In Douglas Rushkoff’s book “Survival of the Richest” he talks about the survival ideas of these rich morons he talked to at some event. They were discussing strategies to keep security guards loyal in a post apocalyptic scenario. Shit like shock collars, timed safes, anything besides treating them well. It’s a good book.

They’d rather keep driving us towards an apocalypse they wouldn’t survive than do something to avoid it.

I really don’t believe SCOTUS would have let Biden get away with that. They wrote that decision is such a weasely way that it gave Trump practical immunity, but allows them to decide when it applies to other presidents.

Still I agree that if Democrats actually cared about things they’d consistently force SCOTUS to overturn popular policies, if only to show the public they’re simply unelected political actors.

They have a stronger version than the US because lawyers can argue for it to the jury. In the US they aren’t allowed to do it, and most states have model jury instructions that tell them they are not allowed to ignore the law because they think it unjust.

https://sci-hub.st/10.1016/j.urology.2008.10.057

I think the anti-Covid vax nonsense has made it so a lot of people wouldn’t take *any *future vaccine. Even if it were an even more deadly virus, even if right wing media wanted to push it, most of them are just too brainwormed now.

I will not touch grass, no matter how nice you make it sound

I am so ready for local apples. Supermarket apples have been garbage lately. Even fujis, which are usually consistently mid, have been mealy trash.

My old internet provider had a function on their website that would do something to fix your Internet connection from their end. I lost internet one day and went to use it, but they replaced the mobile version of their website with a page telling me to download the app. Fine, I’ll download the app, which is clearly just a wrapper for the website. But for some reason you can’t access that function through the app.

I read a story where an elderly dementia patient died during a helicopter ambulance ride that cost more than value of the family home. The craziest part is that insurance would have paid a fraction of the price, but the ambulance service had no reason to negotiate with an estate that had an asset to take.

Normally I wouldn’t feel too bad about someone not getting their inheritance, but the daughter had moved in to keep her mom from going to a nursing home.

I read this last week. I’m still having a hard time processing my thoughts on it. It’s clearly a brilliantly written book, but I feel like I’d need to read it again to really understand it.

I knew I was getting into a dark book, but damn it fucked with my mood.

I went to a tourist thing where you can ride a train up a mountain. They offered us the option to ride on one pulled by an old steam locomotive that they only run on special occasions.

It was really cool looking, but I wasn’t prepared for the amount of smoke involved. The train cars were open and I felt like I smoked the equivalent of 500 cigarettes on that short ride.

I’ve been getting logged out a lot too. It seems to happen after Hexbear is having server issues.

Once again, the conservative, berry-heavy portfolio pays off for the hungry investor!

$500 for one day seems like a good deal. They can’t force you to keep showing up, right?

Doesn’t that seem like low qualifications? I would have assumed you’d need some kind of experience and education.

That said, I’m completely in favor of incompetent people guarding US politicians

You’d be surprised at how often that doesn’t protect people.

Prevent it by dealing with the source of the moisture, which is likely the shower if it’s only in the bathroom. If you have a bathroom exhaust fan, use that during and after showers. Opening a window can help if you don’t have one.

When my vent fan died last winter, I used a small dehumidifier because the moisture got really bad. Dehumidifiers take a fair bit of energy, but that energy is converted to heat, so it’s basically the same as using electric heat.

That was my experience with therapy. The only thing I ever got from it was someone to talk to when I was completely isolated. Everything else felt very unsuited to the seriousness of my problems.

My guess is that they just don’t have the tools to really help with serious mental health problems. I have no real knowledge of what therapists are taught, but it seems like therapy is really more geared toward helping with less serious issues.

One thing I noticed is that there is no kind of consistency of treatment. They all seem to be just trying different unproven things and deciding what they think works. I’ve had therapists that want you to find some kind of spirituality, want you to try some weird device, want you to fill out worksheets, even had one that wanted me to smile in a particular way. It’s the wild west out there.

I get why Republicans think inflation is a good thing to campaign on, but what are they saying they’ll do about it? It made more sense when they were blaming it on the stimulus checks, but nobody thinks more checks are coming, and Trump did the stimulus checks.

Maybe American voters are just stupid enough that saying “shit is all fucked up” when the opposition is in power earns a vote.