meara, I hope it works - our heat pump is getting mended Thursday (it's not worked since midsummer, so we didn't have air conditioning, either) and we've been all right, but I don't want to go without for too much longer.
And welcome home, Daniel!
Oh, Pacey! You blind idiot. Can't you see she doesn't love you?
Spike ,'Help'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
amyparker - Nov 09, 2022 9:02:03 am PST #18482 of 30000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Gudanov - Nov 09, 2022 9:05:14 am PST #18483 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
I can see the temptation of not voting in my county if it weren't for ballot measures. I knew going in that the Republican would win in every case.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 09, 2022 9:13:50 am PST #18484 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I still vote just to be the opposition voice when I know I'm outnumbered. If nothing else, it may help my preferred candidates with fundraising in the future.
All my candidates lost, but at least the four statewide ballot measures I voted against were rejected. Unfortunately, the local ballot measure to cut the public library's funding in half passed—something proposed as a vindictive response to the library not canceling their Pride display last year. So if an involved state level politician or certain Bible thumpers should happen to go missing, I was visiting one of y'all and my whereabouts were accounted for, okay?
dcp - Nov 09, 2022 9:34:48 am PST #18485 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Registered voters in my county: 174,769
Turnout was 50.34%.
meara - Nov 09, 2022 9:44:07 am PST #18486 of 30000
That sucks about the library Matt dang!!
restarting the water heater seems to have worked! Thank goodness.
-t - Nov 09, 2022 9:53:10 am PST #18487 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Looks like turnout for my county was 28% which does seem pretty dismal but might actually be higher than usual.
That library thing is appalling, Matt!
Kate P. - Nov 09, 2022 10:16:22 am PST #18488 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Ugh, Matt, that's awful. We hear a lot (as well we should) about school libraries being targets for book challenges/bans and harassment, but a lot of public libraries are having to deal with this shit too.
Laura - Nov 09, 2022 10:19:58 am PST #18489 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Oh Matt, that is awful. At least my county always does well on funding schools, arts, libraries, and such.
amyparker - Nov 09, 2022 10:37:09 am PST #18490 of 30000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Matt, you were with me the entire time. We had a great day at MoPOP (we went to this, it was amazing) and a well bundled-up walk along the waterfront.
JZ - Nov 09, 2022 10:45:44 am PST #18491 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Ugh, Matt, how infuriating and vindictive and petty and spiteful and you were definitely visiting us here all along.
Turnout in SF is currently around 31%, but they're nowhere near done tallying up all the mail-in ballots, so it should go up quite a bit. It damn well better, because that's embarrassing.