Come January, that list is gonna be full of really, really weird choices for President.

No, there’s nothing wrong with you.

One of my close friends (originally online only) has a similar problem and early on she even got me thinking she was angry at me just from the harshness of her voice, but turns out that’s just kind of how she sounds and our group of friends accept her. She prefers her online persona, though, since she does hate herself and how she looks. I think she gets a lot of self loathing from her strict, stressed out single mom.

I think her online persona helps her get over it. A “white vtubers” in your case could maybe help get a load off. Give yourself some balance. There’s something to be said about online friendships since they often start with the written word, and once you find people who like you for who you are, it’s not hard to slowly explore your own self identity. It’s a long road out of self loathing, though, and I hope you can find people you can confide in as my friend found.

Indeed. Lending any legitimacy to his conspiracy theories is a bad thing. True of Trump and Musk as well, as with any of that clown car.

I never get tired of that follow up comic. It’s just too real.

To be fair, quite a few withholds were probably too young to vote In 2016. None the less, many many more were still too stupid to learn from 2016.

I remember when this happened, and I remember that post on particular from the artist. I’m not certain they swept it under the rug on purpose, but we certainly haven’t seen them since.

Side note, the Paralympics mascot is fine and I’m only a little bit fur-curious, lol.

Seriously. I don’t care that much about fluoride in the water being removed for four years, but I’m quite grateful that my youngest is getting the last of his vaccines before January. Hopefully it just ends up a “states rights” thing. Still sucks for herd immunity but at least I’ll still be able to keep my family vaccinated.

Just naming stuff research has demonstrated to be bad, haha. The literature is quite definitive on it, but you know how the MBAs in management care about research.

A transient obsessed with speed who befriends a minor and beats up a portly old man.

You know, the single “disrupt the norms” part is actually perfectly legit. We need that desperately in some departments. The people he chooses and why they are chosen are terrible dogshit, though, obviously.

Harris was threatening to put Republicans in some of these positions, which isn’t equally bad but still a terrible idea. I personally would love to see a progressive shake-up cabinet, although my priority is always education. Depts of Education are often led by establishment figures (and even Dems have picked donors for it as a reward for service) and it’s a big reason we see little movement at both federal and state levels.

There are a lot of very progressive, research-backed education specialists who would absolutely rock my world. But they’re always Socialist, if not Marxist. Turns out to be a good worldview when addressing public school effectivemess, but they won’t ever be picked unless the dems get more progressive.

We’ve had several elections in recent memory where it’s been really clear that progressive Democrats win elections compared to centrists (mostly midterm elections but still). Somehow that lesson hasn’t stuck, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Harris’ defeat also doesn’t teach this lesson. At this point the old guard really just needs to die.

People want change, GOP is offering it and people are eating it up. They just have no idea how incredibly stupid that version of change is.

See, that study that suggested 4 day work weeks increase productivity (and that a majority of companies kept after the trial) apparently lacked the ever so important control group of working 7 days a week and for extra hours per day. I’m sure that really increases productivity.

While we’re at it, no remote days and everyone work in an open office with no cubicles or walls to block noise, and certainly no distracting windows.

Especially the discovery of hidden content. Need amnesia device for this and a few other games.

It’s really mostly about doing something sustainable. I tried keto once and lost 20lbs only to regain it immediately after. Portion control seems to be working better for me since I will still eat whatever I want during the day (helps that my diet is mostly normal food I cook and not processed)

Depressing, but having seen my Missouri friend eat in not surprised. I’m glad he’s taking ozempic now cause I swear the Midwestern diet it inherently an eating disorder. (Also thinking of a Texan friend who drinks coke like it’s water, oooof).

It’s never too late, I managed to lose 20lbs simply not going after seconds on my tasty pasta dinners. Took like 6 months but my stomach got used to it. Granted, this last week has been hella tempting to stress eat, but just seeing progress is enough to keep me going. Just get the ball rolling and be happy with really subtle losses. Like, impossible to notice day to day loses.

If I was Zelensky, I’d probably agree to a rebuilt Ukraine with Trump Towers and Tesla factories and all sorts of things. “Just imagine, Mr. President, world class Trump golf course and resort in Crimea— envy of all East Europe!”

Why did that shitty influencer beat up the crazy guy from The Hangover?

Upvote since this is my kids favorite show right now and therefore this is my favorite meme right now.

Edit as someone who watches enough:

Come’n vamonos, everybody lets go!
Come on let’s get to it, I know that we can do it!

Where we going?
👏👏👏
Detention center!

Where we going?
👏👏👏
Detention center!

Oh no, actually this got too dark.

As far as I’m aware it’s correct, but as far as political compass goes, there needs to be a joke that libertarian Steve Rogers diddles kids. It’s the right libertarian way!