I guess "originalist" in the sense of going back to originally being the colony of a monarchy, I guess. I heard the radio talking about this and thought something along the lines of "if the president really is immune from this kind of thing, why not just make him king? Why did we even...

"I'm gonna be a good little 21st century boy and bike to the grocery store instead of drive, on this 25th day of April. The weather's usually great this time of year!" (it's overcast in sunny ol' Long Beach) (oh my, is that a spot of rain? Like, just enough to make it really annoying to we...

Apparently California met several weeks of power needs with 100% solar? Like 30 out of 38 days? There seems to be a lot of caveats in there- like this being before the real high-demand summer months- but that sure sounds like good news to me!

As I understand it, Ford sold about 63,000 Edsels in its first year, and those weren't exactly popular. And a game developer I follow on Mastodon claims "lmao Tesla has sold fewer cybertrucks than I've sold copies of MidBoss"

My phone is in pretty rough shape, and the battery might be getting spicy. I should buy another one, but I really hate shopping for them. May as well gripe/beg here since Reddit is such a letdown. Everyone in my house was using a Galaxy S8 Active before those started going bad. We're all a little cl...

Not sure if I linked or mentioned it before, but I like Worf's emails

Roxanne,

It appears you have addressed this to me in error. You probably meant to email wriker@enterprise.uss

I will be discrete.

Worf

Like, I don't even watch the show and I can't help but read it in his voice

There's lots of fun stuff happening in there, but I'm suddenly wondering if anyone has made a model of the Phantom Train.

I've had discussions with (former) friends about freedom of religion and if they agreed with it. "You're free to practice Christianity, because this is a Christian nation. If you want to practice some other religion, there are other countries." "So freedom of religion, to you, means ...

Oh hey, Ronna Romney McDaniel's already been fired from NBC . How long was she there? Like two days? That's only 0.14 Scaramuccis! But really, how fucked up was it that she was even hired in the first place? Like, you could hire me to spout absolute nonsense and give crappy interviews for far less t...

This gave me a chuckle more than anything: Authors of the "WPATH Files" upset over "suspiciously" happy trans people.

I knew those emergency door release "solutions" were a death trap waiting to happen, but that's fucking grim. And that seems like a rather high-profile fatality, which makes me wonder what kind of impact it might have.

Huh, Ugandan women find a way to turn food waste into charcoal, helping save rainforests that are otherwise ravaged by logging? I love a good "garbage in, greatness out" story!

Also, Reasons to be Cheerful sounds like a good tab to have permanently open.

Oh yeah, I used to get divebombed by the little bastards regularly. Like, I'd be walking to the front door and a tiny Stuka would angrily squeak past my head. You'd see them diving at and chasing each other, too. I always chalked it up to having such a short lifespan; two years isn't a lot of time t...

Is that, like, two beers per person? Because with me it'd be like one for me and three for you, and I'm not sure if you're okay with that.

And I'll try my best with your puppy. I dunno, I don't have anything against puppies, I just have trouble managing small hyperactive beings.

Huh, nobody has seen humpback whales mating until 2022? And the first photographed encounter was between two males?

A police officer approached the scene, aiming a gun at Bushnell off-camera and ordered him to "get on the ground" multiple times, while another officer yells "I don't need guns, I need fire extinguishers". hahahah i fucking love cops They really do have no other language bes...

(I guess this thread is okay for Gaza/Palestine talk?) I don't listen to the radio much anymore, so I'm not sure if anyone else has heard how an Air Force service member (spoiling for violence) fucking lit himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in DC and later died as a protest against the ...

It gives me a real "fight me in the vacant lot with the geo panels that move everybody one square to the left at the end of each turn" feeling.

I don't suppose anyone has any experience with umbrella repair? Bent ribs in particular? Because it's been raining every day this month (with the exception of my birthday, for some reason) and all of my umbrellas are busted in some way. I should probably just get a new one, but the way our family's ...