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English is pretty fluid and acceptable words and definitions morph with time. So in current use, they are pretty much interchangeable, but that still pisses me off. It's a loss of nuance. It's like we are actively dumbing down the language as if Newspeak is a good thing.

Let me take out my cane and say,"Back in my day..."

• Envy: You wish you had something someone else does.
• Jealousy: You worry about losing something you have.

Example: I jealously protect what I have, probably to an unhealthy degree. At the same time, I sure envy that person for having something I wish I had.

Yep. Just supporting my statement.

Time and place. At one time, the conventions were a great place to try to affect policy. Hasn't been like that since..oh... I guess around '80. A little before I became aged enough to vote. Every thing about conventions now are sound and fury, signifying nothing. Protestor efforts there are just wasted effort, or seemingly self-serving attempts to "look at me!! I don't have a lot of respect for people that care more about a religious war that isn't going anywhere, than defeating the fascists at home. I hate the DNC specifically, and most Dems in general, for multiple perceived or real slights on my sense of righteousness. But that's nothing for what I see in that other party.

That said, it just seems like obnoxiously farting on your 30 year old cousin, in a decades long game of fart payback, at a birthday dinner for your 90 year old grandma. Sure, I guess, go ahead and fart at your grandma's birthday, but I'm not going to respect you for it. Even if I would in just about any other situation. Farting on your grandma is probably just going to piss off your family.

Since a rational person wouldn't fart at the party, or try to undermine the Dems so uselessly, it must be some GOP/Russia fuckery. We know people are easily mislead, so it's not a jump to feel bad for these so-called leftists who are perfectly happy trying to undermine the country.

LOL. What a strange, out-of-touch take. You're just proving that person's point.

Property (middle class wealth) is already taxed in my state.

envy and jealousy are supposed to have different meanings, but idiots always use jealous when they mean envious. Annoys the fuck out of me.

I think it was Neal Stephenson's book The Diamond Age that had clouds of nanomachines constantly at war with each other creating a fog of dead and dying machines that people would just walk through pretty much ignoring it. I read that a long freaking time ago, so I'm sure that memory is, to some degree, degraded.

Because the drones are made in China and China wants Russia to genocide so that they can get away with their genocides. It would be nice if we started manufacturing again, but we seem to have trouble getting anything done.

That makes sense. I enjoyed the first Tom Cruz Reacher movie. Then I read a handful of the books, and was just very disappointed in the casting.

I'm not sure that I would want to see it, but I was surprised that True Lies didn't turn into a franchise.

It's probably because I was drunk when I watched Judge Dredd in the theater, but I seem to remember liking Stallone in that. I thought that Dredd was just a worse rip-off of The Raid, but then I read somewhere that they basically co-evolved to a similar thing.

"It's not a right if someone can take it away from you" - George Carlin

It should be though.

Not that kind of mask. From the article, it was a response to masked counter-protestors violently attacking the protestors.

$11.48 to $21.54

Really. THAT is what these environmental disaster ships are bitching about. Good riddance.

who’s in the right

Nobody. That's easy.

I've decided to just ignore battery hype and tune back in when it's time to swap out my house battery in 5-10 years. Hopefully some of the vaporware will have actually materialized in the market by that time.

My symptoms are similar to yours, if not quite so bad. I can't walk more than about 50 yards, or stand for more than 10-15 minutes. I have tried for disability after my physical issues made me quit my job (after a couple of decades being a teacher for the same school district). I moved back in with my parents. Sucks to be in my 50s and stuck like this, but at least I have a roof over my head. I'm in north OC. There is zero help until you run out of all options and all money. It's really fucked up. Good luck.

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/04/1084452251/the-vast-majority-of-states-allow-people-to-be-charged-for-time-behind-bars

I just learned this the other month. It is so fucked up.

I've known many fellow teachers who would get so mad about kids falling asleep in their class. I found that if you just asked the kids what was going on, 90% of the time it was some awful home-life issue. 10% lame teaching.

I'm happy for a new streetcar line that is almost done in my area. My happiness is pretty pathetic and sad.