I’m giving “explicit notice” for the entire judicial system to EAT MY ASS. Fucking do something already. This continual warning bullshit has worked wonders so far. FUCK.

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“It is better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.” - Abraham Lincoln (or honestly a like a dozen different other sources…this one has many different variants).

My wife and I take near daily walks through our neighborhood. One day we decided on a whim to take a couple bags with us and pick up trash as we walked. Ended up turning into an impromptu competition and we were laughing our asses off by the time we finished the 1.5 mile loop and got back to our house. We dumped about four bag loads of litter in our garbage can, and now we do it once every few times we walk. We couldn’t believe how nice it was just to walk around and not see litter for once! Just an idea :)

Is there a way to reset your nose after olfactory fatigue? Sorta like a palate cleanser for your nose?

Wasn’t trying to be a dick, pard. Apologies I came off that way. Hope you have a relaxing evening!

My brother in Christ, you are confusing Richard Nixon with Ronald Reagan. Nixon resigned. Reagan was wildly popular while implementing policies that have fucked over America for nearly half a decade now.

Я думаю, що багато європейців вважають, що расизму не існує в їхніх куточках світу. Це легко стверджувати, коли всі у вашій країні виглядають і говорять так само, як ви.

I’m happy to report that I’ve nearly filled out my card (I have two blank squares left). Admittedly I’ve interpreted some of the criteria pretty loosely, but doing the card has really helped inspire me to read! I’ve finished more books this year than I think I have read in the past five years combined, so I’m very grateful!

It helped that I became obsessed with the Red Rising series. :D

Flying is so bad now if you don’t book a flight at the ass crack of dawn you’re basically guaranteed to get delayed so I always bite the bullet and book as early as possible!

I just finished Dark Age from the Red Rising series. Started on the Light Bringer audiobook this morning while working! I haven’t been this into a series in a long time so I’ve been blazing through it, though Dark Age was a bit of a slog for me so I’m hoping book six will pick up in pace a bit.

I also started The Colour of Magic last night to give myself a lighthearted option in between the heavier series. I’ve read more books this year I think than I ever have before thanks to the Book Bingo challenge keeping me motivated! :D

I like this summarized as “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough.”

Also if you just want the audio to listen to (I like to do this with TTRPGs) you can do:

yt-dlp -x -f bestaudio

Also works great in a pinch for getting sounds and music for FoundryVTT.

OH thank you I understand now. Unfortunately, no.

What?

I don’t have any revolutionary advice to give to you my friend. I’m quite a bit younger than you and I already am feeling the creep of losing touch with the speed of new technology. I think to a certain extent that is inevitable. I will say that there is a tremendous amount of survivorship bias in the videos of young people making racks off of day trading. These videos are designed to get people hooked on what is functionally gambling. No offense meant whatsoever, but if you’re living paycheck to paycheck it’s the exact type of slippery slope that can turn a bad financial situation into a ruinous one. I hope you find something that you like though and wish you the best of luck in whatever you do!

I imagine interstellar coalition governments probably function a lot more like the EU than a single country. Individual planets/solar systems would probably function under a somewhat independent governorship that is still subject to the overall laws of the federation/republic.

It’s sort of like asking “how big can a city get?” before states and nation-states existed, when in reality at some point a higher tier governance inevitably takes over. An interstellar or galactic scale government is necessarily going to be massively stratified with many levels of hierarchy in between. I think this is why many sci-fi governments at this scale are also described as bloated, unintelligible bureaucracies.

A USA today article seems to dispute this slightly. It’s a minor tweak but in the sake of fairness it completely changes the interpretation.

“The job of the U.S. armed forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures (and) spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun,” he said. “The military’s job is to dominate any foe and annihilate any threat to America, anywhere, anytime and any place.”

Does anyone know whether he said “but spread democracy…” or “and spread democracy…”?

If the former like this post suggests, then it is indeed another notch in Trump’s belt of horrific quotes that would get any other politician at any other time in American history vilified. If the latter like USA Today is reporting then he seems to be arguing that the US military’s role is not to “spread democracy at the point of a gun.”

I believe it is immoral to own more than one house.

The main point is to take advantage of Trump’s reckless misunderstanding of how the modern global financial system works to deliberately drive the United States into a recession so that American oligarchs can buy up all the collapsed pieces and force ordinary people into permanent rental of all essential services. My perspective is that RFK is a eugenicist with respect to vaccines in a, “if you die when you get sick you weren’t strong enough to be worth keeping alive anyway” sort of way. And of course there are the Curtis Yarvins of the world who want to turn the “mentally unfit” into biodiesel. Combine that with the recent own the libs joke bills about making so-called “Trump Derangement Syndrome” a classifiable mental illness and you can see where the writing on the wall is. The broader goal is to make it so any disagreement with Trump and Republicans is either a deportable offense or a mental illness.