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No, I saw that. Cletus' take on the whole thing has me concerned he's gonna scoot on the carpet though. Besides, neither side is going to put their current-now movements on youtube because that would be a blatant announcement of what they are doing for the other side to target. Cletus is basically getting excited over stock footage of train transportation for the sake of pretending to know something. Everyone gets to see the big ships go boom after the fact.

So much this. There should be no reason for a college loan of say $20,000 total [ for all the years ] to cost $80,000 by the time you pay it off especially when you are paying it off the entire time. If you are paying something off, it should go down consistently, not up. And don't even get me started on the price of 'textbooks' and new versions that changed exactly one word around somewhere so now the old one is crap and you can't sell it back for the pittance allowed at the store. I have a History of Hello Kitty [ the business itself ] somewhere around here that was labeled a textbook for some class somewhere and the price tag is $250. [ found it ]

'Hydrated'...okay, that's a legit concern no matter what's going on in your life. 'Moisturized'...kinda wondering where this is going now. 'On your shit'...yeah okay scat-man. Stay off all my furniture forever. And this has been your moment of 'Yes, that guy paid for a Blue Badge of Dipshittery'.

Power went out last night right before Toonami. I hate hunting down missed episodes - I wait all week for a reason, I need something to look forward to. And now there's no hot water. At all. All I wanted to do was soak my angry bones until they aren't so angry. If I wanted to freeze, I'd go roll around in the snow.

Dementia Dork seems to have forgotten who he's even supposedly running against. He's reverting back to his old tactics of 'black man bad!' sound bytes even though...black man not eligible to run because black man successfully went two full terms without being a shitheel.

I'm trying to get some little things done today. But the building across the street is on fire. And I can't stop thinking about any of the pets that might be in there because their humans are at work. The entire area is completely blocked off to vehicles, they brought in a bus for the displaced and their pets, there are used fire equipment everywhere.

On the border in winter, a lot of the neighbors would physically staple heavy plastic sheets to the outside of their barns' or any outbuildings' windows to cut the leaks for the animals [ it had to be on the outside or the animals would eat them/barn cats would shred them ]. House equivalent would be heavier curtains which can be a bitch to change out if you didn't feel like stapling plastics to all the windows. Now, WalMart sells window kits for winter [ if you can find them - they either sell out fast or they never order enough to keep stocked up ] specifically for indoor use. No staples needed. My electricity bill is usually around $40 in the winter.

Madd Frank for life

There are bumper stickers that people can get for their Teslas that says 'I bought this before I knew the guy was an asshole'. People who buy cyber-dumps should have a bumper sticker slapped on it that says 'Warning - Driver Applying Make-Up' and see how long it takes before they realize its there.

They've already put out a wish list that includes $1.5 billion in cuts to those. It's supposedly a dead-on-arrival proposal but it still exists despite all those claims that they totally aren't going to target them, nope nope nope. Yeah, China bad, China the real enemy, China is so totally a Biden country that its existence is totally a much bigger threat to the world than very Drumpf friendly country Russia... Wait, you haz moneys? I can haz moneys? China best place, yugely popular. Never ever said anything different. I would argue that nope, if TikTok is the devil because China owns it than DumpsterSocial can't be sold off in any way to said very 'devil'.

Now if only the deserting rats would actively support only non-jackass republicans [ good luck ] or whatever democrat is running to fill the vacancy. A vote either way would at least hopefully start to strangle the garbage minority that thinks they run the show.

Winter window kits. You can winter-proof your windows by putting clear plastic sheets over them [ on the inside ] using double-sided tape to hold it in place. Then you can heat shrink them to create a sort of pocket shield of air between your apartment and the actual window. It catches the drafts that get through the window so you don't feel them and the heat from the apartment sort of keeps the air pocket slightly warmer than the outside so its a form of temporary and cheap insulation that lasts as long as the tape holding it up does. Currently the tape on the bottom has given out but I leave plenty of margin so it's still controlling drafts. Think the world's biggest bubble wrap bubble but only over a single window. [ fun fact - bubble wrap was originally invented as insulation because the little air bubbles hold in warmth ]

Fund it.

