

…speaking for most of us, just the one…
…speaking for most of us, just the one…
…either united 93 was shot down or the USAF was incompetent; i put odds on competence…
can != will
…the current regime will continue doing whatever the f*ck they want as long as nobody stops them…
…i totally thought that was wheat and lentil penne sautéed with crumbled sausage…
…our local grocer stocks vegan gummies; sadly they’re not very good…
…i reset my browser daily, so i only have the past twenty-four hours of browsing history…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2025_Central_Texas_floods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_Altar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar_Gate
…that’s really only an hour or so of browsing between returning home last night and this morning, not including the bulk of my time at work yesterday…
…i tried to live with public transit in marin county: just commuting to my job was three hours each way, with a very narrow window of opportunity for walking to a grocer at my transfer hub and no recourse on nights when i had to work late…
…vietnam doesn’t have enough room for mopeds, let alone SUVs…
…people not voting is a failure of coalition-building, full-stop…
…meanwhile, a successful coalition is now calling the shots instead; that’s american democracy in action, like it or not…
…how’s that working out for australia?..legitmate question; last i heard they were nearly as fascist as we are stateside…
…the car’s on fire and there’s no driver at the wheel, and the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides, and a dark wind blows: the government is corrupt and we’re on so many drugs with the radio on and the curtains drawn…we’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine and the machine is bleeding to death…
…the sun has fallen down, and the billboards are all leering, and the flags are all dead at the top of their poles…
…if the primaries represent a legitimate coalition, sure; if not, f*ck 'em: they can go down with the ship, too…
…yeah, f*ck off, plutocrat…
…i used to travel on a whim when i was young, single, and frugal; haven’t enjoyed that liberty since marrying and buying a car + house…
…you need time off work to travel; that’s a luxury few working-class americans can afford even to visit the next state, let alone the indulgence to travel internationally…
…i’ve claimed unemployment benefits a couple of times in the past four decades and the administrative burden was onerous-enough to substantially disrupt my liberty to look for work, the release of benefits delayed until i’d already found work the better part of a year later, and the benefits such a token pittance as to be eclipsed by interest on credit i used to make ends meet in the interim…
…i supect their fraud-prevention programs cost more to administer than the actual benefits they’re supposedly protecting…
…that’s how we brushed with baking soda when i grew up: pour a little pile into your off hand, wet your brush, dip, scrub, repeat…