131 the heat goes on

We got out of town yesterday for some pool time at a friend's near Sacramento. San Francisco generally has pretty nice weather, I like to say we have three seasons, daytime, nighttime, and raining. Mid-day in January you might think it's June, and come evening in July, you're looking for that puffy jacket. The only real problem, and it's not really a problem if you like to be comfortable while sleeping, is that we really, really don't have warm evenings. Ok, maybe two or three times a year. (Often one in February, one in August, and another in October.)

But drive an hour or two into the interior of the state, and boom, 90 degrees and up, shorts into the evening.

Plus masks.

Ok, back to the grind.

This is one way around the pandemic. 

Human beings really love a good story. Malls aren't safe? No problem. Transit terminals are essential!

We'll see what this does. Based on the imagery I've seen, these jackbooted thugs aren't really interested in sorting out who is who...on all sides.

Have you watched any live streams from these protests? It is bizarre viewing.

Here it's about 11pm, which is apparently a couple hours before the feds come out to make their big nightly show of force. We see here a large crowd outside a temporary fence, and a few agents inside. Every once in a while, the feds shoot tear gas out into the crowd.

At which point, the tear gas canister gets tossed back inside, and hundreds of leaf blowers try to keep the chemical cloud inside the barriers. Like I said, utterly bizarre. Why the tear gas in the first place? It's only going to wind up back in your face.

Meanwhile in Seattle.

I haven't really been following news of the Chaz, renamed Chop.

Keyword: "try."

So, what did happen to Chop? Is it gone? Is it still there?

Oh. A kid ran away from home, made it to Seattle to join the protests, then for unknown reasons and maybe not at all, stole this vehicle, took it for a joyride possibly while shooting out the windows, at which point, the armed contingent inside the zone shot the driver. (And then transported him to the hospital.) 

I saw a statistic a while ago that there have been over 60 incidents of people driving vehicles into BLM protests with the intent to harm. So it's kinda understandable that the protestors might see an SUV driving through barricades at 2:30am might be a problem. 

Personally, I'm anti-gun and anti-car, so I don't know what the fuck I'd do. Stay home, I guess, because that's what I did.

There was plenty of traffic on the way to Sacramento. We're back, baby!

Not that you can tell from this picture.

Or this one.
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Witness so called "whiteness."

How about "euro-centric christian capitalist" culture?

Here we go. That "first wave" we had? That was all NYC. 

This one is for the rest of us. Be safe.

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