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Imagine being a Republican and supporting this type of governance. I tried and didn't quite make it there. They, Republicans, show over and over that they can't even manage the most basic functions of Congress.

The word my family uses for that is "mom".

It's a good book. I would argue that although he had a hard go of it, and long days, his life was much more fulfilling than 99% of the lives that people live these days; probably more fulfilling than the lives of the people that lived during his time as well. There's a reason people love escapism.

Thomas Paine posited that if a man, unencumbered by society, could meet his basic needs (food, shelter, etc) in x hours of work per day, then society owed that same person the same basic standards of life for working that same x hours per day. Where I'm from, the Native Americans had to work about 2 hours a day to meet their needs, and so became really great artisans with their "free" time.

Closer to present, my parents were able to buy a comfortable suburban home while working relatively low paying government jobs. That includes my mom taking off approx 6 years to take care of my sister and I until we started elementary school.

When Europeans first came to America, there were schools of cod off the coast that you could literally dangle an empty hook into the water and catch fish. Passenger Pigeons darkend the sky for days on end with their migrations, and the thundering of huge buffalo herds could be heard and seen throughout a good portion of the continent.

[Life expectancy] fell to 77 in 2020 and dropped further, to just over 76, in 2021. That's the largest decrease over a two-year span since the 1920s. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-life-expectancy-in-the-us-is-falling-202210202835

Sure it's not all bad. But it's far, far from all good as well. Sometimes bitching is just the sign of an unhappy person, but often there are some real truths behind the complaints.

Well, we did elect trump, so I guess this is what we (collectively) want.

lame duck

noun

An elected officeholder or group continuing in office during the period between failure to win an election and the inauguration of a successor.

He's the definition of a lame duck president right now. That's not saying anything bad, or good, about the man, just the fact of his current position.

So idiotic I actually laughed reading that first paragraph.

I'm in northern OC. Along the route. I found this nursery, https://californianativeplants.com/, out on the Ortega Highway out of San Juan Capistrano and they have fantastic California natives and knowledgeable staff. They aren't on the list, but they had the correct varieties last time I hit them up. I don't own stock or anything, I just really like it, even though it's a bit of a drive for me. They've set me straight on several things I had been doing wrong.

SoCal here too. A few years ago, the local nursery was giving out milkweed for people to plant in their gardens. We did that, then a couple of years later they apologized because they had given out the wrong type of milkweed, and it was actually worse than not having it at all. Pretty fucked up. Anyway, we used to see a ton of them come through, the last couple of years it seems like I see a couple dozen or so at best.

About time. He should have retired a couple cycles ago, but I think he's like a lot of the geriatric politicians who don't seem to have any other interests in life. I like Bernie. I love his political stances. I voted for him and actually donated to his campaign back when I was still working. His voice is important, but it just seems more and more that his is just one of the few rational voices screaming into the hurricane of oligarchical support and willful, ugly ignorance coming out of DC.

When I was a kid, I got pissed at my dad for something and reset all the stations, thinking it would throw him for a loop. He noticed what I had done almost immediately, fixed them all in about 5-10 seconds and looked at me like I was stupid.

If only voters actually felt that way too.

Triple D.

Freedom's just another word

I used to love going to the theater. I would go almost every weekend, and often during the week. I watched almost everything. Then cell phones came along. At one point, many, many years ago, I swore if some mother fucker took out their fucking phone during the movie I was seeing, I would never set foot in a theater again. Some piece of shit mother fucker did, and I haven't. It's been all the open seas for me since. It also helped that affordable larger screens became available for home. I haven't been to a movie in a theater in probably a decade, and I doubt I'll ever go again.

Slow Horses is so freaking good.

I need to emigrate.

We (in the US) just elected a grifting, criminal "billionaire". I don't think the animosity so loudly and gleefully displayed in the reactions to the murder of this asshole insurance ghoul is representative of a newly heightened consciousness of wealth inequality. I hope that it is the start of something, but I've been disappointed in the public way too many times.

Isn't this basically code-switching, which has been known for a long time?

Having elected a treasonous insurrectionist, in direct violation of the 14th Amendment, made it as clear as day that we are not a nation of laws. If anyone really needed that clarity.