Definitely. I over-explain things. My “I can’t believe…” is that I was offering a statement that was in any way positive about Epstein.
Really, I wanted to opine on the vile nature of people with no morals who use technology to launder suffering and exploitation into investor dollars, and your comment was a great setup for it. (But I did get your joke, and I thought it was a good one.)

My strategy is to just go as slutty as acceptable for any vague character.

I’ve gone as sexy cowboy, sexy plumber, underwear model bitten by vampire (the bat onesie is too hot, so I just kept taking it off to reveal shiny metallic reptile print underoos), Dionysus (just a very shiny white piece of fabric wrapped into a skimpy toga and a staff, plus I kept offering to refill drinks), Slutty Jesus (Same as Dionysus, sans staff). More reserved looks have included fully clothed himbo firefighter, and before what’s-her-face went crazy, a very dapper Sirius Black.
This year I’m going as Luigi (the video game character), which is not explicitly sexy, but I’ll probably wind up taking off the shirt at some point. (I poured all my inspiration into my wife’s costume this year. She’s going as a dragon. She’ll be in a leotard with scales, a horned face mask, a cape, and various body chains and chainmail accessories. She’s going to be the bomb. I’m so excited.)

Oh, no - it’s not just making your morning darker! By making you wake up earlier in comparison to the natural rise of the sun, which shifts you farther outside your natural circadian rhythm than capitalism already does, you experience an effect similar to what people on the trailing edge of time zones experience, at least for a time. These include higher incidences of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and breast cancer. Oh, and increased rates of suicide.

…yay.

Edit: I love that every time I wade into the DST debate and present evidence that DST is garbage and we should all be starting our day later, I get downvoted or argued with by some person who thinks that because they get more sun in the evening, they are a better judge of the right approach to health than peer reviewed science.

There is no paradox in the social contract.

Tolerance is mutual. Respect is mutual. Kindness is mutual.

I don’t think it’s individual evidence, really. I suspect it’s probably more the bot farms and pressure campaign. Those carry a lot of water for the illusion of continued group consensus.

Free?

McCarthy spins faster

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Epstein’s johns were vetted (in the sense that they had to be successful enough that blackmailing them was worth the risk of engaging in sex trafficking and blackmail) While Epstein was a soulless monster, he still had an interest in preserving his ’investment’ in the girls because they weren’t completely disposable to his operation. Some techbro bullshit app, wrapped up in contracts and lawyers will just write off missing girls as “they knew what they were getting into” or if some john gets caught, he’ll be a bad apple, and they’ll reconsider their processes, blah, blah, blah.
Being totally real, they’re just going to grow the business until they get to the tipping point of bad press and gullible investment firms so they can offload it for maximum profit.

Coffee plus one of the following (it changes, depending on my whim and ingredient availability):

• Homemade egg bites (egg, sausage or meatless sausage, peppers, onion, spinach, cheese)
• Cereal
• Greek yogurt mixed with a dollop of jam
• Breakfast sandwiches (homemade, prepackaged, or from a local restaurant)
• Biscuits and gravy

“I just assumed they were garbage men.”

They are garbage, fictional local homeowner.

Yeah. Both of us depart from our families, and didn’t want to be in a position where we could have a parent or sibling try to “pull rank” about some medical decision, or have to worry about assets.

Same philosophy, but we did get married after we realized the legal protections and tax benefits were worth it. We just saw too much opportunity for our very dissimilar families to pull some nonsense if someone became ill or incapacitated.

We snuck into a park (that requires reservations for ceremonies) with some friends and that was that.
The rings are simple and inexpensive, and also rarely worn. We know what we’re about.

And it’s an act of constant, willful effort by yourself and your community.

One neighbor is a rental, they are a large immigrant family and are barely getting along. Property owner lives out of country. Another neighbor thought it would be a fun idea to feed neighborhood stray cats. They wound up creating a very healthy breeding family of raccoons out the run-down garage of the rental. For years their offspring have wreaked havoc in our neighborhood. Every fall I’ve had to call a pest control company to trap the tiny raccoons that are small enough to climb downspouts (the big ones aren’t) and destroy the siding and soffits of my neighbors houses. The cat food guy moved away, I figured out how to occlude the raccoons from my downspouts with ample and unsightly flashing, and along with other neighbors, have built or repaired fencing in in our backyards (mostly because of pets and trespassing neighborhood kids, honestly).
It seems like the raccoon misadventure has finally concluded. I’m now stuck with damaged soffits that squirrels have moved into (on account of a looming walnut tree that lives in a neighbors yard and is so large it overhangs my roof), and a repair estimate that was $5k a year ago, when I had the garage roof redone but wasn’t sure I’d gotten the raccoon problem licked, so I didn’t want to proceed with those repairs. Who knows what it’ll be now. … yay.

Did you write this?

Google literally has no hits for the title you put in. I was going to share the link to the Onion or Beaverton or whatever with some friends.

If you did write it — Bravo!

I just came from a post about a man facing charges for posting a Trump quote about school shootings (“We have to get over it.”) on a Facebook post about a Charlie Kirk memorial.

I just gave a sardonic chuckle and put my phone down, thoroughly having eaten that onion. I’m glad I picked it back up to check the source. I was about to tell my wife!

I’m not a legal eagle, but I really wonder why deprivation of rights under color of law isn’t a crime we see talked about more.

Trying to turn it into the center for disease collaboration

Commenting again to say that I can definitely vouch for the recipe. It was pretty good!

You can disable the Outlook addon that nags you about Adobe cloud, btw. Small part of the puzzle, but it helps.

I know. I was just seeing if you would notice. awkward laughter

(But thanks, I was trying to wing the conversion and started off with 3.3ft =1m and then did the numbers meme while my fingers typed gibberish.)

Most unhinged statement I can make on it:
There is no such thing as an autistic woman. The women with autism are all trans and have been circumsized.

Scariest statement I can make on it:
For women, it’s not the circumcision, it’s whether or not the mother has taken birth control prior to being pregnant.

Most rational statement I can make on it:
RFK has had too many homemade medical remedies, and we’re all paying the price.