trying to hatch strategies that go beyond doomscrolling
I'm realizing that I need to get involved locally but I haven't figured out the how, where, doing what and with whom part of it.
Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books!
Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
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.
aurelia - Jan 21, 2025 5:51:51 pm PST #4739 of 5924
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Emily - Jan 21, 2025 6:35:40 pm PST #4740 of 5924
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
meara, she was my RA my freshman year and a housemate my junior. It's weird to see her with hair, although I think she's had it for decades.
Consuela - Jan 21, 2025 8:21:21 pm PST #4741 of 5924
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So that was a shitty day. Hiring freeze, which means that my empty spot with a senior planner whose skills I desperately need, will not be filled (and a very nice lady in San Diego who really wants to get out of the private sector is left hanging for some indeterminate time).
The fuckers FIRED THE COMMANDANT. Claiming it was because she had too much DEI but also because she hadn't fixed the recruitment problems (which she had improved a lot) and hadn't got all the new boats on board. It's such bullshit. I'm sure it's because she's the first female head of a military branch ever.
And the Return to Office order, which nobody knows how it will play out, and my team is freaking out because most of them live hundreds of miles away.
-t - Jan 21, 2025 8:29:51 pm PST #4742 of 5924
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, Consuela, I’m sorry. That is a lot of badness
meara - Jan 21, 2025 9:46:29 pm PST #4743 of 5924
Ugh so sorry Suela. That sounds super shitty. Good luck.
My father was trying to tell me my sister was overreacting by calling Elon’s salute what it was. I asked why the f he thought I’d agree with him and not her. Also she’s the one who feeds him so he might wanna keep his mouth shut.
askye - Jan 22, 2025 5:13:18 am PST #4744 of 5924
Thrive to spite them
I'm sorry Consuela this all is horrible.
askye - Jan 22, 2025 5:18:17 am PST #4745 of 5924
Thrive to spite them
Oh man meara.
I see that "he's autistic" is somehow being used as an excuse for him being a Nazi. Which I don't understand why that would be an excuse but any straws to grasp at rather than admit what he is .
Steph L. - Jan 22, 2025 6:01:35 am PST #4746 of 5924
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Which I don't understand why that would be an excuse
I think the flimsy excuse goes "he's autistic and therefore clueless about how to express emotions; he was just raising his arm in excitement, not making a Nazi salute." Which is 100% bullshit. Autistic people know what a Nazi salute is. The explanation for Elon's fascist display is that a person can be both autistic and a fucking Nazi.
Tom Scola - Jan 22, 2025 6:46:57 am PST #4747 of 5924
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Plus, he did it twice, making it a whole lot less likely he did it by accident.
Plus, you know, this.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 22, 2025 6:54:05 am PST #4748 of 5924
"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
Weren't his grandparents Nazis? I guess those are the traditional values he wants a return to.