If you disregard the rust, sharp corners, inability to use the bed, quality control x100 and disgusting CEO, the truck is really good at going zoomy tho

Just a funny imposition of the Mediterranean Sea over the US

Is that the one the other Biden (Beau) was the legal defense for?

I wash it down with a big glass of the lemonade that kills you

The older I get, the more vindicated I feel by choosing to completely ignore philosophy as a concept

A whole bunch of his supporters have died since 2016. They were already old and unhealthy and then COVID ran rampant. Maybe that is enough to weaken his hold. Wouldn’t that be funny

Lady ordered “well done WELL DONE” pizzas from dominos. I did the usual +1-2 minutes more in the oven and noticed plenty of burnt cheese and toppings when I boxed it. Lady picked up the food and left. Fifteen minutes later, her redneck husband throws the boxes on the counter, asks for me, and demands I “cook this raw food” and threatens to pulls me over the counter.

So I remake the pizzas and give them an extra +4 minutes (oven only takes 5) to where there was essentially a layer of char across the entire top of the pizza. I drive over and deliver the pizzas. Their son, who I went to school with, is walking around shirtless with a big iron cross tattoo on his chest. They approve the burnt pies and I go on my way, swearing to myself one day I’ll get out of this shithole town

For anyone curious, here’s NPR doing their best to run cover for “The Story Behind Kamala Harris’ Truancy Program”

Passed in 2011, the law allowed district attorneys to charge parents with a misdemeanor if their children missed 10 percent of the school year without a valid reason.

At around 13, with no experience outside knowing how to ride a bike, attempted a 6 foot BMX bike jump, the kind with a near-verticle lip. After two bailed attempts, I committed to MORE SPEED on the third try. I went straight up, couldn’t position the bike forward, and fell directly backward onto my unhelmeted head and back onto packed dirt and gravel. Always kind of felt dumber, slower after that day

I thought you were talking about the drone in the screenshot at first lol

More realistically, in that situation, they will be very good at raiding and terrorizing their neighbors

America’s rabid dog continues biting its neighbors. “He’s just misunderstood”

I mean, he was literally in communication with the cops and they gave him carte blanche to open carry an AR into a crowded area, so, basically, yeah

THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves

tired of sharing a planet with dumb, angry, selfish people. Tired of hearing their awful opinions in my head

I learned of the insane life of Otokichi

There was a really good video clip of a protestor in 2020, paraphrased: “we came out to protest, then the cops started hitting our heads with batons. we started wearing helmets, so they gassed us. We started bringing masks, so they attack us. Now we bring shields and they call them weapons. Someone is escalating this, but it’s not us”.

Basically, any evidence that you plan to defend yourself gives the cops, in their mind, cause to attack. Since you planned to defend yourself. Except fire. Cops are scared as fuck of fire.

My favorite bit of bear lore is the etymology of the word “bear”

I think about the ethnic enclaves that immigrant communities made in the US as the opposite of atomization. People brought together due to circumstance who develop a system of support to watch each other’s kids, cook for another during illness, help each other get jobs. Really just the basic concept of community. America is designed to dismantle that stuff. Some of those immigrants’ kids acculturate and assimilate and “move up” in society to be lonely suburb dwellers with more material wealth than their parents, but none of the community.

When I worked/lived in the East Bay in a very working class, diverse neighborhood, the Abuelas would check in on everyone constantly. At least once a week, they’d knock on my door to make sure I’d eaten that day.

I’m sorry