Anyone else get airport stares?

Hi all. I’m a 6’3 black male. I’m not a big traveler but this year I’ve done the most travel I’ve ever done. Recently I had some flights through San Francisco and Boston airports. I was wearing some joggers and and Nike hoddie for comfortability. I noticed something strange and wanted to ask if anyone else experienced this or maybe I’m going crazy. Basically in all the airports I’ve been I notice people will stop and stare at me as if they’ve seen a ghost or something . But then it dawned on me. So these people might think I’m some kind of athlete and they are trying to figure out if I play for a team or something? Like it happened so much it’s the only explanation because im just minding my business trying to get to my gate or get food and I see folks stop, pause and stare. Anyone experience this?

reddit.com
u/DCodeMeister — 12 days ago
▲ 227 r/BullMooseParty+1 crossposts

I built a free app that shows every vote your reps cast. Here's what I learned from 172,725 bills

A year ago I posted the first version of my App CivicBeacon in r/civictech asking what would make people actually use a civic app. The answers were: show me real impact, make it more local, and don't be partisan.

A lot has changed since then. CivicBeacon is now live on iOS and Android, still free, still non-partisan, all data from official gov sources like GovInfo/Congress.gov.

Some numbers from the database this week:

- 71 bills moved in Congress in the last 7 days alone, and almost nobody hears about any of them

- Health is the single biggest policy area this Congress (289 bills), followed by Government Operations (224) and Public Lands (151)

- Your rep probably voted 15+ times last week. Mine did. I couldn't have named a single one before building this.

The app lets you track bills by topic, see your specific reps' actual votes (not what they said on social media), and get a weekly digest of what Congress did.

Full transparency on the "more local" ask: it's federal-only right now. State and city level is the most requested feature and the hardest data problem, so I want to hear whether it's worth it before I sink months into it.

It's free with no ads. Genuinely want feedback on what's missing.

Happy to answer questions about the data pipeline too.

u/AUstinKF2000 — 19 days ago

I like reading car complaints before buying. helped my sister shop and ended up making a thing for fun

i always pull a carfax and check owner complaints before buying a used car. carfax tells you what happened to that specific car, complaints tell you what tends to go wrong with that model. paints a decent picture together. Was helping my sister find one a few weeks back and figured itd be fun to build something on the side its at klunk.app. uses NHTSA complaint data to score every car 0-100 by year, shows worst problems and active recalls. theres a chrome extension that drops the score onto cars/carvana/autotrader listings while you browse. It's free, no signup. I still pair it with a carfax myself. just sharing in case anyones into the same research.

klunk.app
u/DCodeMeister — 5 months ago