And Catrick said “Mew! Mew! Mewwww!” for the bowl was half empty and he feared his people were soon to starve, but the Lord descended amongst them and in their generosity filled every bowl with a bounty of Tuna and Scallop Feast.

The Lord commanded the cats to scratch not the rug or the furniture, and to only shit in the box in the living room, and in return promised their bowls would never remain empty.

And it was good, until the next day, when this was all forgotten.

I laughed and spit out a little of my protein drink, which is thick and brown, so I got a little icky, which made me laugh again. Thank you for leading me through this emotional journey. I have grown as a person.

Safety razors are the best! I bought enough Feather blades on sale for the rest of my life. Now I’m just done. I occasionally get shaving soap. That’s it.

I’m married. Please stop trying to seduce me.

I know! It’s like “She’s not an abuser. She hits me when she’s frustrated, but it’s not too hard and doesn’t usually leave a bruise. It’s just rough housing.” This actually was said to me last week. Mind fucking blown.

I hate Italian breakfast. My stomach doesn’t fare well with coffee, sugar, or wheat. I skip breakfast when I’m there.

Asphalt shingles in rainy locations. Unless you want to shell out for slate, concrete, or metal roofing, expect to replace the roof every 15-20 years.

Slate is the way to go if your structure can support the weight. You’ll get 100+ years out of it, but it’s up to 10x more expensive than asphalt shingles and many owners want the cheapest option due to finances or not intending to live in the home long term.

Good question. Slender is a better term. Their skeletal structure is horizontally compact, more so than a Border Collie. Scientists can estimate musculature based on the size and shape of attachment points, but it’s all speculative.

Plus they were much smaller than depicted in movies. They are estimated to have weighed about 15 kg and were about 2m long, but over half of that was tail. A Border Collie has about the same body length and a much thicker build.

They were long, skinny murder turkeys.

Absolutely. I have an overarching theorem about US “Conservative” politicians and donors that I’ve been challenging for decades but remains unchanged.

Tr;dr: the top brass are all fucking grifters.

Their primary strategy is doing whatever is most effective and expedient for increasing their socioeconomic power, even if that directly contradicts their previous and current actions and alleged principles. They’re only ostensibly aligned with conservative values because they’re the best for meeting that goal, especially because true social conservative voters are overall both less educated and intelligent, and therefore less critical.

Since noticing that, their actions are all quite consistent and predictable and the hypocrisy rarely surprises me.

It’s funny because it’s true, so that instantly shifted gears to sad.

2026: so far as bad as 2025, plus one.

It was literally fucking YEARS of me dealing with variations of “he’s not a fascist! He’s just an impotent wannabe dictator, we’ll be fine. You’re overreacting!” from acquaintances and family. Not friends, I don’t have friends that stupid.

I will stand arm in arm with every person who mocked me for “being a worrier”, not just because it’s the only way out of this, but because it’s the best way, maybe the only way, to build a better future.

With that having been said, I hope each and every one of them gets a terrible case of genital lice at some point in their lives.

2026 - goose stepping right on into 1984 cosplay!

I think I don’t understand your comment.

Are you suggesting my somewhat sardonic comment that the historically terrible party has managed to become so awful and vile that I “miss” them being just terrible is representative of why Democrats are moving to the right?

That’s the only interpretation I can fathom and I fail to see the logic if I’m correct.

Based all the way down this comment chain. You bring up a lot of good points with good references and citations to explore. I really appreciate that, keep on dread beefing!

Things I thought I’d never say: I miss the Republicans of the eighties. They were all a mix of absolute cowards, grifters, and idiots, but the new MAGA party that has replaced them manages to consistently be even worse.

Those were the days, when Musk still had a “will they, won’t they” relationship with being a total piece of shit. Then it turns out they were together all along.

I feel like this should be the plot for some Chuck Tingle erotica.

I used to live up that way. North Clark county and Cowlitz county has some beautiful countryside inhabited by some really ugly people. They even have their own park:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis_Park

Now THAT is spyware!

You know what I think is the worst about the Tesla autopilot idiocy? Many of the newer Teslas have updated hardware… with built in radar… that they just don’t use. At all.