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- Comment on It is what it is 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’ve learned some discretion over the years. I once told a story that dead ass got me sent to therapy.
- Comment on It is what it is 2 months ago:
Me telling an EMS war story that brings the vibe to a crashing halt.
- Comment on Against all odds, an asteroid mining company [AstroForge] appears to be making headway 2 months ago:
This is really cool, but it would have been cooler if they’d named their scouting missions Hugin and Mugin, since they’re Odin’s ravens that scour the earth for secrets to give to Odin.
- Comment on Anon gets banned from Walmart 2 months ago:
Oof. There’s fucking up, and then there’s getting banned from Wal-Mart. The only lower position is getting banned from the dollar store.
- Comment on The Sam Vimes boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness 2 months ago:
Yeah, that’s him. I was curious and looked him up a while back. Tay get really open about speaking for economic and social justice. He’s more or less always been that way. Chocolate Rain, is, IIRC, a song about the realities and struggles of being black in America.
- Comment on It's the land, stupid: How the homebuilder cartel drives high housing prices 3 months ago:
Holy crow. Really understated and underrated article. Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on Kamala Harris donated last year to defund police group backing DC ‘sanctuary city’ law - Washington Examiner 3 months ago:
The police are not your friend. If you think they are, it’s because you haven’t wound up on the wrong end of them yet. I want to be clear, just because it isn’t happening to you now doesn’t mean it won’t; you’re never as deep into the in group as you think you are.
- Comment on LinkedIn 3 months ago:
The think I find weird is when people start interacting with weird Facebook-y political posts, and interacting with them in a pretty strong way. In my mind, LinkedIn is a picture of what you’re like to work with, it’s how you present yourself to prospective co-workers.
- Comment on Anon faces his greatest challenge 3 months ago:
I dunno, we’re kinda taking their word for it. I think they’re somewhere around NYC, if that helps.
- Comment on Paris Olympics opening ceremony was an insult to millions 3 months ago:
Agreed. Jesus had no patience for people who used religion as a means of personal, political, or economic power. The impression I got about guy I read about is that he’d be a thousand times more cross (pun for you) with America’s Evangelicals than he would be with this.
- Comment on Paris Olympics opening ceremony was an insult to millions 3 months ago:
Alright, let’s talk. What would you see done about it? And, more relevant, what do you think Jesus would do?
- Comment on Anon faces his greatest challenge 3 months ago:
To be clear, this climate is all I’ve ever known for California. People who’ve lived here their whole lives will tell you how dramatically things have changed.
- Comment on Anon faces his greatest challenge 3 months ago:
The loss of real winters is what has made my grudge with climate change personal. Winter is my favorite season. I recognize that I can say that mostly because I have the privilege to have a good experience with winter, but that’s my context. And, to be fair, I’ve enjoyed it even during the times I’ve been flat broke. I’m a transplant to central California, and a lot of millennials and older will tell you that winter here has changed dramatically. The boomers will too as long as you don’t use trigger words like “climate change”. We barely ever get fog anymore. My wife said she almost never went trick or treating because it was always raining, but my kids have never missed a Halloween yet. Supposedly it would start raining gently around the end of October and just not stop until the end of February or so; now it just stays kind of overcast and then we’ll get hella rain for a week here or a week there. It’s a la Niña year this year, though, so it’s probably going to stay dry and sunny the whole winter. A lot of the older folks in the mountains will tell you that snowfall at lower elevations is dramatically different. I work EMS in a town at around 1000 ft elevation in the Sierra’s, and the old timers in town will tell you that they used to get flat out snowed in. Now, it’s kind of a big deal if you get enough snow to make a footprint.
We keep in touch with some people in New York state and they tell us that it doesn’t even really snow in New York anymore, which is kind of blowing my mind.
- Comment on Every part of the foxglove is poisonous. It'll literally stop your heart. 3 months ago:
Here in Central California, we’re lousy with Morning Glories and Hemlock. Once you learn to recognize hemlock, you see it everywhere.
