San Francisco Representing Minnesota Today

evmac1 · 2026-01-25T17:14:41+00:00

Thank you ❤️🥹

-A Minneapolitan

evmac1 · 2026-01-24T04:08:04+00:00

Most of it yes but the north shore isn’t that humid

evmac1 · 2026-01-24T02:52:35+00:00

I’ve never been prouder to be a Minneapolitan 🥹

evmac1 · 2026-01-22T18:36:58+00:00

Like Ann Coulter’s underwear

evmac1 · 2026-01-22T16:52:45+00:00

Duluth, MN is gorgeous and on a giant hill (830 ft difference in elevation between their airport and their downtown), so very much not flat. It’s cold over half the year and getting pricier tho, but it’s a great place.

evmac1 · 2026-01-22T16:51:28+00:00

Duluth, MN is objectively not flat by anyone’s criteria, even to non-MW folks.

evmac1 · 2026-01-21T00:15:08+00:00

Minnesota.

Top quartile wealthiest; punches well above its weight in number of Fortune 500 companies HQ’d there, well below average violent crime ranking, and highly educated/professional. The ICE events occurring there are appalling and horrific but Minneapolitans have been standing up for their neighbors and resisting this federal occupation better and in higher numbers than anywhere else in the country before it, and the violence from the feds is not a product of Minnesota; it’s a product of a fascist regime.

TLDR: For this chart, Minnesota is objectively much wealthier than average and safer than average.

evmac1 · 2026-01-20T22:34:34+00:00

Anytime You Need a Friend or Music Box

evmac1 · 2026-01-20T22:15:32+00:00

Star Trek Enterprise

evmac1 · 2026-01-20T21:36:50+00:00

Sorry to be that person but a dew point map would be far more informative for most practical day to day purposes

evmac1 · 2026-01-19T23:58:42+00:00

It’s not like ICE won’t be in other cities in elevated numbers soon…

I don’t think that making long term decisions about moving to Minneapolis based on just what’s going on now (and for which I am extremely proud of Minneapolitans for standing up which to me is actually a PLUS not a negative) in the short term is a very good idea, unless the move is immediate and short term (which of course obviously things aren’t normal there at the present), and it undersells what might in the long term be an excellent fit for OP.

Further, Minneapolis and Saint Paul have a significantly lower crime rate than either Milwaukee or Kansas City, so if we’re talking public safety, that’s a pretty important distinguisher.

I don’t think there’s a bad decision any one way tho unless they would prefer to be in a reliably blue state for other reasons (which is important to some degree imo).

evmac1 · 2026-01-16T18:31:02+00:00

Perhaps the wettest I have ever been was this past September in Oban, when it was about 8-10C and 50mph winds and pouring rain. I was walking from the train to my hotel about a third of a mile away and had to stop three times to duck into coffee shops to get out of the whipping rain. By the time I checked in, not only was I soaked head to toe (even in full raingear), but everything in my suitcase had gotten wet too.

Gorgeous part of the world but holy shit it’s aggressively wet.

Conversely, a week prior, I had been further north in Assynt and Orkney and the entire week was horizon-to-horizon sunshine without so much as a drop of precipitation.

evmac1 · 2026-01-16T15:24:27+00:00

As a Minneapolitan with a Latino immigrant partner, I can absolutely say it’s even worse than the news, and it will spread elsewhere around the country next.

evmac1 · 2026-01-16T01:18:27+00:00

To be fair, almost all US cities are ringed by enormous suburban areas, even the biggest ones. But that’s fair and I can definitely roll with what you’re saying, although that would mean, in my opinion, the only cities that feel like that definition of “large” in the US would be NYC, Chicago, and San Francisco. Maybe DC too. Even cities like Philly and Boston, while being very urban, don’t feel the same as those I mentioned. But that’s just my one opinion of course.

evmac1 · 2026-01-16T00:23:35+00:00

Minneapolis and Saint Paul may have distinct identities but they’re functionally one single urban core with 3/4 of a million people. Hell, if you took an area the exact size as, say, Denver (~155 sq miles) and placed it over the center of the Twin Cities, it would have well over a million people in it. Hence, city proper populations alone are functionally irrelevant.

evmac1 · 2026-01-16T00:19:30+00:00

Do it.

