Also apparently the kid asked the fat guy for the bike in the first place, but said the fat guy had to say it was a gift because the kid has a fragile ego.

I didn’t know about this until your comment, but holy fuck. It appears they’ve been having an affair since at least 2020.

No wonder her husband hates her.

If we’re following the letter of the title, that dude isn’t looking at me at all while she shits out of her mouth. He’s trying to telekinetically make her bleed from her ears with the power of disgust.

I could tolerate a guy that hangs around me and just absolutely expresses raw unfiltered hate at the stupid bullshit others say. Heck, becoming known as the guy with an entourage that projects menace toward stupidity might actually make my existence more peaceful.

For the U.S., the decisive blow came with the Citizens United ruling, although it’s not unreasonable to suggest the refusal to punish Nixon during watergate signaled that the rule of law was merely a suggestion. That kicked off a whole cascade of political and legal maneuvering to get both the legislative and societal landscape into such a contortion that it would willingly hand away the entire nation to vulture-capitalists.

Because they don’t believe in choice, freedom, or even democracy. They merely support the ideal and facilitate the illusion.

Anything that empowers voters to either dilute the two-party hegemony (where both parties are accountable to the same pool of donors) or elect party members that haven’t been carefully vetted by insiders is a threat to entrenched power structures. Adding roadblocks now ensures that transitions to better systems are made that much more challenging via peaceful and lawful means.

Perhaps in civilized countries it will be used that way.

But for others the appeal of slave labor, political donations, and bloodlust as justice is too strong.

brb, adding “Attempting to overthrow the government so badly I get shot” to the list of ways I can ensure my family’s financial future.

Oh, no! It’s not just harassment!

You can destroy someone’s life and livelihood because you think they’re gay!

Getting fired from a job at a time when the federal gov is actively cutting social supports, and intentionally driving the economy to ruin when most U.S. citizens have meager savings (if any), and are dependent on employer provided health care is an instant path to free fall for most people! Unless those peasants have family that is willing and able to support them, or a high demand skill that will overlook a recent firing (an automatic D/Q on most HR systems), they are going to lose their ability to feed themselves, pay for their housing, and their transportation in this car-poisoned society.

It’s not merely a little ‘fuck you’ but you can end their relationships, destroy their health, prevent them from working in their chosen field, and make them die on the streets! Even barring the most extreme outcomes, the health and financial implications from the stress or loss of income can permanently adjust the trajectory of their life (and the life of everyone that is close to or dependent on them) downward.

Exciting times for soulless bigots!

I don’t disagree that there is a strategy of downplaying not just Biden’s, but every politician’s health conditions.

I used to have this absolutely incredible writing professor, who, at 85, told us on the first day of class that he was dying, and had been for 4 years. He even had a blog about his reflections on mortality that he invited us to read. He had prostate cancer. I don’t remember the details, but they couldn’t operate to remove it or do chemo, but it was the kind that is hormone sensitive. They gave him a drug that destroyed his body’s ability to produce testosterone, so the cancer just stopped growing. He died at 90 - 9 years after his diagnosis. 10% extra life for him.

No two people and prognosis’ are alike but the possibility exists they might be telling the truth about managing it.

Sadly, they aren’t misusing the words because they’re stupid. They’re misusing the words because when the words are applied to them, they can claim the words are meaningless. Just like they did with all the accusations about Hillary in his first term, about Biden during Biden’s presidency, and now about anyone else.

I have no idea how Icelandic folks feel about it, but while there on vacation my wife and I loved it.

Pretty young by vampire standards, thb.

Loss of the dollar as the world reserve currency, and hyperinflation go BRRRRR.

Seeing headlines before reading the articles, I thought “could they be growing a conscience?”

Silly, silly me.

For high steaks work, trust A1.

No, as non-experts, we must dismiss the knowledge of experts because their approach is not non-magical pseudoscience bullshit that consists mostly of evocative imagery.

I don’t need no boring particle accelerator! I want an atom smasher that’s been combined with cutting edge AI and the latest in superconducting magnet technology to tame matter down to the subatomic level so it can shoot a laser made of protons into radioactive materials to fundamentally alter its elemental properties so it no longer emits _{(as much)} radiation!

I wonder how Jill is doing.

I had a threesome with an HR lady! Her hair is purple and she has a polyamory infinity symbol wrapped by bands around her wrist in the colors of the bisexual flag.
She’s a cool lady. Great friend and hates being a tool for the man. She’s cool people’s version of Ron Swanson.

Yeah. I’ve been trying to ‘pick my battles’ more carefully, as it were.
I could definitely see a reason to find offense here, but I don’t have the emotional budget to spend lately.

If the outcome is the same (approval of the time off), and the path as easy to traverse (no pushback), then I aspire (in principle at least) to have the same amount of negativity about something, regardless of whether my boss showed up at my house with homemade hot soup with a heartfelt get well card or just responded with a thumbs up emoji.

I string together way too many words, edit them, add more words, edit them, add more words, get frustrated with myself, edit the thing, then send it off in a huff and realize I accidentally a word or failed to connect two concepts that were clearly connected at some point, but now my whole email is a conceptual and linguistic mess just like this sentence.