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We saw what he’ll do during the Obama ape post. Blame a few staffers, not by name. Then say he’s not sorry and move on. I doubt the upset Christians will remember this or care in a week, two weeks.

Our last real election is in our rear-view mirror. People keep talking about the next president, the next Dem, I don’t think it’s a reality. We saw what he did the first time around - instigating a mob to storm the capitol. I don’t think this time he’ll be conceding, and I doubt he’ll let himself get into a position where conceding is even on the table. It’ll just a patchwork mess of states with fucked up elections, and it’ll be too much to reset in a couple of months before inauguration.

And just try reading it over the phone to someone, especially a non-native-english speaker.

My personal email is first initial with last name, which I can simply tell them without having to try to spell anything out.

I have a state job tho, and there it’s first initial and middle initial and last name, why the hell… now I can’t email a colleague without looking at a sheet to find their middle initial. Stupid.

Can you imagine how furious conservatives would be living in peace for 1,000 years? No defense contractors to feed, no dark money politics, no wars of aggression or looting natural resources. They’d never make it.

I got a hotdog at a food truck that appeared near my house a few years ago. I asked for just ketchup on the dog. She laughed and said “You’re a little boy! That’s OK, little boys get hotdogs too.” I’m like, lady I am giving you money right now, is there a version of this encounter where you’re not judging me?

Developmental psychology (Erik Erickson’s theory) teaches us that adults tend to go one of two ways as they approach and hit mid-life - generativity and stagnation. People who have a purpose, who are considering leaving some sort of mark or legacy, to contributing to society tend to fare better. They are happier and more satisfied as time goes on. Folks who become self-absorbed and preoccupied with their own comfort and convenience will then stagnate, which you can imagine is the cranky old person stereotype.

I do subscribe to this theory which is why at 43 I am running a non-profit I started, working to empower other leaders in my community, working on changing legislation for my community, working on building the community itself. I want to be the kind of person who is generous and kind and open-hearted, and be fulfilled. I don’t want to be the person who is counting the ways life did them wrong, using that as a justification to lick wounds and retreat from life, jaded and alone.

My mom was pushing this fundraiser on FB. I estranged her over it. Blocked her completely. Sometimes I feel bad about it, but then I remember this fundraiser and how she called the videos of the incident “propaganda.”

My boss claims it has “no effect” to choose where to spend your money.

I remind him, voting with our wallets is literally the only mechanism Capitalism provides for consumer ethics.

It’s Prisoner’s dilemma. When we think 5m people are going to take the action either way, we don’t think our singular efforts matter. But as there are 5m of us taking the action, there are 5m singular efforts that DO matter. If people just don’t give up on the idea.

Says the guy who still has an Amazon account :/

I’m in a LCOL area, but a smallish bag of Fritos is now $6 and a bag of Doritos is indeed $7. It’s a “party size” bag which looks about like the regular bag from my youth. But I never see any “regular” bags anymore, just the expensive party size.

I do love the Chili flavored Fritos so once in a blue moon I will get those. And maybe once a year I’ll buy a bag of Doritos, especially when they bring Taco flavor back. Otherwise I tend to skip the chip aisle entirely now.

Class warfare will be the foundation it’s all built on. Any tech developed for the moon, Mars, whatever - anything we gain in knowledge in return - is going to go to benefit rich fuckers, not you. One day there will be more space tourists. Rich people, not you. Maybe one day Man will even colonize another world. Rich people, not you.

She was suggesting we carry on with 70 years of foreign policy, suddenly that makes her an outlier.

I didn’t even really consider her involvement until this week, now I am assuming she was in pretty deep

I have met Hunter Biden. I will take that bet.

Oh dope

He looks like a nice guy, I’m sure getting rich off the self-exploitation of others gets you into heaven, which is why I am not sad that another billionaire is dead.

What are we looking at here

Also caffeine - we let our kids take a stimulant drug just for fun, hidden in their food! No restrictions. It can kill you, sure. Very gruesome overdoses. But have fun! Have a Mt. Dew! Go crazy! It’s just a drug!

But all other drugs are bad.

I once got my own dick in my mouth, now if I sit in a chair without lumbar support I can’t walk for 3 days.

If you wait long enough the government just does it for you

It’s in some indiana jones ripoff movie right now so lots of folks will be learning