I had a friend whose family had this thing. It was wild.

Really wondering if we need to show up in DC in January to sort of have our own J6 or keep another one from happening.

This is something happening in my current Stars Without Number campaign and it is wonderful and awful.

There is a strain of manhood in our culture that's just Peter Pan with EDC, cooties & creatine and it is contemptuous. A group of conservative men stunted into a prolonged boyhood. I'm assuming a lot of it is cope; these people are unpleasant and no one wants them.

There is a widespread conspiracy between the government, labor unions and contractors to artificially inflate the price of all transportation infrastructure.

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I have found the police's version of events fishy from the start, despite multiple "exonerations" and heavy praise from the governor. Incredibly frustrating to be told how "heroic" the cops are when they have to psych themselves up to do their damn jobs.

The thing that really messes with me is Bucky Fuller is right there if you want a ‘religion of science’, but these people are too self-absorbed to care about anything but their own success, so they bought the least appealing version of the Rapture since Left Behind.

I had a very similar experience when I purchased a gun. I'm not a gun guy, but I needed some tips on upkeep, cleaning, storage etc. I was bombarded from that point on with ads designed to make me feel scared and paranoid. An industry of vultures just waiting for you.

Political scientists we're so fixated on getting everyone to vote that they never asked if they should.

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When the revolution comes we won't need scientists, economics, data or experts, because everyone will approach the world with clear eyes. We will build iron foundries in our backyards and revolutionary students can take over the work of doctors.

Iain M Banks used it as a plot point in one of his books; aliens come to earth for tourism due to this one unique aspect of our solar system.

When I learned this story years ago I immediately tried to buy a copy of this book, but sadly, I don't have that kind of money. This is absolutely what I would spend my money on though if I was stupidly rich.

I see a lot of young folks at the protests, I imagine one reason campus protesting is smaller right now is because you can go to a No Kings or anti ICE protest right in your community rather than build an encampment on your quad.

100% think that in order to get out of this, the people who voted for it need to be disenfranchised.

It is time to enact voter suppression measures for Republicans, they have demonstrated they are not ready yet for the right to responsibly vote.

I think we should try to persuade 77 million people to never vote again.

Both of my kids have full access to the library through apps and i have no limitations on them. Kids will police themselves. I was a precocious kid and I read way above my age, and I remember quite clearly that when I would accidentally read a book that was too mature for me I'd get bored and quit.

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Me accidentally looking up how river barges worked before engines. Goodbye actual DND game I was working on! I gotta learn about ropes.

Somebody watched full metal jacket without understanding it.

This is all very silly because there is no future for humans in space without revolutionary changes to energy and physics. We will send stuff up to orbit. We will do fun little science experiments, but humans in space will always be a vanity project. It's Starship Earth or nothing.

I went to a Catholic law school and one of the students did a presentation on ending divorce. I asked her some very basic questions like "what if your husband is an addict and he spends all your money" or "what if your husband beats you": she had no answers. Just faith nobody would ever hurt her.

You can't invite someone into your coalition who doesn't want to be in your coalition in the first place. Piker's brand is shitting on Dems, he'd have to give that up if he wanted to be in coalition.

I'm reading Pratchett's City Watch books with my kids, and we appreciate Cmdr. Vimes' wavering, weak but ever present morality. We've also been watching Frieren and I kind of love the character's autistic maternalism. So do my kids.

the conception of money in politics that is and has always been correct is the Liz Warren position that it’s about the money *around* politics more than the money *in* politics, and you won’t find better proof of that than the bought and paid for anti-birthright citizenship faux scholarship

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My wife has the same pedigree as Obama and every time Trump would do that birther stuff, I saw it as a direct attack on her and every other American. My son's biggest fear is that they'll change what an American is, and they'll take his mother away. I will never forgive the people who voted for him

I think a lot of shitty governments have historically managed to turn over the officers though.

The biggest problem Bluesky has is way too many people who live like crabs in barrels. They are profoundly miserable people who in their pain lash out at everyone. Drowning victims often kill their rescuers in their fear and desperation.

I think this is an insane thing to say. Here in MN we passed a conversion therapy ban with support from Republicans! There may be stupid people willing to torture transgender children for an extra vote, but it's immoral and people aren't going to change on that anytime soon.

My DFL caucus was similarly all-in. It's a mainstream opinion here in MN.

It is a feeling of comradery and demoralizing when you meet a fellow Kirkland dressing enthusiast.

We can't even live everywhere on our own planet, a place we explicitly evolved to survive. We cannot live underwater, or on the peaks of the Himalayas or the arctic. We cannot live in Death Valley without trucking. It is pure hubris to try anywhere else before we've mastered that.

I lived on 28th & Humboldt back from '06 to '11 and it is such a different place now. The fun has moved elsewhere.

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I'm generally in favor of nuclear power, but I've watched how it plays out, and the boosters never confront the problems. Where is all the waste in MN? It's either on-site at our plants or it's on 1 Indian reservation. Hmm. "Where will you transport the waste and store it?" remain obstacles!

Amy absolutely believes this shit which is the worst part. She brings up biofuel without anyone asking on the reg, which REALLY sucks when you were asking a question about the environment.

This is one of the things I tell all of the complainers in my real life, if you don't live in NYC or LA, you and five friends can go take over the local senate or house committee in your community this year no problem. It's boring, but you can run your party just by showing up.

I've worked on a number of campaigns and my experience is that every race is unique, every candidate is unique, every constituency is unique and you just have to hope your candidate and strategy gets them where they want to be. I rarely feel like anything we do is "pivotal".

My grandfather was proud of where he came from, the farming culture he grew up in and was so glad his kids and grandkids had more and better options.

There's a new Laundry game that recently finished its Kickstarter as well.

Obama chuckled. "You mean the chaos emeralds?"

Anyone in Minnesota will tell you that this matches the eye test. They are simply grabbing anyone who's not white. Full stop. There is no other strategy to this at all. It's a racist, heinous federal occupation. Dismantle the agencies. Prosecute everyone involved. Redistribute all the funding.

You could view some of the puzzle traps in dungeons as primitive "are you human?" tests. A mindless undead won't be able to match the pattern or find the key, but it will remain accessible to thinking feeling creatures.

"We will abuse you 30% less."