The advantage of a democracy is not that the people never make a bad choice.

The advantage is that no one is stuck with the bad choice for decades unless they *keep making it.*

We wish you a merry curaga
and a happy raid wipe

Reminds me of my brother and his friend driving through Colorado with the windows down because 32 degrees felt so warm coming from Wyoming's below-zero.

Stay warm ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ🔥

My college biology professor warned us against "going into the mountains and eating whatever mushrooms you find, because my old classmate was very lucky to come out of the coma" and I thought that was weird to tell us but I think that was just the wisdom of the ancients (GenX and drug use)

(Recounting this to family)
"So because it lacks end-to-end encryption, anyone sniffing your data streams could view your data"
"Sniff being the operative word"

I cannot tell those posts from parody, I got one for software dev that was "use AI to make as many lines of code as possible, because the only metric anyone cares about is how many lines of code you've written and it shows how much you can do with AI!"
That's the opposite of good software design!

Sometimes goats really embrace hair metal.

(Trixie got hay stuck on her horns and Elena tried showing her how to shake it off but Trixie thought carrying around a snack was fabulous)

"crappy plywood shield wall is hardly a gun fight"
But rubber bullets and tear gas is orders of magnitude more than I've encounter at a rifle range or shooting with friends in the woods.

During the George Floyd riots in Portland I saw pictures of protestors practicing shield walls on side streets and thought of how much more prepared that showed them for conflict than the average right wing gun owner.
That liberals can (and will) fight isn't something half of them consider

I've done a lot of programming to the top 5 songs and also to LCD Soundsystem albums. Various LRR streams and playthroughs are usually while I'm playing my own games, but sometimes when I'm busy with debugging and the like (hard to focus on programming with lyrics/words unless the song is on repeat)

I've got a 10rd of varmint ammo for basically the same reasons. I'm just being cautious that the coyotes aren't threatening the livestock, not breaking ambush out on patrol.

Him and Elon are constantly battling for the first place slot of my "I'm so embarrassed I once took anything they said seriously" list.

(The only reason it's a battle is because el musko has his named attached to more successful projects so it's easier to explain that than "ooo neat VR headset!")

Ok seriously. Every meeting now. Is he just being old? Did they remix his meds so the Viziers and palace eunuchs can just run wild? Did the ghosts of Epstein Past come to him in the middle of the night robbing him of sleep?