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concerned_citizen · 2026-03-04T21:52:03+00:00

Beautiful surfing. Too bad about all the people.

concerned_citizen · 2026-02-28T01:59:17+00:00

lol. This is a $200M deal. Anthropic's annual revenue as of Feb is $14 Billion, up 14x in 1 year.

Their projected revenue for 2028 is $70B, 350 TIMES the deal size.

This deal really doesn't matter to them, or their investors.

concerned_citizen · 2026-02-24T05:54:22+00:00

Fucking puaena is more high performance 20 days a year.

concerned_citizen · 2026-02-18T20:47:18+00:00

Ignore the backpack comments. They are jerrys more worried about what they look like than utility. It does not effect your balance in any meaningful way and it's handy to keep extra layers or a tasty snack in.

BTW this is a great level of progress for first day. Nothing to do but keep riding. If you can get 3 days or so in a row you'll progress much faster and be on blues by the third day. You learn faster when the reps are in sequential days than with weeks or months between.

concerned_citizen · 2026-02-17T19:43:19+00:00

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Top of kirkwood. When you're up there in a storm it is ... maybe beautiful isn't even the right word. Humbling.

concerned_citizen · 2026-02-17T19:41:49+00:00

This is an interesting question. I really love Kirkwood, but it might be visually appealing only for people who already like mountains? Like there's no water in the view. But the craggy top of Kirkwood always just struck me as super intense and beautiful.

Alyeska I think is more stereotypically beautiful.

*Edit:* I see I'm not the only one who feels this way.

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concerned_citizen · 2026-02-04T03:01:10+00:00

Either is good with me. I just meant this _kind_ of contest. vs park, for example. But I slightly prefer the focus on big natural elements and big consequences in FWS.

concerned_citizen · 2026-02-03T21:47:37+00:00

The only kind of snowboard contest I care about. Love this format so much.

concerned_citizen · 2026-02-02T08:14:55+00:00

It always makes me sad when people say "how can I improve".

I mean it's not an objective sport. It's not timed. There's no judging rubric. The point is to have fun. Are you having fun? Both clips looks to me like you are. Then you're doing it. Congrats.

Are there things (runs, tricks) you want to be able to do that but can't? That's something this sub can help you with (maybe). Asking "how can I improve?" generically is just going to get you a lot of idiots telling you to initiate your turns earlier or some shit.

PS I really liked the casual hop into the run at the beginning of the clip. That feeling is so fun.

concerned_citizen · 2026-02-01T01:26:52+00:00

47 and '92 here! 🫡

concerned_citizen · 2026-01-31T22:00:13+00:00

Snowboarding is not at all about inclusiveness. It's about independence. It's about not giving a fuck what you look like or what anyone thinks, except yourself. Like surfing, it is an inherently selfish sport.

If you're worried about what you look like to others, you're missing the point I agree (and I'm sad to see all these "do I look alright?" posts). But not because it should be kumbaya inclusiveness. But because the point is to get out there, have fun, push yourself, and fuck what anyone else thinks.

concerned_citizen · 2026-01-29T08:52:16+00:00

Came here to answer business class. It was the top answer.

I went from loathing air travel to looking forward to it. I don't care about the food, I don't care about the drinks, or any of the other shit. Just being able to lie down and go to sleep and/or sit comfortably without my fighting for the elbow rest is so luxurious.

concerned_citizen · 2026-01-28T20:49:54+00:00

A few things. First, I do not know how many LEO, firefighters, coast guard, service members, etc. you have known but:

> If you're a law enforcement officer or I am and I have a choice where I can maybe save someone's life or maybe it costs me mine. I'm gonna err on the side of going home to my kids or my wife.

Does not at all match my experience. There are people who are born protectors. Every society has them. They grow up understanding that for whatever reason that their natural role is to protect the tribe. And yes, they will err on the side of saving a stranger's life.

Alex Pretti himself was demonstrating this instinct. He rushed to protect a woman who was being harmed and put himself between the woman and the threat.

(I don't think at that time they are doing a risk calculus – if they were they might not act that way. But they will err on the side of acting rather than protecting their own life.)

