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Long Live KEXP!

Wow, you're right. His paintings are amazing!

Children of Time is fantastic! I ended up totally rooting for the spiders in the end.

I love the Chevy Bolt. Wish I could find one for a decent price in my local market.

As I'm sure the commentors here from outside of the U.S. can plainly see - it's going to be a long road to get regulations in place to somehow incentivize smaller vehicles (and that's assuming we ever have a functioning government again). For Americans, a lot of our self-image/worth is tied up in the vehicles we drive. I suppose it's a combination of cultural history (hyper-individualism) and decades of marketing and advertising from auto manufacturers.

Okay, then sell your huge diesel pickup. Or is it just too much fun!

You're wasting your breath. This guy isn't going to give up his brodozer.

And I guess anyone who doesn't want to buy a brodozer can go to hell, right?

Yeah, but who's going to get those incentives in place? In the US, it sure ain't gonna be the Republicans.

That's right, gotta buy that brodozer and show everyone what a real MAN you are!

Plenty of oversized trucks and SUVs in urban areas. The majority of the population in the U.S. is considered urban, so why exactly is the "urban perspective" not legitimate?

My god, you wouldn't want to ever be (shudder) ... uncomfortable!

American drivers are also entitled assholes (I say as an American driver). How DARE you tell me I can't do what I want, when I want, or change my behavior in the slightest to benefit my society/local community?

Vought has openly declared himself as a Christian Nationalist. Christian Nationalism as a whole is dead set against scientific research.

Don't feed the trolls... MemoryHoleHQ is not arguing in good faith.

I really appreciate the article and responses here. This is a topic that resonates with me, and is something I often struggle with. My early dreams were to be an ecologist, wildlife biologist, or conservation scientist, along the lines of Jane Goodall, George Schaller, or E.O. Wilson. Life circumstances and choices I made early on diverted me from that (along with the fact that these are extremely difficult careers to break into), and I ended up in a relatively comfortable, tech-focused career. I have a loving family, live in a beautiful area, have great friends and my income is good...

And yet I still wrestle with "could-of" or "should-of" thoughts about my life. It's tiring, and often detracts from my well-being and happiness.

Welcome to the future! What a lovely world we've created for ourselves!

Severance was inspired by the backrooms (not the other way around). And why do people feel the need to yuck someone else's yum?

Backrooms for me was definitely a yum!

Amen to that!

Wholeheartedly agree. As an American, I get SO tired of the "rugged American individual" narrative...

Also, feel free to plug into the vast ecosystem of right-wing media if you need an alternative view of reality.

LOL, yeah, it's the all the liberals fault!

He's the best, the best at everything. Including tanking the world economy...

This report was published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which according to Wikipedia "is a climate change denial lobby group registered as a charitable organisation in the United Kingdom. Its stated aims are to challenge what it calls "extremely damaging and harmful policies" envisaged by governments to mitigate anthropogenic global warming. The GWPF, and some of its prominent members individually, practise and promote climate change denial."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Global_Warming_Policy_Foun...

So it sounds like they (and I assume you) definitely have an agenda you're trying to promote.

I disagree. I too have worked in these environments. As mentioned in the article, and in numerous other references about the Backrooms - the creepiness stems partially from the "liminal" feeling of walking around large, man-made spaces that are totally empty. Think walking around a shopping mall after hours. I had several odd jobs before I was in college where I had to work overnight shifts, sweeping the floors of large department stores. That feeling of "empty watchfullness" was definitely a thing, and it's captured well by a lot of the Backrooms content.

The other aspect of "creepiness" stems from the idea that the Backrooms represent an endless, malevolent labyrinth. One of the scarier aspects of being trapped in the Backrooms (for me) is that you would just wander around until you died for lack of water and food, in a bland corporate office corridor with fluorescent lights buzzing overhead.

I typically feel pretty disconnected when a major public figure passes away, but this one really got to me. Dr. Goodall was one of my heroes... I read a couple of her books when I was much younger and had dreams of being a primatologist.

It was so gratifying to see her turn into a global leader in conservation, compassion, and peace. I had a former supervisor who got to meet her personally at a conference on wildlife conservation in Africa several years ago (I was quite jealous)... I was fortunate to see her speak publicly though.

RIP Jane Goodall!

Wow, you've really got it out for Carl Sagan (of all people)! Why is it required that he be something other than a "mediocrity" in philosophy and theology? He was an astronomer and (more importantly in my opinion) an incredible science communicator. That doesn't necessitate also being an expert in the study of religion, faith, and philosophy.

Good for you!

Huge fan of Sly and the Family Stone, sorry to hear about this loss. "A Family Affair" is one of my all time favorite songs (and one of my go-to karaoke songs :)

You're right on the money here. One could argue that much of our current administrative "direction" is coming from either a combination of Project 2025 and whatever the current programming is on Fox News.