slingstone @ slingstone @lemmy.world

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Being one of the lesser-endowed, I'll allow it.

As a South Carolinian, I'm afraid for my mixed race family. I'm going to be getting my son a passport (my wife and I already have ours) and I'm seriously considering fleeing the country if the Confederacy rises again. I will not live in a nation where my wife and son may not be considered equal. I've lived here my whole life, and I used to think we were past all the racism and stuff like the Klan. The last 8 years have shown me how wrong I was. I've lost a lot of former friends to this, and I'm ready to go back to living somewhere I don't have to worry about basic human rights, democracy, and the basic decency of my neighbors.

This is the correct answer.

I heard the song in my head.

Anyone remember light pickups? I had one of the last Nissan hardbody trucks, and I loved that darned thing. I abused the heck out of it and it lasted forever. There's nothing really like it now. Supposedly the rebooted Toyota Stout will be in this range, but I suspect it won't really be the same kind of truck.

On those funky Coke machines in some restaurants, there was an option to get Raspberry Coke Zero for a long time. I grew to love it. Now it looks like they're taking it away in most places.

Six figure incomes may not be as impressive as they once were, sure, but many of us may never make that much. Don't downplay it. This is still a great accomplishment, and you are rightfully proud. I hope you are able to enjoy it. Remember, you work to live, not live to work. Vacation days and other benefits are part of your total compensation, and none of it matters a whit unless you use all of your salary and benefits on things that make you and the people you care about happy and healthy.

Keep up the good work!

I love Pizza Hut. Please don't kill me.

Yeah, but the changes to weather patterns will vary from location to location, right?

This is what I mean:

Warming is already occurring in all areas of the globe, but models of future temperatures show that the changes will not be distributed equally. Polar regions and land areas are expected to see the largest temperature changes.

IPCC Working Group I, 2021

Is there any resource for forecasting what will likely occur in a given area? I don't see how we can stop climate change now, so I want to prepare my family for it.

I enjoy Sam's Club's "Scan and Go" feature in their app. I scan my items and pay in the app. I never have to interact with a soul, and that's peachy keen in my book.

I love Auralnauts so much! Aside from the Star Wars stuff, I really like Fictional Fight Commentary and the infomercial stuff.

I'm sorry I ever let mine go. It was a great emulation platform, and I ran all kinds of retro games on it. I also miss Skies of Arcadia, which I've always felt was underrated.

I read the "your" as singular at first, raising the troubling specter of people having their multiple asses cleaned. If it weren't for an ancient South Park reference with Dr. Mephisto's multi-assed mutants, I think I'd be worried about how my mind works. Maybe I should be, anyway.

Is House Craftsman like the Reynes of Castemere or something?

Edit: sorry, wrong fantasy world...

No, not really. I definitely didn't watch episodes 310 and 311 (the two-part Post Covid special), which prompted me to make this reference.

You mean Victor Chaos, the NFT guy? I heard he was in the hospital.

I used to love the lore of Steve Jackson Games a lot more than the actual games for this very reason.

The high level of sheer incompetence at all levels, but especially in management. I'm lucky to work with competent folks directly, but the sheer amount of work created by stupidity outside of my department is soul-crushing. I can present definitive proof of systemic failures all day long, and no one is interested in doing a damned thing if the people or departments in question are politically powerful within the organization. Neither I nor my immediate colleagues are perfect, but we acknowledge our failures and try to create solutions. So many others, though, seem so invested in the status quo beyond all reason.

I'm just continuing the bit (badly, admittedly, since I didn't get the exact quote right). That's the next thing the character says, more or less, though. In case you don't realize, all this stuff about the moon being made of spare ribs is a bit from Saturday Night Live.