Lol, I don't think I can manage to enthuse about the barrel of crackers. But I could probably pretend I've never tasted kimchi before.
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Lol, I don't think I can manage to enthuse about the barrel of crackers. But I could probably pretend I've never tasted kimchi before.
Wait, how does this work? I'm a midwesterner, so presumably have no taste buds. How do I monetize eating good food?
Just continuing the conversation, and I'm pretty certain notifications will include both you and Seitz.
More techy, clean, and political, vs brutal on a massive scale? Ok, I can see that.
I'm all for encouraging Newsom/staffers to nettle Trump. But realistically? That's not backing him down, or likely to get Newsom targeted. And no, I do not "love" a guy who sides with anti trans right wingers and grins in photo ops as the very few possessions homeless people have are destroyed.
Very obviously you do.
Yeah, I checked the time....15+ hours??
Ah, I think I see. I think maybe there was misinterpretation of your use of capitalization/punctuation to infer you were deriding non-use of trains, rather than describing that position. If so, apologies! Language is imperfect (and yet the best we generally have).
Personally? I'd love to see more options. Maybe I want to be able to stop and get some local culture. Maybe I want to just get to my destination. (express train) I think we have a lot of opportunities that get ignore by the press for the current, which are underfunded interstates.
Screen caps accomplished. Jiminy yikes.
LOL, you are literally the only person deciding how to allocate your time. No one has assigned responding me as a paid for project for you. But meanwhile, we have an abundance of your responses. I should probably cap them before you think better.
There are absolutely no dem or left leaning people who shouldn't be held accountable for crimes. Release the Epstein list, and investigate/ prosecute everyone for their crimes. If there are child rapists amongst the Dem elite, prosecute them too. Let's eradicate child rapists. Party doesn't matter.
One of the weird, funny things left leaning people encounter is having someone say "OK, but this politician is your hero and also they've committed crimes!" Ahaha first off, we can acknowledge failings, but second, if they've committed crimes? Please investigate, charge, prosecute, convict, etc.
Ahahah I had to use my stern voice last week. Because of domestic violence. And yeah, I guess I am the crazy old lady now, because it turns out I have objections to some shitrag screaming at his girlfriend for 30 minutes.
Weird that I've yet to see any details here. Who could have guessed.
Good question! Maybe you should be going after the establishment Dem voices that also nerfed the Harris campaign! But are we really willing to decide that a nearly 3 million edge in the popular vote is failure? As opposed to having a reckoning on the electoral college?
LOL, omg, that is some weak, weak thinking. Maybe go to bed and reassess your responses in the am.
*shrug* OK. Then you can probably detail what you're doing here.
Is that the only thing that matters? Because, if so, Trump must be a pillar of virtue. After all, he's been elected twice.
People should absolutely file lawsuits against them for this.
Seriously, I have no platform. Presumably you do, as a political cartoonist. What are you doing to bring Trump down? Other than targeting Clinton, who hasn't stepped into the spotlight since 2016?
"Oh no, going for the popular vote didn't win the slaver states!" Do you even hear yourself?
But you know what? It really isn't helpful to relitigate a campaign a decade old. What are you doing NOW, as a political cartoonist, to pull Trump down? Other than slamming a candidate from a decade ago?
Oh yes? Which parts of Clinton's campaign aided Trump? Were they the parts that delivered her the popular vote? Because that kinda seems anti-Trump.
LOL, might need to remove that comma. And yes, I know. Maybe try thinking and adapting to the world we live in.
Thank goodness you can put the blame on the better candidate who won the popular vote for the slanted system she had to fight. That absolutely makes everything her fault. Tell me, how do you see blaming Clinton for a system stacked against her working out? Do you think that will win in 2028?
Oh, thank goodness you have a political car5toon to substitute for thought! Remind me, what were the end totals of the actual vote? Not the slaver-state slanted electoral college. The actual vote.
Porno Teddy Ruxpin looks super confused.
Pthbbtht. The strongest outright voice telling Trump "NO" is Pritzker. I know, acknowledging Pritzker means you might have to acknowledge a flyover state. But he has flat-out, publicly, told Trump he's not welcome in Chicago. And that means a fucking whole lot more than some stupid memes.
LOL, how fucking dumb are you?
"I hated every thing about her, but also she should have been more popular (despite winning the popular vote by nearly 3 mil)
LOL, ok. Way to meme yourself out of any actual thought.
Maybe? But which Trek? It's kinda huge. (no citing lensflare Trek, I will 100% ignore that)
Go back to Twitter, troll. She won the popular vote by nearly 3 mil. We have a very stupid system that awards disproportionate power to slaver states, but hey! The important thing is that this allows you to shit on an accomplished woman, so probably that's great.
(I have a lot of mixed feelings about TMC's direction, but their cast were all solid)
Myself? I think an elderly Bond played by Mirren, coming back into service, would blow the fucking doors off theaters. I don't go to theaters much anymore, but damn! To watch Dame Helen as Bond??? You couldn't stop me.
