What the hell are you talking about? That’s clearly a zebra.

“Bullet votes” completely jibe with the narrative that a small but significant percentage of Trump voters are willfully low-information, so un-invested in the democratic process that they can’t be bothered to take the time even to vote a straight party ticket, and think that voting for a single strong-man will fix all their problems. The non-electoral factors behind all this are deeply troubling, and many of them are criminal, but for the actual voting there’s no need to invent a conspiracy when simple shittiness will do.

Jax Beach isn’t bad at all, but it’s not world famous for a reason. It’s the “Eric Foreman’s basement” of beaches. :-)

I haven’t been back to town in a while, and anyway I grew up south of Duval County and west of the river, so there was more fresh water and Saint Augustine Beach in my childhood, but I’m fond of Jax Beach too.

Love all of these. You’ve captured the timeless “meh” of Jax Beach in an ethereal, nicely poignant way. Did you happen to catch a shot of Rexy the Dino mascot on the way out on Beach Blvd, or did you come down A1A?

Definitely enough sugar in THAT.

Do tomatoes even have enough sugar to ferment into a usable amount of alcohol without “spiking” the juice first?

50+ hours, when a loved one went into septic shock several years ago (they eventually got better). When they were stabilized and I was finally able to sleep, I just basically said “okay, now is fine” to the darkness creeping in from my peripheral vision every time I closed my eyes and let it finish doing so. I was asleep within a few seconds.

I looked through a few of the materials. Just like Florida’s slavery materials from a year ago, it uses dark patterns and weasel words to make it seem like it’s no big deal. There’s shit like, “The Christian Bible claims a man named Jesus was born in a manager because there was no room in the inn and when he grew up his followers viewed him as the messiah, and eventually the entire Roman Empire became Christian.”

There’s also a pointlessly long description (unless you know what the real point is) of how the Apostle Paul used the Roman road network, first to persecute Christians than after something (wink wink) happened, to spread Christianity.

It’s gross.

I still have a 4gb Eye-Fi that use just as an SD card to shuttle files out to my laser cutter. I assume the wi-Fi would be horrendously slow and insecure if it worked at all. Was pretty cool when we still had a standalone P&S digital camera though.

Ol’ Phil may have a tiny vestigial conscience, and I do mean tiny, but it still may be disqualifying for this administration.

there are relatively few doctors in the billionaire class

And HOO BOY do some of them know it! 🤣

The broader point is well taken, though.

One, surgeons were already the dumb jocks of the medical community, relatively speaking. I know he’s got some legitimately brilliant feathers in his cap, but that brings us to…

Two, other than techbros, MD’s are maybe the worst offenders in the category of “I’m smart about some things, therefore I can easily intuit my way to mastery of all things, I have no blind spots, and my prejudices are simply common sense.”

Three, the man has been in a fame bubble for twenty plus years now.

Gotta trust the experts on something like this.

or Josh. 🤣

Here’s an interview with a good number of the paintings. Del’s Jesus has BLUE EYES sometimes. 🙄

You’re not wrong, but I was very much regretting my decision to search for giraffe centaurs at all, and Ms. Curly was a safe enough option with the proportions I was trying to communicate.

It’s almost like the “better” airlines already know how much you can shit on the customer base and survive. Pretty much everybody I know who has ever taken a Spirit flight has told me they never want to do it again.

You’re closer to right than you know. This is “The Olive Press” by (in)famous white-Jesus Mormon painter Del Parson. The man paints Jesus through a very, very thick lens of the American Mountain West.

For the record, I had to look up the specific painting, but I grew up LDS, and red-robe white-guy mullet Jesus is a Parson trademark.

Mastodon has a certain level of federated connectivity with Lemmy, but it’s also a Twitter alternative, similar in that way to BlueSky. Lemmy (or mBin) is the Reddit alternative.

If it does work, though, it’ll be pretty sweet.