I feel like Wilhoit's Law is in the mix here…

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

Some will always need to be in the first group.

Car brain should be in the next version of the DSM. Seattle has a bad case of it.

I like “denied.” Adds to his sense of entitlement to me.

Perhaps a light rinse would have sufficed?
mediamythalert.com/tag/light-ri...

This is it. No pension and social security under attack as long as anyone can remember means you need to preserve that one asset…if you can get one. And attacking anything that them think threatens it — density, public transit — makes people act crazy.

they don't necessarily use the public transport or bikes…the often take cans and stay in American-branded hotels. They don't go to Europe so much as bring a bubble of the USA with them.

Do Texas next…
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.

Somewhere I read this described as "airportland" in the exact same terms.

I think someone gave him a thesaurus. Never give pretentious twits a thesaurus.

You too? I read all the books and I got a female presenting (w a military haircut) character which to me explained some of the crew’s confusion about how to interact. There is *so much* about human weirdness as seen by a non-human the show will not get.

Could start w FDR’s second bill of rights that he never got to put into law.

Laser printers are well under $100 if all you need is b/w. And toner doesn’t dry up. Not that you asked for a solution but on the off-chance someone is interested.

They do. Which is why the claim that people vote against "their own self-interests" is specious. Some people will vote for white supremacy, patriarchy, even a reduction in the power of their own vote. All rights come with responsibilities…voting infers an educated thoughtful exercise of it.

I was born in a log cabin I built myself.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buggins... is a thing.

Define “going well.” For some it means more immigrant roundups. For others, more $ in their pocket.

No, not everyone in the red districts voted R. But those who did see their neighbors and their neighbors’ kids more than the person they voted for.