Add in Missouri while you’re at it.

I was looking at this picture going “Bella Vista or Eureka?” before the posts were telling about NC.

Trump literally said last time he was President take the guns first, due process second. maga crowd still gargling.

We’re going to take the firearms first and then go to court, because that’s another system. Because a lot of times by the time you go to court … it takes so long to go to court to get the due process procedures. I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida; he had a lot of fires [and] they saw everything. To go to court would have taken a long time, so you could do exactly what you’re saying but take the guns first, go through due process second.

-President Donald J Trump

I mean… that’s a good fucking sell still.

I don’t have any illusions he doesn’t want to get higher up. I don’t have any illusions that he’d motorboat a few billionaires to get richer. But right now any step in the right direction is a far better situation than we’re in right now.

At that age, I was trying my hardest to figure out what I’m doing, to be together like the older adults.

I’m 39, I don’t have a clue what I’m doing and I’m more together than most of my coworkers, many who are older than me.

We’re all just trying to figure it out, so when you look up and think you don’t know what you’re doing, you’re with everyone. And if you know someone who says they have everything together and don’t have any issues, be wary as they likely have a lot of blind spots to their life.

EVE is one of those games that early on it’s tutorial was essentially ‘Here’s a spaceship, go fuck yourself.’ When they say you can do whatever the hell you want, it’s really not joking. There are people who live in JITA (most populace system) purely doing scams, or running markets. You have people who go into piracy or try to build massive empires.

I knew a guy who his entire playing of the game was making ammo to sell. There was a corp who’s entire thing was doing PVP but with a bend to “Customer service”, as in “Here is your complimentary missile delivery.” and after blowing you up sending you a request to fill a survey on how the customer service was.

So it’s a game that really is what you put in it. The reason I had to quit is it’s a massive time sink. It’s definitely not a game of “Oh, I’ve got about 30 minutes, let me hop on.”

This is EVE we’re talking about. This is honestly one of the more benign if not weird habits.

This is the game where to join a corp you nearly needed a resume so people could make sure you weren’t a spy because months to years infiltration processes happen in this game. Or just rampant piracy.

Exactly this.

In Eve Online, when a capsule was destroyed, a frozen corpse was left behind.

I knew someone who would go around collecting corpses. A battle is going, he’d be out there scooping them up. He’s running a hauler, and this was the day that when your ship got destroyed, every bit of loot went out in individual units, so when a pirate would try to shake him down he’d respond with “If you blow me up, you’ll crash back to desktop.”

That was how he played the game, gathering corpses.

I mean… I’m not going to argue the fall of the US isn’t stupider than the fall of Rome…

But I will argue the fall of the US started back when Reconstruction was stopped. Just took a while for the confederates to win.

I’m a pessimist and past few years have been showing how it can get worse even when I can’t imagine how much worse it can get.

There’s only one guarantee, as long as there are two people on the planet, it CAN get worse.

FWIW this is why I think it’s so important to keep the farmers and union workers on our side.

WHELP

Hell, we imported a few of them from Germany.

I stopped trusting that from 2020. I thought there was hope for people then they turned around and voted again.

It’s a broad statement, but when I saw that about obviously not living in the south. I got out, but guys… it’s bleak down there…

We want change, we have got to get the neo-confederacy out. The biggest church is still the Catholics which they’ve swayed to the Republicans side with single issue of abortion, but the US is mostly protestant and the biggest protestant church is the southern baptist church. The church that literally was formed during the Civil War so they could continue to say slavery wasn’t a sin. And it is the kudzu of religion down there.

Seriously… if you live in an area where a nuanced view is possible, good for you. And I can understand trying to lower the temperature… but if you have people that are in the left side of Christianity… there needs to be some serious outreach work to try to bring some sanity to the evangelicals to the country.

I don’t expect much, but to keep an idea I keep wandering over to the conservative areas.

The Epstein Files are the only thing I’ve seen he’s not been able to shake off from his cult.

Wow, obvious to me some people haven’t been camping before, that or were miserable the entire time. That looks pretty freaking awesome!

I read it somewhere that anyone talking rule of law or the Constitution anymore is starting to sound like sovereign citizens, waving a document around like it’s a magic shield that in reality does absolutely nothing.

I would like to disagree with this thought process, but I can’t.

The millennials were robbed of their chance on the world stage by the boomers.

Gen X over there like “What the fuck!?!” (I’m a millennial, I get the plight.)