A

E-scooters seem like so much fun, but like the skateboards and hoverboards I wouldn’t feel safe going as fast I already do with a manual bike (25-30km/h). That’s the minimum speed I need for commuting. The e-bikes aren’t much more expensive for something I can comfortably ride at 45km/h over uneven paths with hydraulic brakes and shock absorbers.

This youtube channel has great in-depth reviews where they run all the bikes through the same trials: https://www.youtube.com/@ElectricBikeReport . I kept going back to them for every bike I was considering. Converting was an option but my current bike is a $450 super basic commuter that I got at the start of COVID anticipating those supply shocks. The price would be about the same if I got a conversion kit and replaced the components that give me trouble at lower speeds than the 45kph I’d be biking at. Plus if the electrical components fail I’m out of a bike entirely. Instead I’m keeping that bike as my backup/rainy day/guest option.