Right?? And yet apparently it is. We know she's perfect. She was perfect in the Red movies. She's completely believable in the Thursday Murder Club. And yet even she doesn't think she should be Bond. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Anywho, I'd long since stopped hanging out with this dude, which made his complaint (at a friend's celebration of life) extra ridiculous because my dude? What do you think you're owed, for simply hitting "follow"? Why are you coming at me as if I somehow owe it to you to be less me?
What is absolutely never going to happen is that I will carefully make sure my online commentary will never offend a cis white guy who thinks maybe I'm a bit too out there, what with my strident demands that people be treated as equals no matter how not cis/white/male/hetero they are.
One of the funniest interactions I ever had in real life was some dude who liked that I was entertaining, but was really bothered that I posted political commentary on Twitter. And then felt the need to inform me of this in person. My dude? Unfollow me. Or fucking man up and stop hanging out.
I never got into Game of Thrones (kinda super rapey for my tastes) so I don't know how to interpret this comment.
Ahahaha I included the wrong Burlington in the alt-text. Burlington, IA, is a whole whopping 24k, making their route inclusion just as ridiculous as the rest of the small towns Amtrak decided needed a train station, while bypassing college towns and cities.
#WeekendAtTrumpy's
I'm not sure if you're trying to counter or agree with my comment.
That's not slack, it's expanded engagement. 😄 And it's a lot of what we love about Bluesky.
Did 3 shots same arm yesterday, and made sure to use it afterwards. I think bonus points to the pharmacist who did a great job of not just stabbing my delts, but I feel good, with almost no pain. Is it stolen glory if I still keep the completely unnecessary bandaids on?
I am begging Europeans to look at how Trump and his far right MAGA party have destroyed the US's science leadership, international standing, international trade, economy, public health, energy innovation, etc, etc, and please, PLEASE! Do not let this happen to you.
I mean, Jackson left out Tom Bombadil and added a whole lot of cheesy mediocrity to Tolkien to appeal to a broader audience, so it's not like this tactic is unprecedented.
I liked the Craig Bond. And I kinda think maybe it's that the films were designed to appeal more to viewers like me, who weren't keen on the whole creepy Bond legacy (there's at least one coercive rape, and I haven't watched all of them). So less fan-oriented, more broad base. Was that a betrayal?
Wow. "Former president has medical equipment. Also his very accomplished wife."
65 lb hound dog trotting along with a long stalk of grass chomped in her teeth is Disney level anthropomorphization.
And while I'd rather it was "appearances in the Epstein logs and subsequent consequences", I will take any out the universe would care to give.
Weirdoes: DOGS MUST BE FED AN ALL-MEAT DIET, THEY ARE CARNIVORES! Me: *buying salad because my dog has been vehemently chomping grass on walks as a reminder that maybe we need broader nutrients* (It's comical that I eat healthier, knowing my dog expects her share and NO WE CANNOT LIVE ON CHEETOS)
That Helen Mirren would have made an exquisite Bond.
Ooooh! Yes please, more of this! And nice naming!
Maybe we just need to keep the faith up for enough nights.
Ahaha I think if a Chicagoan stopped their car it would be so they could come over and kneecap you. So basically I was a PTSD driver being unexpectedly hugged.
But somehow preserving and reviving our historic depots would be bad? I don't even understand it.
The annoying thing is that our towns grew up along the rail lines, and we are very familiar with trains blocking traffic. [I live in the QCA: river barges can pause bridge traffic (with signage so people know to head towards a different bridge)], but trains seem to override barges. We've got this.
LORT! I laughed out loud, that was EXACTLY it. Like, regionally, we mostly do OK at getting the fuck out of the merging lane when you see someone needing to merge? Mostly? And making rude gestures at anyone who doesn't? I was absolutely unprepared for someone just...stopping.
I'm unfamiliar: quick explainer? (I love the idea of connecting urban areas. I'd love to be able to just hop on a train and let someone else handle the driving while I get to Chicago or NOLA or wherever.)
Seriously, what even is this nonsense? Amtrak bypasses multiple cities in Illinois and Iowa, including college towns with students from Chicago who don't own cars, in favor of low pop towns. And then they wonder why they don't get business? www.amtrak.com/plan-your-tr...
LOL, I haven't been out in a while, so I have no idea. I do find it funny visiting relatives in CA: I'll say "look, I can take this train/ bus in, I just have to wait at the station overnight, it'll be fine!" and they mobilize someone to make a late night pick-up. They have transit & don't use it.
The (subsidized) interstates created a more convenient system for most people living between the coasts. We're realizing the environmental impacts of a car-centric culture, though, and increasingly, younger generations are delaying buying a car. We just need political impetus to subsidize trains.
My extremely limited exposure to merging onto a Seattle-area interstate was confounding, because I couldn't get in.... and someone STOPPED. On the INTERSTATE. To let me in. And I kinda froze because that had never happened to me and my brain couldn't process a non-rage behavior.)
(I feel I should clarify that one thing that threw me was the politeness, because my primary exposure to city driving has been Chicago, where the road rage oozes out of the asphalt/ concrete in a palpable miasma that coats everything and everyone like the soot from 1800s English coal furnaces.
