They hate it when you clown on Sparta like a smug Athenian too.

Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe are good for learning the U.S. State Department’s approved perspective on a given issue.

The organization was founded to serve the goals of the Cold War and was indeed a CIA front. The secretive CIA support ended in the 70s I think and the org now works with the official U.S. government outlet, Voice of America.

Radio Free Asia is similar but a separate and legally distinct non-profit organization that started after the end of the Cold War to carry on the mission.

It is a route towards self preservation that is not an uncommon strategy, this environment especially.

Running for mayor of America’s largest city as a muslim and using the word socialist, he walks a good tightrope.

I didn’t really use reddit but I remember back then seeing a link in a story about reddit shitting the bed and thought I’d check it out. Back then a big issue was over instances not vetting users who applied. Thay sentence probably doesn’t even make sense to most users.

Though it has been interesting to say the least watching the reddit culture establish and then enforce itself.

Must have made Christmas easy

Quite difficult at the time, actually.

Damn, this is the first time I have seen something that isn’t the opposite issue of overcrowded and underfunded schools. Well the underfunded part still remains at any rate.

I think I see an unironic ‘Brah’ in there.

As an adult with a family: Yes, but nothing like when I was younger. The biggest shift for me primarily was to games that are not competitive or multiplayer.

I can’t do the 25-60 minute intense gaming sessions with or against other players. I have to be able to stop everything I am doing at a moment’s notice. I feel bad having to drop on people.

Also I can’t do the FPS games now because I’m old and my eyes just can’t anymore.

I said this in another thread about this article: They’re just flatly dividing the 1.3 billion total budget that was allocated over the years by the 6,300 number of homeless counted in 2023.

This budget likely includes programs serving homeless populations as a whole and its staffing, administration, etc. Given the time period this likely includes program funding that started, and then ended, with special funding local health juridictions recieved during covid.

Source: worked in the region in question in a local health juridiction through covid. Cutting programs and keeping police sweeps didn’t help the homeless but it tended to satiate the local businesses and residences impactes.

Rare W for my representative, continued L for their party.

Country buys foreign material, uses security.

Babydog’s getting through, maybe.

Appears it was McConnell, which makes sense because he broke with the Party over posturing towards Russia if I recall correctly.

It’s been the go-to opinion of the (pharmaceutical) medical community right about since… immediately after some states decriminalized.

The zionists won. It doesn’t need reminding.

A movement tried to make Palestine a relevant political issue for the electorate. It got stomped out. I don’t get this sentiment to keep stomping.

There’s a jobs program in there somewhere.

Part of my 2025 mental and physical health plan has been building and landscaping my little slice of land to go from an unfenced hillside of lawn to a walled and terraced garden.

Removed the sod and got a dumptruck load of granite stones at the start of the year. I am building using a dry stone technique and moving it all by hand on purpose. Currently finishing the main terraces and wall base, beginning raised garden beds now. Every day I move a couple stones into place and it feels like an accomplishment that is quite literally building on itself.

I look forward to seeing how it (continues to) come together.

It gets real dangerous if the National Guard unit hesitates or refuses to take a shooting order and the Marines are ordered to respond to that as mutiny.

That’s how it’d be an equivalent flashpoint for violence I think.

The other day I suggested there is a lack of self awareness amongst the more brigadier types and they’re still messaging me demanding what I meant by that. Like I posted this morning and within minutes I get a new message trying to go back into it.

Some folks are just not equipped to operate outside of communities they don’t control and moderate.