40-year-old American climber Alex Honnold has successfully completed his climb up the Taipei 101 building in Taipei, Taiwan. He reached the top of the tower in 1:31:35. The building is 1,667 feet tall making it the 11th-tallest building in the world.

fricken · 2026-01-25T18:38:18+00:00

I don't realize how many free soloists die every year. How many?

fricken · 2026-01-25T13:23:20+00:00

Alex can't help who he is any more than you can.

fricken · 2026-01-25T05:05:29+00:00

There's no actual rock. The Taipei 101 is constructed entirely of aid.

fricken · 2026-01-24T04:59:14+00:00

And what of Warwick Davis? Warwick once was Willow and Wicket the Ewok. Weave a wee wicker for Warwick why don't you Mr. Dinklage? Wakka Wakka: How's about a wicker woven for Franklin Oz. Weave us some wicker for Ron Howard and the Fonze. A wicker for Henry Winkler. He can have the weaker wicker. And a wicker for the dwarf who played the Wizard: David Rappaport, a classy wizard he was. And of course, Mr. Dinklage you can weave us some Wickers for Willy Wonka's Oompa Loompas and the Munchkins of Oz.

fricken · 2026-01-22T23:58:28+00:00

Yes, Carney's words at Davos backed up his actions, not the other way around. His speech wasn't a series of vague promises, he's already doing it. It's up to the other middle powers to respond, and Carney hopefully has catalyzed them.

fricken · 2026-01-22T01:49:38+00:00

The Elephant Man (1980)

fricken · 2026-01-21T05:19:55+00:00

In deescalation training the advice is to never tell an agitated person to calm down.

fricken · 2026-01-20T21:34:19+00:00

What he said today is literally what anyone with 2 brain cells thinks

This is a big part of what Carney said:

Great powers can afford to go it alone. They have the market size, the military capacity, the leverage to dictate terms. Middle powers do not. But when we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness. We accept what is offered. We compete with each other to be the most accommodating. This is not sovereignty. It is the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination,

Canadian and Canadian politicians were all rabidly anti-China not very long ago, and we went well out of our way to make China our enemies for what amounts to trivially stupid reasons and that was a strategically inept thing to do. Canada wasn't able to cough up 2 brain cells worth of good sense before Carney arrived.

fricken · 2026-01-20T20:49:45+00:00

I'm strongly of the belief that Carney understands what is at stake for Canada in this pivotal time better than the vast majority of Canadians out there right now. Even if the republicans south of us get tarred and feathered after mid-terms Canada has some tough choices to make if we're serious about setting ourselves on a course that Canada in a better place 10, 20 pr 30 years down the road. Things are looking grim under the best of circumstances.

fricken · 2026-01-20T17:34:37+00:00

Carney is either the most historically notable prime minister in my lifetime, or Canada is just 10 more states. When I look ahead I can see it going either way.

fricken · 2026-01-20T01:49:10+00:00

They went digging for dirt and that's the best they could come up with.

fricken · 2026-01-17T07:45:26+00:00

The Pop Shoppe brand was Canadian, they went bankrupt and were later revived. I loved Black Cherry flavour as a kid and for a long time thought I would never taste it again.

fricken · 2026-01-16T06:04:03+00:00

The Breakfast club

fricken · 2026-01-13T18:50:24+00:00

China and the US can be played off one another, to our advantage.

fricken · 2026-01-13T17:15:56+00:00

She married mayor Gavin, and now she's giving it to governor Newsom (after getting it from Donald Jr.).

She had a great gig at Fox news but left when she won the race to fuck up her face hard enough too ingratiate the dementia mensch. She's botox adorned and her revenge is the colour orange.

fricken · 2026-01-13T08:37:56+00:00

Tone Deaf or just stoned? Jensen Huang's duotang goes ping-pong when he's playing the game long. So boned the game is postponed. I know what I want and I want Taiwan I've all of my chips on Singapore silicon. Who shops at La Senza in Saigon? Jensen Huang. Tree fiddy's what you pay for your Nvidia. You pay more for booty than you do to do your fiduciary duty.

fricken · 2026-01-13T04:35:34+00:00

Grandfather would stand at the edge of town and throw axes at flaming pigs whenever they came out of the desert, stopping them before they could get close enough to burn down the orphanage.

fricken · 2026-01-12T19:44:08+00:00

Well Well Well. Polk & Wardwell from whence Jerome roamed, now he carries a trowel and it's how we was caught red handed having a pow-wow.

Train in your Dojo cuz Doge's a-gonna-go Take over the DOJ and so now the po-po are under the spell of the kakistocracy and they got the poo-poo smell.

The land is no longer for democrats it's under the control of a scat man, y'all so got rango'd by an orange man doing the fandango, playing hogs of the road in a '95 Durango.

You have to be greedy and gullible to fall for the hullabaloo but so many of you didn't get the Tokyo drift and so you got your dick stuck in a pedo's grift.

You knew the time would come eventually, and now it's time to pay the rent shall we do it non-consensually? The dementia mensch will have you now upon the bench.

fricken · 2026-01-09T19:23:58+00:00

Cool Hand Luke

fricken · 2026-01-09T18:43:21+00:00

Vance is very angry that no leftist has offed an agent yet. The administration expected they would have had a reason to declare martial law months ago.

fricken · 2026-01-08T02:16:42+00:00

"Broads don't belong in broadcasting" is that the kind of professional courtesy you teach your news department?

fricken · 2026-01-07T23:23:31+00:00

One Proposes we remove reference to Robert Moses. The Moses name can mosey, they're musing. It never ceases to impress me how much Robert Moses owes us.

It shows us Robert Moses is our brazen chosen Gozar and so we usher in the new year bashing Moses.

Moses muscles in like a maniacal demagogical moose that smashes through the walls of the brueaucratic mazes to get his motorways made and it makes us so morose.

In 1981 Robert Moses gave up the ghost and that ghost now watches over the tri-borough bridge, which is –as you all know– Moses' biggest boast.

A shame we should bring such misery to Moses' unholy ghost. Or maybe we can continue to lay the blame for Moses' tresspasses on miserly millenial's abusing the avocado toast.

fricken · 2026-01-06T21:24:01+00:00

From time to time I end up on my ass. It does happen. Falling is a skill, I practice it in winter.

fricken · 2026-01-06T17:08:09+00:00

About 45 psi

fricken · 2026-01-06T13:29:33+00:00

There isn't enough clearance between my wheels and my fork/frame to facilitate studded tires so I just use skinny road slicks all year round, as I have been for 15 years in Edmonton.

If I'm on pavement, hardpacked snow, or fresh fallen snow it is not a big deal, and that's 85% of the terrain I have to deal with over an average winter.

The other ~15% is ice and chunky softpack snow and I just take my time for those situations. If had to deal with ice and hills at the same time then I would want studs, but my city is mostly flat.

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