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Years ago, in college, I was heading to a dinner with my GF’s grandparents, and her father was driving w/ her sitting passenger and myself in the back seat.

The trip was ~1hr each way, and after 20-30 mins of their front-seat banter, it felt like a great chance to chime in (had spent a total of a few hours around her dad, felt it was a great opportunity to engage & build that relationship), so I began focusing on context cues to gauge my conversational entry point & topic — ya know, like ya do.

Mind you, the stereo was on (weighted to the rear speakers, as usual) and the road noise certainly played a part (windows up, thankfully) but I was able to catch a few clues and decided on opening with a tangential quip, so I loaded a few solutions and fired from the hip.

“Did someone say ‘Florida’? That mythical place that old, white folks go to die?”

/prolonged, increasingly discomfiting silence

/GF’s father quickly changes the subject w/o mention of Florida topic nor implying my inclusion

Days later, GF asks “WTF were you thinking? The whole dinner was for my dad to discuss their decision to move to Florida.”, and certain details of the entire dinner & its conversational scenes began to make sense. 🫣🤦🏼‍♂️

How else is the South supposed to rise again, though?

Hitler’s long dead, but there’s a wannabe stepping up to the post, these days. 🤷🏼‍♂️

I mean, we’re well into live-action-reboots-as-default, so where’s our Luigi : Electorate Boogaloo?

Uh. Musk’s inheritance was largely from modern slavery (see: emerald mines)

Don’t forget: If Step 4 isn’t responsive to manbaby tantrums, repeat from Step 1 like your daddy and his daddy before him.

It’s what happens when you don’t (won’t) read for comprehension, much less with a shed of critical thought.

I’m leaving it.

The problem is, it’s metastasizing and rapidly.

The lab monkeys really went the distance on attention to detail, too. Cryo-burn and everything. 🤌🏼

Ya gotta be able to skateboard through the server room.

Not hired at all, but feedback added to database for said AI project that will envelop all roles therein.

No.

Hunh. I guess Huntsville doesn’t get much poetic irony around them thar parts.

/surprisedpikachu.webm

SYAC:

…score some down time, get to know our companions, and upgrade our gear…

/article

Don’t worry, we’ll just hole up in the Winchester until it all blows over. 🖖🏽

That’s my takeaway as well: this whole article seems to be insinuating the underlying trope of “Democrat” as an optimistic, shortsighted believer in meritocratic head-pats, and largely unprepared for reality outside rosy-lensed mental simulations & shower arguments cheered by stadiums of grateful citizens. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Humanity’s fucked. Thanks for all the fish!

Wait. Is anyone actually surprised? Honestly.

Uh. So, boomers swinging in the dark to maybe profit from a generation they have no more contact with than their marketing team has with real human beings? What could go wrong?

More than Ssss-skyliness, you ssss-say? Ooh, boy! Color me exsss-cited! 👀