xyzzy @ xyzzy @lemm.ee

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Should call it the Punchable Face Club, going by that photo.

There's not. I'm sorry, I've read every link put forth arguing exactly that, and all the "irregularities" are easily explained. There have been hand recounts that validated the results. He won; it's awful, but he won.

I don't normally comment on this kind of thing, but she aged in the last six years or so. She's younger than me but looks about 20 years older in that photo. Maybe it was all the chickens coming home to roost.

Email entitled "moderation" (the email subject includes the quotes around the word) from Bernie Sanders, sent Sunday:

What is “radical” is that we are spending close to one trillion a year on the military, and many billions in weaponry for an extremist Netanyahu government in Israel that has waged a horrific, illegal and immoral war against the people of Gaza.

Where did you go, Arkansas?

Probably just fishing for a handout like they got the first time around. They would still vote him again.

It does, and I have an automatic gas shutoff valve as well (it's gone off once before, which made for a pretty surprising morning shower).

But this is good advice for anyone who lives in a similar area. Don't put yourself in a position where you could lose everything because you were trying to save a few bucks a month.

The sit-in was useful when black people weren't allowed to sit in the whites-only restaurant to eat. Protestors risked jail time and beatings.

The sit-in was useful when black people weren't allowed to sit in the front of the bus. Protestors risked jail time and beatings.

What are Congressional Democrats not allowed to do? Do that instead. Risk something. Literally anything.

[Joe Kasper, Hegseth's soon-to-former chief of staff] reportedly derailed a meeting with a veterans’ group by telling a story about a night out at a Washington, D.C. strip club. He was also said to have begun a meeting by saying, “Can I just tell everyone around this table that I just took an enormous s--t right before coming in here?”

Kasper was a Trump nominee. Only the best people.

Even if they founded it, financial success and being disconnected from the day-to-day work eventually make even the most competent one-time founder delusional and incompetent.

The complexity of how things work calcifies at the time they stopped being hands-on, so they often think everything should be much easier than it is, because they simply don't understand how the company works anymore. International regulation, enterprise contractual requirements, evolution of new standards, etc.

And whatever empathy they might have had before is eradicated by their financial success, which literally affects how their brain works and makes them less empathetic to people less successful than them.

I've worked with both types. They both become the same over time: convergent evolution.

Yes, USD. I bought some fresh food (and do so regularly), but also a ton of non-perishables: lots of canned food, various kinds of rice, cereals, oatmeal, lots of water, etc. Protein and carbs. 48 rolls of toilet paper (I have a bidet so this will last me about two years), and so on.

I'm building up my reserves. I have a large pantry and several large cupboards to keep it all in, and could probably buy another $700 worth and have a place to keep it. I also cook at home for most meals and so I rotate through these food stuffs faster than you'd expect. There's no canned food older than two years, and most items are newer than six months. I generally buy more than I need, but not usually this much.

I'm not a "prepper" in an "underground bunker" sense, but I do prepare for emergencies and instability, whatever form it may take: political, yes, but I also live on several fault lines, so "the big one" might happen at some point. In the winter, ice and snow occasionally confine me to my home for a week or two at a time. They're all the same to me from a planning perspective.

The original price was $850, but I clip coupons and maximize sales and brought it down by over $150.

Let me put it this way. Today I spent over $700 on a massive amount of groceries and various toiletries.

I skimmed a bunch of businesses. From what I saw, most can be broken down into

• Construction
• Automotive
• Beauty
• Insurance

Businesses are run by dictators called CEOs. Why anyone would think a person who has spent their entire career operating as a dictator should lead the entire country is beyond me.

Set a reminder but then my phone was in do not disturb and I forgot. D'oh. Oh well, I can wait.

Totalitarians are thin-skinned and paranoid as a rule.

Why it matters:

It doesn't matter. Don Bacon is not representative of Republicans. He is from a split district that voted for Biden and Harris by about 5 points each.

When they shut down all the asylums 50 years ago, they decided to keep one last one open in DC

This is the setup to a Bond movie

Pacific States of America

I would also accept the answer

California and Cascadia