Essentially, you’re saying “Why feel sorry for people who died in car accidents? Didn’t they make the choice knowing the outcome?”

Yes, yes, people don’t choose to get in a car accident, but people don’t choose to overdose either. People choose to drive from point A to point B, and everyday people die doing exactly that. Statistically, it might be safer to do drugs than get your driver’s license.

The only difference is how much you can relate with the people. If you can’t see yourself in them, it’s not nearly as tragic.

The trick is to put half in one end, and the rest in the other.

Cowabunga, Rufus!

I was as surprised and disappointed as anyone, and I think we WILL take a few more steps backwards over the next few years, but I don’t expect an unstoppable fall into fascism.

Most of the votes for Trump weren’t actually FOR Trump. They were against the current situation they are in. They see him as the revolution. The anti-politician that will bring real change. They think all his court battles are the “Man” trying to hold him down and keep him from disrupting a system that gave up on its people long ago.

Of course that’s all bullshit, but, assuming that all “normal” people can see through his lies and that only evil, woman hating racists would support him, is a big part of why he was elected.

Trump denied Project 2025 because he knew most people wouldn’t want it. (Honestly, I would be surprised if he even knew what was in it) If he lets the Christian nationalists push that whole agenda on day one, he’ll become the oppressive government that is taking away their freedoms. And nothing is more important to Trump than making Trump look good.

My mom is the same way. I’ve actually spelled it out for her multiple times with multiple examples.

“When you do this, it affects these people in this way.”

And all I got was “Why are you so mean to me? It’s not MY fault they took it personally!”

I haven’t cut her out completely, but I don’t reach out to her unless I ABSOLUTELY have to.

I feel for you. It took me 40 years to learn how toxic she is, and it’s not easy to watch someone who you thought was there for you become the biggest villain in your life.

Party on, Garth!

Although Bill and Ted frequently said both “party time” and “excellent”, Wayne’s World wrote “Party time, excellent” into their theme song. So, the phrase “Party time, excellent!” started with Wayne’s world.

But really, the ninja turtles were saying all of that before any of those guys.

There were a few times I was staying up late to play WoW and the computer fan would start talking. Not saying any words, but like listening to the Sims talk.

My brother and I would set the other up just so we could see new cut scenes!

Pawns don’t often take queens and kings without a little help.

Maybe you’re just bad at bowling and the bad controls on the Wii compensated for it! 😂

The novelty of it was amazing, and as fun as you remember, but I also remember my Wii collecting dust not too long after we got it.

I believe that Trump doesn’t know what’s in Project 2025,

But I’m damn sure Vance helped write it.

Rape and fraud should be higher on the list.

Holy shit. Just looked at your history. Congratulations! You get to cut ahead to the front of the blocked line!

I should give them another go. My half assed research involved googling them and listening to some snippets of songs. None of them really grabbed me, so I didn’t dig much deeper.

I’ll look up what you mentioned. Thanks!

Siblings share the same parents, so probably not.

You’re most likely Xth cousins Y removed.

I’m not checking things for peer review, but a lot of bullshit can be filtered out by a simple Google search. If Aunt Brenda posts a major event on Facebook, but it’s not on any news site, she probably fell for a lie.

Although I understand the downvotes for “alternative medicine”, I wouldn’t mind an update in a few weeks, just out of curiosity.

Is there anything to this? Did you get results? Keep track of it “for science” and let us know what you think.

I started noticing that years ago. Most of them sound like teenage drama set in an adult world, so I just figured they were kids making up stories to get clicks and karma.

Or childish adults. Hard to tell sometimes.

Under corporate ownership, I imagine that scenario would have gone more like:

Please donate $10 to help volunteer amateur radio enthusiasts use our frequencies to help search for missing people. For every $10 donation, we will volunteer 10 min airtime.

What’s it pay? Give me a ban hammer and one week, and I’ll get rid of them Nazis for you!