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My dad is pissed that I won't talk to him, but not pissed enough to denounce anti-me bigotry.
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My cat is a better cat than I am a human
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Someone I met at a Burningman event texted me and asked how to kill a man.
Now, before you get all worked up about the injustice of this, don't worry - she also sent me a picture of her boobs.
Anyway, because I am a kind and helpful person, and she had great boobs, I happily obliged with a detailed description of various methods for murdering a person, using my immense medical knowledge (gleaned from having completed, ( Read more... ) -
1,000% tax on assault rifles? Sigh. Alright, let me burst your bubble ...
Ok, I see what he's trying to do here and there is actually a successful precedent that used something like this (as a small part of an overall much-more-comprehensive plan) in the 1960s, but ... tell me you don't understand how gun culture works without saying you don't understand how gun culture works.
The cost is the point.
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This was an historically-bad weekend for Oregon
A friend's wife did not survive the heat.
While most of the country probably saw our troubles on the news, likely accompanied by a cute graphic or some banal conversation between the meteorologist and news anchors, this wasn't just an unseasonably hot weekend. No mere discomfort. Not an anecdote to segue to sports news. People died. Scores of them.
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My final thoughts on the election -
1-in-10 things happen all the time. You will experience odds like that a dozen time by breakfast. A 10% chance that something happens doesn't mean it won't happen.
And ... Donald Trump has about a 10% chance of winning the election.
Ok, that should be enough weasel words and plan B verbiage to avoid various people on the internet telling me I'm a ( Read more... ) -
Some day I really should port over all my Facebook posts to this thing. Today is not that day
Unless you want to do it for me. -
I still exist
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On pets, and how to not lose them because of money -
My cats are both home and on the mend, with various meds and instructions for bedrest. That is not what this post is about. This post is about money ( Read more... ) -
Adventures in computer-human relations.
So I am refinancing my mortgage, and the lender wanted me to take an online class. I am testing out their AI to see how ... uh, "flexible," it is with its answers.
Every single one of these was accepted and graded as correct.
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