As the owner of an historic property, really in a fully socialist or communist state, we would be knocking old houses down to make way for multifamily dwellings. Maybe that would be better. I can’t stomach the thought, although, amusingly, I can’t afford the upkeep on my own house, nor can I afford to sell it and move elsewhere. The golden handcuffs that rot while you are stuck in them.

I have had this conversation with docs before and it went surprisingly boringly. They’re like, well, do try to get sober, see you in 6 months or when you die.

(4 years clean this past October)

If we educate people on why progressive ideals are good for them (and mostly, their wallets), then yes in time. If we just assume Joe Everyman is spontaneously going to take up socialism as a hobby when everything else is telling them it’s terrible, then no.

That gives me a headache thinking about it, I don’t want to engage that much of my brain when gaming.

I always make mental note of the companies with invasive and shitty advertising so I can avoid them… glad others do to.

Try to hijack my subconscious and see how pissed I get.

“Ding-dong-ditch once again ends in tragedy…”

Or my favorite of all time, when someone (often a teenager) who’s lost or scared comes up to a door and the occupant shoots them rather than help.

Yep that’s what happens when the Democratic party gives up on rural areas, middle class voters, the breadbasket and rust belt, etc for decades. Having policies that are good for them is pointless unless they can take the bully pulpit like Trump can, they refuse, with some minor exceptions. So look how bad it has to be before people are willing to vote blue.

God what I’d do to see a billboard or commercial in my red state explaining how Republicans are fucking people over.

From a treaty from the 40s. The Trump move would be to ignore the treaty and the “water debt” and demand new compensation for any water, hopefully they get that.

Took a huge pay cut and that’s been awful but also, I don’t ever think about work after I leave (at 3:30). Sunday nights I just remind myself, I don’t hate my job anymore.

How many years does it take to play through a map?

Yeah their sales are being buoyed by six-figure income folks, who now see it as a value to eat there.

Interesting, it was yellow lighters in my neck of the woods, so I always got yellow lighters as people were way less likely to steal them.

They started doing it with cereal boxes and other products in Seinfeld reruns years ago.

Found the guy without bushes and trees on his medians…

The IRS says you have to write yourself a ticket so you can pay tax on it. This is how they got Al Capone’s driver.

It’s funny because in the early 00s I worked for a gay rights organization and was told pretty flat out, the FBI keeps at least a list with my name on it, if not my own file (holdover from the civil rights era when they did this to all progressive groups). And then Obama came along and we thought a new era was being ushered in. And now in 2025 I run a gay nonprofit and probably have an FBI file again. Oh well, means I’m doing something right, fuck 'em.

As someone who’s gone through a meth addiction, I’ve seen it warp people and make them capable of things they’d never do normally. And I do mean sexually. This has been a topic at every HIV clinic I’ve worked for, the counselors would have pretty typical straight guys who would turn into nympho gay bottoms once they got high. I don’t think it’s a latent sexuality thing, I think their circuits are just so blown out they turn into a different person entirely. I’ve not been addicted to heroin (yet!) but I have to assume there’s similar dissociation and personality changes from chronic use.

Writing about it later is gross as hell but 2004 was peak “gross fucking masculinity” time when this sort of shit was almost celebrated, so I can see him or the ghostwriter thinking it would be a brag of some sort.

Is he still doing it now that he’s sober? Is he contrite? These are things I would factor in, even if it was a pattern during his drug use. I haven’t followed RHCP in a very long time so IDK.

I blew my dopamine circuits out with a meth addiction and have the same effects of ADHD now, which sucks because they can’t exactly put me on a stimulant for it. I drink coffee and smoke weed until I’m capable of accomplishing small tasks, and then build on those to occasionally have productive days.

Even if the charges were dropped and she was allowed to go home

They had her shit on the curb by the time the squad car rolled off.

Total dismemberment you say