It’s meant to apply pressure. Failing to provide a strong response would mean that Trump is weak. He is both stroking Trumps ego and subtly poking it at the same time.

Trailer Park Boys

JEB!

Until the Russian government gives up on imperial conquest of other nations, yes.

Yes. Or if everyone paid the monthly bills late on purpose at the same time. They stay rich because money flows through us to them. Demonstrating the power to disrupt that flow is going to send a message. The challenge obviously is in building and organizing a mass movement capable of taking coherent and targeted actions like these. You need a lot of people participating to have an impact.

I would just keep it vague but honest. Everyone knows someone with a shit family or has one themselves, and you don’t owe anyone details. People will pick up the situation without you having to get into it and anyone worth being in a relationship with isn’t going to care how shitty your family is except to be angry at them on your behalf.

You can also be up for it until you’re over it, then you’re not down for it.

Colder. If you want it hotter that would be turn up the heat.

They want to pump up the number of new accounts and/or monthly active accounts by any means necessary now that the stock price depends on it.

Mountains exist.

A local BBS got internet service so I poked around with gopher and lynx. I remember it being slow, there was lots of waiting for things to load.

There’s still supposed to be the rule of law. If you hire someone to housesit for you and their ketamine addled boyfriend shows up to trash the place and steal your shit, there’s going to be a problem. You hired someone to housesit, whatever is going on beyond that is not legitimate.

Sure.

A phone with current hardware but without a camera notch in the screen. I absolutely hate the notch, it annoys me on a deep level that I can’t get over.

The vastness of time and space.

I think Diaspora by Greg Egan had a chapter with a crab planet, or maybe it was a crab universe. Its been a long time since I read it but I remember a scene where someone kind of turns themselves into a crab so they can talk to alien crabs about math and physics.

You may need to check the “show NSFW” button in your settings.

Year Zero

Looks like a bunch of incels being pathetic together. If that’s where you’re finding your masculinity you should probably rethink your entire life from the ground up because you took a wrong turn somewhere.

I’ve been asking myself that every day.