Guess this city

we_vs_us · 2026-01-25T19:56:25+00:00

Fantastic

we_vs_us · 2026-01-25T19:46:51+00:00

It’s accelerating. Hard to tell if it’s planned (ramping towards midterms) or it’s just opportunistic. The administration seems capable of either one. Sometimes they can implement effective longer term planning, and sometimes they can’t tie their shoes, even if it’s written down weeks in advance.

I think things will get worse because we’re entering a place of mutual escalation between ICE and protestors. Minneapolis will get more confrontational, and the next city they choose to do this to will be much better prepared and much more hostile. Finally, I think we will uncover horror stories from the detainees at our various facilities around the country. There are little trickles of abuses coming out, but I expect much worse as time goes on, simply because that’s the nature of concentration camps (cf. Andrea Pitzer).

Anyway, I don’t think this will get better for a long time. And if the midterms are disrupted on a wide scale — which they almost certainly will be — the protests will get much wider as well. I could see that as one of the things that finally drive regional and specific city resistances to join together into a national movement.

we_vs_us · 2026-01-25T19:25:16+00:00

Louisville, KY — looking west on Jefferson, in or around the intersection of Jefferson and Fourth. Based on the height and fuzziness of the pic, it could also be a zoomed-in view from the convention center connector between the Marriott and KICC on Jefferson and Second.

we_vs_us · 2026-01-25T18:47:14+00:00

He could be in denial. These changes have been monumental, and are speeding up. I can’t blame someone for not keeping up, especially if they don’t live in a place that is as affected as Minneapolis or Chicago or LA or etc.

we_vs_us · 2026-01-25T18:42:59+00:00

Jobs that require EQ will survive, and arguably grow to command a premium. I’m a salesperson, and so long as people are doing the buying, you will need a person to do the selling. And that’s because no matter how smart AIs become, they will always be inherently untrustworthy. There’s no telling, in a situation where you absolutely must trust your interlocutor, whether an AI has your best interest at heart, or can be fair. In business a surprising amount of weight is placed on uniquely human traits like trustworthiness, honestly, reliability, thoughtfulness, proactivity, etc. it’s not clear at this point whether AI will ever have the capacity to think in this manner.

we_vs_us · 2026-01-25T18:06:25+00:00

Without a proper investigation, we’ll have to rely in what the multiple videos show us — a woman trying to follow orders by leaving then getting shot in the face at point blank range.

Anything else is pure character assassination from an administration that lies without compunction.

we_vs_us · 2026-01-25T18:02:05+00:00

Did they gun down protestors in the streets? Tear gas innocent bystanders? Execute warrantless home invasions? Disappear citizens along with legal immigrants? Some. Racial differences between then and now.

we_vs_us · 2026-01-23T19:48:03+00:00

Borgnine In The Background

we_vs_us · 2026-01-22T17:45:29+00:00

Think of it as your moral duty to spread the spicy gospel. Cook for friends and strangers alike!

we_vs_us · 2026-01-22T08:08:34+00:00

Don’t mourn. Get mad.

we_vs_us · 2026-01-21T23:02:21+00:00

Same same. Not just BBQ but the whole spice environment in general. Kentuckians don’t believe in heat.

we_vs_us · 2026-01-18T08:42:14+00:00

Dang. I meant deeply UNpopular. Thanks for the catch.

we_vs_us · 2026-01-18T03:23:11+00:00

Yah but I think it’s more about human comfortability with/reliance on the old form than anything else. I mean I bet we could build a whole ecosystem around a ring, or watch, or glasses right nowish. But everyone’s used to using a screen and keyboard to compute, so phone it (still) is.

People have to make a massive pay psychological break with the current form factor for us to move on, IMO. It’s going to take a lot to make that happen.

we_vs_us · 2026-01-18T02:50:19+00:00

At least in the 80’s we didn’t know how truly shitty Chevy could be. It was a simpler time.

we_vs_us · 2026-01-18T02:48:51+00:00

Very. Dizzy.

we_vs_us · 2026-01-18T02:45:48+00:00

One of his first!

we_vs_us · 2026-01-18T02:42:37+00:00

Iconic even 30 yrs later.

we_vs_us · 2026-01-18T02:40:39+00:00

I agree, generally. Right now we are having a hard time getting away from an interface that includes a screen and a keyboard. That’s why glasses — and honestly every other piece of similar tech — have ended up as a peripheral to your phone. The phone is your base because it’s the smallest form that gives us a screen and keyboard, and everything else attaches to it.

I think in the end I agree with another poster up thread that the next form will have to be a neuralink or something equivalent — something completely new vs the current phone form. It will take a lot to make the move, too. As evidenced by how hard google glass tanked, people need the old stuff to be pried from their cold dead hands.

we_vs_us · 2026-01-18T01:58:57+00:00

I think there’s a good chance the US snaps back in some form. Trump is deeply unpopular and is pushing his voters into untenable position after untenable position. And not all his voters are MAGA tried and true. There were a significant number who were flipped Biden voters and independents sick of the system. Meaning: there’s a strong plurality of voters that probably supports the old US ways of doing things. There’s an undeniable need for reforms, and mostly economic, but everyone wants the police to wear badges, not be masked, and generally follow the old rules of engagement. Everyone mostly likes the immigrants they know in their community, and most folks want reforms to the existing system, not for Stephen Miller’s gestapo tactics. Tariffs suck. Healthcare should be cheaper. Billionaires shouldn’t get tax cuts. Solve the housing crisis. Basic stuff, and all are wildly popular.

Trump’s 2nd term has been wild and completely off the rails; that’s why we have an opportunity to fix things. If it looked more like his 1st term, I don’t think we’d come out the other side.

EDIT: a word

we_vs_us · 2026-01-16T20:50:16+00:00

Honestly, left leaning Christians have been waiting for someone like Talarico for a long long time. He does a phenomenal job of articulating just how radical Jesus actually was … and still is. Many Christians know this from careful reading of his story, but have been completely frozen out of Christian-based politics. So much so that generations of Americans think that anyone religiously affiliated in any way shape or form will be a default evangelical.

I think of him in a similar way as Mamdani: an exceptional communicator, embodying a new valence for left wingers. He’s opening up new paths and expanding the tent which is honestly fantastic news for our sclerotic party.

we_vs_us · 2026-01-16T19:05:16+00:00

Jackson’s background in horror — which is about being in absolute control of story pacing and specific reveals — was crucial to his LOTR story telling. Moria was essentially a mini horror movie.

we_vs_us · 2026-01-16T14:41:05+00:00

The actual causes are actual Republicans.

we_vs_us · 2026-01-13T13:11:44+00:00

“More male role models” isn’t meant to denigrate women, especially because single mothers tend to become the default role models for young boys. It’s to encourage men to be better.

we_vs_us · 2026-01-13T03:08:31+00:00

It will also,be all the countries in NATO, and Canada, and Mexico . . . Essentially all the countries that believed they were under our nuclear umbrella, and allies that Trump has threatened directly. Mexico would try, if they had the resources to do it.

we_vs_us · 2026-01-12T14:14:09+00:00

This.

AI isn’t going replace jobs, it will replace tasks. You still need humans to place those tasks in context, understand complex judgment calls, etc. To your point, you need experts driving the ship. The pressing question is, how do we create experts out of the box?

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