As a thought experiment, it’s somewhat fascinating to ask what “social media” has done. I don’t really consider anything past MySpace truly social. The term now means “let’s keep you addicted to posts from people you’ll never meet” – essentially, the modern form of checkstand tabloids.

I pulled a U-Haul trailer with my Civic from Virginia to Oregon. Only took 2½ days, though the final few hours were harrowing. Maps back then didn’t so much express topography, so the trailer was actually pushing me down … I likely went through a year of brake pads in six hours.

Those questions are answered here.

Growing up in Phoenix, the national ads in the '80s that breathlessly noted “comes with air conditioning” was like … how could you sell a car that doesn’t have that?

Boomers fucking know that once they age out, things go totally different. Let people who can’t afford housing run the country, and we will see significant change.

I don’t see Durbin as one of the pressing problems. Term limits are the issue.

It’s almost like consumers want inclusivity.

ETA: That’s a hell of a lede.

Thank god I was sitting down for this news. I can’t imagine the GOP giving a flying fuck about Jews. It’s just lip service.

I was being a fucking idiot. Simple as that.

Yep, I fucked up. Apologies.

Wikipedia can be wrong. The GOP controls the Senate, meaning Grassley can’t be chair. Let’s please not claim things that aren’t true.

Grassley is the ranking member of Judiciary. He’s not the chair.

I sincerely question whether your standard ChatGPT user knows what a Domme actually is. You don’t get that from movie descriptions. You get something – but nothing approaching BDSM best practices.

Mace just comes across as a cunt here. I know little about her, but this was unnecessary escalation. Being needlessly provocative is not a great look for a representative. What was that guy doing other than pointing out her inability to represent constituents?

I have some experience making them feel better.

“I’ll take ‘shit we already knew for 800, Alex.’”

That’s one of the things that confuses the fuck out of me. Why is Trump wholesale pulling us out of the international economy that we created? You can’t just say “China bad” when we literally set the stage for this by moving production to China.

I see no outcome where a new administration snaps trading partners back to thinking we’re reliable. Trump has singlehandedly caused the collapse of U.S. hegemony under the guise of checks notes making us great again.

We’re a failed state. But at least we got some red hats out of China first.

That is some excessively long hair.

CRUSHER: If there’s nothing wrong with me, maybe there’s something wrong with the universe. Computer, what is beyond the mass energy field?

Despite most people just wanting a good life and to help their neighbours. It’s nauseating, but the people in power have never represented the people I interact with daily.

I don’t believe most Americans are immoral. Granted, I wasn’t around for the 18th and 19th centuries, which is one hell of an asterisk, but we ever-so-slowly course corrected. And then the government went for global hegemony, which no one was asking for.