Ruby Bridges is alive and well.

Corn syrup has wrecked ice cream for me. I can’t stand it and actively avoid buying ice cream with it.

I miss the old Bryer’s

I vaped for quite a while. Got a bit addicted to the tinkering and the juice hunting. It can be a fun hobby which probably makes it a bad way to quit if you’re anything like me.

I worked myself down on the nicotine levels until I was at zero.

Relapsed back to cigarettes after not having vaped for a few months due to stress.

Finally stopped cold turkey. Didn’t go back to vaping just decided it was time.

Things that ultimately helped:

• Having a reason to quit that I could remind myself of daily as an affirmation.
• My partner was also quitting, I needed her to stop and needed to be there to support her efforts.

If I was going to do it again, I’d probably look into Fum or something similar. Probably add some nicotine gum at the start to ease the chemical addiction.

It could actually be a criminal one but the speculation is that the burden of proof is much higher and this was the DA getting it on the books before the election. Nothing prevents them from bringing criminal charges after putting the evidence before a grand jury.

I’d be happy if they just deported him. I mean jail time and heavy fines would be the dream but I’ll take him having to leave the country. Isn’t that what they want us to do with foreigners that commit crimes anyway?

Edit: Reminded this is a civil case so no chance of jail or deportation. Bit of doesn’t hurt to have dreams.

My grandfather worked in a lab at a brewery. His job was to sample grain coming in. Rejected grain cars were sent to the cereal factories.

And you get twice as many votes if you have kids. But only 1.6 times if any of your children have a parent that is an immigrant. And if both parents are immigrants your vote only counts as .6. If you have 5 white males you get 3x each.

And this lack of coherent, federally managed elections, also means some states just literally provide way too few places to vote.

We actually do have laws federally to protect voters from disenfranchisement. There are often lawsuits about polling locations, hours of voting, and number of drop boxes. One side is definitely always trying to make it harder to vote, specifically on contested areas.

This is a bit of a non-story.

Department of Justice already decided not to reassign the case.

Backed into a corner, the Justice Department finally took a stance on Cannon’s partiality on Oct. 21—at least in the context of the Routh prosecution. In a perfunctory, one-and-a-half-page filing, the government opposed Routh’s motion, stating that it did “not present either facts or case law requiring recusal on this record in light of the controlling standard.”

Given that the Justice Department has already ruled on this, there was no way that Cannon was going to say “You might be right, I can’t be impartial.” Has she done that it would have also guaranteed her removal from the documents case when it is eventually reopened. Though I suspect she’ll be removed from that anyway.

You can drop it in the post but many people are paranoid about it being lost in the mail. The US also suffered a not unnoticeable degradation in the post service under Trump and his post master general pick who is still at his post because he didn’t resign and Biden didn’t fire him.

I still vote in person because of my own anxieties about my vote being counted.

When your net worth is equivalent to the GDP of Iraq and greater than that of most countries.

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He looks like he’s auditioning to be a vampire in a cheesy 90s movie.

A half bad joke. Like a half smoked brisket.

Love me some battletoads

Get letter from crapcast about downloading copyrighted material. Next search: ‘how to torrent without isp knowing’

One could argue you can learn to be a statesman, but charisma is something innate.

We really do tend to vote for charisma over statesmanship, which is incredibly problematic.

For those who don’t know

I also highly recommend this analysis of STAR and RCV

This seems more like taking a tank through a screen door. The separation is barely there to begin with.