Exactly, these ghouls want to ban treatment because it prevents suicide, it isn’t remotely about protecting children

I think that what is… idk, encouraging? about it is that we finally saw them flinch. After years of seeing justice go unserved and the villains thumb their nose at the law with full confidence that they’ll walk away unscathed, we got to see a slight chill, like they just learned that they may be mortal after all. Unfortunately, it’s also shown that the institutions can’t be trusted to do the right thing, and as long as they continue to be as feckless as they are, we’re going to see more of this. So, ultimately, inadvertently, the institutions are encouraging this vigilantism.*

I fully expect this to fade away soon as our “society” has the collective attention span of a dust mite, but we have to celebrate small victories wherever they come.

*or they could be encouraging it intentionally as a means to further break down our foundations </tinfoil>

I saw a comment somewhere saying Trump will immediately pardon our hooded modern folk hero… we need to form a team for Olympic-level mental gymnastics with the galaxy brain takes some of these jamokes have

There seems to be a small glut of options, but so far the ones I hear about that are decent-to-good come from We Are Rewind or Fiio. They both use the same mechanism that pretty much all portable cassette players have been using for the last couple of decades because no one else is developing anything new, but they use better materials (e.g., metal flywheel instead of plastic, electromagnetic erase head instead of permanent magnet).

That said, if you want things like Dolby noise reduction, a more sophisticated mechanism, and whatnot, you’re gonna want to bide your time and hunt for something vintage, hopefully refurbished. And be aware that the less you pay, the more likely you’ll need to do some maintenance.

[edit] yeah wow don’t go looking for something like the Sony WM DD9 above; I’m seeing them listing from $1200 to closer to $2k, with the only item I’ve seen going for under a grand being sold for parts only

The finale would leave loose ends as long as the cables they’re frayed from, and season 2 will either be canceled or cut short so huge compromises will have to be made and nothing is properly resolved

Isn’t much of the power of the Maiar in diplomacy and setting events in motion? Gandalf was as much of an interloper and manipulator as he was anything else, and his hiring Bilbo as a thief was the penultimate piece of his mission, as inadvertent as I’m not entirely sure it was. Right? No, really, I’m kinda asking, I don’t know for sure.

Beginning-earth and End-earth

Guess where we are

Normally I’d say that I don’t want this to happen to a bunch of people who don’t deserve it, but drinking raw milk is preventable and not contagious, and therefore entirely self-contained, right? So yeah, sow those seeds, guys, I’m totally owned.

[preface and disclaimer: I’m remembering off the top of my head something I read over 30 years ago, details may not be exactly correct]

Not sure whether you remember the chapter of Sideways Stories from Wayside School, by Louis Sachar, in which there was a student who nobody liked, who was a real asshole and wore a stinky raincoat. The kids kept trying to take off his raincoat, but underneath was another, stinkier raincoat, just layers and layers of progressively stinky raincoats, and with every raincoat removed, the kid just became a bigger asshole and his laugh louder and more high-pitched.

At the very end, he turned out to be a dead rat in a pile of stinky raincoats.

That’s what the whole administration is shaping up to be. Except we knew this was coming and allowed it to happen, so I guess that, ultimately, we are the dead rat.

Boom! Mic drop! Stephen King EVISCERATES loser Elon in this EPIC post on X Formerly Known As Twitter!

[gif of that person clapping, you should know which one, everyone posted it endlessly every time Chrissy Teigen or those Krassenstein fucks threw some meaningless shade] hats off to this brave hashtag Resister for doing something that everyone should have fucking done three years ago at the very latest

I’m done, fuck everything, fuck everyone

What if she was just there to sell dick pills, like any normal patriotic American? I can’t believe one would need an invite to sell dick pills! Surely, Mr Tate, that can’t be harassment, can it?

Fuck it, nothing matters anymore; they’ll do “something” and we’ll vote him in again

Who cares whether he’ll be 82 by then, age clearly wasn’t the issue this time

I’m not sure I”m ready to call anyone “trustworthy” at this juncture

I have a sinking feeling a lot will just be skipping the cult part

I’d venture that the same can be said for those who put their hopes in gen z

Who’s to say it’s not just going to be a repeat of the Dubya/Cheney dynamic? Trump’s just gonna sit there eating fish delites and double-fisting diet cokes, rage-watching RSBN, and just soaking, marinating in his filth. Meanwhile, Stephen Miller is going to snarf down a handful of chidren’s teeth for breakfast,* crack his knuckles for forty-five minutes, and decide which urban center gets hit with the first big wave of avian flu.

*he waits until sunset before he unhinges his jaw and swallows a dog whole

Women are too emotional to be president? Shit man, maga and their current figurehead are fueled by extremely volatile emotion, no matter how much they crow about facts vs feelings. Rage is an emotion, and it’s what’s driven the movement for years before it even had a name. Citing emotionality as a reason not to elect a woman is just an excuse—a very poor one, at that—and everyone knows it.

The emoji was standing in for the “A” for “ackshully”

Welp, got my number; I wasn’t fully aware, and that’s my mistake. In that case, yeah, by all means, fourteenth that bastard the hell out of office. Too bad our legislature comprises cowards, halfwits, and enablers.

This was the true election interference all along. What a goddamned joke. When they say the wheels of justice turn slowly, they never said the wheels were taken off and the rusted out frame of the Camaro IROC was sitting on cinder blocks. Fuck all of this shit.