Mostly to get their kids guaranteed entry into the university.

I saw a tattered, shredded Trump-Vance flag hanging from a telephone pole in a boony town yesterday, and it felt like such an appropriate metaphor to today’s US.

The Andrew formerly known as a prince.

By letting their lives burn down. Seriously. They won’t learn a lesson if they get bailed out now. If they keep hurting, maybe they’ll vote better next time.

More likely they’ll vote Libertarian, aka Diet Republican, and pretend they did something worthwhile.

Democrats fail to fix things (on purpose) while Republicans actively worsen the nation. That’s our only choices until the Democratic party gets massive reform (hopefully) when the old fuckers die.

Came here to mention this one, and here it is! I love Shaolin Soccer.

“It’s time to come together and heal as a nation. Now is not the time for retribution.”

I play classical style guitar. I joined a community here, but I was the only post.

I agree that it’s rough out there finding communities with common interests.

Smokers harm themselves. This person harmed everyone and wants sympathy.

I say this as a (perhaps now former) pacivist: Fuck her. I’ll focus the last bit of empathy on the people that didn’t vote to have people ripped away from their families by masked sociopaths cosplaying as police.

With the US asbestos comeback, are we getting Sweet Lead now too?

Good ol’ Donnie fixing the US by kicking people like this mother fucker out.

I have no sympathy left for people voting for their own pain.

Guardian Heroes was an outstanding RPG beat 'em up on Sega Saturn. It had

• a two player co-op storyline with branching choices to get alternate endings

• unlockable characters for a 6-player arena mode

• incredibly unique characters to unlock, spellcasting with ➡️⬅️⬆️⬇️ input

• and a kick ass soundtrack.

Nothing has really scratched the same itch since (yes, I’m aware there’s a sequel, but it’s terrible).

Try out fudepens too. Fountain pens, but with a brush end. Sometimes they’re refillable (my preference), sometimes they’re not. They make them with actual bristle brush tips, but also foam tips like calligraphy markers.

I’ve come to really enjoy them.

How many times does this gotta happen before we start calling them missiles instead of rockets?

Taquito

“I knew he was twirling his mustache and tying people to railroad tracks, but I didn’t know it was gonna be someone I knew!”

I’m not dismissing its use. It is a useful tool, but it cannot replace experts at this point, or maybe ever (and I’m gathering you agree on this).

If it ever does get to that point, we need to also remedy the massive social consequences of revoking those same experts’ ability to have sufficient income to have a reasonable living.

I was being a little silly for effect.

Normally, I work from one side to the other in pairs like below:

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I face the heavier side toward the door so that I will have the majority of the weight in my hand as I pick it up.

So we’re going to depend on AI, which can’t reliably remember how many fingers humans have, to take over medical science roles. Neat!

LA is a third world country.

Louisiana, that is.

It really is, but my hope for positive change is in the goddamn toilet anymore.