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Thos’re called florets. And they’re delicious!

Thank goodness it’s not a bullet- that’d violate Batman’s moral prohibition on guns!

Sister, we got a sizable buffer!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Trade_Centers

Free breakfast ends at 10, but I’ll be damned if I dont eat it and go straight back to bed.

Bah! Use a particular state if you know it. Otherwise American serves as well as European.

I’m pretty sure that anyone making things labelled ‘hotdog buns’ instead of rolls isn’t paid enough to afford rent, let alone a sense of pride in their work.

Well, it came from the state of Chihuahua, naturally. Just don’t ask how it’s made.

Fuck you (midwest), fuck you (south), fuck you (mid-atlantic), you’re cool (maine), i’m out.

I thought this one was going to be the one about mermaid bone farming.

So I know with a rather high degree of certainty I’m ace, but I continue to have trouble untangling aromanticism from my aversion to people and mild paranoia.

Maybe you just missed it by a few pixels - did you try again, but more carefully?

Today’s my introduction to this as well, but I agree with the timestamp motion so I can determine how things have changed since the posting (not relevant here) or how behind the curve I am in terms of online culture.

No of course not. Things are what they are.

The Democrats’ long-term planning skills are not in question here, but they must recognize that they cannot enact those long-term plans without access to the levers of power- and that short term concessions must be made to that end.

As for voters: we all wish they thought more and weren’t constantly led around by the nose, but both facts and feelings are part of their individual calculus for support. Obama was carried in on feelings of hope which vibed with the zeitgeist. Trump came in on a presentation of a strong figure (that we know to be false) that complements the uncertainty about the future that Obama left behind when hope kinda petered out over his term.

The feelings in this case are critical because we know politicos cannot possibly keep all their (sometimes contradictory) campaign promises and they cannot voice their position on every issue. So it falls to the voters to suss out what priorities and allegiances the politician has and how they will respond to any given event.

Inflation has largely been controlled during that period, but real wages have stagnated since at least the housing crisis of '08. It doesn’t make a lick of difference how well inflation is managed to the poors when buying power is lost.

Pandemic (and even prior) economic malaise is not the fault nor legacy of the Democrats necessarily, but political cynicism bites both ways, and is a lot harder to overcome when the party tells you economic factors are looking up and asks you to wait it out for an uncertain boom in the future.

Yes, Republican (esp. MAGA) policies and mentalities make that promised economic future dicier, but they deliver a feeling of doing something.

I live in Mississippi. Only the one ‘S’ is silent.

For realz, I’m not a Democrat! I just vote for them in primaries and general elections and defend them when those mean ol’ leftists come around.

The Democratic party may be a big tent party with values of varying progressive pedigree, but the adage of lying with dogs and getting fleas applies.

Cat with a Batman cowl. Cute.

Fuck yeah! Time to join the Illuminati for a lunch date or whatever.

Buddy, my knees were fucked long ago. Breaking them now isn’t gonna change much.