I haven’t traveled nearly enough, but I’d say it’s either Amsterdam, Netherlands, or Barcelona, Spain.
Amsterdam for the freedom and beauty. Barcelona because it’s beautiful and on the beach.
It’s not even a great beach, kinda rocky for my taste, but it’s just such a beautiful city.
A lot of voters didn’t bother voting in the first round, because they knew that it would come down to a second. Brazil has like 20 or so parties, and one has to get over 50% of the votes to win. Just gotta wait for the second round, no point in getting worked up about this one, everyone knew it was going to come down to these two.
It’s indicative of our situation that all republicans have to do is tout some vulnerable minority to be attacked, and their base eats it up.
What troubles me, is that none of these democrats are saying the right thing in response. What they should be saying is this:
You know a lot has been said about trans people in America, but what’s gotten lost is that they’re Americans. They have the right to pursue happiness as they see fit, and as long as they aren’t hurting anybody else, I don’t give a shit what they do, and neither should you. If you’re going to attack and legislatively bind a vulnerable minority population in America, you better have a damn good reason. And “ew! I don’t like it!” - ain’t it.
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NOTHING TO SEE HERE, FOLKS!
TOTALLY NORMAL!
Just the whistleblower connecting the current secretary of commerce to one of the most prolific serial pedophile rapists ever died by “suicide.”
Just like Jean-Luc Brunel, an epstien linked modeling agent who died by “suicide” in a french prison!
Just like Daniel Siad, an epstien linked modeling agent that mysteriously died in France earlier!
Just like Virginia Giuffre, that linked both epstien and prince andrew!
Or even just like when epstien “killed himself,” and the guy that epstien accused of trying to suicide him was also the person that happened to find epstiens “suicide note?”
Nicholas Tartaglione…
Few people had known about the note until Tartaglione, a former police officer serving a life sentence for killing four people, mentioned it last year on writer Jessica Reed Kraus’ podcast.
Tartaglione claimed he discovered the note in a book after Epstein was found on the floor of their cell at a Manhattan federal jail on July 23, 2019, with a strip of bedsheet around the financier’s neck. That was about three weeks before Epstein was found dead in his cell in what authorities concluded was a suicide.
One officer reported at the time that Epstein said he believed Tartaglione had tried to kill him, according to a memo included in the Justice Department’s files.
It is unclear who wrote the note Tartaglione claimed to have found.
GEE! WHAT A WEIRD COINCIDENCE THAT KEEPS HAPPENING
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When I was a kid I often thought about what the future would look like. I did not envision a group of masked goons, being led by a dude on a video call, threatening a pregnant woman to steal unsecured and unrecoverable crypto funds from the digital wallet of a man.
That’s some crazy cyberpunk style bullshit right there. That’s some serious “right before society fails and all the lights go out” bullshit right there.
you just reach like 1 or 2 fingers, about half and inch past where your balls end, push up a bit, it can be done inconspicuously. I do it every time now out of habit.
This random addition stood out to me
Phil Plummer — who was then Montgomery County Sheriff — to enter politics.
“My jail was 40% drug addicts, 50% mental health patients, 10% criminals,” said Plummer, who has been a Republican state representative since 2019. “We got it upside down — that’s what drove me to the state house.”
Plummer, the Montgomery County Republican chairman, is now on the ballot for the Ohio state Senate and stressed that Trump has been what keeps the GOP’s coalition of businesses and working-class families together.
How can you look at a jail, full of untreated mental illness (addiction is a mental illness), and think "we just need even more regressive policies! Wouldn’t wanna vote for universal healthcare and more mental counseling! Nope! Gimme those draconian puritanical laws that trap vulnerable abused people in a cycle of poverty and crime! Yee-Haw!
The other day I wanted to watch a fun animated movie, and found that I’d never seen a Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles movie that came out in 2007. Downloaded, put it on… and immediately greeted by the weinstien logo… then they had not one but TWO different Asian actors doing lines in the “broken Chinese accent.” Kinda ruined the whole movie for me.
And therein lies the true difference between republicans and democrats. One would kill an innocent person just to make sure the other guilty people suffered. Just like they would kill food stamps for hundreds of thousands, just to make sure one person didn’t get more than they “deserved.” Just like they would deport millions of innocent hard working people just to make sure a few criminals go along with them.
They’re comfortable hurting and taking innocent lives, because all of their moral/political values are rooted in hatred, fear, and spite.
Like a bomb calorimeter? We could find out how many calories in each person as they go!
I think my depression is getting worse. I suffered a humiliating rejection recently. Took time off work, paid a bunch of money to travel across the country to meet a woman whom I thought was going to be my next wife. We had talked for months, some really deep stuff, we seemed like a perfect match. I get there, and she reveals that actually, she has 4 kids, two different dead-beat baby-daddies, and chlamydia.
I took PTO. Week off work. over a thousand dollars on air travel, lodging, and a rental car.
It’s been a few weeks and I still feel awful. The other day in my sacred space, the gym, I thought about killing myself when I should have been at the height of an exercise-induced dopamine rush.
This is my favorite time of the year, fall, Halloween, candy. But I can’t enjoy any of it. The only feeling I have is dread. For another holiday season, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, all spent alone. If I make it to next year it’ll be a miracle. I think I need to find a good in-person AA meeting or something.
Sometimes I feel like I’m just not good enough, ya’ know? That whatever I do, I’ll just never be as good as someone else doing it, so why try?
Then today I learned about a bunch of people, so unbelievably, laughably stupid, that they drink their own aged urine.
It doesn’t make me feel better about myself, but it sure lowers my opinion about the average stranger.
What’s the word under “Pumpkin?” this is AI isn’t it
Sounds like the village of Hinderstap from The Wheel of Time series
The “TAK-a-ta’s” are both super helpful and oddly reminiscent of Lisa Simpson learning how to dance “Tap-a Tap-a Tap-a!”
This is, at first glance, just an idyllic outdoor dinner scene. A man presides over the table, giving a toast. A decadent lobster feast attended by seemingly wealthy, privileged people. Then you turn your attention to the left, the chair is slightly upturned. Is it the occupant leaning, or is something pushing it upwards? The man in that disturbed chair, what does his armband signify?
There are red splotches on the toasting mans arm, and the lady in the sunhat’s chest. This is from the sun shining through the wine glasses. But there’s another bit of red, a dot underneath the far mans disturbed chair. What is the source of this redness? A warning light perhaps? The initial stage of an explosion?
Look at the woman in the pink dress, she’s the only one who’s attention is not on the toaster. What is she looking at?
An interesting piece.