You don’t understand! Epstein told them no one would find out that they were raping children. He lied to them, so they’re victims too!

/s

There’s a sex offender who likes to barge into underage girls’ changing rooms when they’re naked. Perhaps we should all report him.

It’s working fine making money for people who already have enough. What do you think it should be doing?

He’s rotting from the soul out.

If it’s not easy being green, I can’t imagine how difficult orange is.

Just let go and blame it on the dog!

My parents would do that routinely, but we didn’t mind because it was usually asking the lines of, “Hey, we were in the area, and we realized it’s been awhile since we took you out for an expensive meal you could never afford on your own. Do you have time to go out for dinner?”

I can’t think of a time when it bothered us.

However, I have a “GO AWAY!” doormat at the front door for everyone else.

Good choice!

I was going through DVDs at the thrift store at the end of November, I found Lawrence of Arabia, and was surprised that I didn’t already have it in my Emby server.

I’m pretty sure my parents have stopped getting vaccinated.

We had a surprise anniversary party for them in summer, and they came up to me to tell me that Tylenol causes autism.

I still have the headache from the facepalm.

You used to hear people in other countries say they have nothing against the American people, they just hate the American government.

The reality is, the American government is the American people. The enormous effort that goes into gerrymandering and screwing with voter registration just goes to show that it is still a democracy, and the pieces of shit running things are the pieces of shit we picked.

Even with all the gerrymandering and rigging that goes on, they still needed a metric shit ton of fuckwits to vote for them. If Americans weren’t astoundingly stupid, we wouldn’t be in the situation we’re in.

However, don’t everyone go patting yourselves on the back just yet. Stupid isn’t limited to America.

Interesting. Added to my list!

Honestly, my natural tendency is towards laziness, so if I wasn’t in the situation I’m in, I might not be so strict about vaccines. However, I work for a hospital, so flu shots are mandatory, and since it’s easy enough to just go in to work and get flu and COVID vaccines, I do it every year.

I’m also not an idiot, so I trust the scientific process more than I trust the average Internet asshole.

I feel like Die Hard doesn’t reach epic status.

Great movie, but I don’t think it has the depth of story that an epic needs.

I think it shows the difference between an epic and a blockbuster. Die Hard was definitely a blockbuster.

When I think of an epic, I’m thinking of something that goes beyond just a great movie: Gone With the Wind, Dr. Zhivago, How the West Was Won, etc. Something that makes you feel like you lived a life while watching it.

Ooo…I hadn’t thought of that. That’s a good one.

Ironically, that’s the only way his death would get a modicum of sympathy from most of the country.

I don’t think there’s really any chance, but I’ve reached the point where I want things to get so bad that we actually elect enough progressive politicians to actually fix what’s wrong.

I truly believe in democracy, even though it has been fucking up lately. I think having a bloodless revolution every 2-4 years via elections is infinitely superior to having to actually build guillotines. At the same time I also think there’s a point where interfering with the process for bloodless revolutions makes bloody revolutions inevitable.

The current administration is both homicidally incompetent, and completely out of touch, so there’s a chance that the pressure will keep increasing until a fault forms and the ensuing catastrophe shakes the electorate out of their current stupidity enough to elect progressive people who will actually run the country for the people.

The alternative is the slow sleepwalk into slavery that we’ve been doing for decades.

The effort to gerrymander the shit out of everything is actually a positive sign: it shows that even the sociopaths running things understand that elections still matter. If elections still matter, the people are still in control.

Unfortunately, most of the people are mouth-breathing morons.

I was a computer nerd from way back. Took summer school classes in programming when I was in middle school. I was the one nerd in the class who did not go expecting to be playing computer games.

I’m college I got a degree in computer science and graduated shortly after the term, “McJob”, was popularized. I sent out a hundred resumes, got two interviews, and one offer.

The offer I got was for a job as a DB admin for a university medical research center. Obviously, I accepted.

The university was a perfect place for me to start. When I asked when I should show up, the business admin of the center was obviously confused by the question. She ended up telling me that most people started around 9am, but it was clear it was up to me.

I continued working there for about five years. I found out from my boss that mine was one of hundreds of resumes they received, but I stood out because I had included a cover letter explaining why I was a good fit for the job. He thought that I wrote the cover letter just for that job, but it was just a quick and dirty mail-merge document that I generated for the hundred resumes I sent out, which actually kind of did show I was the right choice.

After about five years there, it was time to move on, but I stayed at the university. I ended up applying for a system administrator job in a research lab (robotics and computer vision systems) at the graduate computer science department. One day I decided to walk over and drop off a resume for that job. I figured there would be a receptionist desk where I could just leave the resume, so I just walked over in jeans and a T-shirt. However there was no receptionist desk, and the person I ended up handing my resume to had me sit down and he interviewed me right then.

After a couple years there, I changed jobs again. That time I technically left the university, taking a job in the university’s health system. I’ve been here now for more than a quarter century.

For the vast majority of my career, I’ve been free to work how I’d like, implementing solutions with very little interference from my management.

I happened to start at the health system when they still offered a defined-benefit pension, so I’ve got that to look forward to when I retire. There’s also no better health insurance than what I have from my employer. In the US, my wife and I had three kids, all born at the university hospital, with no fees charged beyond my employee contribution to the premiums.

When the pandemic hit, while other employers were desperate to get their employees back in the office, our CEO was asking why they should pay for expensive office space if the employees working there could do the same work from home. Consequently, I now work full time from home and only go in 2-3 times a month.

Also, when I joined the health system, they had just experienced an absolutely massive financial loss two years in a row. The university was considering selling the health system. However, they recovered, and the leadership has operated since with the same frugal care that you’d see in a grandparent who lived through the Great Depression. It’s like the entire organization has PTSD. They never wanted to have to have layoffs again. When the pandemic hit and other hospitals in the area stumbled or failed, ours was able to continue to grow, even paying out bonuses to the employees.

I wish more countries’ leaders would do this.

It’s the lack of a soul.

President Pedophile’s threat seems like the perfect reason to defy him.