https://apnews.com/article/sanctuary-cities-mullin-trump-flights-screening-cbp-380519008d0dc995e4c0a6dee0b79033

Do it, losers. I dare you. I can't travel this year anyway because my elderly dog has neurogenic conjunctivitis which requires obnoxiously frequent treatment for the next few months. No skin off my back.

Go ahead. Set tourism, transportation, and hospitality services on fire. I'm sure your constituents will love that.

I am in my backyard watching an exasperated starling attempt to teach its bonehead fledgling to hunt while said fledgling just follows behind it, yelling and begging for food.

There's a metaphor in here somewhere.

Bike nerds, what's a reasonable price to pay for a clapped, shitty, functional beach cruiser these days? Like, an absolute blemish eyesore that is mechanically functional. I have no mental yardstick for this and I think I am now old enough that "what a bike costs" has an anchor in 1990s dollars which is, you know, like 30 years out of date now.

If I try and ask Google I'll get a Gemini slop answer

I read https://osintteam.blog/the-esp32-has-quietly-become-one-of-the-most-interesting-hacker-devices-alive-745145e40497 earlier this week and now I am wondering if I could theoretically get by with just an esp32 and like, webpine or something

Probably not, but I wonder how far you could bootstrap yourself with like, a junked iot thing and a $2 keyboard from goodwill. Has anyone done this? Did they write about it?