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If that’s wrong, I don’t want to be right.

Probably whatever it is that makes me set off its emergency siren thingy about once every two years. It’s a great way to check heart health, I think. If I don’t have an immediate heart attack from it and die, I’m probably okay.

I think this is the first time I’ve seen you post something that isn’t sexual innuendo.

From what you’ve written, it seems like you’re the only one who wants to do anything to make this work. That…doesn’t work. They have to want to have a better relationship with each other, but it seems like they’re satisfied with just using you as the emotional dumping ground.

I’d suggest they first decide whether they want to be better or not, and if they do, they should work with a professional therapist — someone they pay to help them be better, instead of making all their problems your problem. You should probably be involved there, too, so they can learn to stop doing that.

Possible I suppose, but it’d depend on the public having an attention span substantially longer than evidence suggests.

For sure: House Republicans move to override Trump vetoes in rare show of defiance

Not wild about the style of it; like…I can decide what to care about from the facts, I don’t need the site to tell me why something matters.

House GOP leaders are teeing up a vote Thursday to override the first two vetoes of President Trump’s second term.

Why it matters: It’s unusual for the Republican-led Congress to openly defy Trump.

The measures are expected to pass the House with bipartisan support, two sources told Axios. Given Trump’s vetoes, some Republicans could peel off after initially backing the bills. Overriding the vetoes would require a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate — a rarely met threshold.

Driving the news: Trump rejected a measure to ease payments for a long-planned water pipeline supporting southeastern Colorado and another that would have expanded the Miccosukee Tribe’s reserved area in the Florida Everglades, the White House announced last week.

Both bills cleared Capitol Hill in December with bipartisan support. Politico first reported that the House would vote to override the vetoes. Zoom in: The Miccosukee Tribe has been at odds with the White House over its plans to build its “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention center.

Florida lawmakers in both chambers backed the bill. Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) said it was about “fairness and conservation.” In his veto notice, Trump accused the tribe of obstructing his immigration policies and said the bill benefitted “special interests.”

The water pipeline legislation, championed by Colorado lawmakers, would provide drinking water to communities in southeastern Colorado, according to the Bureau of Reclamation.

But Trump said the bill would “continue the failed policies of the past by forcing Federal taxpayers to bear even more of the massive costs of a local water project.” He added, “Enough is enough.”

What they’re saying: “This isn’t over,” Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), a Trump ally, posted on X after Trump’s veto. The water pipeline project sits in Boebert’s district.

A White House spokesperson referred Axios to Trump’s statement on the veto when asked for comment on Boebert’s statement.

Between the lines: It’s the latest example of Trump’s clashes with MAGA women.

Boebert defied Trump late last year when she became one of four House Republicans to sign a discharge petition forcing a vote on releasing Epstein-related files — despite White House pressure to withdraw her name.

While neither man was thrilled about the prospect of applying for federal funds—they prefer smaller government—they were interested in using solar to cover their own electrical demand.

So they’re fine with it when it benefits them, but “fuck them poors,” I assume.

…yeah I’m trying to imagine a scenario when this would ever happen. I’ve never seen someone try to upsell someone else on coffee before.

On a game’s page, it orders them by most-recent first. There’s also a filter query field at the top, but I’m not sure what the syntax for it is and I can’t seem to find information on that, but at least you’ll automatically see the newest ones first.

Oh wait. Is it the initials? My brain got hung up on using parts of the name.

I’ll bite. What?

Guys, I dunno if you know this, but we could probably have multiple trials simultaneously and speed this all along.

Affected workers say the shutdown has been a continuation of attacks they have experienced under the Trump administration, from mass firings – many of which have been overturned or blocked in federal courts – to drastic budget cuts, pushes to take early retirements or resignation buyouts, and threats of withholding back pay for workers furloughed during the shutdown.

I mean…no?

Is The Count of Monte Cristo really that much better than Robin Hood? I don’t think it should be, but its adaptations hit harder and I think there are more of them.

Speculating here, but maybe the rich people that pay for these adaptations to be produced find it easier to relate to Dantès, who starts poor and ends rich than Loxley (or however they want to spell it this time), who starts as an aristocrat and becomes an outlaw.

Dantès does most of the “work” of the story himself; sometimes he gets a plucky sidekick, depending on the adaptation of the book. Loxley, in almost all of the adaptations I’ve seen, bands together with the common folk and leads them to rise up against oppression inflicted on them by the greed of one or two men.

I’m probably stretching it a bit, but if I was a billionaire deciding what people get to watch, I assume the Count would scare me less than a band of commoners overthrowing their rich oppressors.

Then again, even though I’m common as they come, I’ll admit that I like Dumas’s coherence and Dantès’s complexity more than the looser jumble that comes with the Robin Hood myth. Monte Cristo will probably always be at the top of my list of books to read and reread every couple of years until I’m dead, simply because it has everything for a fun adventure story — a simple guy, the woman he loves, the enemies (and one drunk sot) who betray him, a wise mentor, growth through adversity, revenge, saving your friends from bankruptcy and suicide, helping nice people marry each other, realizing that revenge tends to not limit its damage to the targets you choose, more growth, and…weirdly marrying that nice lady you bought.

Okay, the last thing is a bit odd and Haydée gets left out of some adaptations, which is a bit of a shame, since the scene with Dantès and Mercédès where they realize they’ve become different people than they were when they were in love 800 pages ago, and they’ll never be together and that’s okay, is probably my favorite part in the whole thing. Someday, someone will do that scene well.

kernel-level AC

This sounds like they did you a solid by not working. I’ll have to look up this genre of shooter, though; not something I’ve heard of before. I tend to be too easily annoyed for anything that isn’t single-player or local co-op these days, although some part of me still remembers some MMOs though rose-colored nostalgia glasses.

When the internet was better, sometimes people just made entertaining things for no particular reason.

I keep waiting for the headline to be something like “Vance slammed face-first into the sidewalk by passersby until he stopped twitching,” but I’m always disappointed.

This may be the first time I haven’t fallen into the subset of “everybody.”

Everything I want to play runs using Linux/proton. It seems like the only things that have trouble are things I’d never consider even installing, let alone running.

Every time I think it can’t get more embarrassing, they find an even more cringey way to act.

I liked that one; there were some really funny memes.