I think two things much worse than the election are about to happen in my personal life. I am filled with dread.
It wouldn't be an ex military guy.
Might be my album of the year.
I think if he tries to steal the election someone, probably from the military will put a bullet in his head. A stolen election or the execution of Trump might sunder the nation.
Great work! Dropping 10 lbs made me feel physically better than stopping smoking. I need to get back on the weight loss but my life has been too hectic lately.
I've fermented my own hot sauces before and it turned out ok. I look forward to hearing how it turns out.
We have a plum tree leaning over our yard with maybe a few hundred pounds of plums, I've never seen this thing so burdened. I made a five gallon batch of plum wine, and damn if it doesn't taste like wine you'd buy at at the store. This reminded me that I don't really care for wine (what did I expect? Boons Farm?). I just distilled a gallon of it and I'm sure I'll like it better than the wine. I don't want to set up a full still cause it's a pain and my still is garbage so I'm using a gallon sized water distiller with an adjustable thermostat. Honestly, for the home distiller, it's almost legal. If someone got drunk on your hooch and ran over a baby it'd be your ass. but if you aren't selling it odds are that no one is going to bother you.
This guy is great. Thanks for posting.
I started a new job in a field I've never worked in before but have been going to school for. It's exhausting to meet so many new people while learning so many new things in a place with many physical hazards. It's also going to be in the high 90's low 100's this week which makes the job a quite a bit harder.
They only way he isn't the Dems candidate is if he dies.
lol, power is a hell of a drug.
I've been facing a lot of adversity and about to experience a lot of change, make me listen to more hardcore.
I've been enjoying a lot of the stuff Nick Cave has been putting out the last year or so. I really like the Grinderman albums. In the past two weeks I've listened to "Shivers" by Roland S. Howard with the Young Charlatans two dozen times. The Charlatans broke up and Roland joined Nicks band The Boys Next Door and recorded Shivers before they became the Birthday Party.
Basically a giveaway to big pharma. Local conditions don't' change much, you still can't bank in the industry, you can't sell across state lines. Pharmaceutical companies can start researching and developing "medications" for public consumption. Chance that they can get "products" approved for the public and steal any value that the little guys have scratched out in local markets. Biden could have made things more like booze or tobacco but chose not to do that in favor of the drug companies. I can't smoke weed because I'm about to drug test for jobs. I don't smoke much weed but the second I can't I want to all the time, lol.
You make me glad that I didn't go to school for HVAC because it pays so much less than the water and environmental tech job is going to pay me. Thanks for making me feel good about my decisions bro! only five semesters to make 30k more!!!!
He might not debate. It might or might not be the right move. I didn't vote for him and I won't vote for him. I'm not going to be spoon fed the Steve Bannon Biden edit but you are welcome to it. You can make the same edit of Trump stumble bumming his way through speeches. Both guys are old and have lost a few steps, Biden was never a good public speaker and I don't believe that he's riddled with Alzheimer's or something, they just know that no matter what he's going to end up being edited into senility. Watch his State of the Union or the yesterdays Press dinner speech and get back to me, or keep being spoon fed the media line. He may be complicate in genocide but he isn't mentally gone.
Nonsense. Biden has consistently looked his best when he gets worked up. You're just echoing the sleepy Biden Meme.
I'm digging the new Kim Gordon album, it's loud, ugly, silly and funky. The new Mary Timony album was good.
We are soooo far from pulling out all the stops....
I've been curious to see if these drugs raise the suicide rate in patients that are taking them for weight loss. I think that suicide rates might go up if they get used for addiction treatment. food and drugs make life bearable for many. Haha, I did a little search before I "contributed" and lo and behold. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/wegovy-other-weight-loss-drugs-scrutinized-over-reports-suicidal-thoughts-2023-09-28/ Suicide rate increases have knocked past weight loss drugs off the market.
I pretty much can't deal with how much i want to go see this live.
My latest weird audio obsession.
I've been mulling what I'll remap my windows AI key to be.
I've consistently found you over optimistic about over big picture U.S. politics. Guns is the one that stands out most clearly. In a country that has now tightly restricted abortion in just about half of the states I think bounds of the possible are wider than I've ever seen them. I hope you aren't right. While the breakup would be painful, I think many places would realize futures that would be more fruitful than they would otherwise be. The costs would be significant and the benefits would probably not be evenly spread out.
I think Biden has a narrow advantage. There is a non-zero chance one of the candidates dies or just gets ill to the point that public confidence in that candidate is shattered. The country will break up eventually, lots of directions that could take, might not be in our life time. The nation splitting up probably won't be something that is all bad or all good. Biden doesn't seem to have a decisive campaign ready to persuade voters that he's the man and he's taking a beating from the left and right.
Exposing you kids to unique opportunities is not overparenting, but I understand and share your fears.
My kid does roller derby. It's very physical (not rough but lots of coordination). The ladies who do the camp are just the kind of people you want influencing your kids, the values are accepting eveyone for what they bring to the table, good team work, pride of your physicality. I think they might do school of rock this year. They really should have done school of rock two years ago but they have to master shit before they do it in front of people. Sometimes they do coding camps for games but if they don't think their game will be the best they don't' want to do it. I get them to go anyway and they have fun. It sucks because they spend about ten to twenty hours a week creating game fodder. Sometimes they go to theater camp and have fun. The theater camps they go to are JUST FUCKING AMAZING. They make original and complex plays that riff off old school or modern themes. Camps are good for kids. My kid hates camp but has a shit load of fun going to them. I'm trying really hard to get them to do a hip hop dance camp because the social capital you gain from being a good dancer can be massive. I want my kid to be able to attract the people they want to attract socially and romantically in the future and dance is a gateway. I made my kid do many swimming lessons. I'm pretty sure that my kid could be just short of black out drunk in their twenties and not fucking drown when they fall off the dock. MISSION ACOMPLISHED!
Having just started my first week in a new semester with seven classes running 18 credits I've been told many many times that if I present someone else's work as my own I will face the academic firing squad. I'm sure that I would actually get a session of positive counseling and a second chance but that seems like a pretty fair deal when some of the people in my classes only academic bona fides are a high school diploma. For the past two weeks many of the social justice warriors I follow (and admire) on twitter have been wringing their hands that the president of Harvard shouldn't have to face consequences for plagiarizing. I've been wholly indifferent their pleas. I don't' care that the president of Harvard has been taken down by a fucking conservative devil, if I plagiarized twice I'd be kicked out of school. It's even crazier that if you are a tech bro that plagiarizes you should get to become a billionaire. I shouldn't be surprised. Why would any argument that helps you become a billionaire seem perfectly suited to reality if the steaks are billionairehood.