VerdantSporeSeasoning

In Malala Yousafzai's book, she credits the Taliban first getting into her community by coming through the radio. As an American, I've thought about that a lot over the years.

My local favorite is apple slices+bacon, it's the best.

No, but I've watched Disneys Descendants. A bunch of villain's kids get to go to school after being cut off from society all their lives due to their parents choices. The kids come in to school dedicated to evil, but the more they learn & get to know people, the more they all decide to be good people.

I have no idea how that relates to anything in the real world in the past however many years.

When I went to price it out at the store, the line for a dumb phone was going to cost $30/mo more than a smart phone. It was dumb.

Why choose? Use electricity and destroy living creatures: https://time.com/6982015/bitcoin-mining-texas-health/

It's not just nerds with a spare laptop mining anymore. This money wants returns in 'not being regulated.'

There have been a lot of good books in the last few years about how Christian came to be so culturally interchangable with Republican. One I read and got a lot out of was "Jesus & John Wayne", and the author does a good job tracking the rightward shift from a lot of different organizations and how they were able to permeate through multiple denominations. Just sharing in case anyone wants to go look at some of these connections themselves.

Thank you for putting this into words. I got called weird all the time as a kid, made the choice to take it as a compliment. It getting used right now the way it is to offend bad people doesn't bother me, but I am worried about the knock on effects of weird being more heavily perceived as negative over time.

Yeah, there's a gulf of difference between wanting a problem to disappear vs relishing the incredibly detailed idea of pain and suffering of another human being. One's like putting down a rabid dog, the other is just pain for pains sake.

I hear your point, and you're not wrong that certain birthers just won't listen. Obama had neither of the people involved in this birth, his parents, around to speak about the conditions of his birth. Harris, though, will have people able to say, "No, I was there, I remember how it happened" in her corner.

I got the $5 meal deal the other night. Dr Pepper for my drink was an upcharge. I'm not sure what drink is supposed to come with it then.

Closer, but also, everyone was sick of the Republican bullshit as Bush was on his way out and the economy was collapsing. McCain had a really hard sell.

They weren't wanting to talk about project 2025. Now there's a different conversation to have, kind of.