Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. And for those who are both stupid and incompetent… it’s usually the first refuge, too.

They grow and are all plant-y.

“Enchanting nerds and alchemy nerds are two different groups of wizardry. They don’t share their secrets outside the group!”

-some guy named Clarke or something, I dunno.

I did not know that.

Somehow that makes it even more ridiculously love-hate for me.

Honestly, I have a love-hate relationship with the ds9 defiant

I love it because it stepped away fro Roddenberry’s rules for feddie ships. ( nacelles in even numbers, must have a saucer-section, nacelles must have LOS, etc.) I also love that it’s unapologetically a warship.

I hate that the front end was kitbashed from the most useless of vacuum cleaner attachments.

(Oh this is going to end wonderfully.)

(By wonderfully, I’m going to assume the national statistics will hold and more of them will be shot by their own rifles.)

“conspicuous gap”?

You mean the part where it’s literally part of the constitution?

Intelligence is knowing that Dr Frankenstein was the guy who created the creature. Wisdom is knowing that Dr Frankenstein was indeed the monster.

I’d listen to this band. Just saying

only after public pressure got his sentencing to be reviewed and he proved to be a liability, yes.

Before that happened, though, he was quietly given a plea deal that basically saw him leaving Club Fed for work while basically just sleeping there. for a child predator as vile as he was… well. it was far from uncomfortable. he plead out to a relatively minor crime in exchange for immunity form prosecution for federal crimes, as well.

once it entered widestream public consciousness, that definitely changed and people like, uh, trump, needed him dead.

Didn’t have to be, though, now did it?

Just the ones in the right place at the right time. You don’t need to have an entire organization on board to control and minimize the risks. That is why, for example, Epstein targeted as many politicians as he has. He wasn’t catering to their every whim because it was profitable, it was protection.

Not just politicians, either. Leaders in agencies, the people in the right places at the right time. So that when it finally came to it, he got that sweetheart deal where he basically just used Club Fed as a hotel. And you’ll notice that Maxwell is getting the same treatment?

well democrats and giant black boxes.

Mostly black boxes.

How long do you think the epstein shit has been going on? it’s taken decades to get this far.

This corruption has most certainly gone on for as long as I’ve been alive.

You can make a fruit syrup that’s to die for on ice cream. It works with most fruits, but berries are great. Blackberries, raspberies, blueberries. Straw berries. Some mix of all of them. Get a pot, sort out the bad berries, cover in water and simmer until it’s mush. run it through a strainer or sieve or somethingt to clean out the worst of the mush/seads and add sugar, lemon and maybe some cinnamon to taste. while you still have mostly-liquid juice, take some out to make a corn starch slurry. mabye a tablespoon of juice and a half to a quarter for the corn starch. (this helps it become glossy.) Sugar to texture/taste, and reduce to the desired thickness.

(Yes, it’ll eventually become jam.)

Also goes great on waffles, pancakes or anything like that… cheesecake, brownies. I can think of a lot of things.

You can dredge salmon or chicken in it for a nutty crust and then grill or pan fry it. Especially if it’s a coarse meal.

I do want to encourage you to try baking this, though: It’s a fairly simple recipe for a fudge crustada with a raspberry sauce. Yes, it’s pilsbury. if you can turn your oven on, you can make this (especially if you buy the crust like they want you to.) (King arthur flour tends to be better for scratch recipes, their pie crusts are near foolproof if you want to try your own pie crust.)

Use a dark-ish chocolate with the raspberry and it’s too die for.

I mean, I decided to not have kids because I don’t want to subject anyone to the existential horror that is life, and I feel no obligation to crank out miniature replicas of me.

Which policies has he enacted in CA which mirror or support trickle down? All I ever hear is how he’s not progressive enough, but when I look at his record I see a LOT of progressive action

Because locking up homeless people is a) totally effective policy making and b) totally progressive.

more directly, to the economy, his buddy-buddy relationship with the techbros is… obvious.

• 25 million to help fund a microchip design facility,
• 85 million on generative ai
• downsizing a deal with google to protect local-to-ca newsrooms

while when faced with a ballooning deficit, instead cut healthcare, education, and enviromental programs.

Further, He dropped the ball on his promises and only signed a small handful of progressive goals. for example, allowing striking union members to collect unemployment benefits. The most common excuse was “oh we can’t necessarily afford that, and employers can’t either.”

Remember: Tweets are not policy… and all this fun shit trolling trump probably isn’t even him tweeting it. (most likely, he’s only scarcely aware of it at all.)

It’s pretty funny watching the left split and splinter this far out, because of all the purity testing. No one will ever be progressive enough, pure enough. And if somehow they were perfect enough to appease the left wing, there’d be 0 chance of getting red votes.

The next Dem who gets elected will do so using some centrist attitudes including towards social issues which we’re losing on badly. Might be time to get wise to that.

The last november election day, every democratic candidate that won, won on progressive platforms. Specifically, platforms that Newsom has a shitty record on. Your argument cuts both ways.

Also, how did all those red votes Harris got work out for her? She’s an awesome president- Oh. wait. that’s right SHE FUCKING LOST.

Do you see how that argument is holding us back? Centrists do not win elections. Alienating your actual base loses elections.

What, and keep the oligarchs from buying a yacht to ferry them from the yacht their helicopter can land on and their main yacht?

Newsom isn’t exactly a paragon of progressive virtues and certainly would continue to benefit from trickle-down policies.

It’s not hard to imagine that he actually likes Reagan’s policies here, never mind that his corporate donors gave him his marching orders.

kinda looks like my uncle. (Complete with the whiskers.)