It depends what McDonalds is to the area. For me it’s the one place open at 2am on a Friday night, where people from all walks of life (posh wedding party coming back from a long drive, pissed students, overworked deliveroo drivers taking a break) can sit down almost next to each other in the same area and order the same thing.

McDonalds has always been this great equalizing public square for me, rich or poor, black or white, local or migrant.

That first photo kind of encapsulates that feeling of it being a public space where people can eat and discuss topics at their leisure. The second one feels like that sense of restful decorum is lost.

I’m angry at what was lost. Bring back the plants, the hanging lights, and just the normal tables that provided a single modicum of privacy in a train station.

We’re not cattle that need to be herded into a corner FFS

wtf did they do!?

Carp Enters: “Help, I cant breathe! Is there a fish tank salesman on the flight?”

medical equipment can block the 5g.
That’s when you play the staring game

maybe your father is his mother in an alternate house

I’ve gotten three of these letters. Why three? Who knows.

I’m voting green and have yet to get any leaflets or door knockers. The money imbalance in politics is palpable

I dont want to mohn, but there’s enough poppyseed in that cake to get illegally high

Corporate greed was always the case, AI has shrunk the employee space specifically for juniors

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the battle lines were drawn with soap

and switch to Jazz if you’re getting no feedback at all

That’s why it’s fun to ponder them

It’s less accepting the uncertainties, and more seeing familiar patterns and constants and wondering of their nature. Why Pi, why 3 visible human dimensions, why the golden ratio in so many flora and fauna, why quark trios.

The scientific answer to many of these is “Nature of the universe, energy minimization dictates, we have Math models”, all which are fine answers. But you do still question why those values/patterns compared to others, and the truth is we may never know. If we do, that’s amazing(!), but if not, that’s probably alright too.

Plenty of religious scientists. The more you learn, the greater you are aware of how much is uncertain. You can still believe in a God whilst respecting the scientific method of iterative reasoning and refinement

Walk like a champion