- Comment on Anon is suspicious 3 months ago:
Anon, she likes you so much that she’s dating you twice.
- Comment on Jon Stewart Tackles the RNC and Trump Assassination Attempt 4 months ago:
Damn, Biden surprised me in those interview clips. Where’s that guy been?
- Comment on Anons wife hosts a pool party 4 months ago:
Tbh, I think I get it. Some people really get off on maintaining something in pristine condition. This is like an extremely expensive Bonsai tree or rock garden.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
Sure, I’d welcome Biden changing my mind on this.
I think it’s a little alarming that his last international travel was almost two weeks pre-debate and that left him tired enough to perform badly. I also don’t think it bodes well that he hasn’t yet done any big interviews or press conferences to show that it really was just a fluke, which seems like a fairly easy thing to do if he really is actually fine. I would feel much better about his odds of beating Trump if he could start reliably doing public speaking at a similar quality to what he displayed in 2020, which remains to be seen a whole week later.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
The difference is that Biden has markedly declined from previous performances. He spent most of that night stumbling, mumbling, and struggling to speak clearly, none of which is his stutter, because a stutter is a very specific speech impediment. He was downright difficult to understand on average, and flat out unintelligible at worst. Even when he got riled up, like with the losers and suckers remark, it sounded like he was having trouble forming word sounds accurately, like he has dysarthria. Even in carefully curated campaign material, like asking for donations, he sounds out of breath and like he’s struggling to speak clearly.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
I think the part where he finally beat medicare is the best example.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
I would gladly have Trump drop out. It won’t happen. Trump is running to save his own ass. For my part, I have grave doubts about Biden’s ability to win that have been building for a few months but came sharply into focus during the first minute of that debate.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
I keep seeing this sentiment, and it boggles me. Last season’s winning horse just debuted this season with a huge limp, and the response from some people has been “it’s fine, stop panicking, we’ll win if we just keep betting on it.”
- Comment on Ironing 4 months ago:
Who said anything about getting wrinkles out?
- Comment on Greece introduces the six-day work week 4 months ago:
Be me American See shitty right wing government doing shitty right wing things. Sigh. I bet I know who’s behind this. Google the history of that government.
Greece was the first proxy war of the Cold war, with the US backing the Greek Monarchy, who were ultimately the victors. We probably ran similar propaganda and right-wing violence campaigns there as we did across the global south. What a fucking surprise. Happy July 4th everyone.
- Comment on The 1950s were wild... 5 months ago:
Paramedic here, this is still half of how it’s done for choking in small children and babies. Five back blows, flip, five chest thrusts.
- Comment on Overthrow a Government and Install a Puppet Dictator? The CIA will do it for Bananas! 5 months ago:
It’s just high, high volume. You swing at every pitch and you’re statistically bound to eventually hit some home runs. The CIA is always up to some shit.
- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 6 months ago:
Okay?
- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 6 months ago:
Look, it makes them happy, it’s free, and it doesn’t cost you anything. It just kinda doesn’t seem like a big deal.
- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 6 months ago:
Thanks for this. I wasn’t aware of that. All of my experience around Roe was seeing republicans wanting it dealt with in the legislature/executive.
Gotta love Pelosi, just when the Democrats are in danger of not spilling the spaghetti, she reliably shows up to make a disaster of it. She’s got, like, the anti-McConnel*.
*McConnel is, imo, one of the most talented statesmen of my lifetime. It’s a goddamn shame he’s used his talents for evil. It’s a little bewildering to imagine how different a place the US could be if he’d been on the side of the people. It’s also a powerful statement of what a wreck the GOP has become that Mitch couldn’t control the MAGA/freedom caucus members anymore.
- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 6 months ago:
This is it. Trump didn’t give a flying shit at all if anything he did was legal, he just went for it, and it worked.