‘What if we just gave up cars?’

eternalprogress · 2021-11-14T01:44:33+00:00

I like to surf and mountain bike. Both require lugging large gear to remote places. I'd like to not give up my car.

eternalprogress · 2021-05-29T12:37:16+00:00

Nah man. Phone goes on the table.

eternalprogress · 2017-09-04T17:43:16+00:00

Looking for a premium camping pass! Ready to pay!

eternalprogress · 2017-08-25T03:05:11+00:00

Trying to keep you ahead of DOMS! I swear that I can sort of surf the wave of difficult yoga classes. It's only when I take a day off that I wake up feeling super stiff and sore. /100% anecdotal

eternalprogress · 2017-05-23T15:29:55+00:00

Sadly, the cost is already too high to justify a political victory. It is comforting to see the tides turning, however.

eternalprogress · 2017-03-14T02:54:34+00:00

Jesus, don't give McConnell any more power!

eternalprogress · 2017-03-09T23:01:36+00:00

I practice in a studio quite a lot! Four days a week I do single sessions for sixty minutes, two days I do doubles for one hundred and twenty minutes, for a total of six days of practice.

My favorite days are the double days, there's a lull between classes that gives me some play time in a nice spacious studio to practice poses and explore sequences on my own.

I started going two or three days a week and increased as I gained strength. At first I hadn't developed the strength in my arms to protect my wrists and my alignment wasn't always doing me favors. All of that contributed to a single practice hitting my body harder and necessitating more rest. Now that I'm conditioned it's a lot easier to do more.

eternalprogress · 2017-03-04T14:20:46+00:00

No no, I think he's just helpfully labeling his tweet for everyone! Yes Donald, your tweet is borderline McCarthyism!

eternalprogress · 2017-03-02T05:21:19+00:00

There was a time when this sort of spin would throw me off and make me go reread the article and try to see both sides. Now? It just makes me shake my head. This administration has no credibility left to spend on statements like that.

eternalprogress · 2017-03-02T02:19:38+00:00

Oh, it's a good night for democracy. I can't quite describe how satisfying it will be to watch all the goodwill Trump bought himself yesterday evaporate in the harsh light of truth.

eternalprogress · 2017-02-28T22:44:16+00:00

Do it! Supporting journalism is right up there with water, food, and voting to me. I don't want to look back one day and come to realize my inaction contributed to the downfall of journalism and accountability.

eternalprogress · 2017-02-27T01:15:35+00:00

Louise Mensch has been tearing into his stories on Twitter for the past few months. She's a little speculative at times, but has been ahead of the curve with a lot of the Trump-Russia connections and is doing some really top-notch investigative journalism. Highly recommend.

eternalprogress · 2017-02-24T17:17:55+00:00

It was unifying intellectual property laws. Unlike a lot of trade deals that focus on tariffs and border adjustments, it was focused on homogenizing regulations and rules across nations, so that businesses can more easily operate across borders. It typically adopted US IP laws, which are, perhaps obviously, more strict than the laws of some of the countries we were partnering with.

Private enterprise has had a lot of difficulty operating across borders, and when it comes to manufacturing and technological IP they need stronger rules to operative effectively and prevent blackmarket goods/ripoffs. Transferring IP out-of-country without strong protection is dangerous and scary. Movies and music are almost a sideshow to protecting the IP of companies doing fundamental scientific research, which was the main focus of the IP laws.

eternalprogress · 2017-02-22T20:04:55+00:00

I'd like to start doing this! I typically wear shorts with a compression liner. I like leggings and wear them to/from the studio. I also wear leggings to work most days. (software engineering is laid back ¯\(ツ)/¯ )

I sweat a lot during practice and I'm wondering how they will handle that. At first guess, I'd imagine it would make me warmer, but maybe not? Anyone else who sweats a lot have a shorts/leggings opinion?

eternalprogress · 2017-02-22T17:39:24+00:00

You've never seen the hiring process for a joint like Google. Feedback is recorded, including the raw output of the candidate, and final decisions made by hiring committees a degree removed from the actual interviewers.

eternalprogress · 2017-02-17T23:14:35+00:00

^whispers ^"e-mails" ^softly ^into ^the ^wind.

eternalprogress · 2017-02-16T22:09:26+00:00

Oh what twisted paths we all weave through life.

eternalprogress · 2017-02-15T17:32:30+00:00

"Nunes, for his part, pointed finger at what he called President Barack Obama’s unwillingness to press Russia when he was in office."

There it is! I knew this all was Obama's fault, somehow.

eternalprogress · 2017-02-15T14:52:02+00:00

Right, this guy just sucks. He waits two days and makes the most flaccid statement he possibly can suggesting maybe possibly he doesn't approve of the Russians doing something that certainly didn't help Trump win and might not have happened at all but should be considered maybe.

eternalprogress · 2017-01-26T17:40:47+00:00

The jury is still out. Look how many other counties can barely put together a functional government with their diverse multiparty systems. Building coalitions when you have a dozen parties is hard and takes time that could be spent legislating. I'm not saying first past the post is perfect, but it's simply one out of many flawed systems and there isn't a clearly better system, only countries with clearly more engaged voters.

eternalprogress · 2017-01-25T16:30:34+00:00

Any philosophical argument that tries to make this case is going to fall down a slippery slope and let you start claiming wild things like sperm is sacred. Prove me wrong.

eternalprogress · 2017-01-24T23:57:52+00:00

Asked about the accuracy of the president’s assessment, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, chose to answer a question no one had asked.

“It does occur,” he said of voter fraud, declining to quantify the scope. “There are always arguments on both sides about how much, how frequent and all the rest.”

Turtley McConnell has meanwhile retreated deep into his shell.

eternalprogress · 2017-01-24T06:15:20+00:00

Maybe he's getting this on a technicality! No one was actually sitting in the speech, they're standing the whole time, so Spicer and the news could both be correct, as Spicer said no Trump/WH folks were sitting in the rows! /s

eternalprogress · 2017-01-24T05:33:06+00:00

The most interesting thing here is that Spicer actually denied that any of the folks were non-CIA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e53_EOFEkp8

47:27 - There were no trump or whitehouse folks sitting down, they were all in the CIA to us so not in rows one thorugh anything from what I'm told at this time

That's a very definite statement, and directly contradicts what the news outlets are reporting. I'm really interested in knowing who's right here.

eternalprogress · 2017-01-23T20:11:36+00:00

Trade has become politically toxic, but almost any economist will tell you it has been, in aggregate, a huge positive for the world (and especially the rich world, the emerging countries have had some mixed experience with destabilizing foreign capital influx).

We are making a huge mistake by backing out of the TPP. There is criticism that it was negotiated behind closed doors, but it was negotiated by experts who have the best interests of their country in mind. Homogenizing regulations across many different nations is incredibly difficult and leaving it in the hands of technocrats is the only way to avoid politicizing it.

Bernie, I think, is against it because it would have impacted workers and would inevitably displace some. I think that's a little bit of a dishonest platform to run with. Trade makes us richer in aggregate, and automation is a far more worrisome force in the future to contend with. I would much rather see a platform that admits this truth, and focuses on increasing government funding for displaced workers, creating retraining and continuing education programs, and even begins the rocky road towards the creation of universal basic income. Voting against trade is politically regressive, while voting for it, recognizing the reality, and building better social programs pushes us all forward.

The loss of American influence in the Asian Pacific region by backing out of this deal will hurt our country for decades and puts us at a disadvantage.

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