why fake it when you could be good at what you do?

drive my wife batty? yeah

Oh no! Godsdamn Terminators got to Condor John! Jon Conyer has not been killed by the termies yet tho.

i mostly agree, but there are too many jobs that really need to ignore standard holidays (like emergency department personnel and restaurateurs/grocers, to name a couple) because shit happens. it’s not often that i’m too exhausted to make a bowl of cereal, but if i’m that tired i’m going to buy some food instead of suffering, you know?

pure sugar is that it’s one dimensional

are we talking like, the white granulated shit? because we gave processed sugarcane and sugar beets to the cows as treats. also stole a little for ourselves (it still had plenty of sugar in the cane and beet after they’d extracted the sugar juice somehow. i don’t know how you juice a cane. then they sold it to us. don’t ask me how it works, i was a kid and this is what i was told) and they tasted great. i think it’s that we had the plant the sugar came from rather than just the sugar. the plant gave the sugar flavor depth. think how brown sugar (sugar without the molasses extracted) has a different flavor than white sugar.

i’d still call the cane or the beet “pure sugar”, since that’s what they made the white granulated shit out of. that’s me tho, and the contexts i’d be using it in pure would mean more natural/unmodified/untainted than homogenous.

I spent a few years bouncing between the ideas of opening a coffee shop, and ice cream shop, or a fruit stand.

the most important bit is we have a small stage for live music and open mic nights.

and of course i ended up making custom musical instruments for a living instead of any of that.

in finance the dream is usually herding sheep

ballotpedia is pretty reliable but not quite as detailed as you’re looking for

Nothing to forgive. Just I would love it if there were more like-minded people getting personally involved (it’s kind of one of my hobby horses). Purely selfish reasoning too, I want to make it easier for my mutual aid network to function and get funding.

Yeah, if you stick with it you end up having a project or two you’re proud of and a lot of constituents who are upset no matter what you do. I swear being upset is some people’s hobby (is there a club I can join for that or something? No I’m not going to law school)

They recruit from any halfway prestigious college program and I’ve know a few college acquaintances who went that route. For some reason they all had copstashes when I knew them.

don’t forget running for office yourself. you can make a really big positive difference in local politics

and there shouldn’t be the seal of the state of california. whoopsie.

jury doesn’t get to decide the charge

eh, i’m disabled. insurance for a family now is still less than i had to pay for individual insurance then. last time i did the math it had to be a family of seven to make it equivalent but costs change constantly.

that sounds just like what a CIA agent would say

part of me wonders if this isn’t part of krasnov’s “vote for republicans or the world ends” campaign.

politicians are way cheaper than you think

also no one ever counts the coast guard