ScottinSoCal πΊπ¦ π π³βπ @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es
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So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.
Joined Nov 2022
Taking this right out into its own little thread, because I feel like I threadjacked @weirdofhermiston's original points. (sorry!)
I came of age in the 90s, in this weird time post-AIDS-crisis but pre-gay-kisses-on-TV. In wider media and culture, who could call themselves gay and who shouldn't be claiming that seemed to revolve around whether you were currently in a physical relationship that was considered a same-sex one.
On the other hand, literally nobody in my IRL vicinity was out. It was such a prudish place that even rumors about a girl's sexuality would get her mocked at school-wide pep rallies. So how in the world would a gay kid even really know they were gay? let alone participate in queer culture?
Obviously, half of that is getting rid of the cruel sexual repression.
But the other half is acknowledging you don't have to be sexual at all -- currently or ever -- to be queer.
If Republicans are going to accuse Biden of weaponizing the Justice system, then:
1) They better damn well have better evidence than an independent grand jury indicted Trump, Trump got a fair trial, and an independent jury found him guilty on all charges, and
2) They better damn well reject the Project 2025 framework and Trump's promises to weaponize the Justice system.
Every accusation is a confession for the GOP.
Because his supporters are also raving lunatics. Of the "should be restrained and medicated" variety.
@randahl When a US businessman says that falsifying business records is no big deal itβs probably a good idea to look very closely at his own business records.
And about that "motivated by politics, rather than justice".
Hunter Biden would like a word. It speaks to Joe Biden's integrity that he hasn't called it out for what it is.
And what do you mean by "anxiety"? Are you talking about the sharp, immediate "OMG, I screwed up" kind? Or the more formless, general "No matter how good things are now, something will go wrong, sometime and it will probably be my fault"?
I need specifics.
Friends: Who are you listening to right now?
Me, very hip: Oh, you wouldn't know them.
"Over the past few weeks, Ukraine came to us and asked for the authorization to use weapons that we're providing to defend against this aggression, including against Russian forces that are massing on the Russian side of the border and then attacking into Ukraine," says US Secretary of State Blinken in Prague. "That went right to the president and, as you've heard, he's approved the use of our weapons for that purpose."
I like presidents who aren't felons
President Biden recently gave the commencement address at West Point. His address was streamed and published.
What was not seen was that President Biden after giving his speech and shaking hands with the top 25 graduates on stage went backstage and beyond the reach of cameras, the media and video and greeted and shook hands with every one of the graduating class of West Point.
#Biden
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/30/2243650/-A-side-of-President-Biden-you-won-t-see
@Ilovechai@sciences.social
Yup, me too. But it has to be a song I know well, because if I can't remember the words that's just more frustration on top of what I'm already feeling.
@BootsChantilly @ScottSoCal GDI you guys beat me to the punch!
@ScottSoCal Right? A free "going over" from Mommie Dearest! π³
That "imagine YOU in the hands of Joan Crawford" can be a little sinister if you imagine her with a wire hanger.
Statistics Denmark recently published a graph which shows, what consumers have felt for a long time: Wages rise, but the real income is falling.
In 2022, consumer prices rose so much, Danes got 5.1 percent poorer, and even though some wholesale prices started to fall in 2023, price hikes still consumed all wage increases in 2023, leading to a real income rise of 0 percent.
I wonder if larger countries are doing better because of stronger retail competition.
Source: https://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/nyheder-analyser-publ/nyt/NytHtml?cid=48357
No, not in the USA. Most people I know are calling it "greedflation". Wholesale costs are stable or down, retail costs are way up, corporate profits are breaking records.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
- Orientation
- So gay. So, so gay.
- JoeMyGod
- Ε ΔΕΕ§Ε§ Δ - πΊπ¦ π
So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.
Joined Nov 2022
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