For true irony, you could order from Sticker Mule. The owner is a hardcore Trumper and currently running for office in New York.

I thought I was the only one.

Stardew stopped being a solo project two or three patches ago. ConcernedApe brought in a few more people to help with updates around the time the new game was announced.

Still massively impressive what he did get done on his own, so I’m really just being pedantic.

As someone who uses Mint, I’ve got those super-short below-the-ankle no-show socks. If I’m going to go through the hassle of shaving, everyone is required to see how good a job I did.

I hope this is a learning experience and they beef-up their systems

I hope this is a learning experience and they realize that commercial refrigerators don’t need to have internet access.

Agree to disagree. I think AOC would clean up in a primary, but she’s not popular outside of her party or outside of the city. Like I said, current polling has Hochul and Blakeman practically neck-and-neck.

Between Long Island, the Southern Tier, and the North Country, damn near half the state is conservative. While the city is getting better under Mamdani, the yokels up here are railing against sharia law and screaming that solar panels are destroying arable farmland. The legislature repealed the state’s climate goals this year, and shitheads like Gendebien are normalizing transphobia in the Democratic party to court votes.

And Zeldin and Blakeman are excellent examples with regards to voter turnout: the reason Republicans underperform in statewide races in New York is because a lot of Republicans assume they’re going to lose and stay home. When Zeldin actually gained some traction, more conservatives started going to the polls. His primary had the highest voter turnout in a New York Republican primary in twenty years. In the general, half a million more voters came out for Zeldin than they did for Molinaro in 2018.

But, yes, agreed that Hochul is nearly as bad as Schumer.

While I absolutely hate Chuck, primarying him with a stronger leftist would be dangerous. New York as a state is more purple than people realize: Zeldin only lost the governor’s race by 9 points, and the current race is shaping up to be even tighter.

I need him to die in office suddenly so that Hochul can appoint someone instead. Not that I trust her to pick a progressive, but it’s the only way we can be sure a Dem replaces Chuck.

TNT

My father-in-law worked for GE during the Welch era. Everyone apparently called him “Neutron Jack” because after he went off, the people were gone but the buildings remained.

This is untrue. Margins for restaurants are razor-thin. They could only raise wages and eliminate the need for tips by raising prices, but then people wouldn’t eat there because everywhere else looks cheaper. Because customers are dumb and don’t think about how much tips cost, just what the menu price says.

I remember when I was 17, I went to a Haunted Hay Ride with the girl I was dating at the time. Halfway through the ride, they stopped it and a bunch of witches came out to give everyone cider and donuts. The witch that served me was wearing full gross-old-witch makeup and jokingly flirting with me, so I started flirting back.

Just as the ride started up again, I said, “So hey, what’s your number?”

And she yelled, “SEVEN!” and ran cackling into the woods.

It remains one of the funniest things I’ve ever experienced firsthand.

Can confirm. I’m alive, except on the inside.

I’m sitting here, crossing my fingers that my father dies quick and soon. If he lives too long, he’ll need to sell his house to fund his elder care, and then I’ll never own a home.

I mean… yeah and so? Public schools exist specifically to create a baseline of knowledge and experience in the population. It’s part of a social contract that says, “by the time they reach adulthood, a person should be able to read, write, do math, and not want to burn everything down or kill people.”

Those values are shared by most of the world. It’s not surprising that schools reinforce those things, because that’s very specifically what they were created for. The alternative would be what? Not have schools?

Anecdotally, my mother, father, and half my grandparents grew up solidly middle class in single-earner homes.

Just last night I introduced my partner to the music of Woody’s son, Arlo Guthrie. They had never heard Arlo’s famous anti-draft/anti-police song “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.” I was shocked; I grew up with WAMC playing the song every Thanksgiving.

What it’s actually highlighted is how overworked and underpaid everyone is now. When a single salary could comfortably support a whole family, people had more time. When only one person needed to leave the house to earn money, the rest of the family had time during the day to help with the domestic work: dishes, laundry, gardening, etc. Then the evenings could be spent indulging hobbies.

Now that we live in a world where you need to have a dual income to barely get by, both partners are working 8-10 hours per day for the paycheck and then coming home to another 2-3 hours of domestic work. It’s fucking exhausting and there isn’t time to focus on quilting, whittling, playing music, or any of the other fun and creative hobbies that my grandparents got to be into.

So these AIdiot tech bros come along and offer to sell you the feeling of doing those hobbies without having to spend the time or energy to actually do them? It’s shitty, but I understand why a lot of people are taking that deal.

I’ve heard you can get good money for a kidney.

I hadn’t drank Gatorade in probably two decades, and last week I saw a sale, shrugged, and said, “Sure, I’ll try that again.” Shit timing on my part, I guess.

My father-in-law fell down a flight of stairs last week. He just laid on the floor for three hours while he and his wife argued over if they could afford the ambulance. If I hadn’t found out and gone over to get him myself, I think he’d probably still be on the floor now.

Dude let his wife for another woman. People don’t do that out of the blue. If he had gotten a divorce and then met the new girlfriend, that would be a very different story. But this? As presented? This guy decided to pursue a relationship with a woman despite his commitments to his wife.

He’s not a good guy just because he didn’t do anything physical with her first; at best, he’s slightly not-as-bad. But I think most people would be just as bothered by their partner daydreaming about running away with another person as they would be with their partner being physically intimate with another person.