Sitting at a desk all day, starting at screens, can become so banal. Variety is the spice of life, no? If you aren’t using black-market RPGs to blast vaguely identified boats from the open side of a Vietnam-era helicopter then are you even living?

Please look away for a moment while I wash my groin.

two guys and their enby buddy

I love it. The woke Holy Trinity.

Wrong community

I grew up in a family of overly-armed suburban conservatives, so inheriting a significant number of guns was always a given. A few pieces have sentimental value tied to the relatives who originally owned them. I don’t use any of them, though. Hunting never interested me. Target shooting is fun once in a while, particularly trap and skeet, but I have too many other priorities vying for my time and money. If I were to get back into target shooting I would switch to archery.

Is it possible there are some SNAP recipients taking advantage of the system? I’m sure there are. Is the problem so bad that we need to make life harder for all the other people who truly need that assistance? No, absolutely not. I’m not losing sleep over the possibility that some people might be saving money on groceries. Let them have it. There are so many bigger issues to worry about.

The news is about Canada, not the United States.

Hey Grok. Make me “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” except The Spot is called The Butt and he’s covered in butts instead of spots. And Gwen’s big coming out to her dad is actually about how she lost the ability to fart, and she has kept it a secret out of shame. And all the Spider-People have funny butts, and their dialogue between each other is mostly just farting sounds.

And, after a bit of churning, the model births a masterwork.

The future is so bright we gotta wear shades.

Since the mid-20th century, North Korea’s domestic politics have centered on the idea that the whole world is out to get them, and therefore they must be fiercely independent from outside influence. Openly asking for international aid would be like admitting defeat against all their political enemies, real and imagined. Nobody in power is going to do that.

I don’t understand the downvotes. This is a totally reasonable viewpoint IMO. Biden was crap. At best he was a placeholder candidate from a spineless party that just wants to continue the status quo.

But there is a spectrum of crappiness. And Trump is so, so far in the septic tank that he makes Biden look great in comparison.

But it is all but certain to stall in the US House

More meaningless legislative theater. Wake me up when something actually has a chance of getting through both chambers.

RUN IT AGAIN!

Do you have links to reputable sources? I can find news of Russia doing exercises (link below) but not the US responding in kind.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/putin-directs-russian-nuclear-forces-drills-as-summit-with-trump-is-on-hold

There is a difference between choosing minimalism and being forced into it by lack of options. If these two characters had steady income or a safety net, and chose to live like this, then good for them. But they don’t; they are unemployed with a leaky roof and inadequate heat and presumably do not have the means to address those issues. This is an unstable situation to which nobody should aspire.

Yeah, no. Let’s not romanticize poverty.

One started as a cop but got fired after allegedly assaulting a suspect. He fell back on being a prison guard, but didn’t last long there, either. Now he has a job with a freight railroad.

Another was lined up to inherit his dad’s business, but instead got into drug dealing and eventually murdered someone. Now he’s in prison for life.

This is 100% political theater. It’ll never get through the House. And it’s meaningless anyway:

• The CIA never needed a declaration of war to fuck around in other Latin American countries. They are already at work in Venezuela.

• The 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force is still active. It gives the president broad authority to unilaterally launch military operations against any group they label as “terrorists.” No declaration of war is needed there, either.

Not my meme, I stole it. But I think the Panama invasion was the end of the golden age (/s) of US fuckery in Latin America? Things were relatively quiet (or I’m uninformed) until the first Trump administration started fishing for coup participants.

Top image is Bolivian students being rounded up by the CIA-backed military in 1971.

Middle picture is the US invasion of Panama in 1989.

Bottom picture is current Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, and a certain US president who seems interested in removing Nicolás Maduro.