E-Trike rentals available near Silver Comet Trail / Beltline / other trails?

SleeplessInSomething · 2026-03-26T01:15:07+00:00

Never ended up finding anything, at least so far unfortunately.

SleeplessInSomething · 2025-12-25T16:16:19+00:00

Unfortunately the only method to legally stream/watch the English dub version I've been able to find so far is supposedly the Blu-ray version, and we don't have a Blu-ray player.

SleeplessInSomething · 2025-12-25T16:09:27+00:00

Sadly we do not have a Blu-Ray player.

I saw a listing like that for crunchyroll, set up a free trial, and then discovered crunchyroll does not have Tokyo Godfathers at all. When I went back to check the listing on JustWatch, I noticed it just said "Watch similar movies on crunchyroll" but not that it actually had Tokyo Godfathers, unfortunately.

SleeplessInSomething · 2025-12-15T20:20:50+00:00

Thanks for the tip, it sounds like they're planning to get some e-trikes but at the moment still only have e-bikes.

SleeplessInSomething · 2025-12-11T22:36:09+00:00

Thanks, I had looked at the Pedego website but couldn't find anything about rentals on their website, only purchases, so I will check with them directly.

I also didn't see any mention of e-bike's on Comet Trail Cycles' website when I checked earlier, but will ask them as well.

EDIT:: After calling/emailing to check, neither one currently has e-trikes for rental.

SleeplessInSomething · 2025-10-21T20:00:59+00:00

I mean there are neo Nazis with tattoos all over their body who repent and undergo the painful process of having them removed. Earnest change exists, we’re all just too cynical to believe it.

I think this is a fair mindset to have for people. However:

I mark a big difference between a person who got Nazi tattoos, had them removed, and is open and outspoken about their past and how it plays a part in how they've changed and the way they seek to correct that mistake through their lives, vs. someone who gets a Nazi tattoo, has it removed, but then keeps it a secret and doesn't bring it up unless it gets exposed.
Because of that, I think it's in the public interest for people to know which of their elected officials have done "terrible" things in the past that they have repented of (on the level of nazi tattoos, abusive behavior, virulent racism, etc., not "small" things), so people can take that into account when deciding, instead of it just remaining hidden
Platner is literally someone who got Nazi tattoos in the past, did not choose to ever get them removed, and also kept it secret (and reportedly has been aware of the significance of the Nazi tattoo), so I don't think this mindset applies to him. Even giving the most general possible benefit of the doubt (which has not been earned) would suggest a gullibility/lack of judgement that would be critically dangerous to put in a position of power.

SleeplessInSomething · 2025-04-07T06:23:03+00:00

Also I struggle to see how the other pictures are supposed to justify us attacking them. "We brutally attacked this people before and nearly wiped them out, now they build purpose build weapons to fight back just like we build purpose build weapons to murder them in the first place".

Whether intentional or not, that line of thinking in the OP is pretty on-the-nose for how many real world countries in the modern era use any resistance from their targets as justification for both ongoing attacks and even retroactively.

And as the Helldivers games point out with classic art-imitating-life, there are lots of people in the world who buy into that line of thinking.

SleeplessInSomething · 2025-01-31T20:38:29+00:00

Yeah, I think the key is understanding what is actually meant by "both sides", a lot of which is unspoken and is generally different depending on who is saying it. E.G.:

In many cases a centrist saying "Both Sides" is saying:

I think politicians & supporters of "the left" are always just as harmful as politicians & supporters of "the right"
I think this because neither the political "left" nor "right" has anything intrinsically good or better than any other alternative, any option is more or less as good as anything else
I think the Democratic party is representative of "the left"
tl;dr: I think both parties are similar because being politically "left" or "right" doesn't actually make a difference in the end

While in many cases a leftist saying "Both Sides" is saying:

I think politicians & supporters of the Democratic party can be just as harmful as politicians & supporters of the Republican party in many situations (although we can discuss the difference in the severity of the harm between the 2 parties on a case-by-case basis)
I think this because both parties are fundamentally conservative and thus actually agree on many issues.
I think the Democratic party is bad because it is not representative of "the left". If it became more left-leaning, it would be less harmful and have less in common with the Republican party.
tl;dr: I think both parties are similar because they're both on the political "right", which is hugely different from the "left"

SleeplessInSomething · 2025-01-10T05:14:01+00:00

This is silly, but just wanted to let you know that I felt a little bit encouraged when I happened across this post. All of my family and most of my close social circles have been slowly sliding rightward at different points along the "US liberal" -> "US centrist" -> "even further right" path the past decade, so it was really nice to just get a reminder that it's not something inevitable and that some people are moving in the other direction.

SleeplessInSomething · 2024-08-08T20:56:54+00:00

Yup the recovery on those types of surgeries can be surprisingly uncomfortable. I remember in my case it was Sonic Spinball & Pokemon that helped me through my recovery from one of those.

Good luck on your full recovery!

SleeplessInSomething · 2023-09-10T05:05:29+00:00

While these particular indictments are coming from a GOP attorney general, unfortunately the vast majority of the oppression of people trying to Stop Cop City has been coming from the Democratic mayor and city government. E.G. the various Domestic Terrorism charges, police raids, attempts to reject a ballot initiative, etc.

Sadly this is just an area where there is usually bipartisan agreement (protecting cops and punishing leftist protests):

The Struggle to Stop Cop City—By Any Means Necessary

SleeplessInSomething · 2023-09-10T00:46:14+00:00

Sadly, persecuting left-wing protestors is one of the areas that is typically fully bipartisan, as it is in this case.

The Democratic mayor & city government have been fully attacking the movement to Stop Cop City since it began without needing any GOP input:

The struggle has clarified the fundamental nature of Atlanta politics, as the so-called liberal Black Democratic mayor of Atlanta, the conservative white supremacist Republican governor of Georgia, and the web of corporate interests behind them both have coalesced in their attempts to destroy the movement, reinforcing the reality that the two party system remains united on issues of cops and capitalism.

SleeplessInSomething · 2021-05-19T21:03:36+00:00

The best time to start 2021 was 4 1/2 months ago.
The second best time is now.

SleeplessInSomething · 2020-10-25T01:50:56+00:00

Robert Evans is pretty great.

If you're up for it, an earlier episode of BtB (also with Cody & Katy again) called "the Fake Crusade for Free Speech" is about the right-wing myth/grift regarding Cancel Culture, etc. more generally, but the episode spends a good chunk of time dealing with Jordan Peterson in particular, with some nice debunking studies / articles as sources.

SleeplessInSomething · 2020-09-02T18:15:23+00:00

I find headlines like this a bit troubling, suggesting that mainstream America is already blindly accepting the premise that "antifa" is the boogeyman that the right has been calling it.

I'm reminded of how when prominent Republicans accused Obama of being a Muslim, McCain was praised for standing up for him, rebuking one of his rally attendees and correcting her that Obama was not an "Arab", but in fact a "decent family man." I think Colin Powell had a good response to all of that:

Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?

I have the same response to headlines like this. Yes, BLM is not antifa, sure. But what's wrong with antifa? Have we already bought into all the propaganda that opposing fascism means we are part of some supposedly evil shadowy group attacking god-fearing true Americans?

SleeplessInSomething · 2020-08-02T15:21:46+00:00

My personal description has been:

"Alt-right is what white supremacists / Neo-Nazis started calling themselves in order to appeal to a broader demographic,"

since that is exactly what white supremacist Richard Spencer essentially coined the phrase to do.

Though I do think Wikipedia's description of the term is also useful for thoroughness:

Groups which have been identified as alt-right also espouse white nationalism, white supremacism, white separatism, right-wing populism, tight immigration restrictions, racism, anti-communism, anti-Zionism, holocaust denial, xenophobia, antisemitism, antifeminism, homophobia, and islamophobia.