LOL, I will confess to only having driven in the Seattle area once (because decent public transit! And difficult driving!) and ahahaha yeah, my goodness, it'd be a social good to have a fast, inexpensive option. $500 is crazy high... if they lowered it, surely more people would use it.
Yeah. It balances out better for people in the center (bc you're probably going to have to puddle-jump to a hub, then sit for hrs). And I've had flight delays so severe I could've driven home in 1/4 the time. But the lower pop density means it's not going to be profitable, esp as currently routed.
There is a route from Chicago to Omaha... through a bunch of small town Illinois and Iowa, bypassing college towns like Iowa City and Des Moines, prohibitively far from Cedar Rapids and Ames. Chi-Omaha on I-80 is about an 8 hr drive, and about $60 in gas. By train? 9-16 hrs, about $90 per person.
We've had a proposed high speed route from Chicago west along I-80, through the Quad Cities, Des Moines, and Omaha. It'd probably see decent use... but the political will/ funding haven't been there.
Nnngh, why do they even alt if they aren't going to take the 5 seconds to include the full text??
Yeah, a good west coast network makes sense. I think you could also get decent adoption of a Mississippi River route; lots of large towns, and lots of tracks already built. (there is a line, sorta... but it detours through small town Illinois in route to Chicago.)
All of bluesky getting ready for the celebration:
Honestly where it'd really get easier would be in towns/ cities, because if the region decided they'd put a track in, they'd simply eminent domain the property and bulldoze the buildings, no matter how historic.
I feel like a lot of the disconnect boils down to that expression that, in Europe 100 miles is a long way, and in the US, 100 years is a long time.
In theory. In practice, not if there are geographical obstacles, like, y'know, a major mountain range that experiences heavy snowfall, or no subsidizing and also no demand and no profitability because the population density is so low in those areas.
I've loved visiting countries with high speed passenger rail. And I wish it was an option here, because I hate flying (I also have airline envy. Unfettered capitalism sucks). Part of the difficulty is it'd need to be subsidized. And the US is getting worse at funding public benefits.
My area (pop~450k) was a major hub 150 years ago, and still has an extensive track system in place, with freight trains through multiple times a day. The nearest passenger hub? Is small town an hour's drive away, w limited bus transport. Why don't we ride the train? Bc most don't have that option.
I've spent a lot of time trying to explain to well-meaning friends why comparing the density of routes in Europe to the US was unbalanced. I'd love high-speed rail.... but there's a whole lot of wide open, unpopulated spaces (with mountains!) to cross. Without subsidizing, it won't happen.
Y'know, if he'd saved the bear RFKJ was chasing, right now he'd be a hero. But instead? He's just sub.
I still laugh about "now Gen X will treat Millennials just like Boomers treated Gen X!" and...no, we kinda like our much adored half-siblings the boomers actually wanted and helicoptered, only to declare them coddled and lazy (remember when we were the slackers?) to blame them for the awful future.
Yeah, every single generation knows which gen maximized the fuckitude. And every new gen, the media excitedly gears up for spats between them and the immediately previous.... only to discover, nah, it's still the boomers.
Your own chart shows boomers still outnumber X. You have the numbers swapped. And Pew projects boomers will hold that position until 2028.
Apparently there's a fourth kind that pees on the fence, then forgets the lesson as soon as they stop being electrocuted and do it again.
I've started to think of those three as the Oz companions. -AOC has the brains -Walz has the heart -Pritzker has the courage (They all have all three, I know, but it's kinda where each shines.)
Maga in disarray.
Not if younger generations stop having kids. 😀
And yet boomers still outnumber Gen X. So weird that gap was predicted to close years ago, and still hasn't. It's almost like other generations also experience death... And earlier than expected. That'll accelerate with Trump's "let's kill America" bill.
Maybe YOU should tell boomers more about how the policies boomers vote in are hurting younger generations, and even some boomers. Because younger (and older) generations have been saying it for a very long time, but they don't seem to be listening to us.
Oh. I don't know about that... youtu.be/q3aYwfMvPUQ?...
Allegedly he's been backing off the capslock since Newsom started mocking it. But we can hope! 😀
And every time I get a shot Deep into my delt, I hope you feel it Now can you feel it? 'Cause I'm here, to remind you Of the mess you made of the CDC. It's not fair to deny me Of the vaxx my taxes paid to bring! You, you, you gotta go!
Even the Great Khan was feeling that maybe TODAY was finally the day.
Maybe even the best day.
I'm pretty certain Grassley survives by harvesting the mitochondria of his many descendants.
Post a meme you made:
Butter freezes just fine, and a deep freeze would cost you a lot less than 100+pounds of butter. Gonna waste your butter wife? In this economy?
I imagine it is extremely difficult to be in the military for anyone who took their oath seriously.
Or maybe, I know it's a novel thought.... pushing men to not abuse power by immediately becoming gross creepers? And elevating the men who manage to somehow do a decent job without being gross creepers?