Brazilian Presidents are not above the law.

I am not annoyed by Lemmy’s constant glitches. It adds to the charm of the place.

Lemmy is a volunteer effort. You want everything to run corporate-smooth, that’s ‘X’ and TikTok and Reddit.

Never donate to political candidates or causes. Your name and address will be sold and re-sold, so fifty bucks today brings spam and junk mail for the rest of your life.

I can’t even get past the user interface at Discord. Rarely have I felt so uninvited to participate, even as the site aggressively invites me to participate.

SRO’s are people’s homes. I worked during the week and had weekends off, went to the movies or whatever, same as anyone else. Some of the residents were head cases, and rarely left the building.

Rez hotels were my home for about five years, and they were good years, looking back. Where I’m living now (Seattle), SRO’s have been banned, which is a big part of the reason thousands of homeless folks own the sidewalks downtown. If SRO’s were allowed, I’d be living in one now. Can’t beat the rent.

With all due respect (which is none), that’s dingbattery.

Thanks for posting this. I’ve been badmouthing Biden ever since he blocked the railroad strike, but that quote from a union leader — “Biden deserves a lot of the credit for achieving this goal for us. He and his team continued to work behind the scenes to get all of rail labor a fair agreement for paid sick leave" — finally cools my steam.

When he shows up and carries a UAW picket, I am ready to be honestly impressed.

Well, it’s kinda like that… :)

There are areas of the USA where what Boebert and her man are doing could land them both on the sex offenders’ list for life. She has her hand on der wienerschnitzel, he has his on her boobies, in a crowded theater during a show.

I’ve done the same, but in the balcony at a movie theater, with no-one else within a dozen rows. Also, I was in my late teens, and not a member of Congress.

“Here’s another chance to make people miserable,” said some Republican, because making people miserable is their favorite thing to do. Your birth cert is needed for all manner of things — a driver’s license, a job, a mortgage, etc — all of which will now be much more difficult, and involve telling your life story at every bureaucrat’s counter.

Republicans are fucking monsters.

Excellent questions, solid answers, both are appreciated, and I leave smarter than when I arrived. Thanks.

Hey, have you written up your ‘Jesus Strings’ theory? You’ve mentioned it a few times and it makes marvelous intuitive sense to me — I’d like to read the article if you’re written it.

I was intentionally out of contact with the family for about 25 years, and have no regrets. Had a great time without them.

A few of them I’ve missed, and I’ve mellowed, so I’m back in contact again but only under my terms, and it’s working out nicely. Thanks for asking.

    OK, so there’s this wingnut Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Football) who’s angry that the military reimburses officers for travel expenses when they need to go out-of-state for an abortion. Until that rule’s changed, Tuberville has vowed to block all military promotions (who knew Senators had that power?) and now the Army, Navy and Marine Corps have no Senate-approved commanders in place.

    Other than how it screws over low-ranking officers, I really give no shits at all about Tuberville’s blockade. It makes him look like an idiot, and he is an idiot, and I’m pretty sure the Army, Navy and Marine Corps can do all their armying, navying, and marine corpsing without Senate-approved leadership.

    But man, I got a laugh out of that “aiding and abetting the Communists” crack.

Might be more cost-effective than sending the yellow buses, but it’s seriously not delightful when twenty high school kids get onto a city bus.

It’s way, way too late to be the first stages of civilization’s collapse.

Don’t kink-shame.

For a while I wasn’t sure whether it was serious or intended for laughs, but it’s serious.

I’m unemployed and haven’t seen him hanging around either.

Eeek. Hadn’t noticed the toxicity, but with 6,000 readers I suppose some have to be idiots. Have another :).