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uBlock also has the “eyedropper” (idk its proper name) that you can use to pick css blocks on the page and preview what it looks like with that block removed. If you find the block for the content you want to remove, you can save it so that future instances of that block just won’t load in the first place. Works great for embedded chats and those annoying mid-article newsletter sign up flyovers.

You perfectly described a water park in my home town, although mine closed down in the 1990s. It had a “silver bullet” slide, a bunch of conventional slides and a tube slide, a lazy river, a wave pool, a pretty decent arcade and a go-kart track, and probably a bunch of other stuff I don’t remember from spending big chunks of my childhood summers there. Birthday parties and school trips, too.

After it closed down, some of the slides were moved to a golf course across town that wanted to expand, but it wasn’t as good and it was way too far to go by bus. The original park is the loading dock for a Home Depot now.

What’s that? We have more power when we bargain as a collective? If only there were some sort of organization leveraging that power for workers …

Can’t live without my rack and pannier. The bag is waterproof and pretty much indestructible, and all my stuff goes in there instead of wearing a backpack so I don’t end up with that huge sweat spot on my back.

Same. Many of my shirts have an extra button sewn on at the bottom, so lining up from there is pretty much impossible.

If you find that there isn’t a local advocacy group, then you’re the local advocacy group. Who’s going to say you’re not?

Years ago I heard a talk by Dave Meslin, a well-known Toronto organizer and one of the founders of the Toronto Cyclists Union. One of his points that stuck with me was that for many of the things he worked on, he just made up an official-sounding name for it, so that his letters to officials sounded more authoritative. Basically, if you write as anthoniix then you’re easy to pass off as just some local kook, but if you write as something like “<your city> Bike Lane Committee” then you sound official and organized, and you’re more likely to get a response from the bureaucracy and the media. Plus you’ll probably find more people interested in getting involved if you have a name for it.