To hell with the turtles!

I think this is one of those cases where we’re using different language but completely agree.

What I meant by mistakes was that they weren’t making trial mistakes. They were making dumb ass political calculations when they should have been seeking justice. I generally think of that as a “tried and failed” tactic rather than “we were misguided”.

That being said, you’re right. Playing politics rather than treating everyone equally under the law is a huge fucking mistake.

Local demographic here, and it’s deer hunting season. I can corroborate this.

These weren’t mistakes. Some of them were slow walked because they were friendly judges waiting to see when they could dismiss without it coming back. Others were slow walked trying to fuck Trump during election season.

This was a miscalculation by state officials who cared more about playing politics than they did about justice.

Yep. If I’m feeling depressed I’ll slap on Bojack. If I’m feeling good, Disenchantment. That’s pretty much the only things I watch on Netflix when I sub it for a month to see if it’s gotten any better.

I was on call 24/7 for years. It’s been a long time since I had to deal with that (with a slide into a related career rather than changing careers) but I will never forget how terrible it was. I wasted what should have been my best years on that shit.

Now there’s only one person at work who has my number. He doesn’t call except for the one time I forgot to put my day off on the calendar. My work apps are paused at 5pm and all weekend. I only get alerts on my computer. However, I still twitch sometimes when my phone goes off after hours because it was a learned and deeply reinforced response for so many years.

The prevailing wisdom for dealing with trolls in the past has been report, block, and move on. You never know if someone is going to thrive on that kind of conflict and a whole lot of motherfuckers love it.

I’m not saying it’s right or wrong because honestly I don’t know. I’m just sad they’re running off people contributing to their community and mad that they’re sexually harassing people.

Hollow and semi hollow body electric guitars do as well.

My buddy has been watching too many redneck cooking videos and calls it “warsh-yer-sister” sauce.

There are still a couple running around, mostly with day old accounts. They claim they’re being banned for holding that stance but from what I’ve seen they’re getting banned for being inflammatory dickholes.

“You forgot your kids exist, go check to see if they’re alive.”

A buddy of mine dated a girl in high school that had the feminine version of his name and they had the same last name (no relation, but we gave him shit anyway).

I’m sad we gave him so much shit because that was the coolest person he dated over the next two decades. He agrees that she should have been his first wife and he should have hyphenated his last name.

Nah, I’m just skewing the average.

Been using Thunderbird for almost 20 years. It was good enough that long ago and it’s pretty awesome these days.

Swifties leaving X is the most unimportant thing I’ve read in a while, and I’m on Lemmy.

I like hats.

There’s no way that’s more important than anything else going on in the world today.

brought back prohibition

Don’t even joke about that.

Hell, it worked for the American Assholes caucus or whatever the House MAGAs are calling themselves.

The vast majority of people HERE. You’re leaving out a key word.

Put Five Guys inside you!

Try mentioning this to Tailor Swift fans and you’ll get immediately crucified. We should normalize the idea that THERE ARE NO ETHICAL BILLIONAIRES. Period.

While I agree with your sentiment, I don’t think she’s the place to start bitching. She’s one of the “better” ones in that she’s not out here actively hunting the poor on an island somewhere. You start with folks like Musk, Bezos, and Murdoch, and by shining a light on the billionaires that are stealing the wealth and resources of entire countries but staying out of the limelight by keeping their fucking mouths shut. Then we start moving towards Swift. Otherwise the message will just get drowned out by fans.