FlyingSquid

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I try to show kindness through my volunteer work, although I've done less of it in the past year since my illness leave me with very little energy and I have to use that to take care of my daughter.

Also, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Funny, I just told this story on a forum elsewhere and this totally reminds me of it:

As an activitst youth in the 1990s, I was in our what was, in retrospect, very silly Bloomington Peace and Justice Center and someone I knew was eating granola out of a bag and offered me some. I tried it and it tasted like soap, so I spat it out.

I told him that and he said, “I found it in a dumpster, so I washed it before I ate it.”

Bear in mind that this wasn’t a guy that had any reason to be eating out of dumpsters. He was either a college student or a college dropout, probably the latter. This was a “I’m not participating in society, man!” sort of thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Does he not go to church?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Betteridge's rule of headlines.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

What the fuck are you even talking about now?

Nothing I said had anything to do with JD Vance or anything Vance has ever said.

And, again, don't fucking tell me how to be a parent. If you do have kids, I wouldn't tell you how to parent them.

But feel free to let me know if you actually do have a queer child. I doubt it since you don't understand the danger they're in, but let me know about them. I'm always happy to talk about my daughter as many here know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I don't have to ask. I just assume whoever I'm talking to hates me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

You sound like you're less Pig and more Rat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

If just you were? It could be either of our fault and would depend on the context.

In this case, it isn't just me who misunderstood. It was a significant number of people. So it's a bit silly to say that it's tons of other people's fault and not yours when you aren't understood.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I think your third question answers your first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I spent a few years retailing on eBay, selling off my father's vast collections (he was like a hoarder, except much of his stuff had actual value) and I had a postal scale for lighter objects since most of the things I was selling were not more than a couple of pounds.

So it looked like a drug scale.

I used to have to show people that it actually said it was a postal scale on it if they came over and asked me if I was dealing drugs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying.

 
 
 
 

I honestly had no idea how much I wanted an Ernie sweater until I saw that ad. It was like, "why haven't I always wanted an Ernie sweater?!"

 

And then all of a sudden, you hear that they’re leaving Milwaukee or they’re leaving wherever they may be located. It’s very sad to see it. And it’s so simple. I mean, you know, this isn’t like Elon with his rocket ships that land within 12 inches on the moon where they wanted to land. Or he gets the engines back. That was the first I realized. I said, “Who the hell did that?” I saw engines about three, four years ago. These things were coming. Cylinders, no wings, no nothing. And they’re coming down very slowly, landing on a raft in the middle of the ocean someplace with a circle. Boom.

Reminded me of the Biden circles that he used to have, right? He’d have eight circles and he couldn’t fill ’em up. But then I heard he beat us with the popular vote. I don’t know. I don’t know. Couldn’t fill up the eight circles. I always loved those circles. They were so beautiful. They were so beautiful to look at. In fact, the person that did them, that was the best thing about his, the level of that circle was great. But they couldn’t get people, so they used to have the press stand in those circles because they couldn’t get the people. Then I heard we lost. Oh, we lost. No, we’re never gonna let that happen again. But we’ve been abused by other countries. We’ve been abused by our own politicians, really, more than other countries.

 
 

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