It ain’t much but it’s honest work.
It ain’t much but it’s honest work.
I am not Herbert.
You know, the projection the wingnuts have been crowing about for decades.
"Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself. "
I did not get out early, but my eventual spouse and I were on the same page: the crazy stops with me.
My sister had different plans and now has two neurodivergent kids. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ
Thanks for getting it.
I think the balance of those unforeseen fuckups are going to rest squarely on the shoulders of us plebs.
Growing up neurodivergent in the 80s and not being disruptive enough to demand said deeper look may lead to:
Can’t believe I forgot this one - South Park did a fantastic job bringing Sixteen Tons into the modern era.
Would be remiss in not including a version of This Land is Your Land that includes the oft-omitted verses.
This version seems to have all of the verses. Sweet!
The Times They Are A-Changin (Bob Dylan) and The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Gil Scott-Heron) are also classics.
*edited to add links @ptz@dubvee.org
American Idiot by Green Day has become my new, traditional Independence Day music.
…I’m old. cranks up Fortunate Son
Also, what in the everloving AI fuck is this nonsense 🤦♂️
“Helps.”
Cobra Triangle fuck yeah! I can’t wait to play it and relive the experiences of my youth by being very excited for a half hour because boat stuff and then completely losing interest because of the difficulty.
For those that would like the story told with a little stylized flair:
https://nebula.tv/videos/extrahistory-civil-war-train-heist-the-first-medals-of-honor-us-history/
The article touched on pretty much every anecdotal point I could possibly make. About 10 years ago, the decades-long pattern of “it’s hot and humid today, might get a thunderstorm in the afternoon or early evening” turned to “flash flood deluge for 20 minutes 3-4 times a week.” 3-4 years ago, we started adding droughts into the mix. Weeks without a single drop of rain, then an inch or two of water dumped in minutes. This past month was a pretty good snapshot of the general pattern:
In aggregate it cheekily masks as “about average,” but the majority of those downbursts just run off and the ground is baked back to dust a few days later.
Meanwhile, the humidity/dew point has been rising steadily, especially overnight. Clear nights that allowed daytime heat to radiate off became less common, in its place we now get weeks at a time where the temperature doesn’t drop below 70 at near-saturation. I was watching one of the PBS YouTube channels (Terra, maybe) a year or so ago and they showed a time lapse of ocean surface temperature changes. Sure enough, there was a hot spot off the coast of NJ. “Well, that tracks. 😑”
I noticed the trees started dropping leaves in mid-August a few years ago despite it being warm into October. Spring and fall are shrinking, with precious few weeks in the year where neither the heat nor the AC need to run.
People like to dunk on Florida because of the politics, and NJ because of the stereotypes. Both are in deep shit right now. The entirety of South Jersey is considered coastal plain, and a lot of the land around NYC is low elevation. The next few decades will not be pretty.
I just got “reprimanded” today for paying attention. I commented to a friend, when she asked about plans for the holiday, that I didn’t really think there was anything to celebrate at the moment. And when I tried to get her caught up on the news, I got interrupted. “You really do internalize a lot of this stuff. It’s not healthy for you.” Yeah, well, neither is any of the shit that’s been happening. Feel free to celebrate your “personal freedom” to roam the American West in your RV and volunteer at care centers and attend RV rallies. Let me know how that “personal freedom” works out if the Freedom Units in your bank accounts run dry. Forgive me if I notice that those without enough Freedom Units don’t have those same freedoms you enjoy.
You know what would be a hoot? If Biden went on air and just read this aloud, word for word. Watch all the fascist-friendly corpo “news” wanks go apoplectic because outrage is more important than fact checking.