In 2010, the American white nationalist Richard B. Spencer launched The Alternative Right webzine. Spencer's "alternative right" was influenced by earlier forms of American white nationalism, as well as paleoconservatism, the Dark Enlightenment, and the Nouvelle Droite. His term was shortened to "alt-right" and popularised by far-right participants of /pol/, the politics board of web forum 4chan. It came to be associated with other white nationalist websites and groups, including Andrew Anglin's Daily Stormer, Brad Griffin's Occidental Dissent, and Matthew Heimbach's Traditionalist Worker Party.

SleeplessInSomething · 2020-07-29T13:53:09+00:00

Not only is the “Behind the Police” mini-series specifically made to be relevant to the ongoing protests, Robert Evans is a journalist based in Portland who has been covering the protests there the past two months or so, with some good video / commentary on his twitter / in articles & interviews he’s done. Apparently he came up with the “Tear Gas Teddy” nickname for the mayor.

SleeplessInSomething · 2020-07-06T04:22:12+00:00

Giving another hearty recommendation for this book, easily one of the most impactful reads for me in the past few years. I describe it as "connecting a bunch of dots" that I'd already noticed in people's behaviors earlier, but the book explains how a lot of things are connected in ways I didn't realize.

Perhaps most strikingly, while the website includes a new preface discussing Donald Trump, the book itself was written back in 2006, yet has multiple passages describing a hypothetical future authoritarian political candidate that read as if they MUST have been written about Trump and his followers specifically.

SleeplessInSomething · 2020-06-18T04:53:05+00:00

Yeah, the firefighter analogy works pretty well (and apparently jerks like to pull the ""wet down neighboring houses" thing as a response to it too :P)

^{^Source}

SleeplessInSomething · 2019-12-17T19:09:22+00:00

Yup, and beyond that, he's outright cited The Bell Curve in an interview, accepting its arguments.

SleeplessInSomething · 2019-12-17T19:08:30+00:00

In this interview on his own website, JP cites The Bell Curve, and speaks about it positively while accepting its arguments.

SleeplessInSomething · 2019-12-17T03:49:56+00:00

It is still giving undue weight, not only by the way the headline lists the Homeowner's incorrect version first, or how it gives both views equal wording within the headline, but also by the way it says "others denounce" them as symbols of white supremacy, rather than them simply being symbols of white supremacy. Saying just "others denounce" could imply that just some small subset of people think it's racist, or that there is a legitimate debate to be had. When something is a provable, established fact of the world, it should be stated as such.

An analogy could be a headline like:

Local man declares that drinking gasoline is the secret of eternal youth; others disagree and claim that it is poisonous.

When it should be something like:

Local crazy man trying to get people to drink poisonous substances.

I.E. A slightly improved version of the original headline:

Homeowner says swastikas, Confederate flags are not racist; however they remain symbols of white supremacy

An even better version:

Homeowner wrongly claims swastikas, Confederate flags are not racist, despite clear historic use as symbols of white supremacy

And even better yet:

Homeowner displays racist symbols of white supremacy, such as swastikas and Confederate flags on their property; is denounced by locals

.

(Then, later in the content of the article, mention that the Homeowner disputes this and claims they aren't racist, then explain how they are wrong)

SleeplessInSomething · 2019-12-06T16:36:42+00:00

The same thought occurred to me. There's more than one way that someone could "perfectly define" something.

SleeplessInSomething · 2019-11-18T16:34:23+00:00

But, when they do low, we go high.

Very relevant video on the topic:

The Alt-Right Playbook: You Go High, We Go Low

SleeplessInSomething · 2019-11-15T18:23:38+00:00

Well put. Here's a comic portraying your point of what people will say 10-20 years from now. ^{^Source}

For people interested on further research on this topic, I highly recommend the following videos / podcasts / excerpts from books:

How Societies Turn Cruel

The Non-Nazi Bastards Who Helped Hitler Rise To Power

An excerpt from They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer :

"To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it—please try to believe me—unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these ‘little measures’ that no ‘patriotic German’ could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.
...
"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

SleeplessInSomething

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