It’s funny because in the early 00s I worked for a gay rights organization and was told pretty flat out, the FBI keeps at least a list with my name on it, if not my own file (holdover from the civil rights era when they did this to all progressive groups). And then Obama came along and we thought a new era was being ushered in. And now in 2025 I run a gay nonprofit and probably have an FBI file again. Oh well, means I’m doing something right, fuck 'em.
I assure you it’s been a topic in their house, especially since they use those front gates to receive people in tuxes and ballgowns.
Also people use the light poles across the street to post nasty paper memes about Sarah, sometimes they get left up for weeks because they’re angled so the staff can’t see them.
We’re neighbors with Sarah Huckabee Sanders and lots of folks let their dogs use the lawn outside her gates as a toilet - and I’m not saying I have encouraged my dog, or taken photos of it, or made it my Christmas card last year - but it’s been a topic, “should we all be letting our dogs shit on her lawn, since her lawn crew cleans it up?” Yeah, we should. But it was a good thought exercise.
Back then (I worked there briefly back then) you still understood that if you dwelt on the texture or taste too long, it’d start to ruin the whole thing, so you mentally checked out while you ate it. The pickles helped, they would load it with dill pickles. Last time I had one it was so plain, the yoga mat/foam extruded texture was on full display, I threw it away after a few bites.
Finally I stopped eating McD’s entirely, I’m not going to pay through the nose for food that’s killing me anyway. Once a month the fry craving hits and I just ride it out, it passes fast. I’m not kidding. I’m in recovery from meth and alcohol, and these hyper-processed food cravings hit the same way drug cravings do.
Trump is trying to invalidate Biden’s pardons, despite that being clearly impossible. If he does pull it off, well, we can invalidate all of his as well.
I’m in a backass hillbilly state but I just made an appointment at the DMV and then had to wait all of 5 minutes when I got there. But, then they tried to argue every single piece of paper I brought which involved calls to supervisors so it wound up being a 40 minute ordeal. I swear they don’t want you to actually get it.
We were raised with “pride,” not necessarily racially or ethnocentric, but a broader sense that transcended such boundaries. I grew up in the 80s-90s in the midwest, and we were taught America was a “melting pot” of cultures, ideas, and races, and that we should look forward to a time when whites are not the majority because the lines will fall away, the average color will be brown as we all mix over the next generations, giving us less reason to fight. And we should look forward to it, because that’s been our story so far - broken, impoverished immigrants came here looking for opportunity, and found it through hard work and smart thinking, and then became a part of our shared tapestry. We were taught to be proud of this, that we were stewards of this tradition in the best, most advanced country in the world.
And now, well. The basest instincts of people have been brought to the surface and America now stands as an openly white nationalist, isolationist, fascist-tinged autocracy where the ideals I grew up with seem long antiquated.
So yeah hard not to feel ashamed of what’s happened to our shared identity in just a few decades.
That article was about Australia and even then the headline didn’t support the claims. Millennials have always been like 14 points more liberal than Gen X before them, but they haven’t moved more liberal over time.
Yeah this is what they said would happen, shocker. He oversaw a shrinkage of blue collar jobs his first term too. He’s probably the most anti-middle-class president ever.
I became a dad at 43, not what I expected, and it is softening me in ways I always hoped for, and never thought I’d see. My family’s rage problem has to stop with me, he can’t see it.
We are in for it now. Public heath has always ben a sisyphean task. Interrupt it and you lose ground immediately and constantly until you go backstop the fall. Which is to say, we’re in for it.
'Twas many years ago and the ensuing drama from being caught and him being left behind while the rest of his immediate family went back to Michigan, well, it’s not a particularly jerkable memory.
I mean IDK if you’re both guys and you’re second cousins I heard it doesn’t even count and he agrees
Growing up poor in the 80s/90s Nike was a hated symbol, there was no chance I’d get anything beyond walmart brands, if new was even an option. So I learned to hate these symbols, but Nike chief among them. Today it’s funny but I can’t bring myself to buy it even tho it’s a much cheaper brand.
They experience neither highs nor lows so it makes sense
The oldest Millennials are about 43 right now, “over the hill” and it hurts, it hurts (mostly lower back and knees)
My dog and I mostly have normal conversations but sometimes he gets in moods and is just goofy.
Interesting, seems like a big leap of faith for new builds but it makes sense if you assume you’ll always have the building, and this technology will always be alive.
They make whole building lighting that runs off PoE. I’ve never seen it deployed, I don’t know why one WOULD do such a thing, but it always makes my head spin when I remember it exists.
Yeah their sales are being buoyed by six-figure income folks, who now see it as a value to eat there.