Worst: Driving through a large Midwest city in the US on the freeway. Started raining. NBD. Then it got a lot harder. The wind really picked up fast. I’ve been around gust fronts and the like for thunderstorms before, this was unlike anything I’ve been through before. It got wild, fast. Tree parts and other debris started blowing past, it looked like what you’d think a tornado would, but it was far too widespread. Then the crazy thing…along with the wind, rain, and debris, the visibility dropped to near zero with a fog or mist in the span of a minute. We had to pull over and stop with everyone else, nobody could see for a few minutes. I have never seen that happen before, the rapid and violent change to weather and visibility over such a large area.

Coolest: Driving over the western High Desert in the US. Got caught up in a snowstorm with lots of wind. Found a safe place to spend the night after some white-knuckle driving for an hour or two. Plenty of vehicles pushed by wind or slid off the road, we were some of the only stupid ones left driving. No place to park safely, not enough gas for the rest of the night to keep warm. Don’t want to be the dead ones found with CO poisoning by the highway patrol the next day. Anyway, woke up the next day and it was crystal clear, literally. The air was full of fine ice crystals blowing in the wind. The bright sun had a huge halo and cross like a “+” along with some other tangential arcs that felt both close and far away to us at ground level. I’m sure folks in colder climes see these, but it was a new one to me. Pretty wild to see.

Their eyes are almost all exactly the same. That makes it weird.

Need to add a Sandy Hook character, among others.

This.

The jack type is the original Bell System jack. Used to have these in the house I grew up in. We had to buy the Bell 4-pin to RJ-11 adapter for the more “modern” phone.

You’re kinda a dick if you do. A guitar will take up an entire bin that is for a row of three people.

If you ask nicely, you might get a flight attendant who can put it in the closet at the front of the aircraft usually reserved for business class.

Otherwise get a hard case and check it with your fingers crossed.

Limits on wealth.

God would be far less popular without the devil.

They want one giant walled internet that is nothing more than a giant company town. You own nothing. Every dollar you earn is consumed by the system that knows how much it can take.

This dystopia is terrible.

Next: AI knows your income level so it automatically raises prices to match.

Then: someone comes up with an income spoofing service for shopping. For a fee, of course.

Then: you have to add an income verification to browse internet shopping.

Yeah, this gets applied to things like addiction or poverty, too. “All you gotta do is change stop doing the thing…”. Sure, politically or about other things it’s probably a choice of willful ignorance. But sometimes not so much.

We should be doing well. But over the last 5-6 years we’ve been stagnating. Inflation, increasing costs overall thanks to factors like tariffs and stupid wars, artificial scarcity in the tech world…all of it has eaten huge chunks out of our buying power. We’re at the age where we should have “made it”, but it’s just the feeling of “where did it all go? Why aren’t we getting ahead?”

This is awful. Looks like what AI would produce.

Social media is full of idiots that think:

Oil companies have some kind of loyalty to the US and that’s why (whatever marginally lower gas price where they live is the way it is despite it still being 30% higher than a year ago and they ignore their power bill) or they should “just lower prices.”

Flock cams are simultaneously good for keeping an eye on the “usual suspects” while they also claim the corporations running them are beholden to the 4th amendment and cannot be used against the white person talking about it.

Prosopagnosia?

Boot licker.

So YT’s algorithm is pushing right wing racist distros?

Huh. Wonder who is paying to make that algorithm work that way.

I don’t get it. I’m over Gen X over 50 and don’t have this problem. Plenty of misadventure bending and breaking things because stupid when I was younger. What is wrong with you all?

When I buy a game it says “buy” or “purchase” next to the price. Not “lease”.

If you support bringing the end times, you are supporting the anti-christ according to their religion. Therefore they’re going to be the ones left behind and headed for however many thousand years in hell until their god hits the reset button. Idiots can’t even keep themselves on any side of their own religion.

This. My dishwasher doesn’t seem to “strip” the pans. I rarely have to do more than heat a little oil and wipe it around the pans if they go through the dishwasher.