Or even grosser melt them with a wet rag :(

Full of spiders.

I hate cleaning these up because they’re fucking spider piñatas. Yeah the spiders are dead by then, but just, fucking eww.

So there are 2 on my porch that desperately need to be cleaned up, anyone?

See, you can build coal plants in poor/black areas, so you don’t have to see the pollution, nor your kids have to get cancer like those silly poors. And then you don’t have to put up with woke shit like windmills. Sigh.

I suggested drawing in chalk on the street outside of the governor’s mansion, to protest the GIANT chalk Christ she had commissioned across the driveway to celebrate Easter one year.

It wasn’t even a serious call to action.

It’s because we allow property and the homes that sit on it to be a speculative market. We encourage it. The only way for property values to be high, well, it’s a supply and demand thing. If you glut the market with anything, you drive prices down. And people whose entire retirement is built on that won’t be having it, let alone the conglomerate owners…

China is trying to steer into the opposite with laws against it. Not sure how well that’s working, but they can acknowledge the issue at least.

Steve Jobs figured it out, you just have guys parked outside the engineers’ homes, ready to kill their kids if the demo fails.

I’ve been averse to trends like this, but I did get on Facebook and Insta this summer at the urging of some friends (I run a nonprofit so it’s useful to network). By last week I had both apps on my phone and was just numbscrolling through Insta videos. Realized my mental health had gone to absolute shit in weeks. Deleted the apps andI’m feeling myself again.

It really is dangerous what they’ve created, if I didn’t have ambition, I would be right there zombified.

My elderly neighbor doesn’t exactly follow rules. She had a colonoscopy earlier this year. They sent her home because she “wasn’t clean.” She had to repeat the process later, and I can’t imagine she was a Sunny Country Road, but they at least completed the exam that time. I am still mortified for her, my first colonoscopy was last year, I spent a full day on the toilet prepping. Nearly slept in the bathtub.

I have yet to find a way to explain to my dog that he must not veer off the sidewalk lest his paws get burnt.

I love the assumption there though

Ugh we have people doing that in our neighborhood and it’s godawful. I think they think they’re “xeriscaping” but this is Arkansas and the incredibly hot sun makes those rocks too hot to touch or stand on (for my doggo), kills the plants that are planted near it, etc. But they aren’t going to admit their mistake and undo it.

The fucking parenthetical x86 absolutely kills me. I don’t normally wish dick cancer on people,

Like the research hospital in my city, who just told my friend, who’s a PhD researcher from India, not to travel outside the US and to hold tight while they figure out what to do? They definitely can’t afford to pay this, so he will be looking for another country to continue his research in. Neuroscience, brain inflammation, dementia. Cutting edge shit.

I’m sure it’s antifi’s doing

There was a time when WiFi was actually useful in smart appliances, I have an LG washer/dryer about 7-8 years old, no touchscreens, but by WiFi you can get cycle done alerts, time checks, even remote start it. My matching fridge gives me energy conservation information, and allows me to choose a lower duty winter cycle

I like these features. IDK why the fuck I would want a fridge with a touchscreen. All the smart appliances I’ve seen in the last 5 years are just there to serve you ads and steal your data.

Yeah my 10+ yr account was like #340 in comment karma or some shit, I was clearly a contributor, but they banned me for nothing. Wish I would have sold it now.

It was a weird thing from the 70s if that helps. I don’t think it’s seriously been a thing since the 80s but idk. Had to look this up when I was a young queer activist because people would bring it up. Smh.

We know they follow a fractal pattern.

As do dinosaurs, which ate the big trees, and (in chicken nugget form) eat the small broccoli trees too

Nature is beautiful.

It actually galvanized people against the movement and made a younger generation more politically aware, including many probably seeing (voluntarily even) their first testimony to congress as they flipped over from MTV to CSPAN to watch some of their favorite rockers.

So yeah good call GOP

They are really in the shitter with ideas, they have a lot of levers right now, but they are truly staggering under their own weight. Their coalition isn’t going to last forever.

His office leaked his plans to link video games to behavioral issues earlier this week, so he already had the press release ready, he just swapped some words around.

Yeah I lived a car-free life when I lived in Seattle, working on Magnolia Hill, living on Capitol Hill. That was doable year round. The midwestern flyover states I grew up and live in, tho, no it’s not workable. In the North there’s snow for months, in the South we have monsoon season where it rains for weeks, in the summer heat index gets above 110 regularly and these people don’t plant shade trees. Plus nearest grocery stores are miles away (I live downtown in a capital city).

Even though I work a few blocks from my home, I can’t live car free here without significant ride-sharing expenses (the bus system is a joke and only runs part of the day, grocery shopping would eat an entire day of my week that way), if I did that I couldn’t go on roadtrips on weekends either, unless I rented a car - and all that is more expensive than my (20k, not 40k) car.

But I do love this community and it’s coastal approach to shaming people who rely on cars… take the tram or train, lmao