littlewonder @ littlewonder @lemmy.world

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I'm cool with this as long as I can reserve Thunderstruck by AC/DC.

Definitely don't watch the Arctic Sinkhole documentary from PBS Nova if you like sleeping at night. It's all about the trapped methane in the permafrost and the trapped gasses under the permafrost. Shit is getting real scary. It wasn't even sensationalist.

Will this work out for consumers if other tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, or Amazon, etc. aren't also broken up simultaneously? Won't Google's assets just get sucked up into another existing monopoly and we'll be right back where we were but with one less choice than before?

I'm genuinely curious.

I think I'd be traumatized by being an inch from a bullet to my brain. I also think Trump is mainlining toxic traits into his persona like "men don't cry" and "mental health is for pussies" so I wouldn't ever expect him to actually publicly admit to having feelings about it or getting support.

Come to think of it, him not bringing up the shooting in every sentence out of his mouth for martyrdom points, seems really out of character. All we got subjected to was a comically large, stark white bandage at the GOP convention. The lack of milking it for sympathy ad nauseum makes me think he really is affected by it.

I won't adopt kittens, personally. Those little shits are cute, sure, but they eat everything and claw everything and try to kill themselves on everything. Just like a toddler.

Even if an older cat wasn't trained at all, they still get some sort of common sense level up after they pass kitten age.

Fellow executive dysfunction pals! Lend me your short attention spans!

Here are my tips for voting:

1. Vote by mail if your state allows it. This is the forgetful/introvert/agoraphobic cheat code. Set 5 reminders to mail it back by the due date.
2. If you can't do mail, use early voting if it's available in your area. This means barely a wait (unless it's the lunch hour or right before/after commuter hours) and it's easy to walk in whenever you feel like it or you're already out running errands nearby. I think you can even set some phones to remind you of a thing when you're near a location, like your early voting station, if you use that kind of thing.

If you can't vote early or by mail:

• Text a friend or family member you don't usually flake on and set up a time to accompany each other to the polls. Bring snacks and shit to do in case there's a line. This is easier if you are assigned the same polling station. In some states, you can vote outside your assigned station, but it might be a provisional ballot, which means they don't "count it" until they verify you didn't vote at any other location.
• You may be entitled to take off work in order to vote and your company might even give you paid leave to do it. Depends on your job and your state.
• If money motivates you, schedule an Uber or Lyft to the polls ahead of time and let their greedy cancellation policy fuel you to just go so you're not wasting the money you already spent.
• Get a fucking dripping fit and make a rule that you can't wear it out for the first time until you are going to the polls. Get that new outfit dopamine, you tiger!
• Schedule a hair appointment for election day and add on a styling service at the end so that you look fresh as hell and be motivated to go vote just so you can bless us with your beautiful hair before you go shower or sleep and it's never quite as good looking.
• Are you a people watcher or do you get jazzed to try out random accents on every other person in public for fun? Sign up to volunteer as a poll worker and you'll be there anyway while also getting that juicy, helping-humanity-by-volunteering dopamine. Check with your county auditor to get started. They may need you to attend poll worker training ahead of time.
• Download a mobile app game/handheld console game/new movie/cliffhanger-ending TV show episode and make a rule that you can't play it/watch it until you're in line at the polls. The time will fly by.
• Do kegels in line at the polls. If the wait is long, remind yourself it's only making you an even more powerful sex god.

If you're not sure about how to vote and it seems overwhelming, that's because it is and it's been made that way on purpose.

Reply to this comment with your state and I'll personally look up your election shit because I care really deeply about access to voting and human-systems design. My nerd knowledge in these areas is useful only about once a year, like a rare stone solstice sunbeam.

Now I'm imagining a new version of 30 Rock except it's a parody of the Trump campaign instead of SNL.

The best way to walk into a GOP convention.

Great quote. Also, love your username. SQL injection vibes.

Edit: Went in search of more info about this quote and thought I'd share what I found:

"A vote is a chess move, not a valentine."

• Rebecca Solnit

It's a summarized version of the writer's idea/turn of phrase she often brought up in her writing around the 2016 election.

Here's her November 2016 article from The Nation.

Aluminum water bottles are an option. I was at an airport recently where they only sold water in aluminum bottles and it was awesome.

Dressing for fun, or dressing to mock people?

Either way, that $5 Spirit Halloween wig is gatekeeping itself from drag.

I mean, saying someone feels like the dad you could've had doesn't mean there's anything pathologic going on. They're just being wistful and pointing out that Walz is giving cool dad vibes.

I think you're being a bit hyperbolic by suggesting these women have literally formed a parasocial father-daughter relationship with him in 3 weeks.

Exactly. Perfect example of labor owning the means of production.

Turns out, he shared a tater tot recipe recently. Either it's a coincidence or this thread OP is the mole.

Are you available as a chat bot?

5000000 upvotes to OP for using 12ft on the post link.

Tuesdays at Biden's

A lot of people just don't seem to experience empathy as deeply as some of us.

Sorry to hear that, mate. That sounds really tough, even if you're just observing the disease's progression from afar.

Bad analogy. The father would be charged with assault on the kid and the woman in your scenario. Also, no one reasonable thinks a five year old and a fetus are the same, which is why these laws are fucking ridiculous.