Excellent, that beautiful cat deserves all of the pampering 😊

No pictures of the bookshelves? Love a good library

You appear to be under expert supervision. Carry on, and pet that cat.

You have savings?

I dunno, I highly doubt anything involving Elon was consentual.

Gonna have to disagree with you on Popeyes. They’re generally good for the first few months they’re open, the nosedive. The fries are good, the chicken is dry and extremely thin for what you pay.

No.

Existence had grown exponentially more expensive in my lifetime, well outpacing what a 401k or pension will realistically ever be able to achieve. At best, it might buy me 5-10 years after I am physically unable to work; if I mentally decline too soon due to age (quite likely in my family), I will die in poverty.

That isn’t even touching on the possibility of a habitable climate or war, and assumes the survival of the current economic system.

I should clarify: i hope they try to go for people who shoot back.

I’d much rather they just leave people the fuck alone.

May they accidentally raid a Mob-owned business.

Florida has had Do Not Travel advisories for at least a year for anyone trans (and frankly anyone LGBTQ+ in general).

Florida is going to be absolutely overwhelmed with MAGA during that time-frame.

Why would they lower the age of consent for people who (in their eyes) don’t have rights to begin with?

People as things, that’s where it starts.

I would hedge my bets for now. Alternative scenario: The Saudis throw another party for Trump, make some business deals in exchange for reigning in Israel. The House of Al Saud of course doesn’t care about Palestinians but their people do and a party and some business is a low price to pay to be celebrated by your subjects.

Blech… this honestly seems more likely to me now, plus it can be used as propaganda to “prove” that he did something about genocide, to keep people voting red…

They don’t even have to do anything beyond publishing the guys home address.

This has been in the works for a long time now.

I would not be surprised if this was repealed (if only as an effort to further purge government employees):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Employee_Fair_Treatment_Act_of_2019

Prior to this, my understanding is that back pay was given in good faith, not by actual requirements.

The first Trump presidency is known for the longest government shutdown in US history.

Job stability is not a given for federal employment anymore.

Other than that, I would say non-defense jobs are certainly worth maintaining institutional knowledge.

4K 60hz, i don’t play competitive games for refresh rate does very little for me. All about that high res immersion.

I push buttons on computers and wait for things to be done. Sometimes I have to look and find out why the button push didn’t do the thing.

In other words, IT.

Hell of a good album. Cycles to Gehenna slaps, fryerstarter is a little surreal. A good chunk of his albums have an instrumental version too.

Metallica - S&M (Symphony and Metallica)

The old one, not the newer one. It’s a live recording.

Metallica and the San Francisco symphony, honestly some of the better versions of their songs are on this album. No Leaf Clover is my favorite from it.

Also, CunninLynguists - Strange Journey volume 3