My partner being Mexican-born and having significant family by marriage on my mom’s side has in NY that are Hispanic, I have a lot of theories why Kamala Harris and democrats bombed with this demographic.

Someone write an essay on how the Chase Bliss Mystery Box proves that the economy is strong.

I didn’t see anyone talking about Pantheon when it came out on AMC in 2022. But it was recently (I think?) added to Netflix, and it was very much my jam. Glad to learn it got a Season 2, and I’ll be heading to watch that on Amazon Prime immediately.

I adore my Walrus Fundamental Ambient Reverb, so I couldn’t pass up the Slö blemished for basically the same cost as the Fundamental series. Now I think I need to sell my Wampler Ethereal Delay, which I do like, but I don’t need three pedals in that “zone”. Now I’m considering a JHS Flight Delay.

It’s felt like my entire life NY politics has held it back, and Hochul and Adams are doing it again. They’ve been a terrible duo.

The contrast between Zelensky as a leader against Trump’s cowardice, avarice, and narcissism is remarkable.

Marc Andreesson is a very bad person, and great proof that money and success has fuck all to do with morality.

Apparently finding a working, not completely full with 10 people waiting Level 2 charger on Long Island is basically impossible. That’s… not great for me.

I cannot imagine shipping software without extensive automated tests.

It’s freezing. Feels like winter proper. I’m glad I bought a proper coat a couple of weeks ago after wearing the same winter jacket for… I think 15 years.

Elsa just came across a beauty products site that not only disabled right clicks, it disabled text selection, something I was unaware was even possible.

I’m sorry, but browsers should not permit this shit.

I always find Ricardo Mori at least interesting, so it’s fun to read about his new Nothing Phone.

However, I can’t understand his dislike of the Dynamic Island/notch and FaceID versus TouchID and the Home button. It’s so strong and completely foreign feeling to me. I’d never go back.

Dandadan and Ranma 1/2 on Netflix (yes I know these aren’t the original) are both super strange. And they also both have some really accurate depictions of pre-teen/teenage crushes.

The moral of all this is not to let your memory play tricks on you.

Kevin Drum reminding us why we had school closures during the pandemic.

Trump heard millennials don’t vote for him so he’s about to fuck the price of avocados and proper chorizo. We are going to make so many useless and uncool TikToks.

The masculine urge to fly across the country with a backpack full off cables when your best friend says they’re having trouble with their internet connection.

This article focused on the measure to reduce the size of Baltimore’s city council, but I think the results on Harborplace are more interesting.

The closer neighbors were more “YIMBY” than the parts of the city that started red lining a hundred years ago.

If Gurman’s sources are good here, it’s a damn shame. It means Apple decided it’s not worth improving a product with some obvious shortcomings. I would be in the market for these with one obvious change— let them fold.

I want the nice looking beverage fridge I get ads for, but I don’t want a wine fridge. I want a “34F ice cold Diet Coke” fridge.

I don’t want lukewarm Diet Coke, but aesthetic.

Art deco coffee

Happiness

I’m pretty sure that the Chase Bliss Mystery Box just ruined every other pedal maker’s Black Friday sale, because now we’re all broke.

Six years ago, Elsa and I went to The Senator in Baltimore where she got to watch Die Hard for the first time.

Last night, we went to a Regal in Battery Park where she saw The Fifth Element for the first time.

What I’m saying is she has really needed more Bruce Willis in her life.

I’m not sure there have been four simultaneous issues where the right thing to do is so clear and our incoming government is wrong on all four at once.

• We must support Ukraine agains Russian invasion
• Israel is murdering Palestinians with impunity and support.
• Climate change is a serious, immediate threat
• Trans rights are human rights. Just fucking respect people.

I don’t think there’s any gray area left for any of these issues. Israel as a broader matter comes the closest, but the fact that Israel is obliterating Palestine with the intent to permanently foreclose on a two state solution is not in question.

Whether we’ve entered the end of America’s leadership on the international stage as a matter of projected force, I do not know. But whether we’ve absolutely failed the moral leadership test? There’s no question.

I think working class was always a dumb euphemism, so I’m not surprised it’s lost all meaning.

Today, working class is basically “needs an income”, which is almost everyone. Middle class just means “I encounter people richer than me.”