He only has those shoes left [ maybe, since he's never said exactly how many of those scam shoes he actually has to 'sell' ] because people laughed him out of that sneaker con thing. The types of people who would actively buy those things already blew their wads paying $100 for copypasta photoshops on the internets. I have a better offering. Made from the same high quality leftover aluminum foil used in Ye's last dental adventure, it also has a bonus ability of blocking those pesky LiBeRaL brain waves that exist solely to turn your feet gay. Bidding starts at $1 million and you only get the one because I underestimated how much Great Valu foil I had left on the roll.

There are differences in what can be sent and we both know it. Every time they herd the population into a new 'safe' place, they turn around and bomb the shit out of it/kill as many people as possible 'for the good of the people'. I seem to vaguely recall something quite similar to that occurring back in the 40's...in Germany...to a certain section of the population...that appears to think that's okay to do now...

'Fi-douchery responsibility to shareholders' can french-kiss the darkest part of my cat's ass. After she eats her medical mushies.

The only reason prices increase when employees are actually paid what they are worth is because the people that don't work like their bonuses to be extra bonus-y every single year. They trust that putting out even the idea that prices would be attached to any pay raises is enough for the paying consumers to rail against such things. But it really isn't. Wherever fast food gets their materials, they are getting it bulk and at a discount. [ and some of that food isn't quite food...but let's face it, we all choose to eat something that's bad for us at some point because it's convenient ] Most of these places have flexible hours that allow for many of their employees to not exactly get the full 36 hours needed to be covered by company insurance plans so that's already more money saved. When a company makes literally billions in profit every year, they can not cry about how raising the pay of those that are the reason they make money in the first place would somehow destroy them. If they wouldn't work for $7.25/hr, why should they act like their employees should be happy at that rate.

It was nearly 70'F last week. It's going to start snowing some point Thursday and keep going intermittently until Monday. And this is why I don't pull the plastic off the windows until May 1st at the earliest.

This will last exactly as long as it takes for people to realize they are just pulling people off the streets for 'not looking American' and the various officers and police stations start getting sued by those same Americans. As for Dumpy not getting money, go figure that the walking wallets are starting to run very dry. Even those numbnuts that insisted on rolling coal during Obama stopped that stupidity when they realized that they could buy gas to waste or buy beer but not both. Apparently he has f*cked around enough that he is now finding out that no bondsman in the entire country is willing to back his dumb bankruptcy-declaring ass for his NY case. And he's also thinking of getting Manafort back to fundraise again...despite all the fraud and general bullshit he was held accountable for leading up to the previous Dumpsterfire presidency. Manafort went to jail and got pardoned by that Dumpsterfire - if he signs up for this again, someone should remind him that there won't be any pardons a second time. No fancy ostrich jackets this time. He'll be lucky if he can borrow a used feather boa from Santos.

In Europe, people who work for McDonalds get a living wage, full medical, full dental, one month of paid vacation mandatory, PPTO for illness, and the food is CHEAPER than it is here without any of the European benefits attached. It's McD's so its the same thing you get here. It is very possible to pay a real wage for so-called burger flippers without the price of the burger needing to go up. It only goes up because rich corporations demand they always be billions in profit and they are allowed that behavior here.

Considering that they keep cutting people and things all over the place because everyone has forgotten what 'investment purchases' are, there could very easily be someone on the way out who would be more than willing to take the proverbial bullet over an April Fool's bump. Hell, I'll do it for free and they know it.

Hear me out... An announcement that Zaslav has been fired. Followed by a marathon of classic [ as ] as if celebrating. Think the equivalent of the old 'Have it Your Way' contest winner type random. Then an announcement that nope, Zaslav just had really bad gas followed by the old school end of broadcasting screen that sits there for at least 10-15 minutes to really get people worried.

I have 5-6 projects for Con that need to be worked on and I can't get up a single lick of energy to do anything. -.-; Three are design heavy, there-is-no-four are design medium with manufacturing heavy. Meanwhile, I want ice cream and naps.

I absolutely lack the programming for any of this.

Damnit. I was going to do something horrible but realized that with my current sinuses, I sound less like one of those terrible 1-900 late night chicks and more like Blaire from Facts of Life with a head cold. Just know that once upon a time I would call [ as ] up in the middle of the night and leave idiot 1-900 messages on their voice mail.