Gargleblaster

During the Iraq War, Kurt Vonnegut was asked about the anti-war protests… His response was that, during Vietnam, he was part of anti-war protests firing on all cylinders and laser-focused and going to stop that war. He said it was ultimately about as effective as climbing to the top of a ladder and tossing a pie on the ground. This time will be no different.

So I don’t know what you’re hoping to gain. The ‘Ima take my ball and go home’ approach didn’t work out so well in 2016. Threatening not to vote isn’t going to phase anyone in a country where more than half the population doesn’t vote anyway. Maybe instead of threats you should work with other people trying to help the people you want elected get elected.

Ate a platter of 3 different fried insects. I think it was wood worms, bees, and crickets. The bees were the best.

None of them were horrible. Would do it again.

That is not a slim majority.

Moodle is.

Out of those 3 options, I would prefer the flashlight.

Even if you already have a flashlight, you can always find another place that would benefit from one nearby.

I also just say that I don’t buy in at all to Darn Tough socks. This person can’t where any other brand of socks? Bullshit. You can just buy new generic socks before you get anywhere close to the price you’ll pay for gourmet socks.

Also depending on the person’s interests, getting them a boardgame could be nice.

OMFG, my fucking nose is gone!

Chrome is feeling its numbers drop, so they’re backing off until people stop paying attention. Then they’ll go right ahead with the plan.

Go to an employment agency/temp agency.

There’s paperwork and possibly tests before you can actually get work. Do all of that now so that you don’t have to wait while they process the paperwork if you get furloughed. Be sure to explain that you’re expecting to get furloughed.

With the holidays approaching, retail stores may need extra staff. Not yet, but post-thanksgiving.

I’ve never done it, but there’s the payment for taking surveys online.

I agree with others that the car is a major money sink. Can it sit in the driveway and wait for you to get through this?

Paying a friend to drive to work together probably costs less than gas + insurance + repairs.

Finished Divinity Original Sin 2.

Now trying MW5.

LOL

In today’s order, Engoron asks the defendants to provide a list of “entities controlled or beneficially owned by Donald J. Trump”

So, Trump, who is incapable of telling the truth, has to truthfully report what businesses belong to him in New York?

He can’t do that. Not without lying. And then if he lies, he faces more charges.

Good. He earned this in spades.

Bravo!

They birthed and normalized shitty internet behavior: rickrolling on the lighter end, trolling, doxxing, and swatting.

They would also do shit like make fun of mentally handicapped people, which would lead goons to harassing the victims IRL and teaching kids that this was all OK.

And they would go after people who talked shit about about them, criticized them, or otherwise attacked them. The 4chan army would come out in force and try to ruin people’s online existence.

Before Q-Anon showed up, they had started calling Trump God Emperor during the election. I think they may just have chose him as the candidate who would cause the most chaos, but it’s easy to see how others others would take their goals more seriously and want Trump as president.

And the cycles of shitty behavior over decades attracted more and more rightwingers. I used to think of them as a chaos collective, but the politics swung hard right.

And then they spread to other platforms with r/the_donald, pepe the frog, and calling each other pedes.

Who came before Socrates? I don’t think there’s any historical evidence of his existence other than Plato talking about him simply because he’s so far back…unless you’re talking about beyond Greece.

I came here to say this. The Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff are also solid reads.

No, I heard this back on reddit. Some Trumpbro was trying to argue that J6 wasn’t an insurrection, that it was a protest.

Whelp, what shitty luck you planned your protest to coincide with the certifying of the election results, you insurrectionist turnip.

This is going nowhere.

Pomelo. Like grapefruit without the mess.

A) Any nuclear exchange will fuck the entire world. Assuming that we can just toss nukes with impunity is foolish.

B) If you compare the loss of 3000 people to the number of people killed in US dirty wars, the false flag attack that triggered Vietnam, and other military misadventures, the US is far, far ahead compared to those we’ve slaughtered. I’m not saying that it’s OK to kill 3000 people, but treating the rest of the world like expendable pawns in the name of the US is disgustingly one-sided and ignorant of the evil our country has visited upon other parts of the world.

C) The idea that we were just innocently doing nothing when we were attacked ignores all of the violent foreign policy we have practiced for 70+ years now post-WWII. And we still haven’t abandoned those practices.

Abandon the FOMO completely. I do not reward shitty behavior. Destiny 2’s launch was the end of that. Let other people pay top dollar to playtest it and work all the wrinkles out. Let all the DLC come out and the game GOTY edition if it’s that good. Let others buy that. THEN, when they are going to launch the sequel, all of that pap will be sold at basement-level prices. Maybe wait a bit longer if it was really popular.

I’m playing Divinity: Original Sin 2 right now. ;-)

A commercial passenger plane should not be the subject of government research.