If these are technical manuals, I see no issue.

But fucking fiction?

That’s more of a !chat post.

That was a CFC problem. We now have a DJT problem.

I cannot imagine how it must feel to be an American at the moment.

It is frankly a raft of emotions that changes by the hour, but none is positive.

What we functionally have as our two-party system is the NSDAP and what the GOP was lying about in the '60s.

I’ve neither the inclination nor energy to relitigate the details of 24-year-old events. Rest assured, we agree on what the outcome really was; this was when we as a nation stopped believing in voting.

You’re going to have a busy day.

It was the intentional dismantling of our educational system. I had a long conversation with Mom yesterday before polls closed on EST, and, yeah … I was at the tail end of competent education, and it wasn’t all that competent. I was told by the English department to never try writing because I was disinterested in regurgitating their takes on historical works, after getting my only F in high school for graphic design in beginning yearbook.

Guess what two things I’d then go on to win national awards for? You can’t expect every high school student to take those as Wet Paint signs and then have things weirdly coalesce in college.

You don’t have to be trans to be fucking terrified. Trump somehow always underperforms in the polls, but we’ve now seen what this country truly is, and I want none of this. Already working on possible alternatives.

Do you want to know more?

Well, if those in power were willing to step aside for a new generation, we might have been able to do something. We were told we could do anything … except apparently participate in government at the federal level until they’re dead and AARP is coming for us. At which point, we’re the out-of-touch old people.

I cannot see a poll here. Obviously, I’m going with “not Hitler.” That seems sane.

I wouldn’t buy any bread manufactured in 1946.

This feels like a “may be able to” situation. Once they’ve completed a flight from New York to London, I can get on board with the notion of them being able to fly from New York to London.

That would be very much appreciated.

I actually have! Grew way more shrooms than needed. Like seriously, four fucking quarts, which I figured would made for good trade at a regional burn. Except everyone had them, too. Trading for E was a difficult ask.

I don’t often share this, but my father was regarded as Arizona’s foremost adolescent-suicide expert. The issue is self-evident if you are aware of the quality of parenting you get in this situation. This is why I want to fix the world but can’t fix myself.

The sad thing is we lose, not them. We have some 35% of the country convinced that elections don’t matter. That’s tangentially a democracy problem, but good luck having a meaningful discussion about the the difference between a democracy and a republic.

I frankly haven’t believed in my own government since 9/11. This is not about conspiracy theories; it’s about the fact that I could drive into Canada in 2000 with a driver license. We obviously are the most imperial country in history (the irony is not lost on me, given how this all started).

But we started doing things like creating the Department of Homeland Security when the DoD covered that alongside ICE. I don’t understand what it’s like to think those were insufficient.

Thank you. I’ve tried a lot to raise the floor, and each time, someone starts excavation.