FlashMobOfOne

100% it is.

And you don’t have to deal with your awful family feeling entitled to your time and money.

Yes, but, there are so many creators literally just talking in their cars, it’t not hard to find people who are authentic.

Very simple.

It’s imprecise, and for your work, you’d like to be sure the work product you’re producing is top quality.

Absolutely.

I read a study years ago that concluded that dogs love baby talk, so I give them what they want.

Pretty good.

• PCP - Good
• Dentist - Awesome, been a patient of his for 8 years.
• Eye Doctor - Awesome, only have to see her once a year.

Overall, very pleased. I’m one of the lucky ones.

It’s complicated, but I see your point. My parents treat us like ATM’s sometimes.

But for me the distinction is intent. I don’t think my parents do any of this with the intent of not following through. They’re just pathologically irresponsible.

I also blame our culture and our country, because most first-world countries take care of the elderly as part of their social welfare system. Here, if you’re in your 80’s it doesn’t matter. Don’t work and society will find a way to put you on the street so a billionaire can add a fraction of a point to their dividends.

I have two very irresponsible parents, and in one case they took a loan from my eldest brother (that I ended up helping them repay) because he involved a lawyer to compel them to act responsibly in paying him back.

I consider that a little bit evil.

I have another older brother. My parents signed their house over to him in exchange for $10,000 to pay some back taxes, on the verbal agreement that they can reside there until they pass away. (They’re elderly.) Fast forward five years, and now I have to beg for money via GoFundMe to help with their legal defense because he’s literally trying to render them homeless. (Thankfully we won.)

I consider him legit evil. Throwing your parents out into the streets is a legit evil thing to do, even if they are a pain in the ass. (And they are, they’re 21 months into me “loaning” them my car so they can drive for DoorDash.)

You shouldn’t have to work to be able to live, period.

Do you REALLY need to do that with a city? Couldn’t you have dropped a bomb on a sparsely populated area close to a city first?

The terror of it was, in part, the point.

The Punisher

Just myself. I am Ken this Halloween. (The rollerblade version.)

I spent around $120 gathering all the different elements of the costume, and it looks superb.

Time travel, not to change anything, just to be able to experience things that no longer exist or relive memories.

Pfft

I love the FV. No ads. No algorithm.

And that it requires a little effort means fewer dumbass jerks around.

The things I love about reading are that I don’t need people to do it, it can be done anywhere, and I get to direct the movie happening in my head.

The thing I love about weight-lifting is putting Gen Z’ers to shame on the bench press.

If you’re in the US, you’ll probably get away with it. In the last two neighborhoods I’ve lived in we had people who planted trees of their own accord and no one lifted a finger to stop them. (Which I’m happy about.)

Hey OP, you wanna go ahead and go to any neighborhood that’s been raided by ICE and tell them how the Dems are exactly just as bad as the GOP?

I’ll tell you.

This shit was already happening. Yes, it’s taken another step under Trump, but the incrementalism occurred with Democratic fascists as well. What Trump is able to do now would be impossible if Democrats hadn’t seized on the illegal powers dreamed up by Clinton and Dubya and ran with them.

Clinton, while fucking his interns, invented ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ and did nothing about persecution of gay people, and in fact, he was the one who signed DOMA. He invented “peacekeeping actions” so he could make war without calling it that, and he did just that. He cut the social safety net wholesale, making Americans poorer, and doubled down on poverty with his ‘free trade’ policies that helped usher in the era of companies moving offshore and killing US jobs. Oh, and he was a regular on Epstein’s island and the Lolita Express.

Obama let police run roughshod in Ferguson and New York City, brutalizing victims of police violence and people who lost their homes and decided to participate in Occupy. He appointed Tom Homan and put kids in cages. He made torture explicitly extra-legal. He walked into Flint and performatively drank a glass of water. He dropped 26,000 bombs in the last year of his presidency and left office with American wars brewing in seven countries. We also learned under Obama that police departments in the US have black sites and his presidency was kidnapping renditioning people to black sites in foreign countries. He also ordered drone bombings that killed American citizens.

We knew Biden was going to be shit when, in a time people wanted federal police reform, he mocked the change people wanted in his State of the Union address by calling for greater police militarization, and his presidency gave rise to ‘cop cities’. Even worse, it’s now possible for cops to hang out in a school that’s getting shot up, on camera, with zero consequences. After January 6 he did nothing meaningful to slow the evident rise of domestic fascism, showing a greater interest in keeping his scumbag son out of prison. He deported undocumented immigrants by the millions and continued the policy of caging kids. Biden earned the moniker ‘Genocide Joe’ for aiding and abetting the genocide in Israel, even when Israel escalated it into a manufactured famine, which is a war crime. Then he ran for president knowing he had dementia, paving the way for Trump’s second term, prioritizing his own ego over the country’s well-being.

This isn’t a ‘Democrats are better’ scenario. Most people just haven’t really paid attention to what Democrats do or have the short-term memory of a goldfish.

And before you try to argue they were powerless, consider that all three of these men had the presidency and control of Congress, just like Trump. They had all the power they needed to make real change. They just didn’t care.

And yet, still true.

Yeah, it’s interesting having lived in the time when friendships actually just poofed.

I run an online D&D game with people I don’t know IRL, and I just kinda accept that one day I’m probably going to have a heart attack and disappear, and that’s okay.

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Thanks!