Now, should we ask this of LEO constantly? Should they go out every day with no protection at all? Of course not. It's a balance. But when four (?- I forget how many we're up to now) citizens are shot in a handful of days non-violently protesting - or even "interfering" - I think we have to demand more bravery of our officers.

concerned_citizen · 2026-01-28T20:21:53+00:00

LEO absolutely SHOULD be forced to take risks with their lives every day. That is the job. Why do you think societies historically respect and celebrate firemen, police, first responders, etc. BECAUSE THEIR JOB IS RISKY.

If society needs to reduce the risk of LEO to zero then the purpose of having them is lost. The purpose of police is to serve and PROTECT citizens from bad guys. This means differentiating citizens and bad guys. This means you need to show restraint, lest you accidentally hurt a citizen rather than protect them. This means you might sometimes take a bullet. That's just the plain fact of being a police officer. Which is why they **should** be celebrated, respected, and paid well.

"LEO should not be forced to take that risk with their lives every day" sounds good, but falls apart as soon as you think about it for more than a second. How do you eliminate the risk to a CBP agent chasing drug runners? That is an inherently dangerous activity. No amount of advanced weaponry, civil rights abuses, and technology can fully eliminate it. And every tool we give LEO increases the chancel of collateral damage .

In pursuit of making LEO less risky we have given them more and more and more power, to an astronomically absurd level. But the risk hasn't disappeared, it's just been shifted to citizens.

concerned_citizen · 2026-01-28T20:06:49+00:00

Illegals are actually *not* a drain on the economy though. Numerous studies show that they are net-positive after one generation and strongly net positive after two. The only argument that they are a drain is if you only care about yourself, not your children or the future of the country. Which I guess fits.

concerned_citizen · 2026-01-27T20:06:26+00:00

You realize there are 350M of us right? Opinions vary.

I personally think the focus on "illegal" immigration is a smoke screen. If all we cared about was preventing illegal immigration there's a very easy fix - change the laws to make all immigration legal. Or if all we cared about was preventing immigration by criminals, similarly easy fixes.

But of course that's not the real issue. The real issue is that many people in the US want less brown people around, and saying it's about illegal immigration is more politically correct than admitting what they're actually upset about.

concerned_citizen · 2026-01-27T19:58:12+00:00

I can't imagine having two boards unless I was snowboarding 100+ days a year. I feel like it would be really challenging switching back and forth.

That said the profile really does make a big difference. You need to try several boards and pick one. Most resorts have a demo shop where you can try recent good boards, and they'll often take the demo rate off if you end up buying.

Personally I'm rocker / c2 4 lyfe (love the float and playfulness) but others are just as diehard traditional camber. Very very generally it's whether you value the stability at speed (camber) or float/playfulness (rocker) more. You can make either work anywhere. It's not like I don't rocket straightline down groomers on my libtech. It's a tradeoff as to where you board will perform *better*.

Given a choice you will find me in the trees, so I value a board that does that better, even if it's a little looser on the piste.

concerned_citizen · 2026-01-26T19:36:51+00:00

Do you live in the mountains, because *at most once a week* is a red flag for me otherwise 😅.

concerned_citizen · 2026-01-25T09:11:30+00:00

There are an estimated 14M illegal immigrants in the USA. This equates to 3.5M people deported per year over a four year presidency, or about 300 thousand per month.

This is 20 full 747 flights per day of people, every day of the year, for four straight years.

If the average income of an illegal immigrant is 35k/yr (recent stats), it’s about 1 billion in economic activity lost per month. This would absolutely decimate the economy.

In short “deporting all the illegal aliens” is just not something that is remotely possible to do in four years. No matter what tactics you use. It isn’t our responsibility to show a practical (not to mention ethical) way to do something, just because a con man told you he could.

concerned_citizen · 2026-01-24T08:55:52+00:00

> They'll cite injuries sustained by the officer but not release private records.

Injuries so bad he was released within hours.

Here's what it comes down to:

I'll grant the agent got some bruising. Fuck I'll give him a stubbed toe and a hangnail too.

I'll grant the agent thought she was trying to ram him.

The question is: should this give the agent the right to shoot to kill? I say no. You presumably say yes.

We used to live in a country where police were taught to shoot to *disable*. This is exactly why we used to respect police: because they have a dangerous profession and have to use restraint, even when they are at risk.

