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You think that's bad, wait until you hear about dihydrogen monoxide! It's in almost everything, even the water you drink and the air you breathe!

The main takeaway for me was that it's possible but that it takes a lot more open communication and emotional availability than a monogamous relationship. It really takes very mature people to make it work.

That's how it's supposed to work but rarely actually does.

It still does, but I do understand people's displeasure with snaps.

Ubuntu in the corner, crying.

Linux users: "Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself!"

Hot Dog Guy approves.

I mean, considering the process for getting this fleet started in 2015, it would be 2035 before a new fleet would be rolling out... so yeah, they'll just call to shut down USPS

True, making them rely on vehicles that are failing will reduce the ability for the USPS to effectively do its job and give them another reason to say we need to privatize it.

They literally spent the last 10 fucking years getting these replacements ready to replace the aging fleet.

Also, it's not just a $1.5 billion dollar hit, there was and is a $6 billion dollar contract with Oshkosh Defense to build 165,000 of these, after going through a 6-year iteration process of bids and prototypes. This is throwing the baby out with the bathwater for no discernible reason and at an extremely high cost just to force USPS mail carrier to be locked into an ancient, aging fleet of vehicles. And I don't think a defense giant like Oshkosh isn't just going to sue the shit out of the government for damages for cancelling a contract if it hasn't been fulfilled already.

It sounds like just one more way to try to kill the USPS because if all their vehicles keep breaking down, they won't be able to do their jobs.

Fiscal conservatives, my ass. Most wasteful sonsabitches alive.

The USPS literally just got these, and they're replacing the way-past-end-of-life former fleet of USPS vehicles. These things are so recent that I have a post about them in my post history and I've only been here since October 2023, not even two full years.

Getting rid of them is literally forcing USPS to use old, broken, difficult to maintain due to age vehicles. These replacements have been in the works for ten fucking years and there's a $6 billion contract with Oshkosh Defense to build 165,000 of them.

Further, the old vehicles are missing a huge boon to mail carriers: air conditioning.

Like so many things, it seems like the cruelty is the point. It's not just that they hate EVs, they hate mail carriers having modernized vehicles that are in working condition and climate controlled so they're not sweating their asses off in the summer and freezing their asses off in the winter.

Thanks for reminding me I've always wanted to have bees. I'd never considered just calling up beekeepers.

Technically you can get unemployment in the offseason.

Wouldn't anti-beans be naebs?

It's definitely not universally true. I don't like my space looking like a dumpster and I dated a woman for 13 years who absolutely, positively, would not clean, and didn't know how to use a garbage can. Would drop trash on the floor and leave it there until I finally got sick of it and cleaned it up. She would leave dishes unwashed and just laying around.

But outside of that experience, most women I know have kept neater spaces than me. As I said, my place doesn't look like a dumpster, it's organized and tidy, but I probably sweep less, dust less, and so on. I do dishes daily because they get gross fast if you don't.

Also it is to be noted that I lived in absolute filth in my twenties and I had to teach myself how to clean and be tidy over time, it took about ten years until I was in my thirties before I was consistent on cleaning.

Mom: We have regime change at home.

Regime change at home:

The cake lamp is a lie.

Vranyo.

You know I’m lying, and I know that you know, and you know that I know that you know, but I go ahead with a straight face, and you nod seriously and take notes.

The bald faced lies are like the final insult. Even during the lead up to Iraq they made a show of trying to fake intelligence enough to suit their goals. Now it's just, fuck it we ball, and say whatever, who cares, and who cares if they know we're lying, they can't do anything about it.

You think his cult members won't eat this up and just follow their Daddy because he told them so, Associated Press? That's rich, they're already out there justifying it. Once they get their marching orders from FOX, it will be "war is a good thing and when we said wars in the middle east were bad we just meant only when they're started by Democrats" conveniently ignoring how few of them have been started by Democrats instead of being spearheaded by Republicans like the faked intelligence leading to the Iraq War. Democrats didn't push it, they just went along with it because public sentiment said the people wanted war. Democrats, being the wishy washy fucks they are, bent over and said "I'll do whatever I need to keep idiots happy and voting me back in."

The only change here is Russia and Ukraine, and that’s been ongoing for years now.

I dunno, the Russian invasion of Georgia was in 2008 (Russia has actually been involved with warfare on Georgia going back to 1993). They haven't always aimed at the exact same areas and while they didn't invade Belarus, they seem to have a good relationship with the country in a vassal state type of way. It certainly seems that Russia has been trying to regain lost territory for most of the same time period as the wars in the middle east.

A lot of people also don't seem to remember the whole reason that the USA originally sided with and funded bin Laden and his Mujahideen was to kick Russia out of Afghanistan. It's part of what eventually bred bin Laden's distrust and hatred of the US for essentially being used as a tool and then thrown away.