Have you read the Mueller report? Did you listen to the impeachment testimony? It’s clear there were connections and impropriety, there were multiple people around Trump who were convicted with plenty of evidence. Paul Manafort is one seriously slimey piece of shit.

This revisionist bullshit is some truly Orwellian nightmare fuel.

My grandparents had cable and one of those old cable boxes from the 80s with the wood grain. I found out if I stuck a letter opener in juuuust so… unscramble all the things.

I sincerely hope all this organizing you are clearing doing is going to help. I will pitch in as I can, truly. You can insult me as much as you want, and if you are successful, I will be the first to admit I was wrong. However, from where I am standing we are much more worse off. Maybe that is what you want. It is clear to me, that a lot more people are going to die and even more are going to suffer.

I’m not on any high horse. I’m down here covered in filth. I am not proud to have voted for Kamala, but I’m frustrated that she lost. I’d much rather be getting lectured at that she isn’t doing enough, and no one be talking about USAID, and trans people, women, etc all fearing for their future.

Life is complicated. We have to tell ourselves stories to get through it. I viewed voting like a trolly problem. I chose Kamala because I viewed it as the least harm I could do in that situation. You did what I view as refusing to pull the lever. Both situations result in harm. I am not ok with that harm either way, and I recognize my culpability. Do you recognize yours?

There is a guy in power right now giving Nazi salutes, stripping lifesaving aid from tens of millions of people, advocating for ethnic cleansing, and a whole lot more. I voted against that and I’m the Nazi? Fuck you.

I am not pretending Democrats weren’t peices of shit. I have no delusions about that. I am operating under the reality that Americans, the people in Gaza, and most of the world, is in a much worse situation right now because you decided to take a moral stand against the person more likely to help, to be influenced by protests.

Are you protesting what is happening right now? I know a lot of vulnerable people can’t.

They voted their conscience? So they wanted ethnic cleansing? That is what they voted for. There was never any doubt what Trump stood for, what he was going to do.

Can you honestly blame people for being frustrated that’s this super hardline approach is what we got when people claimed to want something else then voted against their interests?

Same with supporting the working class. With wanting to end corruption. All these things people claimed they cared about then turned around and voted in Trump. It’s maddening.

Go shove your blue maga bullshit. It is absolutely ridiculous.

Go to the wedding. That is a really big deal. After that don’t engage with him on politics. Maybe don’t engage at all. Show up for birthdays and maybe a holiday or two. Do the ‘quiet quitting’ of family interaction. You aren’t going to change their mind. I’ve been trying for 20+ years and it’s just gotten worse.

And this pattern holds across a shitload of rich people too. Singers who could afford to not have to have that waitress job and just focus on promotion. ‘Entrepreneurs’ who got ‘small’ ‘loans’ to start their 10th business that finally hit. Real estate moguls who had actual intelegnt people bring them plans they rubber stamped and claimed to be brilliant businessmen.

They are rich so they must be smart is the biggest pile of bullshit.

Uhhhh…

I’ve definitely let my wife write her name.

I remember liking the design of the Xperia active. https://m.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_xperia_active-3998.php

The fact that it was waterproof, had the built in strap holder for securing it.

Make it lightweight durable and super long battery life (small screen, OLED) and you have a great device you wouldn’t need to baby.

Unfortunately it’s never going to happen. They don’t do niche phones now. Everyone seems to have accepted phones are going to be generic slabs of glass. All about the same size. Boring.

The hive mind / group think stuff on Reddit is strong. I had a friend doing a section of the PCT and he was saying literally everyone had the same setups from socks to water filters.

That kind of uniformity isn’t good for anyone.

It also means path dependency.

https://www.magtrol.com/product/hysteresis-brakes/

callipygous : having shapely buttocks

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/callipygous

In my head it was going to be a lecture about having the right tools for the job, and making the kids crack walnuts barehanded.

Then I see those kids are tied up… and home dude is looking way too comfortable finding just the right walnut. Some illegal shit is about to go down.

How Regan didn’t get impeached over Iran Contra is baffling.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetic_acid

Looks like you can create acedic acid from alcohol but you need a catalyst and carbon monoxide, not oxygen.

Or an environment without bacteria. I don’t think the wine will ‘oxidize’ without the bacteria, correct?

Oxidization is not the process that turns wine into vinegar, it is a secondary fermentation by bacteria that does it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_of_vinegar

Mind me asking what you do?