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The strawman, he’s long dead.

I was for a while. Cut the “cable” in 2003 and was happy to pay a few bucks for a streaming service here or there, more convenient than pirating. But now… well I cancelled them all and am right back to where I was years ago. They are so happy to kill the golden goose.

I agree with you. Career politicians are not inherently bad. In fact, they can be very good, when someone strategically works for an issue or constituency over a long period and can enact long-term change, much like having a CEO for a decade vs having a CEO for a quarter. The problem is the corruption, which is not solved by term limits. Term limits actually make it easier to capture candidates, makes them cheaper and more disposable.

This is one of those “cute overbearing dad” things until you realize you don’t have appropriate boundaries and it’s influencing your life in ways you don’t like, which usually happens sooner or later. Family counseling is a good place to start if you aren’t sure how to start that conversation. And I say that as a dad that will probably have to be talked down when my own kid hits dating age.

Kids get hurt, it’s not a parent’s job to stop that from happening, nor avenge them. It’s the parent’s job to teach them resilient, appropriate coping techniques.

Getting rid of visible clocks fixed this for me, and all the way to the bathroom and back so I can’t get the time when I go pee. I just assume it’s 12:30 and go back to bed no matter what. Unless the fucking sun is coming up around the edges, then it’s just “your bones are going to hurt today.”

I see you found Mr. Floofintooth

This is now a generational fight. None of us can do anything today or tomorrow that affects immigration wholesale. The pendulum is still swinging. We can just get through this and hope that after 5, 10 years of suffering, after seeing the effects of this play out, and most importantly once xenophobia is passé again, it will be the time to act. So now is the time for seed gathering, for building, for long-term community building projects and for nurturing those around you.

They make cards you can stick on people’s windshields, I am so tempted because I am driven by spite, but I also am tempered by age… and realize there are cameras now and I would quickly get a reputation.

Black Mirror

Can fully smoke a J up there any you just look like a stylish incense burner

New alt history just dropped. The Dell Dude has never been happier since transitioning into Adele.

“…And my wife won’t shut up, anything you can do about that?”

The states have had decades to fix this, they have done nothing. Federal intervention should have happened 10-15 years ago. That said, we live in an age where fixing problems is not rewarded, so it might have to get this bad or worse before people really want a solution despite it being complex and costly.

It only covers a small fraction of drugs out there. It’s really more for show than for use.

In 1990 that was the height of sophistication. Today, Millennial white/gray is the height of sophistication. What can we learn? Trends in home design/decor are bad. Stick to something timeless and you won’t think it’s outdated every few years.

The best part is, the artist could have walked to their nearest bathroom to notice toilets go down through the floor, but they decided, nah let’s elephant trunk this shit, that’s gotta be how it works.

That shit went so hard in 1981 tho

The new testament

Same with the pardon he got, it’s got all the traction it’s going to get. Most people have tuned this out by now as old political noise.

This is true in 2026. I bet at one point, auto workers had the same kind of thoughts about how robots could never build a whole car.