So fun fact, 1986 is ten years before leaded gasoline was fully removed from US roads, and the official end of (non-Avgas) leaded gasoline worldwide was five years ago on August 30th. Atmospheric lead levels right now are about as low as they’ve ever been since the invention of metallurgy.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 21h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Bait used to be believable.

Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 3 2 If you need milk and sugar in coffee you’re buying bad beans.

B_Rye989@brye989.bsky.social · 2d ago

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I ended up taking the Practice LSAT cold and kinda hungover and got a 159. After which the issue with the test seemed to be more that it’s written remarkably like a Jim Crow era literacy test than anything that’d be useful as an exam? Like it’s deliberately obtuse and doesn’t even do that right.

Meowgue@meowgue.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So I need to grab LSAT prep stuff, and everything about the structure feels kinda underwhelming. Like it’s a couple sections of logical reasoning and some reading comprehension? This feels a little underwhelming given the hype, especially compared to the GRE or the utter slog that is Praxis I.

There are exactly three things I miss about Florida, after moving to Hawaii, but tbh Air Conditioning, the ever present background sleaze, and the ecology aren’t going to make me go back to Puddingfingers’ bullshit.

On a semi-related note, someone’s gonna have to reinvent the bagel machine to meet demand because Daniel Thompson didn’t manage to make a working one until 1950.

Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social · 5d ago

WAR PRODUCTION BOARD HAS AWARDED THE COCA-COLA COMPANY A FIXED PRICE CONTRACT FOR 10 MILLION UNITS OF "RED BULL" ENERGY BEVERAGE

Do you ever think how Trump supporters and most institutional leaders chose to sell your future to satisfy their manufactured rage? At least Esau got some soup for his birthright

Every single painful move should ne bracketed by "because the Republicans stole all your fucking tax dollars, ____" and "and here is how we're going after them and ensuring they fairly share the burden they brought on us"

Zoomer Antimillenarian@surcomplicated.bsky.social · last wk.

It's basically austerity or hyperinflation in the near future and the only way for Dems to politically survive the necessary austerity is to destroy the lives of as many MAGA regime criminals as humanly possible, in public, messaging the fuck out of every single prosecution.

Got a scam call that was actually from a +855 number. Not sure if it was the autodialer fucking up or if the Cambodians are getting lazier.

This is why we need queer history, because when you go back to writers of the John Waters generation and previous, you get "who cares what you think, I didn't care what God thought when I got laid this morning so I'm going to write the most fucked up thing that ever spanked your eyes"

I like putting Point Reyes TomaRashi on a charcuterie board because shichimi is a nice addition to one.

Tom & Lorenzo@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · last wk.

People on Bluesky sigh and talk about The Discourse as if it were something required of them instead of something they opt to partake in, day in and day out. You really don't have to. Post about your favorite cheese

Finally, an EV convertible that isn’t ancient or a Maserati. Kinda surprised it took this long tbh.

InsideEVs@insideevs.com · last wk.

The BMW i4 Convertible will come with two doors, four seats, and a power folding soft-top, according to a new report.

To be fair, the B-52 is using antimatter munitions with PDEs and multispectral tracking so it's fairly usable. The A-10 of course continues to be built around the GAU-8, which, good news! It's no longer causing many allied casualties, as its shells cannot penetrate standard infantry battlesuits.

It is the year 2269. The PRC has introduced the J-142 aerospace strike fighter, phasing out the older J-132 as the the world is moving on from IR pulse lasers to composite ion beams, with the AU, Brazil, and India following. All 24 remaining US successor states continue to use the A-10 and B-52.

The Aviationist@theaviationist.com · 2w ago

Bipartisan ‘BRRRRT Act’ Introduced in U.S. Congress to Keep the A-10 Warthog in Service A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has introduced legislation aimed at halting the retirement of the A-10 until a fully certified replacement is operational. Story: theaviationist.com/2026/07/23/b...

The Boeing C-X/C-16 is like the most Anime Set in 199X Airlifter ever proposed and honestly we should’ve just done it.

Meowgue@meowgue.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you say C-17, know this thing was a serious contender for that contract.

hhhh really don't like the deployment of the word "ethical" here. Reading dark and fucked up fiction with bad and evil things in it isn't "unethical," nor are books which contain no such dark themes more "ethical" in nature. This is Hays Code rhetoric, it's the kinda shit Moms For Liberty would post

With the corpo romance cover art style too? You run this stuff through a rock tumbler brah?

A few mobile suit gundam bunnies

Like as an extension of this, my Mini 3-door is somehow an impractical luxury when it’s a comfortable and engaging car with space for two adults my size and a ton of luggage or groceries. That’s really all I need, and unlike a five door even one size up I can actually fit in it.

Meowgue@meowgue.bsky.social · 4w ago

Drives me nuts that someone dropping $80k on a truck is treated as a more practical decision than someone buying a coupe, even when they’re gonna see the same use though.

Watching Black Lagoon is always an experience. It's like yeah there's a three-episode arc about incestuous Romanian twins who only know how to kill sadistically and be viciously exploited, but it's way more politically-salient about the '90s than whatever nostalgic shit just went up on streaming.

Crispy onions and cheese, everything else can vary.

The Imminence Of A Revelation Which Does Not Occur@nataliereed84.bsky.social · 4w ago

quote post with thy preferred hot dog toppings so that thou may be judged by thy peers

It turns out the Nissan EV is the Nissan of EVs. Who could possibly have known?

InsideEVs@insideevs.com · 4w ago

The Leaf made battery degradation look terrifying, but most modern EVs are not aging the same way.

this is a perfect example of the biggest issue caused by making reverse American exceptionalism a bedrock part of your values system - namely, being completely unable to understand that the United States of America is often *more similar to the “third world” than Europe is*

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 4w ago

So the utilitarian I keep locked in the basement just got really excited about replacing pensions with this.

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 4w ago

I guess it would come down to if the entity was willing to consider life-years as basically fungible. what if in lieu of one infant we could give it like 50-60 terminally ill people? of course, the life-year per KwH rate would have to be high for the utilitarian math to work out.

THE ACKROOMS

The Battle Hymn of the Republic is not only a better and easier to sing melody, the lyrics are an affirmative statement of values and intent to bring liberty and freedom into a hostile world

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · last mo.

in these harsh times, we must confront a problem that has plagued this country - born out of both dreams and oppression, blood and hope - for centuries: the American national anthem isn't very good

see this is the the tone, there’s registers of patriotism that are neither moronic LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT nor obnoxious college freshman fuck u dad shit

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last mo.

This is a completely crank psychohistorical take but I think land empires genuinely might be worse than maritime empires because if a land empire stumbles at imperialism, it creates an immediate threat on their border that they become anxious to resolve with the many hammers at their disposal

embracebecoming.bsky.social@embracebecoming.bsky.social · last mo.

Then how did America avoid being like that? Because America has done horrifying imperialism, and it's fucked up in a lot of ways but it has mostly avoided being *that*

To the American Jewish institutions that have gotten us here, literally nothing is more important than their emotional-support ethnostate. We're Isaac and they're Abraham up on Moriah, with a knife at our throat and a monster whispering in their ear.