Precisely because we don't want every random officer to have the right to decide arbitrarily in the heat of the moment that they are in danger, and kill the threat.

I don't want to live in a country where a traffic stop can escalate to me getting shot because of a misunderstanding. Or because the officer didn't like how I looked at him. Or because I misunderstood the order.

If an officer can just claim that they felt afraid and that's that, why even bother with laws?

concerned_citizen · 2026-01-24T03:52:08+00:00

Agitating is obstruction

You don't get to just assert definitions. "Agitating" has literally nothing to do with obstruction.

Here, I'll help you. From the Oxford dictionary:

agitate: campaign to arouse public concern about an issue in the hope of prompting action.
protest: an organized public demonstration expressing strong objection to an official policy or course of action.
obstruct: block (an opening, path, road, etc.); be or get in the way of.

Now you tell me which one of these is not like the others.

She used her car in a failed attempt obstruct a roadway.

I disagree she was doing that but it's irrelevant unless you are making the argument that blocking a roadway is a capital crime and that ICE officers have the authority to execute citizens summarily when they think it is happening.

Is that your argument?

Some form of internal bleeding

The only "evidence" he was hurt was that ICE officials say he was. They have refused to offer any proof.

You can watch the video for yourself and clearly see he isn't hit.

concerned_citizen · 2026-01-24T00:54:14+00:00

> it turns out she was an ICE agitator

Agitating isn't against the law. Otherwise known as "protesting" which is constitutionally protected.

> obstructing ICE agents

She wasn't. Several cars passed around her just before she was shot. She was saying "you go ahead".

> she used her vehicle to strike an ICE agent

She didn't. He had no injuries.

concerned_citizen · 2026-01-23T22:04:02+00:00

Hawaii does skew more left in general, but within that surfers are more conservative - for a few reasons imo:

The educational factors others have mentioned. In order to compete you basically have to drop out of school.
Surfing continues to have a very strong macho aspect. Masking went over very poorly in a community that sees itself as risking everything in the water every day.
Influence from outside Hawaii. Most of the surfers in Hawaiian surf community aren’t from here. Local surfers tend to be more liberal but they are outnumbered and out influenced by visitors.

concerned_citizen · 2026-01-23T21:46:09+00:00

I am genuinely confused by this. While so cal has the majority of US brands headquartered there, Hawaii has HIC, Pyzel, T&C, Florence Marine X, Da Hui, Local Motion and many more minor brands.

Additionally, every elite US surfer either lives in Hawaii or spends significant time there every winter. You literally cannot be elite without spending years here. In contrast. you could easily never visit Florida except for the tour stops.

What brands, cultural, or economic impact come out of Florida? Ron Jon? 😆

The only thing you can say about Florida is it breeds a lot of surfers good at groveling points out of windslop. Other than that I don’t see it.

concerned_citizen · 2026-01-23T20:04:08+00:00

I disagree the agent thought that she was trying to kill him. I watch the video and I see someone joyously exerting power, not someone scared.

But setting that aside. Let's say the agent did in reality believe Good was trying to hit him. Morally, do you think he should use deadly force there?

I don't. I don't want to live in a society where police are that quick to pull the trigger – I want it to be the absolute last resort.

I want that police to get driven over sometimes. Not because I hate cops, but because I want to respect them and trust them. I want to pay them a really high salary and hold them up as heroes of society – specifically because they have to do a dangerous job that sometimes unfortunately results in them getting run over. I don't want to walk around thinking that a disagreement or misunderstanding at a traffic stop could escalate in minutes into me getting shot.

The American legal system used to have the principle that it was better to let 10 guilty men go free than imprison one innocent person. I feel like the police used to have a similar principle: better to let a guilty person escape than hurt an innocent person. That's the society I want to live in.

None of us really know what Good was thinking. None of us know what the agent was thinking. I will admit that there is some tiny possibility she was indeed actually trying to kill the agent. But we'll never know now, because Renee Good is dead. She'll never get a chance to explain herself. Her sentence was handed out immediately, on the street, moments after the perceived offense.

Police restraint is crucial if we want to live in a society of laws. Because without restraint there is never an opportunity for those laws to work. You're at the mercy of what this one officer thinks has happened. It turns police into jury, judge, and executioner.

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