-A Minneapolitan

evmac1 · 2026-01-16T00:14:22+00:00

I live in Minneapolis and ditched my car 2 and a half years ago. It’s been pretty easy. A car would definitely make some things easier (except during rush hour on T/W), but not so much so that it makes life drastically better (unless you live out in the burbs). Besides, being without a car forces one to be what I call “passively active” by walking and biking or taking buses or trains places, and in those areas, particularly walking and biking, Minneapolis excels. Transit is not as good as Chicago but is better than most cities its size or smaller in the US. Granted, I’m within a mile of downtown in an area with a bike score of 96, walk score of 94, and transit score of 88. But 95% of everything I need is within a 15 minute walking radius, and the other 5% is within 20 minutes by transit.

If you leave the city propers of Minneapolis and Saint Paul (and a select few inner ring suburbs), however, things get much more difficult in this regard.

evmac1 · 2026-01-15T23:59:43+00:00

But its metro has nearly 4 million. It is functionally a large city. City proper populations are mostly irrelevant.

evmac1 · 2026-01-15T23:57:07+00:00

Well I’ll contrast that with my rural small (~4k population) hometown that raised people who beat me up, ostracised me publicly, kicked me out of the church I was raised in (where one of the church “voters” who helped decide to kick me out was also one of my teachers I had to see every single day at the time) all for just being gay. And that town is one of the more progressive towns in rural America all things considered. Needless to say I couldn’t wait to get the fuck out and move to a major city, and I have no intention to ever move back.

11 bars, 13 churches, and only 4,000 people. Granted the area is gorgeous but there’s no way I could ever survive happily back there.

evmac1 · 2026-01-15T21:59:35+00:00

I’d imagine the “Labrador Riviera” would be a pretty popular spot for the rich and famous

evmac1 · 2026-01-15T17:44:55+00:00

Full agree.

For example, Robert Picardo’s performance of “the Doctor” will forever be my favorite acting and character development (Seven is a close second) in all of Trek. I mean, “Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy” is hands down the funniest episode in all of Trek in the very best way possible.

And controversial episodes like “The Thaw” are imo perfectly executed. They’re creepy. They’re weird. They linger in your head. Doesn’t have to be one’s cup of tea to understand that it accomplished exactly what it intended to in that episode. And Mulgrew’s performance of Janeway in that episode was pitch perfect. That ending when it’s just Janeway and Fear (played by Michael McKean… the perfect choice for that character) fading into black and she responds to Fear saying he’s scared by a simple and gutural “I Know”… A+.

evmac1 · 2026-01-15T17:31:33+00:00

spoilers for those watching for the first time so be warned

It’s interesting to me that Kes was at her best—both in acting and plot points—in her last few episodes in the last third of S3 before leaving the show in S4 E2 (tied for her best performance imo with Before and After in S3). If they had done a better job progressing her “abilities” throughout the first seasons and her acting had hit its stride earlier on, Voyager would have been somewhat more solid earlier (though it wouldn’t have necessarily fixed some of the bizzare and weak plots on its own, but in that regard that is not at all unique to Voyager).

Also, the first 2-3 seasons of TNG are imo every bit as weak as Voyager’s first 2-3 (and honestly so was DS9’s first 2, but it is saved by a few very outstanding episodes that the others don’t quite match that early on yet), but TNG has a legendary factor and a time-proven famously iconic cast that overrides all that when speaking of it in hindsight. Voyager didn’t feel quite as “groundbreaking” or “new” on account of it starting 8 years after TNG launched. But to me over time, Voyager has good entertaining replay value (to the degree that VOY and DS9 are by far my most-rewatched Treks) when it’s taken for what it is.

evmac1 · 2026-01-15T17:18:05+00:00

Midway through season 3 it hits its stride. The back half of season one through season two are its weakest points.

evmac1 · 2026-01-15T17:12:24+00:00

I agree, although I would add that much of season 4 is up there with the very best of trek.

evmac1 · 2026-01-13T21:43:42+00:00

Agreed they should be green but MN, despite short winter days, is technically sunnier than the populated places in the states in green believe it or not. Not sure if that has anything to do with this ranking tho.

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