And they keep telling me I need to vote for them so they can kill me a little slower.

They voted for hate, this is what they wanted.

Let them change their behavior, but don’t let them gaslight you, they wanted EXACTLY this.

Fucking A

Sure.

I totally agree that absolutely anybody with current training in anything would have made me pay dearly for my stupidity.

However, because I’m a random American who played football, I was the one with the scintilla more experience, and I got to keep my teeth.

The American dudes who played sports in high school and are now in their 20s and 30s haven’t had their health collapse yet.

European cops are way more intimidating than American cops, by and large. I’m not trying to be jingoistic, I’m just saying that running after someone who is carrying something is the version of the national sport the vast majority of us actually play.

This isn’t about standing up and doing axe kicks and shit, this is about chasing somebody down and getting the ball back from them.

I’ve personally chased somebody down who assumed they could outrun me because I was fat, ten years after the last time I played gridiron.

My knees were wobbly and I was a little lightheaded afterward, but it’s the one athletic ability your stereotypical dumbass American will have. We’ll literally break our own ankle trying to do a stepover. Or maybe that’s just me. 😄

In São Paulo it was a little mini-assault.

You’d get shoved from behind, maybe bumped into from the side, while yet another guy is actually taking your shit. Extra credit if you’re at a curb so you stumble.

Then everybody splits, your instinct is to turn around to see the guy who shoved you, by the time you’ve done that and realized what happened, your shit is goooone.

What are they doing in Paris that the mark has a chance to grab them? I guess if you’re in a reasonably athletic pack of 4-5, but at that point surely there are easier targets?

I suppose people who don’t watch American sports don’t appreciate that there are many obese Americans who can still run 40 yards in six seconds and expertly smash you into the ground when they get there.

Oh, many many of them.

Sometimes text-mode, sometimes fundamental-mode, sometimes picture-mode, tex-mode, ess-mode…

I still use emacs

🫂

Mama Bear hug.

I have a 6a, installed GrapheneOS though the web tool, very happy.

GrapheneOS puts Play Services in a sandbox so it’s no longer rooted. You can restrict what parts of your filesystem each app has access to very strictly.

For now people still send me emails on Gmail, so I still have Gmail installed, but very limited permissions.

It’s a huge improvement.

You can also start sessions that entirely shut down Play Services so you’re living entirely with FOSS products.

I’m not quite there yet because I still use maps and drive and photos. Gonna figure out replacements, unfortunately nobody else has the traffic and live rerouting that Google maps does, even if you are willing to pay.

If you’ve got a pixel, highly recommend. If you have a different relatively recent phone check out lineage or e/os.

Nadella has lost his mind

When I saw Windows 11.

If she wants more men, Alaska is calling.

But also, maybe she’s entering her mid-50s and guys aren’t as interested.

I’m nearing that age but look younger. I’ve had this experience more than once: chatting with a guy, they will be interested, during the course of the conversation they learn I’m 15 years older than they thought, and they’ll just click off.

Which is kind of odd to me, like, you liked ogling me well enough 5 seconds ago, and I didn’t think you were exactly evaluating me for prospective matrimony…

And this tailing off will be more pronounced if you’re hoping that the man will be interested in you as a display object.

I was gonna say, you need 16 rounds before reloading for self-defense? Are you Pablo?

Yeah, an asshole.

I think Linus would agree that he’s one of the all-time assholes in world history, but sometimes his heart is in the right place.

Delta Male thrusts exactly once, so hard he bottoms you out, and instantly has the biggest orgasm possible, then immediately rolls over and falls asleep.

So what is OCEAN? Bare-eye astronomy?