Part of my job includes sitting in on meetings of land use boards, and the number of applications for warehouses, starting back around 2020, was astonishing. And yeah, we saw a major uptick in online sales and so it was an obvious reaction to that, but the conspiracy theorist inside me is bristling thinking that somehow this was all part of some CIA plot to have these places set up and ready to go.

Even during the pendency of some of these hearings, folks would bring out statistics from updated treatises suggesting warehouse propagation was oversaturated and that it didn’t make sense to keep building them, but keep building they did. That’s the part that really tips my tinfoil hat.

The hat.

Future is made of it, after all.

Money is an excellent motivator.

Well, you don’t wear them around heavy machinery. Unless court and similar settings are heavy machinery in the figurative sense.

Yeah, I rarely do the top button and rarely keep my tie tight. I’ve got it down to a science to where it looks right, but still loose, because I cannot stand stuff around my neck.

Sweet, sweet perpetual stew.

That’s why I also drink Metamucil twice a day. Stuff is fantastic for keeping everything moving. And I eat my fruits and veggies, but nothing wrong with a little supplementation.

I had a friend who lived with a few dudes in a house, and I go over to her place and she’s getting ready and one of her roommates is sitting in the kitchen eating a chicken breast and broccoli. We get to chatting, and he tells me he’s going to Olympic trials for luge, and so obviously I ask how you get into that.

He ends up telling me he ran and was successful at track, and he basically got poached, mainly because of his size and his running ability.

So yeah. That’s it.

Life’s different with kids. I’d literally give up anything for an extra hour with my kids. I would also give up everything to give them a better life. It’s a complicated situation and people are dumbing it down as much as possible, and it’s a little unfair. It’s very easy to say what you’d do when it’s just you, but these fucking progeny put their hooks in you, I swear to God. They have made me into a person I never thought I would be, and I can guarantee if they said “Dad, five more minutes,” I’d do it.

None of this should even be a talking point. Dude should’ve had access to treatment regardless, and he shouldn’t have to worry about jeopardizing his kids next 20 years for their next 20 days. It’s gross. It makes me sad.

Nah, I’ll just do a cost-benefit analysis whether I should get treatment or just fucking die.

Yeah, I can’t stand modern shades of gray. Everyone decorates their house like they’re about to list it for sale. Give me colors! Give me silly pictures, and plants, and nonsense. It’s your home, it doesn’t need to be sterile.

I think he just likes smoking weed, but I like it being couched as giving him some competitive advantage. I swam, and knew a couple ladies who supposedly smoked some weed with him. They were better swimmers than me, so I was not invited of course.

Who’s Barry Badrinath?

Appreciate your view and I would love to see more of it.

I live in NJ, which is probably the most suburban state in the US, and so we were built with cars and houses in mind. Fortunately, we are seeing a shift toward biking infrastructure, albeit a little slow, but progress is progress. Jersey City certainly leads the way, and new developments that come online, which there are many, are often required to put in protected bike lanes.

Beyond that, we’ve seen work started on a Greenway connecting Montclair and Jersey City, nine miles through very dense, urban landscape, where there will be dedicated bike lanes throughout. NJ has so many old rail lines that there’s been an effort to turn into pedestrian ways. There’s one that comes to mind that’s 20 miles. Ideally we would also take some of those old railways and make them unold, and add additional rail lines, but things move slowly in a tiny state with 565 municipalities.

All I know is I’m fortunate to be part of the Northeast Corridor of the US, which is seemingly one of the few places that tries to do some forward thinking.

Yeah, I used PowerToys and it’s now Right Control again. It was probably easier than finding drivers for Linux.

You could kayak up the Hackensack River and get mercury poisoning! The Meadowlands are a really strange place.

This is Lemmy, we’re here to jump to conclusions and hate on things.

It is, because the US numbers are so incredibly dragged down by the worst of its school systems. I live in New Jersey, and we rank highly and are considered globally competitive (although I never really understand how you can compare them, they’re very different approaches to learning), but if you go to the shit hole parts of the US it’s a stark contrast. That being said, NJ has over 500 school systems, so there’s even stark contrast within the state.

But yeah, the DOD school system is consistently the best place to educate your kids. And it’s all free (if you’re doing your part).

Yeah, I’m from Jersey, and I guess the majority of people I know are just transplants to other states, but it’s shoes off everywhere to me. Home is comfort and comfort is shoes off.