For anyone out there who sees this post and thinks, “if you have friends”, this is for you.

Go to a library and spend some time in there. Volunteer to read for storytime or for the blind. Get out and start showing an interest in something. It takes time, but with enough repetition, people will notice you’re a regular and have something to talk about with you. Friends grow when we stop and talk, learn about each other.

Small talk sucks because it’s about something neither person cares about.

And progress without testing it’s resiliency against malicious actors will not last. As much as we hate Trump being elected and staffing clowns in each position, it will test what has been made so far. Row v. Wade, as we now know, should have been stronger. The Voting Rights Act too. The states that required the law to be fair have pulled back the law and reveal little has changed.

No one likes getting burned but fire is useful for showing us what burns easily and what withstands the heat. We will rebuild stronger and know what works.

Thanks for the recommendation!

“Holidays, once seen as critical to formula, may not be needed.”

This is games journalism, so expect the “sources” to be EA press releases and a conference call with Marketing.

Seeing as how he has deported citizens before, entire families need to be ready to be split up and lost or go into hiding.

Look them in the eye and say “no tip, thank you.” Smile. Be nice. Let them be mad. It doesn’t matter. They won’t remember after a few other customers. Ask anyone working a register in food service, there’s so many that it’s easy to forget who we are.

That comic, Nancy, is still running with new strips which are still funny. It’s the longest lasting good comic that has managed to stay between chuckle and nose snort for its entire career.

That’s called a microwave

I imagine hobby lobby, with their illegal artifact collecting, is a Christian sect which does believe in magic and the power of other religions. They use Christian geomancy to find the holy Spirit without identifying it as a ley line.

This is the key to the idea that big tech is turning the world into an authoritarian place, where democracy lives as puppet theater for tech company venture capital, abusing our privacy and relationships to find our biggest fears and motivators. Social media algorithms are built to control people with that information through ads and targeted memes in feeds. Billionaires have figured out how to control the sheep and are fleecing them daily, down to the skin, and the sheep are okay with it because the walls are made of wolves. But the wolves don’t exist. It’s just fear of an uncertain future.

He put me through so much.

I didn’t know I could trust him.

I never thought TV’s Frank would be so fucking cool but here we are. He’s got a point.

All the racists will see this as the win they wanted. Any downside will be due to disconnected issues and none of them will learn or care to understand.

“Ah hell, it’s an engine. Get me 1200 liters of whale oil!”

“Ok. What’s a liter?”

Early alpha builds of Brainograph left a long line of broken grad school students before rebranding to Cerebro.

“the economy is the best it’s ever been” for whom? I’m broke, worried about making rent and it’s Christmas season. The only thing I have to give is my usual “humbug” attitude as I worry about how I am going to manage after the holidays.

The economy sucks. Businesses aren’t people. They don’t have to worry about eating. I do. They don’t have to worry about missing a rent payment because they have credit. I don’t have enough. The entire system is rigged and the Democrats keep ignoring us. I hated Harris when she ran for herself but I voted for her because I didn’t want to lose my freedom - but with Dems it’s some other loss of freedom no one talks about or admits exists. We are practically bound to our work, many people us identify as the job we have. “Oh hi Bob, what do you do?” Is boomer code for knowing what kind of respect to give a person. Democrats support losing our identity to the industry that employs us.

Business centric politics is hurting the people who are making the business run.

Oh shit, he’s tweeting. Get away from The Twit!

If you don’t study wordonomics, how can you call yourself a scienstician?

Tesla is expected to sell like crazy because they are one of the only EV carmakers to not be hit full force by tariffs. However, given the public reception of Musk, the car brand may see a long term decline as fewer vehicles are purchased in the US and EU for different reasons. Chinese EVs will sink EU and APAC sales and people don’t want to give Elon any of their money if they can help it.

Tesla also doesn’t create any new vehicle models or redesign of their initial line up that was created 12 years ago. He’s coasting on the demand and has no plans for doing anything different. I would expect Tesla to hit hard times after a decade or so.

TL;DR - a small bump in sales followed by a steady fall off before Trump Part Deux is done.