So one of my neighbours has the exact same name as me. First and surname. She's married to my dad's cousin, so she now has my surname. Since she is my neighbour we almost have the exact same address and for some reason they never fucking check the eircode. So this girl is getting ALL OF MY PACKAGES and it's driving me INSANE. There isn't even anything I can really do about it, it's not like I can just change my name or address. I guessed I could put packages under my parents or my siblings name, but then they would open it and go through my shit.
That's is my rant. I hope she is the one who got my most recent purchase and she'll return it to me, cuz if not it is probably somewhere far far away lol
Abortion can be a winning issue for Democrats but they have to make it one, instead of playing language games
(Uncharitable rant time) I get that I am like a weeb version of Matt Yglesias at this point but sometimes I can’t help myself. I guess you can see it in the preview image but ill recreate it here just in case - legit official guidance from the Democrat House Pro-Choice Caucus on messaging around Roe:
You spent 50 years building up the pro-choice brand, billions of dollars, billions!! And you want to toss it!! Its harmful because:
“Choice” assumes that everyone can get an abortion, and someone just has to choose whether or not they want one. Not everyone can get an abortion when they want one.
We...we know!! That is the problem!! THAT IS EXACTLY THE PROBLEM BEING PRO CHOICE SAYS YOU WANT TO FIX someone with an Ivy League PHD is being paid by the most powerful people in the nation to vomit this garbage onto a page for $5k/hr consulting fees and they don’t speak english!!
“Decision” is an utterly weak sauce replacement get the fuck out, got anything else for us? Lets see what Planned Parenthood has in stock:
So what can someone say instead of just “pro-choice”? You can absolutely say:
-pro-abortion, pro-abortion rights, pro-abortion access, or pro-abortion equity — abortion isn’t a dirty word.
Jesus Christ yes. it. is. Whatever back-alley-lobotomy patient came up with this parody of a political stance needs to understand that what might just fly at a Center for American Progress fundraising wine-and-dine is perhaps not going to work with actual humans. And they know this!! They do! Wait until someone sits down planning a campaign ad and proposes putting “Nancy Pelosi: Pro Abortion” on the banner and watch the room’s collective emotional uteri shrivel up and die faster than their projected vote total if they went ahead with it.
Its bullshit, and they know it, but they have to indulge it because, h/t to the Yglesias wing, the donor/activist class that undergirds the Democrat party is A: increasingly radically out of step with the rest of the nation and B: uninterested in winning elections over scoring pot shot victories in inter-left culture/funding wars.
A barely-functional democrat majority is sitting in congress facing nearly-total electoral defeat in a system rigged against them and this is how you are spending your time. This is taking the line between incompetence and malice, tying it up into a noose, and hanging yourself with it.
gusto ko magpalit ng film cam kasi 'di ko naman madala yung akin sa sobrang bigat as a girlie na may mahinang balikat. pero iipon muna ako, gusto ko na leica or contax eh.
Tangina hindi ko na alam kung ano pa ginagawa ko sa buhay ko hahahaha. Wala na talaga akong ganang mag trabaho. Kahit pilitin ko sarili ko, ayaw na talaga ng sistema ko. I think katapusan ko na. Pray for me na lang siguro na bumalik na yung motivation ko na matagal nang nawawala.
You know, it would be really nice to see people not buy Lovestruck when it comes out. The only thing, the only thing EA will listen to is money; as long as constantly pushing out overpriced, broken DLC Makes Number Go Up, they're going to keep doing it, no matter how much the community complains about poor content-to-price ratios or game-breaking bugs. Don't buy the pack! Pirate it if you absolutely can't resist, but like. There are already multiple currently-maintained mods that add turn-ons/turn-offs, dating apps, and even a romance skill. And unlike the most recent expansion packs, they all do their thing without crashing the game or corrupting your save!
(I'm aware this leaves console players out, but console players also suffer the most from EA's shit being broken since they can't use bug-fixing mods.)
Like, seriously. I've watched people get more and more pissed off at EA over the years, and rightly so (even I don't get excited about new packs anymore, and I was pretty tolerant of the jank for a long time since I haven't spent a single cent on it iykwim) but then they apparently sell like hotcakes anyway...
