To be fair: there are home fridges that sell for over $20k, and that wouldn’t be out of place in a $6.5m condo.

“It is racial because the people who carry in the Capitol are primarily white people“

Because the black ones are accosted and harassed if they’re armed? Something I heard a long time ago was that whites fear becoming a minority because they know how minorities are treated. I just find it odd that they use that as a reason to obsessively cling to power instead of trying to make everyone’s lives better.

Back in 2020, Democratic lawmakers requested a change to firearm regulations in the Capitol when armed demonstrators and militia members went into the building demanding an end to COVID-19.

Funny how gun laws and gun restrictions are okay when it comes to protecting lawmakers, but not okay when it comes to protecting schoolchildren.

I think so too!

In other words, they’re going to confirm him. :(

Can you pick it up and deliver it to the new office in person?

But you don’t eat her food, why should she want to?

Just because you changed the clocks back doesn’t mean that time actually changed.

But that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to close the door! You know that, right?

Dan Snow did a short historical thing on it as well.

Umm, both of those articles are from 2020. He’s making slow progress with The Haunted Chocolatier while he continues to tinker with Stardew; I haven’t heard much about the other game.

For the Raj period, there’s also The Jewel in the Crown. For the Company Rule period, there’s Beecham House.

Marvin, is that you?

I saw some professor online, saying that the first victims of fascists are the true believers of the party they grew out of, and to watch for that happening with the Republicans.

In court, expert psychiatrist Laurent Layet, who interviewed 20 of the accused – including Pelicot three times – said they could not be described as “ordinary men…because that would be tantamount to saying that all men are capable of such acts.”

Yes, and? We choose the bear.

It’s a threat that they could also air the pee tapes.

Get a white noise generator app; I use TMSoft’s White Noise, which lets me put together my own mix. I generally make one with some pink noise (like white noise, but pitched differently and for me it does a better job screening background noise); then, because that’s just a straight sound which can get irritating after a while, I put in a rainstorm over the pink noise. Then I add in some thunder, which is useful in helping my sleeping brain ignore bass notes like garbage trucks and vacuum cleaners. That takes care of interrupting sounds, and also helps nudge my brain into sleep mode when I turn it on.

The other thing for me are both blackout curtains and a sleep mask. The sleep mask because the blackout curtains aren’t quite good enough; the blackout curtains because I have to take off the mask to pee during the day and don’t want to get assaulted by the sun.

Phone off silent, obs.

You’re underestimating the amount of misogyny in this country.

Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s first election night message to men was mild. If you know any men who haven’t voted, get them to the polls.

Miller sounded noticeably more panicked when he took to X half an hour later, after the first polls had closed. WHAT ARE YOU DOING RIGHT NOW TO TURN OUT THE TRUMP VOTE? CALLING, TEXTING, EMAILING, DRIVING TO THE POLLS? TURN OUT THE VOTE!!!

And an hour after that, Miller’s tone had reached a fever-pitch as he made a fear-stoking appeal to men and railed against undocumented immigrants in the most inflammatory language possible. Illegals are raping and murdering American children. All the men of America need to fulfill their duty, get to the voting booth, and end the invasion once and for all.

I have committed to a new playthrough of Stardew Valley this week, and shall resurface (politically) over the weekend.

OP, thank you for the unlocked article.

For anyone who doesn’t want to click on the link (the New York Times tech workers are on strike), here is an archive link.