Compared to previous mayors, Karen Bass has been fine, just not revolutionary. She did reduce homelessness, balanced LAPD with non-police staff, kinda improved housing... but it's all just lukewarm improvements. She's afraid to shake things up, and she was honestly better as a house member. Plus she also has a real bad habit of doing or saying stupid things, as you can see. Remember how early on, she was in Ghana during one of our worst wildfires and managed to make things worse by having a spat with the fire chief? I remember, lol.

Honestly, I'm kind of excited to see if we can have our own Mamdani moment, cause we really need it in an era of Trump. No shade on Bass, we just need more socialists. I'm not sure if Raman will be quite as good as Mamdani, but worth a try, right?

Plenty of good ones, but I think one that stuck with me was from Beatles Day in the Life. My mom sang it a lot and as an adult... I get it.

I read the news today, oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well, I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph

He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords

And so on. It's also just a trippy, dark song.

I'm with you on Popeyes. There's a Popeyes in a dangerous part of town that I do not fuck with.

Really boils down to urban vs rural street fighting. I go with urban, but I've got a bias.

I'd watch the shit out of a John Wick remake where he only used dildos to kill people.

I'll play devil's advocate and say there are non-AI render processes that can miss a horn (e.g. working from a clay model and scanned, for instance). Hell, even a lazy wand picker in Photoshop can lose a horn! I'll even say that the very-AI looking 2D illustration can simply be a byproduct of a lack of creativity and the fact this is clearly shovelware. I lived through the Wii era, I can attest that shovelware can look this bad without AI, lol.

HOWEVER, it sure as hell looks like AI generated artwork and they could do a lot better defending their process. The irony is ... I don't really think the trailer is AI? It's... honestly too unpolished and weird to be? Every effect used is something I'm certain I could do myself, lol.

The thing a ton of people are missing here is... who the hell are you even blocking by crossing? You're going when the cars in your direction are going. Where I live, there's always cars idling for other cars.

What about left turners? Dedicated lights. Right turners? C'mon man, you get to go on red in most places. Four way pedestrian crossing? Well at that point, your car is intruding on a place with high pedestrian traffic; you're lucky your car is even allowed there at this point!

Side note, fuck that button not even having a crosswalk or a pedestrian light. Is this even real? How do you have a button without a crossing light? Smh my head.

It most certainly changes on some roads, usually to adjust timing for safe crossing. There's a street here that's notoriously wide for stupid reasons (parking in the median lol) and if pedestrians are around it gives them about 60 seconds. No button? Usually 15, but depends a little on time of day.

There's an interesting other case I've heard about from my Mom. There was a light that, at 3am, generally never changed unless a button was pushed. My mom had to get out of her car to push it every night after her night shift. I'm not sure that is still the case, but I suppose if your car never activates a sensor (or you're on a bike or motorcycle), it makes sense.

Ah, makes sense. Trees are reaching the end of life and need replanting. I, for one, hope they'll be able to erect more wood in the near future!

Good, and I use one. It's mind boggling that anyone wouldn't use one? It uses so little energy that I don't even notice. My stupid always-on smart TV uses more power...

Indeed - the trick was using the wind to blow dust and sand into a separate pit from the rocks that did not blow. Weirdos like me probably are why we have ancient methods of cultivation, lol.

Hard to say for sure. It's not so much a light/sound sensitivity for me so much as the movement and activity and whatnot. Given I went to school before they really understood these things, I was never diagnosed with anything.

I mostly remember DDS, which is my favorite from the series. I don't remember clearly but I recall a very specific strategy to down him.