To be fair, cops have no other marketable skills, so rage quitting has more serious consequences than for normal people with transferable skills.

“Good morning, sir! We open at 8am.”

Nope.

If the dems use skullduggery to avoid primaries, they are no longer ‘the lesser evil’ and the old blue-no-matter-who arguments do not apply anymore.

It’s not that deep. Give me a real choice in a primary.

no u

If I were rich enough, my kids wouldn’t care. Money brings all the boys to the yard.

That’s Mr. Porksnort to you, peasant.

Since I am not rich enough to leave an inheritance, my kids will just hate me the usual amount.

Yeah, the federation can sometimes act like shitlibs. I’m certain that colonization in the trek universe is driven by people who get annoyed with the smugness and need a fresh start.

Do any towns in Mass have a bogo deal on marriage licenses? I was thinking of giving bigamy a try.

You are an idiot then, get hoeing. Do you know the difference between a weed and a crop plant? That’s a skill.

Awesome! Any thoughts for ‘intercrural’?

Maybe you can help me find better words that rhyme with ‘frottage’? I’m writing an epic song cycle that details as many ways to get off that don’t involve intromission.

Oh and it’s the 10th already, you can just slip the rent under the door…

I keyed right in on the fact you are in Idaho. I am cis male homo, Idaho raised and spent the first part of my career there and it was rough to be authentic there for me, even with my advantages related to how I am perceived by strangers. So I can only imagine how your situation multiplies the challenges. Being poor in Idaho is hard, it is not really a low cost of living place anymore.

Good luck to you. There are more supportive places, even in the US, but I will not pretend that picking up and moving to a new city is easy in any way. It also entails risks, no matter how promising the new world may be.

I have also moved a lot, partly because it gave me the opportunity to continually re-invent myself and find the identity I need to feel good in myself after an abusive upbringing.

So, none of this is advice or a recommendation for what you should do. Just expressing support. Keep reaching out to people, online and in real life. That would be my only advice, I guess.

You are 100% a human being and you have a right to exist.

‘They’ do want it to happen. Ordinary USians are gettng uppity and need to be taken down a peg.

The global elite don’t really need anything specific from the US anymore. For a brief moment, the world needed our higher education system, which is why anyone under 60 who went to grad school had lots of non-US folks in their cohorts. Those folks have gone back home in large part so there are plenty of skilled experts in critical fields internationally.

The US has no remaining unique resources, be they skilled people or natural resources. So we need to be dealt with since many of us still hold on to quaint notions like ‘freedom’, ‘autonomy’ and ‘living wage’.

It means you only do weed and shrooms

Yep, that’s the formula. I imagine that I was the most oblivious, most irritable random person and park defensively according to that perspective.

I think we need to give kids more credit for being able to handle nuance, too. I clearly remember being amused as a tyke at the efforts of adults to ‘protect’ me from things I already knew quite a lot about.

I never needed anyone to explain to me just how risible Mickey Rooney’s character in Breakfast at Tiffany’s was. I had only met a few folks of asian background by that point in real life and it was hard to even tell what he was parodying. It had no relation to even my limited exposure to non-white cultures and people.

“Ancient Chinese secret, huh?” IYKYK

Frenemy != Friend

At best a frenemy is a useful distraction to keep them tied down.

The bots sound like you, not the other way around. They can get their own style, buncha clanker wannabes

At worst they will get a talking to

Stop them? Or drop subtle hints as to how to do it correctly and teach some basic physics at the same time?