As an American a couple months out from not being able to pay housing costs, I appreciate the empathy. Sorry about the cultural exports that have been going north.

Oh lord, this is the worst news to come from this week.

It was a high bar, but they cleared it.

They did (in the US). Bain Capital bled them dry and then sold off the scraps. There have been a few attempts to revive the brand but to my knowledge nothing has stuck yet.

Yes… yes I do.

Saw this posted recently and it fits quite nicely.

Link to the mentioned video. I can’t recommend this enough. It’s really well done.

Lovecraft would be proud of that non-Euclidean eldritch abomination.

How Cultists Use Language to Control

Highly recommended watch.

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(x) Doubt

‘E’s pinin’ for the fjords.

What do you mean? Society has been treating it for generations.

“Who’s my good little sociopath? Line go up? Line go up? Good boy, that poor deserved it! Here’s a treat.”

Leftover rains from hurricane “Tempest” (they/them), have inundated all major watersheds along the eastern seaboard. Over 6% of i95 is under water or inaccessible due to floods and damage. Cities near rivers by the coast are now a part of “the delta”.

I’m in this comment and I don’t like it one bit.

The best defense against a bad guy with a joint is a good guy with a joint.

I’m not a fan of pot but your logic is flawless.

This is exactly it. But it doesn’t fit on a hat or bumper sticker so the details get ignored.

Plot twist: this Pikachu was brown, “loitering,” and subsequently tased.

Username, uh, checks out.

Love your work btw.

I coasted through elementary school and ran up against undiagnosed autism, ADHD, and GAD (it was the 80s and I wasn’t disruptive) once homework started getting real. Had no problem learning the material, aced the tests, struggled with homework and writing assignments. “Not working up to his potential” became “lazy.” I took myself out of the gifted classes in middle school and bailed on “college prep” classes in my sophomore year. By the time I graduated I had failed English three times and wanted nothing to do with college and its endless papers I’d never write. Went to tech school for IT/electronics and did field service work for a bit before getting burned out and laid off. Landed in corporate IT and got real intimate with depression. 25 years later I’m still trying to recover from a lifetime of fighting uphill on hard mode against AuDHD, anxiety, depression, trauma, and the resulting burnout, keenly aware of my shortcomings the entire time while simultaneously fostering a deep seated contempt for the orphan crushing machines that define modern life.

My life would have been a whole lot easier if I had only been sociopathic.

…yea.