...No mention of getting hit by a bus last month and going into kidney failure...

acknowledging public perception of the party as “weak and woke” needs to change. She is urging Democrats to “fucking retake the flag” with appeals to voters’ sense of patriotism, to adopt “the goddamn Alpha energy” of Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell and to embrace an “airing out” of potential 2028 presidential candidates in a broadly contested primary.

Slotkin plans to deliver another speech — which is set to focus on “killing sacred cows” — sometime next month.

“I don’t think we need to hide the fact that Trump is flooding the zone and making us look 12 different ways at the same time,” Slotkin said. “But again, because I come from the national security background, there’s no end to fighting unless you’re dead.”

We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine

Draining the reservoirs in January in a drought-prone blue state? Absolutely no ulterior motive, just the actions of an oaf.

Maybe eels are just really good at mazes

This can't be true because I don't work there

"we're giving them a few more weeks to starve more people out before we 'admonish' them for starving people"

Just a funny imposition of the Mediterranean Sea over the US

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

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

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"

Did I miss raktajino?

Edit: I did not, raktajino snubbed

The girl reading this

Just put it in the replicator

Being aware of it is the first step. It's the same rush you get from cursing when in pain, or punching a pillow/wall when you're upset. The flood of anger, especially righteous anger, can be it's own reinforcement. Stop giving yourself that stimulation. You'll feel agitated and restless, but you need to break the habit. Substitute a different habit. Check out cute animal videos from The Dodo, or enjoy some Primitive Technology, or watch some Veg Village recipe videos.

Reminds me of the story of the Alexander Matrosov memorial. A Ukrainian Soviet soldier who blocked the opening of a Nazi machine gun nest by shoving his body into it, absorbing gunfire and shielding his comrades, enabling them to advance on the position. The fascist government of Ukraine dismantled the memorial in his hometown of Dnipro, and is attempting to rewrite history but claiming he had never been to Ukraine and was a Turkic Bashkir using a false name.

Think about how dumb the average classmate you had in school was. Now, realize they're an adult who goes around "explaining things" to others without a teacher correcting them. That is the state of Internet comments

Was a good read, thanks for sharing

Affecting 3,000 trucks? They sold 520,000 Silverados in 2022. Wonder how many are actually going to experience roof failure