I luckily saw this photo before I saw the original video somehow. It was still hella fuckin’ sad and made my heart break, but if I had seen the original first I would have been bawling.

Instead I was like “Don’t worry Punch! Your adoptive family is otw Little Guy!”

…fuck, I really don’t want to go back in time 117 times to hold up a diner with a bomb looking for the perfect group of normies to volunteer to save the future world from the dangers of AI.

Shit sounds mentally exhausting and emotionally draining.

We were in SF a few months ago, and wandered around the Union Square area. I snapped pictures around the city because I actually adored it and sent them to my MAGA parents, telling them they promised me human shit on the sidewalks and hoardes of homeless people harrassing me, so I wanted my money back. I told them I was also promised looters and cars being smashed into right in front of my face.

They were not amused and said something along the lines of: “Yes well Trump has been president so cities are cleaning up their acts!”

They both live on the fucking east coast and have never even set foot in CA for a second.

Oh good, we’re another step closer to 1984 becoming reality.

Thankfully this shit hasn’t made it to my installation. I’m guessing these eight bases “world-wide” have to be targeting the USMC.

The Marines get the absolute bottom of the barrel treatment even as far military members go.

My husband and I, who are both Enlisted, have been saying for years that the military is proof that a form of socialism CAN work in the US. It’s not “true” socialism because we still have an owning class, but ffs, it’s a goddamned start. And its not just Active Duty who gets taken care of. Its also dependents, veterans (to an extent), and retirees. So there is the proof that the model is scalable.

At this point, I honestly believe that the biggest reason reason the government won’t let the US have free or even affordable Healthcare isn’t solely because of profits. It’s because they won’t be able to dangle free healthcare over the heads of poor teens to get them to Enlist. Same thing with the pension for re-enlistments.

I feel like those two items are purposefully withheld from the public to keep the military stacked.

As someone who only recently got the opportunity to flee Texas to Cali: Fuck yes.

People who have never lived in a place like TX, FL, MS, MO, AL, etcetcetc have no idea what its like, and the purists who were against this move have zero idea whats at stake. The fact that this is time capped speaks volumes, and was intentional. Again, I urge people to look at how Texas did it. There is no limit, and the people didn’t vote on it. You don’t want that kind of government.

This was already legally happening in Texas. Cali did this in response to Texas being allowed to heavily gerrymander their state in Republican favor.

Editing to add: And it’s a time-constrained deal. This new map will only exist until 2030 when the maps would be redrawn anyhow. Cali put this up to a vote. Texas just…did it without a vote. Its near impossible for on-the-ground voters to get anything on a ballot in Texas due to the way the state Constitution is written.

Honestly I think there is a non-zero chance of this happening as well. We live in an apartment and neither of us have ever been “prepper” types so we don’t have a huge hoard or anything, but I have dedicated a cabinet in our kitchen to this situation.

I told my husband that I don’t think it’s unlikely that at some point we’re going to have to go without utilities for a couple weeks, so we needed to have stuff on-hand. After a few weeks, I feel like all bets would be off anyway and society would basically become feral so it doesn’t make sense to have a huge hoard that you can’t haul around easily. Unless you live in a house with Purge-Night style defenses, then I guess it makes sense.

I say this all the time as some who has bought/sold two houses and is currently a renter.

It IS really nice having the “forced savings” of buying a house, and knowing that if you pay off enough and SHTF you can always sell for a chunk of change, but holy shit, people VASTLY underestimate the maintenance costs.

Most people think: “Haha, I would rather have a $10K roof replacement every 20 years” or “I could handle a $1K water heater NBD”, but its not that. At all.

We had a pipe bust underneath our house that home insurance wouldn’t cover because it didn’t directly affect the house itself, and that was an unexpected $30K hit and digging under our home in multiple locations. People like to tout the foundation/roof being good, but I’m telling everyone, dont sleep on the hydrostatic leak tests. And if I ever buy a house again, that is something I’ll get done like every other year, because our pipe burst after we had owned the home for over 10 years.

Right now though, I am HAPPY knowing that the only “emergency” I’d have to cover would be vehicle issues, and my savings are going to largely stay my savings.

We never used it but I did look into it when we lived in Nevada for a friend who had been celibate for over a decade at that point. Nice dude, but extremely quiet and just has zero confidence/game.

I loved that the ladies were independent contractors who set their OWN rates, and they advertised what THEY were comfortable doing/ their explicit “no-go” list. There was also a strict consent banner on the site I used that said any of the ladies could kick anyone out at any time and there were panic buttons in the rooms.

Never actually did end up contacting them because we ended up being too poor at the time. Wasn’t mad though, those ladies were setting prices that they deemed fair for their bodies and I have mad respect for that. Whether people agree with prostitution as a concept or not, its not going away and its referred to as the “world’s oldest occupation” for a reason. The best thing to do is protect the people who are choosing to engage in it/ensure they’re getting paid extremely well for their time.

Do your clothes not get mildewy/musty in the closet? We have a big enough one to do this in, but the few times I’ve tried to dry my clothes indoor they got that mildewy scent to them.

Now we live in an apartment where I’m not allowed to have a clothesline outside, but It’s really like to not use my dryer at all because it’s so hard on clothes.

Okay my Lemmy client doesn’t support emojis, but that is fucking adorable and did a little to brighten my day! Tiny goat!

Oat is goat tbh

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Me too, for free still as of this comment!

I think its dependent on their base. I firmly believe Beto O’Rourke would have unseated Fled Cruz if there wasn’t an emotional sound bite of him saying “Hell yeah we’re taking your guns!” After a WalMart in his hometown was shot up.

Ted Cruz (and Greg Abbott in the ensuing gubnatorial election) both played the FUCK out of that clip, and Beto lost both elections but only by a slim margin.

I’m not a 2A person, but I personally think if there was someone progressive like AOC or Bernie Sanders AND they touted gun ownership, they would be a winning candidate every single time.

Bruh I agonized over this on jury duty. It wasn’t even a violent crime but dude was still facing jail time. I cannot IMAGINE how stressful a Judge’s job must be on the day-to-day.

Man, that’s the last one I couldn’t find and I finally gave up to scroll for the answer. My eyes flicked to the clock like 3 times and I just shrugged it off! Lame.

Haha, you provided me an opportunity to do one of those shitty pun threads that I always come across too late after all the good ones are already taken, so I appreciated the typo anyhow!