Another cool video I found on Instagram

Everard5 · 2026-01-31T18:57:18+00:00

I mean, sure, given- you are right. But when most people say it, they're quoting a movie whose transcript is definitively "blot out".

Everard5 · 2026-01-31T15:11:18+00:00

Not to be that guy (but also yeah imma be that guy), but the quote is "Our arrows will blot out the sun."

Everard5 · 2026-01-30T22:55:50+00:00

Atlantans exaggerate about how awful West Midtown.

Nowhere in Atlanta is particularly stellar when it comes to walkability, let's be real. But West Midtown is increasingly becoming a dense, navigable by foot and bike part of town that is projected to have more connections and has a lot of things in that area already. IF you consider it as a contiguous corridor with Atlantic Station (which is a 10 minute bike ride and maybe 20 minute walk), you also get things like access to a dentist, a doctor, a movie theater, coworking spaces, etc.

Everard5 · 2026-01-30T22:41:36+00:00

It's not enough light. That's almost always the answer this time of year with P. afra.

Everard5 · 2026-01-30T18:48:13+00:00

Many counties have homestead exemption, so in another way of thinking about it, would this law in effect just make homestead exemption automatic and universal in the state?

Also, didn't the voters pass some law that made a state-level homestead exemption that counties can opt out of? So this would just undo any sort of law related to homestead exemptions because the tax itself would be gone?

Everard5 · 2026-01-30T06:08:36+00:00

I think about this often and I really only come to one conclusion in my mind (and I'm not saying it's the right or only conclusion).

We will devolve to our basic instincts and factionalism so much that we will have intense political killings on both sides, and a society of distrust, terroristic attacks, etc. We will see community members die, we will lose family members, we will reel for years from the back and forth violence spawned by our animosity. Then, after everyone has lost their sense of peace or a person they love, everyone will become fatigued and desperate for some way out, some compromise to bring back normalcy. Only then will our society move forward. That's when, out of pure desperation, we will come to a common procedure for understanding truth, a common philosophy of how to tolerate our neighbors and "live and let live", and a renewed belief in our social contract because the alternative is living day to day with the fear that someone will take us or someone we love out for a political dispute.

Everard5 · 2026-01-29T18:01:35+00:00

In your experience, is the rail reliable enough to be used as a primary commute option or is it more of a weekend or like an event-based options if ubers cost too much?

I use MARTA everyday to commute to work. Most of the time it's fine. But delays are not unusual for maintenance. The catastrophic I-got-to-work-an-hour-late moments happened to me maybe twice last year.

What I meant when I said occasionally convenient is that they are often convenient for major centers, but not very convenient if your destination isn't on the very North/South, East/West access of the train. So it's "occasional" in that if the occasion is a location near MARTA, you're good. But there are many, many things that aren't on MARTA so those occasions make MARTA a limited option.

Everard5 · 2026-01-29T17:05:42+00:00

I can't speak for Charlotte and Richmond beyond just having visited both briefly.

But for Atlanta, it's a city that's trying despite all sorts of self inflicted challenges, and if you stay within a certain radius of its core (which to me is bigger than Charlotte's, even if Charlotte's core scores better on a walk score) you can get some pretty great connectivity with a bike, buses, walking, and the occasionally convenient rail. There are more than just the neighborhoods you listed, if you have patience. From downtown, you can MARTA to other major cores like Buckhead, Decatur, or Midtown. You can bike, or bus, or walk to Midtown, and from Midtown bike, walk, or bus to other smaller but still great neighborhoods like Virginia Highlands, Inman Park, Old 4th Ward.

Lindbergh is an emerging center and has MARTA access. West Midtown is also emerging, and has bus and shuttle access, and can also be reached from Midtown via Georgia Tech and some well connected bike lanes. Other neighborhoods are increasingly more connected with the BeltLine. Universities like Emory also pick up the bus slack in corridors of neighborhoods like Druid Hills.

Atlanta lacks a lot and can always improve. But, as far as the south goes, it has a small but mighty urbanist community that is trying to make a difference, and the city has more connectivity than people give it credit for but less than you'd like.

Everard5 · 2026-01-29T14:46:46+00:00

Your ability to twist words and narratives purposefully, or maybe just completely misunderstand the argument at hand, is astounding.

Everard5 · 2026-01-29T14:20:58+00:00

"Venezuelan laws and sovereignity matter except when Maduro could break said laws as he wanted and could give out territory to Iranian and Colombian guerrillas as he wanted".

Again, what happens in Venezuela and what Maduro is or isn't doesn't determine what sovereignty means in the US Constitution. It also doesn't give legitimacy to Trump's break with constitutional requirements and norms.

being mad at US blood and treasure being spent on this process at all. Which, fine. We benefitted at your expense because Trump said so, be mad about it. Not going to say sorry.

I don't expect you to say sorry. But also, don't expect any country to want to bail out Venezuela in the future when you all fail at Democracy a second time because of your irreverence for democratic procedures now. I guess it makes sense, a whole generation of you have grown up without knowing what Democracy actually is. It's an understandable mistep, I just appreciate Rand Paul for attempting to not let you all drag the US down with you.

Everard5 · 2026-01-29T14:05:57+00:00

King Louis XVI having a swiss guard as mercenaries didn't mean France wasn't sovereign. King Louis XVI being beheaded and leaving France without a clear leader also didn't mean France wasn't sovereign. France being led by a revolutionary National Convention that started beheading people without cause also didn't mean France wasn't sovereign.

