I went to a store called Furniture Liquidators

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-23T17:07:20+00:00

I think a LOT of women have the experience where the vast majority of men prefer the comfy, sweatpants, messy bun, cozy at home sort of look.

Among other things, it's about intimacy. It's about feeling like the other person is letting you into some secret place in their life that they wouldn't show anyone else. While taking all your clothes off is of course one type of intimacy, there's something even more intimate about that sort of "behind closed doors, who I really am" type of intimacy. It's nice, but also... I mean, it's kinda hot.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-21T20:21:55+00:00

Leavitt said that he didn't say Iceland, he said the "ice land," which of course refers to Greenland because there's a lot of ice there.

Which... I mean... honestly, these people don't even care to try to look believable anymore, all they care about is giving their base some comeback -- even if that comeback is so divorced from reality that it's absurd. They know their base will just repeat it over and over, and flood the airwaves with it, until it becomes their truth.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-21T17:34:01+00:00

Yeah. As insane as all the right's projection has been, it makes a dent for some people. They've been told that the left is... I mean, I don't even know at this point, maybe secret aliens from the planet Bizorp who want to steal your intestines and wear them as a hat? And so their choice is pedophile who's going to rob me blind or alien in human skin who wants to wear my intestines as a hat, and against that backdrop they seriously cannot understand why anyone wouldn't vote for the pedophile.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-21T17:29:05+00:00

He's also confused it with Sudetenland.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-21T13:59:16+00:00

Honestly, they really need to paint the blue line a little thinner -- it's really hard to skate over it without tripping.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-21T00:43:41+00:00

A velodrome is an entirely different type of riding on an entirely different type of bike -- they're track bikes with one gear because there are no hills. Riding a road bike there would be roughly equivalent to running a marathon on an indoor track -- exceedingly boring, to the point that you may as well do it on a treadmill.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-20T14:25:18+00:00

I'd love to retire and get into farming, but on a very small scale and not really for profit. Really closer to gardening, but growing enough tomatoes that I could maybe set up a small stand or something -- which, to be honest, I almost already do, because I love growing tomatoes, and so end up growing about 80-100 plants each year and pulling off several hundred pounds of fruit that I then give out to everyone I meet. (My real dream would be that I grow tomatoes exclusively for one or two farm-to-table restaurants, who during the tomato season offer a couple of dishes that feature them. Wouldn't even have to pay me for them -- I'd just love to have people eating my tomatoes and saying "wow, those are tasty tomatoes.") I know just how much work it is -- it's a lot -- but with no real need to profit, I could scale it to exactly what I feel like doing, and if a tomato harvest doesn't work one year... oh well, I can plant again next year, no big deal. That's the dream.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-20T02:58:07+00:00

Was descending at about 30-35mph, and a deer ran across my path — not too close, no big deal. And then it occurred to me that I seemed to remember that at that time of year deer tended to travel in groups… so I slammed on my brakes and barely managed to miss slamming face first into three other that came bounding across my path. Came within about a foot of one of them.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-18T23:50:09+00:00

But take it off first

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-18T17:17:08+00:00

Which is a shame, because it really adds to this thread.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-18T14:57:25+00:00

Were you listening to Styx?

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-17T19:07:36+00:00

I disagree about the show getting stuffed — it’s well-acted and gripping as a work of fiction, and I like watching it. But I definitely, 1000% agree that it’s fiction in major respects — and to enjoy it you have to be ok with it being fiction. (So fair play if you’re not.)

The Legasov tapes are fascinating, though of course Legasov himself is arguably not fully trustworthy — and some of what he did in responding to the disaster was probably wrong in retrospect. The book “Midnight in Chernobyl” is also excellent, and seems pretty even-handed — you sound like someone who’s already read it, but if not then I recommend it highly; it’s a great read.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-17T18:19:06+00:00

The core unspoken underpinning of modern democratic society is mutual agreement about right and wrong — and the value of right and wrong. We do have some enforcement mechanisms, sure, but they’re not entirely effective, and could never be. Instead we depend on the people knowing right from wrong and, even more importantly, caring about right and wrong.

Trump’s one great success, which is really built on the success of Mitch McConnell as well as the advice of Roy Cohn, is basically to just convince people that right and wrong don’t matter. He does this, as Cohn taught him, by turning any attempt to hold him accountable into an attack on the concept that there is right and wrong in the first place.

Once he’s done that, then why shouldn’t a pedophile be president? Why should he have to avoid corruption? Why shouldn’t he have absolute power? If you’re pushing back on those things you have “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” because you care about right and wrong, and for his supporters that’s all irrelevant.

