Oh, agree. Sorry, was just using one of the older boxy cars exaggeration.

A bit weird that they felt the need to plug the ugliest vehicle ever created

I think it is just that this the only boxy car in the public limelight. Calling it akin to a Scion xB probably would not have resonated with most folks.

Weirdo behavior for sure!

Just remember the chair theft

Yeah, WA turned out mostly great across the state. I am sad about 2066, bit was all good other than that. Those initiatives were such a shitty little insidious way to go about it too. Brian Heywood is just Tim Eyeman 2, so get ready for this shot every election

Ah, got it. Could also be my migraine making me not fully get things.

I’m all for mass transit, but there are some jobs that require cars. My partner does home health, for example. She often has to take a lot of bulky durable medical equipment (DME) to a person’s home. Even if mass transit existed in all of her territory, transporting DME on it would be prohibative, especially when there are often multiple people that need different pieces of equipment.

It can’t anymore. Project 2025 will happen, and the guardrails have been removed. Welcome to totalitarianism

Ballotopedia has past years, but I haven’t seen any info for this year yet.

https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2024:_Analysis_of_voter_turnout_in_the_2024_general_election

I’ve heard rumors of low turnout, but I suspect it is around 60% based on previous years.

Edit: WaPo says 65% this year. Can’t find anyone else reporting on it.

I don’t understand how 51% of Americans can think the “grab-her-by-the-pussy” con artist is the best choice for president.

They don’t, but due to a combination of voter disenfranchisement and apathy, voter turnout is usually around 50%-60% max. 2020 was a very large turnout at 66.8%. So 51% of 60% think he is. Still too many, but if we had a way to get every eligible voter a ballot, it would likely be different

Weird. Yeah, sorry, no clue past the standard clear cache/data, refresh, try different browser

I’ll for sure have to see how it plays out in match. Part of it is I also am not a fan of MOBAs, and Deadlock seems to pull a lot from them. We were also looking for a game that my partner could play kinda like Overwatch, bit I think she’ll bounce pretty hard off Deadlock.

Finally got an invite to Deadlock. After watching a let’s play and messing around with different heroes in the Hero Sandbox, I think there is just too much. I know it is a MOBA shooter combo, but between the movement mechanics, skills, and item shop, it just kinda seems they added stuff just because other titles in either genre have them. I might still give it a few matches, but it definitely dropped in priority.

Been playing through Raft again with my partner, and that’s been a blast. I love a survival crafter, and realized she had not played since the full release. Kinda a cozy survival game if that is even a thing. The only downside isn’t it has been moving our normal sleep schedule later, and we need to move it earlier

Sadly, no ranked choice here, so Kamala Harris on my official ballot. If I had ranked choice it would be:

1. Claudia de la Cruz

2. Cornell West

3. Kamala Harris

No offense to your father, but that doesn’t seem like it invalidates what i said. Sounds like a shitty therapist. I understand the trauma of a shit parent, but that seems like a sketch mix of bad therapist and distant (at best) parent. I’m legitimately sorry you had to deal with that.

As someone that has dealt (not well) with depression, I get the work it takes to find a therapist that clicks, but fuck it might save your life. Be up front about your history. If they are worth their salt they will give 0 shits about who your father was.

I am not a mental health professional by any means, but if this was your experience I think you may have had a shitty therapist. Everybody I know that is in therapy and likes their therapist complains about late stage capitalism with their therapist.

I mean, the MSG scare was 100% racism.

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-rotten-science-behind-the-msg-scare/

This seems like a holdover from that

Yeah, saying the presence of a single ingredient can indicate ultra-processed food then including an ingredient that is in a lot of Asian food seems like the racist MSG scare from the 70s-90s

For a better reference than just single ingredients, the article lists what it considers ultra processed:

Ultra-processed foods include carbonated soft drinks; sweet or savoury packaged snacks; chocolate, candies (confectionery); ice cream; mass-produced packaged breads and buns; margarines and other spreads; cookies (biscuits), pastries, cakes and cake mixes; breakfast ‘cereals’; pre-prepared pies and pasta and pizza dishes; poultry and fish ‘nuggets’ and ‘sticks’, sausages, burgers, hot dogs and other reconstituted meat products; powdered and packaged ‘instant’ soups, noodles and desserts; and many other products see online supplementary material, Supplemental Table 1).

The supplementary material they mention is linked later on, but the link does not work for me

To view supplementary material for this article, please visit https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980018003762