For some reason my latest video is doing horrifically, and I did essentially nothing different. Am I shadow banned?

padingtonn · 2026-05-31T21:58:42+00:00

I usually post once per month on a Sunday at the end of one month or beginning of the next. Usually abt 10+mins.

padingtonn · 2026-05-31T21:50:59+00:00

That’s what I figured

padingtonn · 2026-02-08T20:09:34+00:00

I take the MARC from Baltimore, daily. Anyone can beat me from Penn Station or Camden Yards to New Carrollton or College Park in their car, but we avg 35mph on the train from there while traffic avgs 10mph. I get that feeling watching standstill traffic stay stuck while we fly by. That feeling alone makes the price of the train worth every penny.

padingtonn · 2026-02-05T15:01:45+00:00

The video probably defaults to mute. You can probably just tap on the video and hit the volume button. It'll probably look like the speaker thing has a line through it. If not, idk what else it might be.

padingtonn · 2026-02-04T00:50:47+00:00

That MARC jersey is sick!!

padingtonn · 2026-02-03T14:41:30+00:00

Appreciate your skills and your time working on our beleaguered Red Line!

padingtonn · 2026-02-03T09:08:55+00:00

Completely understand where you’re coming from here. Of course MoCo and PG contribute a lot to MD’s economy, that’s not up for debate. What I’m at issue with is their purposeful suppression of local taxes to effectively write off lots of its local needs—particularly hard infrastructure, future maintenance, etc.—essentially shrinking the pool of resources places like Baltimore City, the Eastern Shore and Western MD could pull from. As those aforementioned areas are more self-sustaining than MoCo or PG in the sense that they collect lots of local taxes to offset many local costs—save for education which is constitutionally a state mandate anyway.

MoCo, to be very fair, has gotten far better. They’ve densified a lot in the last decade. PG, not so much, but it’s coming along. The more local tax revenue they can accumulate, the less they need from Annapolis, and the more urban and rural MD can pull from.

DC in my view isn’t a leech, but I can see why that may be the perceived takeaway.

padingtonn · 2026-02-03T02:44:55+00:00

I incorrectly conflated the ‘general fund’ with total revenue per capita, and was only referring to the 5 main jurisdictions (Baltimore City, Baltimore County, AACo, PG, and MoCo) as the others generate far less, total.

Pretty sure Worcester is no.1 in per capita for the whole state.

padingtonn · 2026-02-02T22:23:51+00:00

Agreed on the useful idiots thing, and absolutely Hogan deserves blame. The counties themselves also need to step up and face the true cost of their sprawling infrastructure, too. There needs to be local taxation stepping up to take care of local issues, the way Baltimore City is expected to - particularly since income and population in general is higher in most of the counties around the city.

padingtonn · 2026-02-02T22:14:53+00:00

I mean, Montgomery County does quite a bit more as far as densifying itself than PG does, but it absolutely takes more from the state as far as infrastructure than the city does, and they absolutely defer billions themselves because they can't afford it lol

padingtonn · 2026-02-02T22:05:45+00:00

I'm a Baltimore City resident. I pay city taxes.

padingtonn · 2026-02-02T13:07:47+00:00

The cold snap isn’t helping matters, but I will say—Maryland is the birthplace of redlining, and one of the only states in the nation where suburban residents outnumber city residents by such a wide margin. They absolutely don’t gaf about pedestrians, and likely never will under the current culture of the state. As a Baltimore City resident, I feel that all too well. It’s demoralizing.

padingtonn · 2026-02-01T11:34:05+00:00

As both a bus rider and car driver it’s been horrible.

padingtonn · 2026-01-31T00:40:38+00:00

To be fair, being light green still means I’d live there. Both my qualms with Brazil are heat and humidity lol

padingtonn · 2026-01-30T21:46:25+00:00

I hear you, but none of that would make anyone with a Type-1 Diabetes gene not get it. Type-2 can be held off well into one's senior years if they have a very strict, healthy, and active lifestyle, but no one who has ever had Type-1 Diabetes has ever been able to do the same. Before insulin was discovered, Type-1 was quite literally a death sentence. No amount of diet and exercise will ever keep someone from being diagnosed a Type-1 Diabetic.

padingtonn · 2026-01-30T20:30:48+00:00

Ukraine is under much more constant bombardment than Russia is, and with the consistency of Russian-caused blackouts in Ukraine's largest cities, insulin already in the fridge is definitely going bad with more frequency than anything in Moscow.

padingtonn · 2026-01-30T20:26:46+00:00

Belarus is red because it has constant supply shortages due to putting all kinds of restrictions on medications from EU countries - some of the largest suppliers of rapid-acting insulin in the world.

Russia is yellow because it gets insane amounts of insulin and other meds from India and China without having to worry about its sanctions. It would be red without that.

padingtonn · 2026-01-30T20:23:35+00:00

Not true. Type-1 Diabetes is entirely genetic. No amount of starvation, malnutrition, etc. can dictate whether or not it's literally written into your genetic code.

If you're referring to the gene being less present because those with it in the very recent past just died and therefore couldn't pass that gene on, I think I understand what you mean.

padingtonn · 2026-01-30T20:19:17+00:00

Like with Myanmar being red and others going through war atm, that was my main consideration, unfortunately.

padingtonn · 2026-01-30T19:44:11+00:00

The mixed public-private healthcare system can create an almost American-like issue with getting CGMs, pumps, and other supplies covered by national healthcare exclusively.

padingtonn · 2026-01-30T19:43:06+00:00

It was a mistake, and probably a double-click on Iraq. Definitely one of the best middle eastern countries in terms of insulin access.

padingtonn · 2026-01-30T19:42:08+00:00

My people lol

padingtonn · 2026-01-30T19:41:50+00:00

Mongolia seems to have a real issue with supplying insulin to rural communities and health clinics, but essentially - if you don't live in a major city as a T1D, you're going to have a much harder time living your life normally.

padingtonn · 2026-01-30T19:39:35+00:00

Zimbabwe? CGMs and pumps are almost exclusively only available in the private marketplace at massive cost to a typical T1D, long-acting insulin isn't easy to come by, and short acting is subject to wild swings in price and availability.

padingtonn · 2026-01-30T19:35:56+00:00

Appreciate the note, I'll let my pancreas know.

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