snowden.st
A scholar with a slight flaw in my character. COan. Cannabis regulatory analyst, a poorly-fit Lutheran, Go Blue + Ski-U-Mah! Nuggets + ABA team loyalist. Can't stop thinking about sports, religion, history, weed, and beans. He/him
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Yeah, almost a decade ago I helped out with a campaign to require local cops to carry insurance for abuse/payouts, and it failed politically, but would have failed under public employee law protection/guarantees as well. LEOs are unique in capacity, but get to hide under general employee law.
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….not even Orange County?
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Funk remains one of the greatest unrecognized uncles of music, and DC has an indigenous funk culture that is second to none. Chuck Brown the King.
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Yall are load-bearing, and we appreciate you. what are we naming this guild/cast/gang/invisble cast of humanity? Dish Monks? Lonesome Suds?
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I’m not talking the anxious-to-help types, or even the good friends. I’m talking those of you who cherish a brief introverted break and genuinely like doing the dishes, you beautiful freaks. We’re talking synergy, not assistance.
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great point! probably worth more than the BAT stuff lol
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it’s bonkers!! Mexico world #1 food state, you could spend multiple lifetimes just capturing it
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Also: I don’t eat cheese all the time, but “squash blossom oaxacan cheese quesadillas” is an absolute bomb. Elite shit.
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if the future world misinterprets McBride into some kind of Werner Herzog like documentarian…good.
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also, i think benefits even flow with season— getting cold for a few hours during spring or summer makes all supposed benefits retreat, lol
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this is the kinda nitpicky more people need, you’re right on. I think I’ve read that there’s more promise in limited cases with acute cold therapy for particular cases, but nothing like lifestyle changes and uhh, exercising with friends will do for you.
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our health is an amalgamation of our inputs, our activity, our relationships, our communities. We have an entire “house style” for wellness, though, that talks about human bodies like expensive bicycles or thoroughbred animals. It’s truly damaging to the human spirit, imho.
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the undertow and shoreline are no joke. i kinda like Cabo San Lucas for this: incredible shorelines and ocean views, but can’t go in at all, too risky
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You want oceans that welcome human recreation, that’s your rendezvous with the gods. I prefer oceans that keep us afraid and miserable.
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the average DnD fantasy landscape is like America’s other geographic eden (Wisconsin)
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that’s the great mind eraser, imo. it’s some of the greatest land on earth, incomprehensibly cool.
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“ever upward, twirling, twirling towards freedom and beauty” SoCal gets you in the Goof Troop. “this place is stacking up curses faster than New Orleans” SoCal is a world heritage site
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kenfucky shart, this is the truth
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I think between Ice Fishing culture and the boil + butter cob culture, the Upper Midwest - China exchange program would be perfect
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yeah, this gets zapped under the broiler on a bunch of sides, so there’s some roasted vibes too. I wouldn’t have thought of sesame and corn being so good, but it’s crackerjack
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❤️
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the SoCal people are gonna overcook it again, as they always do, but: it’s just so *intensely* American in good and bad ways, and i don’t think there’s a place that’s more us than it. We’re a fucking annoying country, what can I say
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i think Green Bay is better than the rest, but generally speaking: yeah, and this isn’t as much about the OKC ownership as the front office, coach, approach to the rules, data-optimized playstyle, and “make the team suck for 7-8 years/The Process” stuff.
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i think things started feeling weird when I people started bailing/dishing out of easy layups to let someone shoot an open corner 3. Feels like unseemly.
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The number of people in this part alone, lol
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some uhhh breathtaking shit was said, at least to my fundie evangelical ears lol
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not my lane, obvs, but my experience in RW college GOP stuff and the whole ecosystem was that, even if the WASP types were predominant, Latino GOP types were the sharkiest, even discounting for Cubans
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Let groups have their bubbles, we don’t need them together. If someone wants to go see what RW Creeps are up to, it’s not hard. If someone wants to see my social democratic religious stoner goofballery, that’s cool too, they can check it out here.
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I need a chronological and text-centered platform in which I am free to share my own content and with the people who follow it. Wherever that is, I’ll be. Bluesky seems like a great sturdy platform, but I’m already on-edge with the size of it, who care if it grows more
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I think about this a lot, but the notion of having intense and deep empathy with people experiencing a natural disaster 15000 miles away, in real time, is a prospect that would be near incomprehensible to anyone before like 1850. It’s a modern challenge, and we need discernment, not intensity.
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Empathy has its role in an emotional toolbox, but like any other emotion, it’s a miserable captain of the ship. I think it carries a bit of a prestige in our modern era (both pro and anti empathy) because it’s one of the most commonly resonant experiences of modern media consumption.
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oh lol, I was just thinking replace the space race. i’m in the minority, I think, but the race for global medicine is a less icky proposition than the race to space was. I’m fine with the Iwo Jima pic, and I like the Eastwood movies
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Could we do Jonas Salk for the fourth? Global medicine and the choice to give the knowledge outside of patent, it’s a great peak of American contributions.
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that was definitely in the window, but Rogan had been coming to Boulder for a few years, on and off. The sports bar in question is gone too (RIP Harpo’s).