My internal ChatGPT is so advanced that it activates without me prompting it first. It’ll just randomly be like, “I want a sandwich.” How did it know I was hungry?!

Just tell her that her family believes in stupid magic bullshit. No need to sugar-coat anything with these people. Remember that they vote to take away your freedom every chance they get.

Controversies surrounding the fair included a Confederate Flag hanging in the North Carolina booth

Great job, North Carolina. We appreciate you letting us know in no uncertain terms to avoid you when planning to travel. Too bad, cause it’s a beautiful part of the country.

The screengrab came from a website called Daily News Reported, which describes itself as “a fabricated satirical newspaper and comedy website.”

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-lets-go-brandon-gay-porn-star-beat-35-neo-nazis-1754545

Stupid mother fuckers (the scientific term) are rarely aware of the negative impact they have on those around them. Case-in-point: some lady at a green light just turned her hazards on and sat there blocking traffic for some unknown reason when we were coming home today. She’s way-too checked out to actually think about the people inconvenienced by her behavior or she’d be too horrified by what others thought to do so. I mean, some people are genuinely uncaring about others, but I think the majority don’t think past their own action rather than being sociopaths. They just aren’t thoughtful people.

Yeah… and a majority of the country didn’t want war with Iran or genocide in Gaza. What we want doesn’t matter.

Democratic Party leadership has largely downplayed the idea of impeaching the president should they win in the midterms.

And this might be the key to Socialist and Progressive candidates replicating the New York sweep to (finally) retire old-guard center-right Dems. They want the status quo. The people want something new. I can only hope.

Pay for independently-developed software if you care about it continuing to exist. Steal from corporations all you want. But support independent devs (and small teams) to make sure they can keep maintaining the tools you love and rely on. It’s the only way to not get swallowed by the big dogs.

Fight fight fight!

We can have a UFC match at the white house. It’ll be awesome. Wait…

I don’t recall what podcast, but I was listening to something about the first military academy in the USA that admitted women and how horribly they were abused. Fucking shit.

I’m so grateful that my mother wasn’t a piece of shit. I mean, she has her faults. She voted for the shitbird three times, thus ending our relationship (I won’t speak to her because of it), but she really tried. She wasn’t abusive. She sucked and piled on baggage from her own bs, but it wasn’t really her fault; she just had shortcomings.

Meanwhile, I watch bodycam videos on youtube and feel horrible for some children. Thanks, Mom!

It has to be a consistent practice for it to work, but it does work. Start each day (or early in the day do this) by thinking of three things for which you’re grateful. They don’t have to be profound. Example:

1. Got beers with buddy before his family takes a month-long vacay
2. An app that I like recently released a new version with enhancements and new features
3. Building mgmt offered some free rent for lease renewals during the same time we’d be renewing anyway

Try it. It works. But it took a fair amount of time to feel natural and easy, at least for me.

Congrats! I got rid of my car after realizing I hadn’t driven in close to a year. I’ve since bought one again because the pan left me badly exposed (lived alone at the time) but it only gets driven rarely.

From the time of the Natufians, beginning around 13100 BC , up to the Early Bronze Age IIb around 3200 BC, there are only a handful of violent deaths indicated by skeletal remains:

Guess the Bronze Age Collapse never happened. The Sea Peoples never swept through coastal cities raiding and plundering in the Mediterranean. Egypt and Assyria never dominated their neighbors. All those books I read were wrong. Even in Egyptian tombs, the extensive records of wars are all wrong.

Listen up. New information. All reports of societies duking it out in ancient history didn’t happen. It’s time to realign our understanding of human nature. War is a modern concept. In fact, I’m gonna go even further and declare that until the USA and our genocidal partner attacked Iran this year, there had never been a war EVER. Tell your friends.

The best reason to have children is for the free labor on your farm. Don’t live on a farm? Force them to make shit you can sell on Etsy. Gotta make a profit somehow.

It subsequently emerged the inquiry was sealed by a court order, theoretically constraining Patel from publicly disclosing it.

[…]

Patel has previously invoked court orders sealing grand jury testimony as justification for the FBI’s inability to release many of its files on Jeffrey Epstein.

There’s no contradiction here. Everyone should move along.

I never heard of this. Not at an age where this affects me anymore, but cool if true. Meanwhile, I will poor shots in shot glasses if we have company and just down my liquor without measuring otherwise.

Changing where you live can really reverse what you’re describing, but I know that’s not always realistic. I live in the Bay Area and I’m middle-aged. The dating pool is full of people who my values and who like doing stuff I’m into, like going to live music and rocking out. Less than with younger people, but that’s about stamina more than interests.

If I lived in the midwest, where my family all live, there’d be nothing. Conservative bland bullshit. Dunno where you live, but something to consider.

What a shame… /s

I have a better example. Someone who didn’t do it to herself. Here’s someone who lost even more and it wasn’t her own fault.

A religious hospital refused critical ectopic pregnancy care. Now the patient is suing.

Fuck that maga piece of shit. I won’t be sad when she dies.