@Museek
I hope that the "kids" are actually paying attention to their reality instead of tik tok. My 20yo just mentioned yesterday how gas prices had been falling. But you know - even if gas came down to $2 those nutjobs would say "Harris is manipulating the price of gas to win the election." They are lost.

@Museek
Oh yeah I remember when that was happening. Please excuse my crassness but those people would blame Biden if their d**ks fell off, and credit if they grew back.

@Museek
Wow. Where is gas 6.05 a gallon?? Gas went from 3.39 to 2.83 here in Indy just in the last few weeks.

Shameless cross promotion!

@earthshine has a collection of music at https://fatecalling.bandcamp.com/

Solo acoustic lo-fi americana loaded with southern mythology and a penchant for wanderlust. There are a lot of different genres here, some experimental avant-garde, some straight up country, some alt-folk, it's a journey. My personal favorite album (now) is
Lost Songs from The Bones of Fallen. Give it a tumble. GREAT Saturday morning music. #cosomusic

@earthshine 🥂 thank you!

@Helical_Code
Yeah you and me both. Last night I took him out for his very first practice drive. 13yo daughter was with us and at some point she said "can I drive next??" and I went "NO!!! I am not ready for that!!!" I miss my little babies.

@Pat_Walrond
I was a big fan of "Keeping Up Appearances" back in the day. The regular references to her "pussy" always made me think I was watching something subversive.

@Helical_Code
I am SO proud. And my 15yo, who has a pretty content heavy course schedule, insisted on getting a seasonal part time job so that he could buy his girlfriend Christmas presents.

Yeah. My last post was a shitty way to start a weekend. How about this instead.

For the first time, today all three of my children will be working at actual jobs (13, 15, 20). Pretty damned proud of them.

Good morning all! Just one quick observation before I start my Saturday.

If polls are to be believed, at this moment roughly 46% of America is blatantly and unabashedly racist.

@AkomoCombine
Sumptuously!!!

@Xponent_Rob
Welcome back!
Question: is your coso name a YES reference?

Sorry but do you not follow the news? This story has been kind of a big deal especially in liberal media.

@Yashua
He did. He has claimed multiple times not to know anything about it. You want to bring that propaganda here, sunshine?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/11/politics/trump-allies-project-2025/index.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/caileygleeson/2024/07/05/trump-disavows-project-2025-calls-some-of-conservative-groups-ideas-absolutely-ridiculous-and-abysmal/

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/trump-project-2025-heritage-foundation-nothing-to-do-jd-vance-book/

Just got a robotext from Robert Deniro about Kamala. My family is prepping for several hours of me reading it aloud in his voice. My Deniro KILLS.

You can, if so inclined, read the BOJS report for yourself. It's very graphical and not too dense.

https://bjs.ojp.gov/document/cv23.pdf

can't even keep high level things straight. He says "the FBI crime numbers are fraudulent." Then he says "the bureau of justice statistics just released a report that proves me right". Well, they released a report. That's true. And that report says, at the top of page 12 in red letters, "A lower percentage of persons were victims of violent crime in 2023 than in 2022". End of story. But fuckface attributed John Lott's manipulated stats to the government report. I'm out of breath.

liberally quoted from a Washington Times article (link below if you dare) saying violent crime was way up. Problem is, the WT used a a source for their story the notorious John Lott from the CPRC, a seriously biased and problematic non-profit founded by the author of "More Guns Less Crime".

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/sep/12/latest-doj-data-shows-crime-rates-remain-elevated-/