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Grumpy Rootbeer
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My mom has a side hustle selling board games on Amazon and older looking editions of pictionary are one of her best sellers.
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Twitter refugee, he/him, mid-30s, Iowan, nerd, leftist, cat lover
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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My mom has a side hustle selling board games on Amazon and older looking editions of pictionary are one of her best sellers.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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At least until we have our first TikTok president
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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Guy was always a libertarian crank.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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And they're the only village folk other than the town of jar people who don't try to murder you on sight
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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I encourage both Biden and Trump to do their patriotic duty and just die in their sleep the second week of October.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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Hey, at least back then you might get a couple of bucks or a meal or a beer for your vote.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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It's a small club, but in a country this large the club is pretty capacious and as a result somewhat hard to manage.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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They're bigger clubs than people imagine and they basically lost the ability to reliably do the hand picking in the mid 20th century, but the institutional memory is still there. I imagine most senior politicos pine for the days of more naked machine politics.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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To be fair, they still are on the local, regional, and state level in some places, which are the minor leagues feeding up to local politics. And this is also basically how both parties worked until pretty late in the mid century.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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I have some bad news about how acceptable Democratic leadership find large protests
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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If all out war on "the corrupt court" doesn't become a cornerstone of Dem policy up and down the ballot, then I'm sorry, they deserve to lose.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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Democrats have not run for decades on reforming the court. They have, at best, run on "elect us so we can put liberals on the court" and their commitment to that project was, well lacking.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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Yes, unfortunately their opposition is currently more invested in going to war against itself than fighting its actual enemy.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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Haha, hit that particular wall in my playthrough over the weekend, too.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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Buddy, look at my follower count, do you honestly think I'm doing this for clout? I just like weedling you and your ilk. You can stop engaging at any point.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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Much like the Trump prosecutions, I'm just so glad we waited until a good 6 to 12 months after the absolute latest point it could have made a difference to start having these conversations.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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Yes, calling people childish, big vote getter. Keep it up, I'm sure you'll win then over with just a few more insults.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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Yeah, it is remarkable that "this as good as you're going to get, stop complaining" isn't getting the base all fired up.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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Remember that COVID happened in the middle of that. Things would have played out differently if everyone hadn't suddenly been afraid to go outside in the back half of March into May.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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I think you mean "defer reflexively to industry and capital"
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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Buried my Grandpa today and he got a military funeral, but all the VFW guys were barely younger than he was. I guess younger guys just aren't joining the VFW, because I know a bunch of guys my age who served and settled down in our hometown.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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Way too many male gamers of my vintage and older just absolutely refuse to Be Normal.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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Was a GB subscriber for like a decade and never engaged with the fan base for a second for precisely this reason.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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To be fair, the market is probably glutted with recently laid off games workers ATM. Shades of the job market I graduated into 13 years ago: needed three years experience for basically any entry level job.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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Beyond is a really solid Trek movie. Very refreshing after Into Darkness, which I agree was offensive on just about every level.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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May be time to do a revisit. I never really liked the TNG movies much, more of a TOS movie kid growing up.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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I'll say it. You'd be naive to think they aren't. But, hey, wouldn't want to jump the gun and get prepared before they actually do it, right?
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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I work in finance and have had to read a lot of internal procedures about how the PPP loans were handled and let me tell you, the level of means testing and scrutiny is virtually non-existent by comparison to any of our major social spending programs.
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Tom
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ChatGPT already has “Ph.D.-level intelligence,” in that once you remove it from its extremely narrow field of expertise (assembling words into credible-sounding passages) it is wildly out of its depth, but people vastly overestimate its authority because they don’t understand what “intelligence” is.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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The humanities education these types love to sneer at might have given them some useful insight into the character of populist tyrants like trump and what unreliable benefactors they tend to be
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🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪
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I watched three Wong Kar-wai films in a row today and the good news is that love is real, but the bad news is that it only exists to wound us
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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A tactic they keep using despite the fact that it Never. Fucking. Works.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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He's not the people pleasing schmoozer his dad is; he's just an unpleasant narcissistic rich kid
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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One has to remember that the sorts of people who get mobilized into review bombing very frequently haven't interacted with their target in any substantial way.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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The fundamental libertarian belief: "it shouldn't be illegal when I do it".
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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I frequently think of a documentary I watched many years ago about, in part, tort reform where a corporate lawyer all but says "yeah, when my employer gets sued it means I have to do lots of work, so I'd prefer that it was illegal to sue my employer".
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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We've gone from "be in meeting room without leaving your desk" with the metaverse to "be in the meetings at once" with AI. I'm excited to see how they'll pitch quantum computing as revolutionizing meetings sometime in the next two years.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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Looks like that decade and a half of austerity really paid off.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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Excuse me, this isn't "cheap garbage"; it's extremely expensive garbage.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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Fun every know and then is not going to make the hundreds of millions and billions these hustlers want for their expensive party trick
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N. K. Jemisin
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It's increasingly clear that the people who make generative AI don't like films, don't like books, don't like art of any kind, and don't understand why anyone else does.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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You hear this shit so much in Iowa. Like, buddy, we've had black folks in this state for a very long time, not sure how you didn't notice until you started reading Breitbart.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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Got into it with a heavily Christian themed amount over on the bird app over precisely this. Strangely this guy with a cross in his user name didn't seem familiar with the parable of the prodigal son.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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I miss having a good friend in the tech director of the theatre troupe I was in in college. Old school boomer DnD and comic nerd. Real cool guy. It's a shame there aren't a lot of great ways to make friends, well at all, but especially across age cohorts now of days.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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The car dealers in my old college town would be real pissed if the Chinese and Arab students stopped coming to the university. Sold dozens of brand new Dodge Chargers and Corvettes and Hummers at the start of every fall term
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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You can live astonishingly well with just a bit of wealth in a poorer rural state. Build yourself a rambling estate, drink yourself senseless, fish on your private lake, golf, dominate local politics as a hobby.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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Zion?
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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Here in Iowa the plan is all but explicitly "well, yeah, the poor and brown kids should just be going to the meat packing plant or McDonald's drive through at 14."
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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Oh, than still rule but just not be allowed to use the rest of the residents as furniture.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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Oklahoma has the old California style medicinal deal and there's dispensaries fucking everywhere.
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