And Dems decided to vote in bipartisan fashion to increase ICE’s fascist funding.

Especially the Bear Jew.

I see an opportunity there for a mountain climbing club.

But I take your point.

I think Jameis Winston may have him beat in gooberism.

But I’m not wrong. Allen is great in the regular season. Dog shit in the post-season. That’s the Philip Rivers mold.

VPN 100%

I don’t leave home without it. :)

In a way, it’s kind of appropriate.

Josh Allen is the Philip Rivers of his generation.

That is one impressively-sized pile of steaming mediocrity.

This is true.

I had to re-learn how to pirate music when I decided to quit Spotify. (FYI, by using tools that rip audio from Youtube videos.)

Yeah he is. Warm and well-dressed. That’s a good boy right there.

I have no doubt of that.

My anxiety is a bitch but I have good coping strategies and am mostly able to live with it.

if you have a car, lift up the windshield wipers before it starts snowing/freezing rain

I’d say spend the $10-$20 and get a windshield cover. It will change your life, never having to scrape again.

Speed up before going up an incline, getting stuck and sliding back down is not fun

Do not stop on an incline either. If there’s a red light, run it. (safely of course.)

I do miss the version of me that didn’t have a constant undercurrent of dread reverberating throughout the day. Every day.

I guess watching ICE beat up a senator on live TV wasn’t enough for these dumb motherfuckers to pick a side.

I don’t use LLMs for anything creative for the express purpose of avoiding generic tone, haha.

“Social permission” is one term for it.

Most people don’t realize this is happening until it hits their electric bills. Microslop isn’t permitted to steal from us. They’re just literal thieves and it takes time for the law to catch up.

This meme is so dishonest, at least in the context of immigration.

The promise made was the mass deportation of criminal immigrants. What is happening is state-sponsored domestic terrorism, targeting of legal immigrants, and the wholesale disruption of communities.

What’s happening is not what people voted for, and they have every right to be pissed. (Which, judging by the 2025 elections, they very much are.)

And those of you who are ignoring these distinctions really need to STFU.

As if we weren’t going to figure out how shitty LLM’s are organically.

The first half of 2008 was okay. I was a year into having my own place, was dating a lot, and traveling multiple times a year. Going on your first solo vacations as a young adult is a pretty dang cool thing.

I was still new in my career and was building my adult life. I had a job lined up in Chicago, but it was with a financial company, and the collapse of Bear Stearns, Lehman, and the whole economy got the offer pulled that September.

I remember being very excited for the election. I actually got to go see Michelle Obama give a speech in the jazz district here in Kansas City, and the line to see Barack Obama speak at his Liberty Memorial campaign stop was so long they had to cut it off for security reasons. We sat on one of the hills and listened to the speech, and he was elected by a large margin.

In hindsight, 2008 was the last year I had any real hope for the future.

Obama was supposed to be the Anti-Dubya, but he turned out to be a conservative fascist too. The banks were rewarded with bailouts and bonuses for crashing the economy, and to this day, only one person’s gone to prison for it. I now just assume each new year will be incrementally worse than the last, which while bad for my mental health, has been great for my financial planning.

A real civil war wouldn’t last longer than three weeks here in the US. A small group of whacked-out people love the idea of it, but they certainly have not thought it through. It’s just a fun thought for them because they have never cracked open a history book and don’t have any real perspective regarding what war actually means.

This is the country that couldn’t go three weeks without a haircut or toilet paper in 2020. People would walk into their first empty grocery store, toting their big impressive AR-15 rifles, and then demand that the war be ended.

are they being deployed state after state or something ?

Only a handful of cities, but their funding is something like $60 billion dollars, the equivalent of two or three branches of our military combined. I don’t think ICE has the staff to go after whole states at this point, because there are many stories in the media that seem to indicate they are hiring every stupid motherfucker who puts in an application. They send a ton of people to small geographical areas so that, theatrically, it appears that they are more powerful and numerous than they really are.

There are various means of resistance happening in local communities. Here in Kansas City, Missouri, for example, our city council just banned ICE from receiving an permits or zoning for mass detention facilities here in our city.