Brotip: The Depot isn’t even cheap, it’s just bad. At least in my region, framing lumber from small-time lumber yards is like 2-4% cheaper than the same stuff at a Home Depot or Lowe’s, while simultaneously being considerably better stock. I get custom orders like doors and windows faster and cheaper too. I saved a couple hundred bucks on a flooring project by skipping the Depot a few weeks back.
Fuck the box stores. Slow, expensive, and bad. They have nothing left but brand recognition.
I think I kinda did ten or fifteen years ago, but I’m a bear/dad now and I’m much more into rugged women than rugged men. My taste in men runs twink-ish, usually.
My wife has aged similarly though, which very much works for me.
It’d be absolutely grand if it weren’t for the collapse of democracy. There really are a lot of things coming together for me right now and I’d be so happy if I weren’t worrying about having to flee the country.
Oh thank the gods, that would have been awful
A big poll came out last week placing her dead last for retaining her own seat, then the best-polling Republican announced he wasn’t going to run, and we haven’t even gotten the empty shelves yet. I’m not getting my hopes too high, but this could be a rat jumping ship. She could even be playing the contrarian game again, refusing to tow the party line unless it concedes stuff to her, but this time dragging the party towards sanity so she can keep being a representative.
The president’s senility is becoming impossible to conceal. That could be a factor too. If he displays undeniable weakness to his base, the coup is dead, and we’re at a point where the last barrier to that is Fox refusing to show it, which is not a perfect seal.
If Borderlands 2 is available in that library, I can assure you it has really held up to the test of time.
Boy in skirt. Often a half-closeted trans woman, but not necessarily so.
The peaceful protests are more of a gathering point than the whole solution. You gotta show up to the convention first if you want to be invited to a cosplay orgy or find that guy with the good LSD again, so to speak.
I’ve got two trans friends who are a lot younger than me and they’ve both called me dad at this point, which I’ve been thriving on. I’m teaching one to drive, and I’m helping the other fix her house up. Feels good man.
This has given me the somewhat unique experience of knowing how it feels when your kids are in danger without technically having any kids. I do NOT like this. I’ve cried, screamed, panicked, and lost sleep. I’m getting a lot of relief from protesting and fighting back, but it hurts a lot.
Getting out to protests helps a LOT with the doom. And if you print out some flyers for the General Strike to hand out, you can help halt this shit in a clear and tangible way. Keep your internal narrative about your next move, not theirs.
Four hundred no-comment answers there my dude, and considerably more yes than no. We need to operate under the assumption that Congress won’t save us, but this doesn’t mean they won’t. That many Republicans not saying no either means the question didn’t reach many of them, or Trump’s actually in deep shit.
There are ways that tariffs can be used to protect domestic industries. But when they’re done that way, it’s normally specific products, implemented carefully and with some warning. I’m pretty sure there are some tariffs to protect American automakers, off the top of my head.
What the president did is just economic suicide. Sudden, huge, fairly indiscriminate, and fluctuating. I think his goal, in his mind, may have been to replace the income tax, but he really fumbled. And that’s a bad idea anyway, because tariffs and sales taxes hit the middle class hardest, which slows down the economy.
There may also be an explanation that he really doesn’t understand cooperation and believes every deal has a winner and a loser. And then very mistakenly concluded that we were the losers in international trade because of our trade deficit. That’s incorrect. We get large amounts of goods and resources for small amounts of fiat currency, which we always seem to have more of. Our trade deficit considerably improves our quality of life in ways that cannot be replicated by an insular economy.
Well, the assholes in charge over here dismantled FEMA, a national disaster relief organization. And there are some pretty Republican regions that regularly need its assistance from hurricanes and other weather disasters.
I got a hefty stockpile of food. Probably gonna grab some extras of random consumables in the next couple days. Maybe an extra kilo of 3D printer filament mostly just for fun but also in case I need some random plastic whosywhatsit that can’t be found any more.
2 is definitely the best-machined. Quality manufacturing right there.
Then whyyyyy did he work so damn hard to sink us? Fucking idiot. No matter what happens, even if I hear about it in a Salvadoran labor prison, if he kills himself, it’ll be a good day.
Does “The author has a domme kink” even count?
Yes, there are enough people walking on it to just kill the grass. No further effort is needed to form the pathway. Many wild animals make paths by walking on them a lot too.
Nah, it’s like a multi-tool situation. Does every kind of sexual but isn’t very good at any of them.