Back in the day when camping wasn’t just condos on wheels; when the best a poor man could hope for was a pop-up tent trailer in a campsite with a picnic table and one of those swiveling barbecues on a post, Instant coffee was my jam.

Early morning. Mist from the lake still not fully burned off. No constant background hum from power lines. Just me, getting the barbecue fire started while drinking my cup of instant coffee that I made with my portable kettle that plugs into my trucks cigarette lighter port.

Instant coffee will always be special to me.

Called it.

The moment I saw an example of how it tended to shrink the size of North America on the map, I KNEW is be waking up to a story about the Cheeto administration having a problem with it.

Imajica by Clive Barker flipped a switch in my (then) teenage brain making me understand that “fantasy” books don’t need to have swords, wizards, and all the other tropes. That the idea of “fantasy” as a genre is far far richer than I imagined.

It’s not even about “spending your own resources on others”. Its about where the government spends YOUR money.

If I pay $100 dollars in income tax (for example), is the government spending that $100 dollars on MY healthcare, MY roads, MY sewage and water lines, MY roads.

Or is the government handing my $100 dollars off to private contracts who are then profit motivated to spend only $20 dollars providing those services so that they can keep as much of it as possible?

Socialism isn’t “free stuff” or directly paying for other peoples stuff. It’s about making sure the tax dollars are spent on US. When that happens, a surplus results that allows us to help others who are struggling.

Politically there’s always a bunch of conspiracies. I don’t really know to much about that. All I know is that he was a pretty rabid horn-dog.

There is no doubt in my mind that JFK would definitely be in the epstein files…

Fair enough. But too many people think privacy and security are the same thing.

GrapheneOS is dedicated to both privacy and security, whereas e/os (while it does have some security improvements over stock android) is much more focused on the privacy side of things.

Are they a misogynist? Are they racist? Are they hateful? Are they classist? Are they kind? Are they empathic?

I’m guessing if they’re getting their hygiene tips from the man-o-sphere about things like pheremones, etc… they’re likely also going to be all of the above (except the last one).

Bruce

I was wondering when someone would finally get around to making a youtube video about my ex-wife.

Insert sad incredible hulk theme.

Gotta be Hyenas

A.I. just loves using that exaggerated DoF bullshit.

Those treaties make absolutely no mention of ship transit between Lake Erie and Lake “America”. Sure they can’t transit tax american ships between Erie and Ontario. But they sure as shit can tax between Erie and “America”.

Easy solution: There is a new transit-tax on any shipping travelling between Lake Erie and Lake America via the Welland Canal. There is however, NO transit tax on any shipping travelling between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario via the Welland Canal.

Fill out your paperwork accordingly.

Completely disagree. Even if your working and don’t have “summers off” like you used too. Summer time weekends heading to the lake, going outdoors for a hike or a picnic. Just generally having the sunshine on you is still far far far better than a winter world that becomes black and white for a few months.

If summer wasn’t better than winter in pretty much every way, S.A.D. (seasonal affective disorder) would be most common in summer instead of winter.

Sad that OSX is taking the lions share of that drop, but it’s better than nothing, I suppose. One battle at a time. One tiger at a time.

morals. Ethics. Basic human decency…

John Heard too. But that was all the way in 2017. Might have been Trump’s first exchange.

Catherine O’Hara.