The loss of Alta Dena might be the biggest bummer for me. My Bohemian uncle lived in an artist commune up there without electricity or plumbing. They had goats and a llama and a ruined building full of bees.

I hope the goats, llama and bees are ok.

You know what sucks is my insurance is going to go up, again, because I have to subsidize these assholes building mansions along the coastal mountain sides. It happened when Malibu burned down, and it’ll happen again, and they will continue to sell property instead of returning it back to nature.

If I have to put up with my concrete jungle South LA place, I don’t want to be lumped in with people with a thousand times more greenery than I get. Yet that’s exactly what insurance companies are going to do. That or outright stop dealing in California as some have done.

I don’t add cream, but I make ‘alfredo’ as a milk sauce from butter, flour, lots of parm, and milk.

But I also add milk to my espresso, even if I do use an Italian Moka pot. They have a warrent for my arrest as we speak, lol.

I mean, that’s just alfredo with bacon at that point.

Man ain’t nobody from Hawthorne is gonna afford a treasure like this. That said, I’m near there and this better be real because I still have a belated Christmas gift to get my brother!

Weird we have the same weird hobby, although my excuse is singing to my 2yo and getting away with it. “I hyurt myself todayyy~”.

… My daughter is gonna be weird.

Ok, ok, I’m fine with paper straws now. Please, no more sausage.

Goes hand in hand with a similar story I heard about a month ago regarding a shortage of pastors. Apparently it’s so bad, quite a few have to lead sermons at multiple churches and many simply skip some weeks. Also less trained people taking up the role, whatever that means anyway.

Honestly, get ratio’d, cultists.

I was thinking about this the other day when they mentioned just how rich billionaires are. It’ll never happen, but if governments of the world wanted to could they just seize all of Musks or Bezos’ assets? It’s all made up anyway, right?

I think if Bernie suggested murdering all the CEOs he’d get banned from his communities, though.

Yeah that’s my fear of what will happen if I get a bunch of tests done. This cough is awful but nothing mysterious, I just think my kids are just getting me sick repeatedly but only showing mostly minimal signs (except pneumonia my daughter had that we did successfully got treated since our pediatrics are OK).

But I can’t ever know for certain because it’s just expensive and inconvenient to check, and at the end of the day it’s likely “oh, looks like you had RSV followed by COVID followed by the Flu, each a week before their respective vaccines were available this year and within days of each other. Womp womp.”

That is promising news, at least. Thanks

You know what’d be more dangerous would be to spread 3D printing info and other useful tips we as a society may have learned from this whole manhunt info dump. Just saying, of course (I don’t even own a 3d printer, officer!)

Imma be honest, between this and the CEO killing we’ve only really had two pieces of good news all fucking year and the same dipshits ruining everything are ruining this too. This plus being nonstop sick since August with several colds is really making 2024 the shittiest year (so far).

Can someone at least give us a piece of good news before the end of the year? Maybe something that tops both?

I think part of the problem with that argument is that only a small percentage of Dems want real coverage and the rest want status quo insurance crap- and this coming from someone who did vote.

I still remember when ACA happened. The smart people who wanted single payer or similar were shunned out the room. If I was a slightly stupider or slightly more vengeful men, I too might have gotten disengaged from the political system.

Oi, apparently our guy has severe back pain from a shitty surgery. That means the guy with enough backbone to kill a CEO literally had a bad backbone.

Feels like an inspirational poster waiting to happen.

Absolutely a double standard but an easy to imagine one. I was just thinking how the right used GoFundMe for that racist prick Rittenhouse (among others).

Can we just have our class warfare already? It’s ok to kill black folks not heaven forbid you actually eat the rich.

I teach for a living and this wouldn’t negatively impact the grade. But real talk you’re usually using a rubric anyway unless you want admin breathing down your neck after a disgruntled student takes issue with the A minus you gave her.

You know, is said he worked UI at Firaxia from '15 to '17, which first made me think he worked on Civ VI, but then more likely Xcom Chimera Squad?

You don’t get that job without having some interest in games. I hope it turns out he actually played Assassin’s Creed and is intentionally pulling an Ezio look, smile and all.

Now that I think of it, that murderer Kyle Rittenhouse got off because of all the support from right wing media… why can’t we have a party to back us up? Could a good legal defense and public support actually work in the favor of good people for once? Can we see Luigi speak at a new DNC once he’s acquitted and give a speech on behalf of a progressive candidate?

Jesus, what a fantasy timeline I just thought of. Lol