In the sense of needing a yearly booster, it’s just like the flu. Immunity doesn’t last forever, and changes in prevailing strains make your extant immunity less effective.

Eh. If you have to work to live, you’re Going Through It at some point. And everyone will be Going Through It when their body fails them eventually. There’s just a lot more openness here than a lot of other modern forums.

So, my great uncle passed last year, and since he didn’t have a will resolving his estate has been a mess.

They are finally clearing out his home, including his gun collection. There’s a list of guns, and I saw that there was a Norinco SKS on that list. Given the recent events, it was too funny not to request.

I thought that the first Trump shooter might have been a NAFO, which was proven incorrect, but it’s hilarious that this one is as NAFO as you can get.

I still like Chapo. I appreciate that they had much better takes on the genocide and war in Palestine from the get-go versus others in their class of radlibs/socdems/demsocs. I definitely agree that they are more radically, and one of the few mainstream podcasts that unapologetically supports the armed resistance. It’s definitely a politics themed entertainment podcast now, as opposed to anything with a program. After Bernie became washed, the dry boys lost all hope. The only suggestions that they (sarcastically) bring up is to hope for a Chavez/Gaddafi figure (they also supported the Uncommitted movement, but that did jack-squat in shifting the Democrat party line on Palestine.)

Knowing Sirota’s radlib, zionist politics, that one was a total skip.

Just like Felix.

So, I finally headed my vet’s advice and got my cats teeth cleaning. Unfortunately, one of my cats had a bad reaction when being taken out of the kennel. I normally take him out myself, but that wasn’t possible since I had to be at work, and I had to drop off the cats in the morning at the vet. He hit his face so hard that I actually cracked one of his canine teeth, and it had to be removed.

Fortunately, the vet comp’d that additional dental surgery and pain medicine. I wish it was there so that it didn’t happen, but I was more scared about the anesthesia and that ended up being fine. It’s not like he uses those teeth for much anyways (indoor cat on dry food). I now have two cats on pain medicine, they are very sleepy. I was worried about the other cat, since she is really tuckered out from the pain medication, but she was able to get into the liter box and go to the bathroom on her, so I think she’s okay.

First rule of committing cool crimes on the Internet:

1. Do not talk about your cool crimes on the Internet.

Boxing was initially taken off the 2028 Olympic program due to the IOC’s dispute the with International Boxing Association. Basically, the IOC wants to have an alternative governing body for the sport.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/boxing/65838021

https://apnews.com/article/olympics-boxing-los-angeles-2028-iba-dbd2a1d19715881d0718353092d03a9d

Yeah, I’ve definitely noticed that in the past.

Trump as reverse Guaido is becoming more real by the day:

“If something happens with this election, which would be a horror show, we’ll meet the next time in Venezuela, because it’ll be a far safer place to meet than our country,” Trump said to Musk. “OK, so we’ll go. You and I will go, and we’ll have a meeting and dinner in Venezuela.”

Trump had alleged that Venezuela has released violent criminals from its jails and sent them to the United States to reduce its own crime rate.

“Their crime rate is coming down and our crime rate is going through the roof. And it’s so simple. And you haven’t seen anything yet because these people have come into our country and they’re just getting acclimated and they don’t know about being politically correct, law enforcement or lack of law enforcement and our police. I have to just end with this. We have great police,” he said.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-flee-venezuela-loses-election-elon-musk-interview-1938321

Abbas and the Palestinian Authority are Israeli puppets used by the zionist entity to help police and discipline the West Bank. There are wings of Fatah, including its armed wing, that aren’t in line with Abbas/the PA, but overall the organization is mostly compradors at this point.

Death

I tried play-by-post in high school, but I was real flighty and had too short of an attention span, so all those games fell apart pretty quickly.

I just started a play-by-post campaign recent using Discord, and it’s been a lot of fun. We’re playing a mystery/investigation game, so there’s less of an emphasis on 2D grid combat (which can be a real sticking point/weakness of traditional PbP).

I’ve seen Joe Rogan and Tim Pool. Idk who else.

What would the GOP even do? Vance is obviously unacceptable on the top of the ticket, both to the general public and the majority of the GOP’s factions. They’ve already had the convention.

Would be hilarious if they somehow turn what was a likely win a few months ago to destroying the party.

Are they going to pick and choose which subreddits get paywalled, or pull some revenue sharing scheme with the moderators to get them to voluntarily paywall their subs? I could see the latter “working” by getting enough buy-in with super-users.

If the Ukrainians do interrupt the gas flow, wouldn’t that have massive political blowback? There’s no “plausible” deniability like Nordstream.