Discovered today that Biketown is now owned by Lyft, and so I could try one of their ebikes by going through the Lyft app. It turned out to be much cheaper and faster than the escooters, as well as easier and safer. I was thinking about getting an ebike anyway, and this has convinced me I would enjoy having one.

I'm curious: how thebloody fuck did we get to omicron already? What about alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, and all the others before omicron? I never heard anything about any of those strains.

Not a covidiot, I'm just concerned that whoever's naming these covid strains knows frickall about the Greek alphabet ( Read more... )

I absolutely loathe and despise Christmas, it is the absolute worst holiday ever! I can't even have a peaceful grocery shopping trip at Christmas because of that damned Salvation Army bell! I can't tolerate that sound at all; in seconds, it makes me want to punch something or kick a puppy at the bell ringer. It's made worse by the fact that the " ( Read more... )

Had to go to FredMeyer the other day (before I knew about the strike), and OMG that flipping Slavenation Army bell ringer! I was in hearing distance of that flipping bell for only 10 minutes or so and wanted to ram that bell straight up his bum. If I had to work hours under those conditions I would go up to my manager and say "put me somewhere out ( Read more... )

Some fool on FB responded to a meme about how everyone used to line up eagerly for vaccines against polio, etc. Her response was "Difference is, those vaccines actually worked." Here was my response:

If you're referring to the fact that the covid vaccine doesn't prevent you getting the disease, just prevents you dying from it or having one of the ( Read more... )

A message to all people who try to boycott companies like Kellogg's or Burgerville that are working hard to stop unions because they want to keep abusing workers:

I feel ya, but I can also just about guarantee you that you're already supporting this company, you just don't know it. And I can also guarantee you that boycotting any company in this day ( Read more... )

This whole Kyle Rittenhouse thing... Why the fuck are minors allowed to own guns in the first place? If you can't even legally smoke, you shouldn't be allowed a gun! In fact, since science says your brain isn't done developing til you're 25, nobody younger than that should be allowed a gun. Or alcohol or cigarettes, either.

(Leave the age of consent ( Read more... )

I just discovered that a seller on Facebook of crappy cheap hurdy gurdies is using the audio from a video done by a YouTuber named Andrey Vinogradov. I recognized the song (Uzh Kak Po Mostu, Mostochiku. Hurdy-Gurdy Solo) immediately because I use it as one of many background music songs while writing, I must've listened to it 200 times in the last ( Read more... )

I won't give the right wingers the dignity of reblogging/sharing their memes, but I've been seeing a few memes from the right wing saying that Kyle Rittenhouse should be freed and encouraging him to take up arms again and murder more people.

Such a disgusting double standard. If any of the teabaggers back in Obama's time had been so much as injured ( Read more... )

A certain kind of people like to talk about the "war on Christmas" as if their world-wide popular stolen pagan holiday was somehow being persecuted against, as if Christmas didn't shoot first, as if Christmas wasn't already waging a war against all other holidays and this year escaped the containment of November to invade October. As if Christmas ( Read more... )