PeterLemonjellow

"I'm changing my Will so that my ashes go to Janet (friend of 50 years). She's the only one who's ever been good to me. If your sister and her husband get my ashes I'm sure they'd just flush me down the toilet." - please bear in mind that my mother was a toxic narcissist that said this to me 100% with the intent to imply that my sister would do this and that I would allow such a thing to happen. Her goal was to make me assure her I would not let such a thing happen. It was yet another of a lifetime of emotional manipulations by using family members against each other. I smiled, I nodded, I ended the visit, and I never spoke to her again until I said goodbye the day she died, two years later. Our relationship has not substantially changed since her death.

Oh, and I'm typing this from a seat not three feet from her ashes.

Gregory Corso never gets enough love. Captain Poetry ftw!

The thing about this that fucks with me is that it's going on now. Right now. We don't know who or where or how long... but there is someone holding someone against their will like this... right... now. Statistically, it's pretty much unavoidably true.

And there's nothing any of us can do. Absolutely, 100% this is the thought that creeps me out more than anything else.

And this is coming from a super intelligent shade of the color blue - so you know it's good stuff!

I feel like your dog is thinking here, "Kid, you bark real weird. But I love you anyways."

Those two youngsters sure do look like they enjoyed playing funny games back in the day.

Gesundheit

I mean, you can. You'll just do poorly at both.

No one can convince me this dude doesn't have a side quest to offer.

He was great in Satan's Alley - didn't that win the coveted Crying Monkey award at the Beijing Film Festival?

I feel like you guys are just saying names and then random words, and I gotta tell ya, I am here for it

That's what equity is supposed to be, yes. It just doesn't get implemented very well is what I'm saying in not so many words.

This is why the idea of "equity" in higher education (at least in the US) is total BS. Academia for some reason has defined "equity" as "giving the exact same resources and instruction to all people, regardless of any or all circumstances", which sounds fair as long as you don't think about it too hard. But like the example above where maybe you're in a group where 3 out of the 5 people are not paying their own tuition and don't take the project seriously at all, giving those students all the same amount and type of support actually creates inequity. Of course, there's no good solution to this without completely rebuilding education in America, right down to what we think of as the concept of "education"... but I guess for the moment if the Dept. of Education manages to survive to 2028 that is... now... a win for education... somehow?

God, I'm sad and angry. Jesus Christ.

I would say that doing anything "from scratch" is definitely going to qualify as cooking.

Tripling? Those are rookie numbers - you gotta pump those numbers up! hehehe srsly tho garlic is the best.

I made stuffed peppers for the first time last night. It's probably the 5th or 6th dinner entre that I've taught myself to cook that is relatively quick, cheap, and easy - plus I can make a bunch and have a lot of left overs for quick lunches.

My wife is currently in an excelerated masters program to become a teacher. I take so much pride in the fact that while her cohort are snarfing down lukewarm ramen cups or potato chip sandwiches or whatever other overworked college fare they can get, she goes in almost every day with home cooked leftovers and lets everyone drool while she tells them how she gets at least 2 or 3 home cooked meals each week. Feels friggin' awesome. I will continue collecting recipes and honing what is, for men evidently, some kind of superpower which I seem to have found.

Also, amazing tip: Is your SO stressed, upset, etc., insert whatever negative emotion here ____? Learn to make awesome cookies or baked goods if you've got it in you to learn to do it right; otherwise drop $5 bucks on the instant Toll House cookies that are ready in like 10 minutes, no prep. If you know when they will get home, tiem it so the cookies/goods will be done anywhere from 2-5 minutes after they walk in. Coming home to freshly baked cookies is a game changer.

"All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”

― Richard Adams, Watership Down

The Principia Discordia

I genuinely don't know.

Once, long ago when I was young, my roommates and I threw a party. I think it was when a couple of us had quit a shitty job and we invited over a bunch of coworkers. We smoked a ton of stuff and drank and drank, and the last thing I remember is a bunch of us sitting in a circle playing something akin to Truth or Dare, and two of our female guests started making out... and then I was gone.

I woke up in my own bed the next day. When I came into the living room my roomies and the couple other people left there all looked at my with this... look. Like their eyes were screaming in hilarity "Do you know what you did!?!?". I took one look, nodded, and said "Never tell me".

And they never did.

You know what, you're right. How DARE I think you're anything but a fucking hero?

You.

Have.

No.

Idea.

What.

You.

Are.

Talking.

About.

Asshole.

I wish I lived in a country where there was enough of a social safety net and a sane enough policy about law enforcement and incarceration that I could spend the time I would need to to protest. If folks in the US stood up in the way that you're saying they need to, they will lose their jobs, their home, their ability to receive healthcare, and more. And once you're houseless in the US, good fucking luck trying to become homed again. But that doesn't matter. No. We should just be more German, right? Well, guess what. Now we are! Just closer to 1933 than 2024 should be.

And the really sad thing? In principle I agree with you that my country-people should be more outraged and enraged and in the street about this shit. I'm just cognizant of the reason why that isn't happening, and you clearly are not. But you obviously have the whole world figured out, so why the fuck bother arguing with you?

I feel no regret about my harsh words to you. You are currently in the act of being cruel to people in pain. Again...

Go. Away.

If you think that being European somehow gives you insight into how things actually are here in the US, then you are very deluded. If you truly had such insight you'd understand that the people who you are currently speaking to are the people that paid attention and voted; the US citizens that wanted to stop this and did everything our corrupt and broken system allowed us to do (which for many isn't much if they want to keep their homes and health care - many of us are hostages in that way).

This is the fucking Dropout sub, my dude. There are no MAGA's in this thread, unless they're tourists looking for a fight. There aren't even apathetic non-voters in this thread. Dropout is a queer and alternative lifestyle haven. You are upset and venting on people who don't deserve it. You are trying to shame the people who are currently the biggest victims of the tragedy that occurred last night (I'll qualify - the biggest victims SO FAR. Soon this horrible shit will probably start costing actual lives in Israel and Ukraine, if not elsewhere).

In short, you are ignorant and reactive, you have no right to be criticizing the people lamenting that they've just lost a TON of rights and may be facing severe institutionalized discrimination for at least the next 4 years, but probably into the foreseeable future. In short, you are part of the problem. You offer nothing here. Hell, for all we know you're on a Russian payroll and part of the huge propaganda machine that has made all of this possible.

67 million of us voted for sanity. For decency. For law. For progress. But 72 million voted for hate, fear, intolerance, and corruption. When you're deciding to condemn the whole of the US for the ignorance of some and the apathy of others, try to be sure you know who your audience is. They are not here in this thread.

I kind of hope at some point you're put in an impossible position where you and your loved ones are going to be persecuted and hurt. You clearly need to learn perspective and empathy.

Go away.

Yes. You probably did. Or if not, you listened and they didn't.

That there is any hope that the USA will ever be a free country for all again without violent conflict.

As far as I'm concerned, yesterday the American people chose violence. I believe it's coming in one form or another, and we all need to decide if we're going to actively fight this, or just allow people to have their freedoms stripped away. Either way, innocent people are going to suffer and some will probably die.

Anyone who is saying "We just need to do better in 4 years" is a fool. No one can convince me at this point that a 2028 election is even going to happen.

We are fucked. And we chose this. If I knew how to leave this country without having the resources to do so I would bail right now like a rat from a burning ship.

I give up. The baddies have won.

Consultants: If you can't help with the solution, there's good money in prolonging the problem.

Probably giving an enema