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Ah, so you, too, grew up poor?

The money is going to disappear soon no matter what I do; might as well do something fun.

My in-laws voted for Trump because they were certain Biden was going to outlaw Catholicism.

Trump was fucking the economy well before COVID. His first-term trade war with China was doing serious damage to several different sectors of US manufacturing, pig and soy farmers, and the price of many durable goods.

The problem is that everybody has the memory of a goldfish.

The only reason to contact the police if something gets stolen is so that you can show the report to your insurance company.

My current phone is a Galaxy S9 from 2018. I bought it used three years ago for less than $100, and it does more than I’d ever need it to.

A decade? I thought it was closer to two decades.

Felt like less racism

To you. I promise you, racism has always been a huge problem.

I used to be a buyer for a manufacturing facility. We’d joke that if something went wrong in production, they would blame the scheduler, the scheduler would blame the buyer, the buyer would blame the supplier, and the supplier would blame our quality team.

As long as you’re not the last on the list, your job is secure.

(Our QA dept had incredibly high turnover.)

So WorldsAway but twenty years later?

Probably not a lot of “queer devout Christians” out there.

Many, many more than you’d think. Plenty of denominations have no problem with queer people. Even the Catholic church has walked back a lot of their anti-queer messaging in the last decade.

Friendship with Tim Robinson is the best modern satire on this topic because it actually makes the people who don’t get it deeply uncomfortable instead.

Anything in the WAMC listening area is New England. I’ll accept no other opinions.

Eddie Izzard had that bit about people accusing them of wearing women’s clothes, and Eddie would explain, “They’re not women’s clothes; they’re my clothes! I bought them.”

Anna and the Apocalypse has become one of my family’s traditions. Coming-of-age teen comedy set in the days before Christmas break, but also a zombie horror movie, and also a musical.

Kind of low-budget and some of the cast is shaky, but it’s incredibly ambitious and very fun.

I just watched Anna and the Apocalypse last night. Christmas/zombie/musical. Very fun little film.

I mean, the guy who perfected drone strikes on American citizens was never going to suggest that.

There was a game a few years ago called ScreenCheat. Four-player splitscreen shooter, and everyone is invisible. So you find your target by looking at their screen to figure out where they are in the level.

Schenectady is “the place beyond the pines” because there was a big old pine barren between it and the next settlement over.

The big jumps in spending on that graph started in 2012. Occupy Wallstreet protests were in the autumn of 2011.

Mamdani won the mayoral election. Kathy Hochul is the governor.