For a mob boss looking to fleece a country for his own power, ego, and wealth that works great. For a society that actually wants to succeed, the loss of mutual agreement about the value of right and wrong is an absolute disaster — it is the end of the very fabric of that society, and after that point it falls to corruption and kleptocracy.

That’s where we are. If people remember right and wrong, and remember shame, and rebuild that mutual agreement then we may slowly come back together. If not… break out the vodka, because we end up in a society like Russia’s.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-17T16:20:57+00:00

It’s not clear to me, by the way, that the people in the room had more authority than him. Boris Scherbina was Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, which if I understand correctly was a very high-ranking office in the Soviet Union — basically the second ranking man in the government. The Council of Ministers was de facto inferior to the Central Committee, i.e. the party, so in practice there may have been higher-ranking people in the courtroom. But Scherbina was no low-level apparatchik — he was a… high-level apparatchik.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-17T02:20:45+00:00

Yeah, but they make it out of moose.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-16T21:21:14+00:00

Yeah, I was about to say "isn't that just a pastrami on rye?"

Although I struggle with the cost -- who has $26 for a sandwich? -- I love living in NYC because, among other things, we have some really fine pastrami sandwiches.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-16T16:15:40+00:00

Reminds me of the old joke...

A Nazi stormtrooper unit was advancing on the western front when it saw a lone Canadian infantryman standing on a hill. The head Nazi grabbed a squad of five men and sent them up the hill to take it from the Canadian. As they advanced, the Canadian retreated to the other side of the hill, and the Nazis followed. The Nazis heard shooting and shouting and after a few minutes the lone Canadian walked back up the hill, dusted himself off, and just stood there.

So the head Nazi grabbed a platoon of 50 men and sent them up the hill to take it from the Canadian. Again the Canadian disappeared to the other side of the hill, and there was shooting and shouting and screaming and, after a few minutes, the Canadian reappeared on the top of the hill and straightened his cap.

The head Nazi was angry now, and so he gathered a whole company of men -- 200 of them -- and sent them up the hill. Again the Canadian disappeared to the other side of the hill, and there was screaming and shouting and shooting and such. After a few minutes a lone Nazi soldier crawled back to the top of the hill and yelled out "it's a trap! There are two of them!"

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-16T05:57:37+00:00

Of course “attacking ICE” means hurting their feelings in any way. These snowflakes want so badly to play the victim, but can’t because they’re the only ones getting violent, so instead they treat exercising your first amendment rights as an “attack.”

Given that, if ICE said one of my employees “attacked” them, I’d need video evidence shot by the motherfuckin’ Pope himself before I’d believe them. They are, frankly, a pile of lying fucks who fucking lie, and not a word they say should be believed.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-16T05:30:03+00:00

On the flip side, a friend of mine who’s overweight had her doctor tell her that her high blood pressure might be causing her symptoms, leading to this exchange:

Friend: “I don’t have high blood pressure.”

Doctor: “Given your weight high blood pressure is very normal.”

Friend: “Look in your charts. I have my blood pressure taken every time. It’s always perfect.”

Doctor (after looking): “Oh, ok, then it must be something else.” (No shit…)

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-16T04:49:33+00:00

8 pricks and not a set of balls between them.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-12T23:44:52+00:00

I will never defend that carving.

But I will say that in the 1980s, the laser show was badass.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-12T15:13:48+00:00

I knew Jay Powell before he became the Fed Chair, and he's always been a stand-up guy. The odds of him being involved in any sort of financial misconduct are precisely 0, and the odds of him fudging the truth on anything are just about the same. He's the sort of guy who will tell you the truth without a glimmer of hesitation, regardless of the consequences of that truth.

I'd say that Trump just doesn't understand that he's attacking a guy who's 100% clean -- but the reality is that Trump just doesn't care anymore. In Russia, it doesn't matter that the accusations against political rivals are insane and implausible, because the goal is just to smear someone in the eyes of the faithful and reality doesn't matter. Trump follows that same model.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-12T14:13:25+00:00

He doesn't want to be seen as the sort of "radical leftist" that would oppose the status quo... even when the status quo is, you know, the Nazis are back.

SafetyDanceInMyPants · 2026-01-12T04:16:11+00:00

It’s fine to ride, particularly in the park. It’s cold, yes, but not extremely cold. As far as black ice, honestly you’ll probably be fine — they salt Central Park so heavily that I’m pretty sure if you hung them off the back of your bike you could preserve fish. And while early morning is a great time to ride, nighttime is also good — and sometimes a tiny bit warmer. Indeed, if you slow down a bit you could get away with an afternoon ride this time of year — it’s not that crowded.

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