Just to be clear: they get away with it because cops are the ones who’d have to arrest these idiots, and… well, that Venn diagram is very close to being a circle.
Just to be clear: they get away with it because cops are the ones who’d have to arrest these idiots, and… well, that Venn diagram is very close to being a circle.
The concept of the letter is being audited
Also: the vast majority of 18 year olds in the states are in, or just graduated, high school. Every single high school should also serve as a dedicated polling station for their students who are of voting age, as a matter of federal law. For state and local elections, too - not just presidential and congressional midterms.
Ugh… clanner scum
Note that some issue devices have VT-x disabled and the bios locked down by Corp IT for one reason or another, so a VM may not actually be possible from the work issue device here.
Tbh, just run the Ubuntu box headless and ssh into it. You can do anything you’d need to. Even better, swap it to Debian or something like that, because Ubuntu is unfortunately kinda undergoing gradual enshitification lately.
Ok for real though, was this a union leadership call, or was it a vote? Because I’d be a bit shocked if this was achieved by a vote. And if it was a leadership call, I’d expect new leadership shortly.
Edit:
On Wednesday, the union released the results of their survey, which was conducted after Biden dropped out of the race. It found that almost 60% of rank-and-file union members preferred to endorse Trump, while 34% backed Harris.
Jesus christ. The aggregate idiocy is shocking.
Absolutely not. One of his core demographics is white supremacists.
Hah, yeah, just Korean RPG. Gaming addiction.
And frankly, I’ve been there too, but I’ve recognized it and pulled myself out of it.
She just keeps leaning into it, regardless of everything I’ve said to her about it. She wakes up and starts her day with it. In fact, she’s in the other room playing as I write this.
Honestly, for a lot of it, yeah. I thought there was going to be a bounceback.
Part of the reason I’ve stuck around and been so supportive is that when I was laid off in the teeth of the pandemic, she was incredibly supportive.
Also, she was the one who finally pushed me to take my mental health seriously and get over the idiotic stigma I had about therapy. And also helped me realize that I was being a bit fucking stupid with my financial planning, and to take that seriously as well.
Basically, one of the primary reasons I’ve stuck around so long is because she’s materially changed my life in a lot of positive ways, despite the issues. But I’ve been tryin to do the same for her for the last couple years a lot more pointedly, and it’s so goddamn exhausting to have it all fall flat when the turn tables.
Well thank you for saying so! I kinda don’t feel like it at the moment due to… that… but I do appreciate the sentiment.
Thank you for also being a kind person. <3
Heh well… right fucking now, actually.
But it’s a rather complicated and emotional situation.
I’ve been with my partner for nearly 5 years. Shes in a performing arts program. She fell into a deep depression at the start of ‘rona - understandably, given the impact it had on her discipline, and dropped out of her program for a couple years. Fell into a KRPG addiction super hard. Has been in the throes of that since then, despite my continual encouragement after a while to find other outlets and stress relief behaviors. Severe anxiety and mood disorders spiral. Finally re-entered her program last year, but still struggling massively with the KRPG addiction. Stopped socializing outside of the game, for the most part - even with me, to a large extent. Physical relationship is completely dead, and has been for a couple years now. All of this despite my frequent urging to find some more help, talk to an addiction counselor, talk to her PCP, talk to her psych about figuring out a new pharmaceutical balance because the current one isn’t working.
It’s like swimming with weights tied around my ankles.
There have been a few semi-recent events that have made me fundamentally question the sustainability of the relationship, but my breaking point was actually just this last Monday. She was supposed to have her dissertation prospectus sorted out and submitted that Tuesday morning (but later, found out there was some sort of miscommunication, and discovered it was actually Monday). I’ve felt I’ve needed to step back and not just effectively parent her through her program, because genuinely she’s a grown-ass woman and needs to be able to motivate herself to do these things - I can’t want them for her. I watched her sandbag and KRPG for weeks leading up to it. I watched her have a couple good days of progress the week prior, then spend most of the weekend before it was due on her KRPG. I went to work Monday, let her know I was gonna get dinner with a friend so she could work and focus without me distracting her. I come back, and she’s on the KRPG; says “eh it was actually due THIS morning, so oh well”.
My face fell. She can read me pretty well at this point. She went into an emotional spiral, and started verging into self-harm. Also, she had apparently doubled up on adhd stimulants, which has historically tended to supercharge that stuff for her. Not wanting her to perhaps harm or off herself, I got her to take one of her “zonk-out” pills , prescribed for situations such as this. I was in triage mode that night.
The following day, I went to work. I came home. I no longer care really about what she’s doing or how she’s doing it. I realize this is it; this is my limit. I cannot do this anymore. It’s destroying my mental and physical health (I’ve been self-medicating on and off for a while now due to how much I have to handle fucking EVERYTHING in both my life and hers, and I’ve been the sole earner until about a year ago). I shared a bottle of wine with her. In a fit of quiet grief, while she was back playing her KRPG more, I ended up downing a whole bottle of sake myself just to stop feeling anything. Was extremely drunk; later got violently ill.
Spent the next day at work super hung over. Resolved that I needed to end things. But despite everything, I do still love and care about her, so I need to get one of her family members up to essentially do a “handoff” when I leave to stay at a friends place for a week or two when I tell her she needs to move out.
So I’ve been lying to her face for a week pretending everything is copacetic, because I cannot handle another emotional spiral from her, and I need to stage things correctly for her own physical well-being, because I don’t trust her to be ok in the moment when I tell her what’s happening.
It fucking sucks. But at the same time, I see light at the end of the tunnel, in terms of my own life. So I feel a lot of guilt over that whole situation, in multiple different dimensions.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk, I guess…?
Tbh I don’t recommend Ubuntu to people anymore
So, what, we should vote for Trump, which will lead to a Republican victory and the authoritarian Christian Nationalists taking over the US government? Or should we vote for some random third party, which will lead to a Republican victory and the authoritarian Christian Nationalists taking over the US government?
You are debating in bad faith. I encourage you to aspirate on a satchel of Richards.
Get out of my head charles
You know, there’s a very, very small part of me that wants Trump to win so you can watch in horror as the casualty rate for Palestinians skyrockets by 10x or more, just so I can scream in your ear
I fucking told you so
I of course hope he loses, because an actual (as in, not hyperbolic/agitprop) fascist regime being in charge of the US would be incredibly catastrophic in FAR more areas and contexts than just Gaza.
Ah yes because the VP has the authority to command the armed forces of the United States
Genuinely fuck all the way off. Understand how the fucking government works and be angry at Biden, because HE can stop this. The VP has zero power to do anything, so long as the president is still conscious, which he is. Stop shitting on the best chance we have to avoid a fascist fucking regime. Jesus fucking christ.
Because there’s a material difference between “absolute fucking asshole who won’t stop supplying those murdering fucks with weapons” and “absolute fucking asshole who is going to send squadrons of B-52s to pound Gaza and the West Bank into grade #8 gravel and break ground on the brand new beachside Trump Tower Gaza”.
I am genuinely so fucking sick of explaining that there’s a fucking difference here. If you can’t see that there is a difference, I don’t think I can help you with your cranial-rectal inversion problem.
As I said: the problem is that the people whose job it is to respond to those direct threats are, in some cases, the same ones who are making the direct threats, or enjoy the fact that those threats are being made / agree with the threats. Police unions in the states are 100% fucked beyond repair, imo.
Time for a little RATM: