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You seemed to be running low, and I had some extras I wasn’t using.

I assumed Bernie was included.

I keep track of money with GnuCash.

There are accounts in there for my checking and savings accounts, credit card accounts, mortgage, car loan, etc.

I also have accounts I created for things that don’t exist outside of my GnuCash file. Accounts for money set aside for college payments for my kids, accounts for saving for vacations or whatever. The money in those accounts is “really” in the savings account, but since I don’t look there when I’m checking what money I have to spend, it is left alone. So, for example, the bank might say I have $1000 in savings, but GnuCash says it’s $200 with $800 in a vacation account.

Fine, but I didn’t say actively involved, you did.

If you meant to say “started a war”, you should have said that.

How do you define actively involved in war?

We were actively involved in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan when President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

He assumes he’s the smartest person in the world, so he thinks people are absolutely, incredibly dumb.

Andrew Johnson should have been convicted when he was impeached.

If voting still works, and I hope it does, the other thing people need to do is run.

School board. Town Council. County government. State government. Friggin’ dog catcher.

We need real people. People who have worked and struggled. However, as you said…

the limited capacity of the overworked, underpaid average American citizen.

I’m not sure how anyone could manage it.

I suspect if they tried, the OSCE monitors wouldn’t be allowed to enter the US.

Ok… Is it a butt plug made out of tacos, a butt plug in a taco, or a butt plug for when you’re having tacos?

It looks like the only age group that didn’t increase support for Trump in 2024 compared to 2016 was 65+.

Am I reading that right?

Failing to convict Andrew Johnson during his impeachment was a double-whammy.

It prevented the U.S. from holding the southern traitors accountable, and it emboldened future presidents.

We desperately need to remove a president through impeachment, if only to prove to future presidents that it can happen. However, since it didn’t happen for Trump, it probably never will.

If the Republican party had ranked choice voting for the primary, Trump wouldn’t have had a chance.

During the primaries, my far, far right wing father said if it was between Trump and Bernie in 2016, he would have voted for Bernie. He knew Trump was a piece of shit.

At the time he was a single issue voter. Just gun rights. That’s all that mattered.

The DNC didn’t understand how hated Hilary is on the right or how motivated they would be to see anything win rather than her. Once it was Trump vs Hillary, my dad was a hard core MAGA idiot.

After Trump was elected, my dad was still a single issue voter, but the issue became 100% just Trump.

Dad won’t be voting in the mid terms this time around. If he does, it means someone committed a felony.

One of those basement apartment windows where the bottom of the window is at the level of the sidewalk.

They might rip him or blast him.

Sadly more effective than asking the Democrats to do something.

I like to believe that I had a part in causing the university to implement time limits on the modem pool.

However, the University had an excellent Internet connection, so once it dawned on me that I could download it and copy it to floppies there, it was a lot easier.

SLS Linux. I feel old.

First challenge: getting it.

It was about 25-30 3.5" floppy disks, but you had to download the disk images, and I downloaded them to my PC via a modem connected to the modem pool at the University where I worked. At the time, they had no limits on the use of the modem pool, so I was able to stay connected and just keep downloading until I had it all.

Then, you had to manually create the disk partitions and create the file systems on them. When that was all done correctly, you could run the install script.

I switched to Slackware when it came out. I also downloaded that to a SunOS box at work and used that to write the floppies.

One more constitutional crisis and the country gets a free small vanilla ice cream.

In my case, having my manager quit did more for my depression than any pill could do.