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Neurosparkly, geeky, non-normative cis hetero husband, dad, and domesticated weirdo/misanthropic secular humanist. Also fanatical about music, MST3K, Star Trek, SF&F lit, Lego, and the Phillies.
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I want a poll of those Uber users to find out how many of them know that there are still cab services in Philly that you can either call directly or use one of their apps to schedule a pick up.
I'm willing to bet good money that most of them would be stunned to know this.
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Now, with the MTA transit app or even Apple or Google's map app, it's even easier to use the subway -- the apps will tell you the quickest route, even if it means walking a few blocks further to your entry station.
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I lived in NYC for two years in the mid-'90s, not long after they introduced the endless subway ride weekly pass. Heat issues during the summer aside, it boggled my mind that people refused to to use it, as it was frequently faster to subway and walk than take a cab during the business day.
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Yeah, it is absolutely insane the way it is demonized by people who don't and never will actually use it. One of the great joys of visiting NYC for any length of time is the fact that the subway system is so extensive and (accessibility issues aside) relatively easy to use.
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I mean, if the choice is between exhaustingly hectoring lefties being mean kids and bootlicking righties who will happily rat out their neighbors to masked thugs for not being potential cover models for Aryans Illustrated, I have a pretty good idea about who I'd rather be loitering with online
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*Please*… Far more reporting like this, and *immensely* fucking less soul-crushing insanity such as the vapid @steveinskeep.bsky.social interview with Portnoy.
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Wow -- platforming a man who hoped that Greta Thunberg dies. Thank you for once again wonderfully demonstrating just how fucking lazy and inept the mainstream media is these days. Reporters like you are why no one trusts the mainstream media anymore.
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To be clear, this isn’t simply a reaction to living in 2025 USA. See also the growing plastic pollution problem, the build-up of forever chemicals in the environment, collapsing biodiversity, & rising CO2 levels — just to name many (but by no means all) other factors that inform this choice.
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Absolutely!
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For the past few months, I’ve felt like we were living in a dystopian that ‘80s SF hadn’t prepared me for. That bird’s nest though… that’s the stuff.
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As an added bonus, the creator of Dilbert is a right-wing nutter himself, thus completing the circle.
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I still fervently believe you had to be in a particular age range in 1987 for this song & video to make any sense. Even then, it still hurt to think about it too hard.
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Yep, "November Rain" is my all-time favorite G'n'R song as well. It has the added bonus of completely echoing the ethos of a Jim Steinman song without actually sounding very much like one of his songs.
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That's my favorite Duran Duran song of all-time -- due in no small part to the fact that perfectly hit the bullseye of the kind of moody music I love most.
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Stop it, New Yorker. Just fucking stop it! This isn't the time for this kind of navel gazing. We have a legit Constitutional crisis happening, with a President showing more profound signs of cognitive decline than Biden did. It's like you want my subscription money to go elsewhere, you bastards.