That’s a good point. Now, I do have this rock to sell you. It keeps away tigers. Only $99 with a monthly subscription to keep it working. Sign here.

WTF happened to this guy? He started out so well, stroke and all.

The downtown stations are so very nice. I love rolling right into the core and being a few minutes from everything.

Having to train in from the airport isn’t bad, but after a long trip adding another hour to get from the airport to downtown is annoying. Of course, many US cities don’t have a train from the airport to downtown, so that only applies in developed locations.

One of the upcoming wacky infrastructure choices is the high speed rail in Las Vegas to LA. On the Vegas end the train station is out of town like it’s an airport. So you train from LA to Vegas and then… bus in? Join a massive line of taxis/ubers? It’s so very clumsy. Why the casino operators didn’t find a way for the rail station to be in the center of the strip so people fall of the train and into their casinos is still beyond my ken.

I just accepted my offer to leave my university in the US for one in Europe. My mathematician of a wife is going to start working for one there too.

When I told my US colleagues they uniformly said how lucky I am and that they’re thinking about going too. Our University faculty and staff are looking to leave and we have the ability to do so. Brain drain is real and the US is about to see it first hand.

He started doing this in his first term. What has changed since then? He’s still Putin’s stooge so leaving NATO is on the docket to help undermine Europe so Russia can invade.

Strangely, we just updated all of our vaccines for our kids and selves. This is going to be a total shit show.

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I’d be quite pleased with President Camacho at this point. He was at least engaged and charismatic. He was interested in making things better and publicly worked towards good things.

I feel the massive profit margins and serious under staffing might have more effect, but I’m not an idiot like MAGA politicians.

Idiocracy was never more prophetic than it is in our timeline. All it’s missing are the stasis coffins.

Poppies. They’d love for you to have a fe poppies on hand. They earned those the hardest way possible.

Reduced quality of life? Greater danger of being shot in a school? Shorter life expectancy? Lower quality food? And imperial president instead of a democratic one?

I’m not seeing the upsides for Canada.

My job outside the US doesn’t start until September. They’re pushing the pace and I’d like to make it out under the wire.

After the raids on free press agencies start, it’s not long before they get into more general suppression of the populace since there’s fewer modes to communicate about their abuses.

When our household was at full bore with the kids home, we could go through three dozen per week. It’s not just eating them, it’s cooking. Two eggs for a some cake, brownies, etc. one day of french toast (not doing that into the foreseeable future), if I did breakfast with eggs it would take anywhere from 6 to 10.

At our height of consumption we had four teenage boys, one teenage girl and a 10 year old who could out eat anyone at the table.

I’m just fortunate that our kids are mostly grown, but now they’re struggling to keep food on their own tables.

I actually kept a small flock of chickens for a while because we would go through so many eggs.

So… our children could be in school and ICE officers push through the door to their classroom, snag a classmate, and haul them out in handcuffs?

Yup, we’re headed to quite the terrorist government approach to a republic.

There it is!

Hey look! Let’s just raise a huge middle finger to what’s left of our ecosystems.

How did it go? Yes, humanity was destroyed, but for one moment we maximized profits!

Dictators love elections as long as they decide who votes and who counts the votes.

They’re hoping the humanizing also protects their CEO, who is a different variation of corrupt and harmful to society.

The prior president pardoned a family member who was blackmailing and raping people, then appointed the same criminal to be ambassador to France. I don’t give a fuck what President Biden does now. We’re a country of criminals and oligarchs now.