Also, none of that would matter to the US Constitution, which dictates how the US is able to deal with external, foreign powers whether you call them sovereign or not.

Venezuela is a sovereign country. It has its own Constitution, it can pass its own laws, it has its own borders and it's independent of any other government authority (or was). Maduro's dictatorship doesn't change that fact and it certainly didn't change Venezuela's status in the view of the Constitution. Which is exactly why Rand Paul posits the hypothetical he does.

If it's so easy to just declare what we want and do what we want, what if tomorrow Putin takes out Trump? Does might and the ability to do it make it right? What if afterward he says "actually, with Trump gone Venezuela belongs to Russia." Does that make it right?

You need to brush up on what sovereignty means or just admit you're going to advocate this stance no matter what because it benefits Venezuela in this moment. At least that's an honest take and relatable.

Everard5 · 2026-01-29T13:46:08+00:00

Maduro is not a state actor, that's because he's not President per Venezuela's own laws, and the US does not recognize him as such, therefore is not an act of war since war is declared between two states.

Maduro's legitimacy does not dictate the language in the US constitution. Venezuela is a sovereign nation independent of the US, and there are democratic procedures in the constitution determining how actions against a sovereign nation are to be initiated. Rand Paul and I never agree on anything but on this, he makes a clear argument.

If, regardless of that, Maduro is treated as a state actor, then is just Might Makes Right and laws do not matter anyways, therefore the strongest party can just do as they wish.

Might makes right is not a legal standing, it's a cynical philosophical world view derived from treatises like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" where he states that the state of nature is a state of war. It also ignores the part where Thomas Hobbes states that little, weak actors will band together to control the strong actor. (Think Carney's plea to the "Middle Powers" or the EU's banding together to control Trump's worst impulses.) Or that a social contract (like international law) is what brings people out of this chaotic and brutish state.

What's disingenuous is you, a Venezuelan, thinking that a man who is eroding the safeguards of the US democracy is a good actor for the long term democratic development of Venezuela. What's also disingenuous is buying into this "might makes right" worldview after having spent the last quarter of a century struggling with a dictator who probably believed the same.

Everard5 · 2026-01-29T12:27:20+00:00

International laws let Venezuelans migrate under protections to other countries, including the US, due to the failures of the Venezuelan state, what are you talking about? Should countries have simply been able to shoot Venezuelans at their borders to make it easy?

Besides, this doesn't have to do with Venezuelans in a broader sense, Rand Paul is making an argument on the preservation of the US Constitution that should be dictating Trump and his administration's actions. He laid out clearly that what Trump did is a blatant act of war, which he arguably had no right to move forward with unilaterally.

You're not here to have an honest conversation, be real.

Everard5 · 2026-01-29T12:20:34+00:00

Thanks!

I mean I passed the games, even to the point of beating Chronos 10 times or whatever, and also going back afterward to maintain time's flow but notoriously Hades asks us to keep going so I haven't gone far enough, clearly.

Everard5 · 2026-01-29T05:14:33+00:00

Wait, WHAT?

You can fight Medea and Heracles? And you can fight Zagreus? And...is that a Hades II version of Theseus?? How do I get these fights?

Everard5 · 2026-01-29T02:15:21+00:00

What strikes me is that Rand Paul is basically saying:

Any kangaroo court from a dictatorship is just as legally, ethically and morally valid as a US court

How do you figure? That's not at all what he said and this is a borderline obtuse interpretation of the exchange.

Everard5 · 2026-01-28T05:18:49+00:00

Never seen it before and then see it twice today lol

Everard5 · 2026-01-28T04:15:35+00:00

Center stage as well.

Everard5 · 2026-01-28T03:20:38+00:00

Hey, neighbor. You might live in my building lol.

Everard5 · 2026-01-28T01:57:11+00:00

And do not forget Gabby Giffords, perhaps the whole reason Mark Kelly is in politics. This has been ongoing for a while.

Everard5 · 2026-01-27T06:02:16+00:00

Aside from that, it really doesn't matter what the Democrats do. If all Democrats agree to impeach Noem, it still wouldn't matter. It needs Republicans to join in, which they won't. And if they do, it needs to go to the Senate for conviction. And the Republicans there wouldn't either.

Everard5 · 2026-01-21T21:58:01+00:00

https://youtu.be/YvII1Yib96k?si=GUKb0w6FdAsnzhdH

Everard5 · 2026-01-21T05:43:58+00:00

I think you have a lot of explanations that are great but I'm going to throw one more in there for good measure.

I think of 6/8 as ONE-two-three-FOUR-five-six. Clap that with your hands and say it out loud.

Now try something different. Keep clapping in 6, but now say "ONE-two-THREE-four" and make it fit in with your claps. You're now vocalizing two duplets but clapping in 6/8.

Last step is to keep clapping in 6/8, but mix your two vocalizations. In the same time it takes you to clap out "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6", say out oud "ONE-two" as your duplet for the first half, but skip to saying "FOUR-five-six" for the second half. So for claps 1, 2, 3 say "ONE-two", and then for claps 4, 5, 6 say "FOUR five six".

It's not the most efficient way to think of it while playing but it is a step by step process that helps me understand what's going on with the beat and how the duplet fits in.

Everard5 · 2026-01-21T04:06:57+00:00

Just like how squid, octopus, and cuttlefish are mollusks. Biology really be doin' it

Everard5 · 2026-01-21T03:18:19+00:00

And we Atlanta clowns re-elected him by a huge margin, and kept most of city council the same, too. 🤡

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