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This whole album, front to back, is perhaps my favorite release of the year so far. Just non-stop hits for each track. I can see why they basically released half of it as singles ahead of time, every single song is probably worthy of being one.

Petition to force anyone calling their political rivals "skinny fat" to post their squat personal best or shut the fuck up.

Forcing all our users to engage in equal air time laws that don't even apply to major news corporations any more. This is all very normal.

Nice. Cool thing about MBT is that it basically runs along the red line of the metro, so if you get tired of walking/biking, you can just grab the train on the way back. Enjoy. It's honestly a cool city and I think most people that hate it confine themselves to the politics part of the town, which is not a small part, but there's so much more to the city than just the strivers on the hill and the neighborhoods they live in.

Definitely take advantage of the fact that all the museums and the zoo are free. Few major cities with this level of amenities just let you walk in and pay nothing. The art galleries on the mall are very good if you're into that sort of thing. The zoo is reasonably good if that's appealing as well.

Rock Creek Park is a pretty uniquely rustic park for being in the middle of a city. Good hiking/biking paths. You can use capital bike share easily enough to take a scenic ride. Especially down Beach, which the southern half of was completely closed off to cars. The zoo can actually be got to off of Rock Creek Trail very easily.

If you like urban bike baths, the Metropolitan Branch Trail is also very good. Goes from Union station up to neighborhoods that aren't often seen by tourists. You can hike this too, of course. On Saturdays, there's a brewery on this path that has good BBQ set-up outside.

I second the Air and Space museum that's way out in Virginia, near the Dulles airport. It's kind of a pain to get to and you have to pay for parking, but you get to see some seriously historical craft including the space shuttle Discovery.

Get some Ethiopian and El Salvadorian food while you're in town. Sadly, most of the good ethnic food in the area is in the suburbs, but those two have great representation in the city and are a bit unique as well.

Oh, I haven't thought about The Browning in a minute. I should go back and listen some. They seem ahead of the curve these days given all the electronic elements in the new Bad Omens and Bring Me the Horizon albums that just came out.

Enjoy, man. Knocked Loose definitely putting the hardcore element of metalcore back at the forefront and it rules.

I agree the lyrics rule, but I just don't get that stank face, ready to run into a brick wall feeling I get from a lot of the other tracks and the first Slaughterhouse. Maybe that's not what they were going for and it's a me problem.

Slaughterhouse 1 goes so hard, one of my favorite gym tunes. Maybe it's because of that or just because the rest of this album fucks so much, but I found this track to be a bit of let down by comparison.

They originally started off as more moderate, even liberal if memory serves. They had a couple older videos on their YouTube for a while before they found their niche with some random more conservative video. They were always just looking to be influencers in the political sphere and literally let the algorithm push them to saying whatever got them the most hits, fame and money.

Oh shit. Oh fuck.