I should really visit France sometime. Sounds fantastic.

The only way to settle this is a machete fight.

The thing is that Nazis say all kinds of things that are supposed to make them look smart and cool to their pathetic dipshit friends.

I make it a policy to require at least one more source above “a Nazi said it.”

Oh, for sure. It’d have been useful information to communicate!

But telling kids to wear two condoms is insane even by American South standards.

I didn’t go to a “religious school,” but I did attend public high school in Texas.

Our health teacher was a coach, and he went over sex education. One day he said that condoms don’t eliminate risk from STDs, they just reduce it by about half. Even wearing two condoms doesn’t really eliminate the risk, it just reduces it by another 50%, so you’ve still got a 25% chance of getting something.

I was a pretty naïve kid, but even I knew that was fucking stupid.

My dad became a Christian Nationalist, but he loved Jim Croce when I was growing up.

He really liked the song Which Way Are You Going, but true to the song he’s got “one hand on the Bible, one hand on the gun.” It could have been written about him, but he still thinks he’s the pinnacle of righteousness.

I’ve been a bit obsessed with one of Cleopatra’s arias from Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Se pietà di me non senti. She’s bummed that she thinks her brother is going to have her killed.

Se pietà di me non senti giusto ciel io morirò.

Tu da’ pace a’ miei tormenti o quest’alma spirerò.

Just heaven, if you feel no pity for me, I shall die.

I shall give up the ghost if you do not pacify my torment

2. Day-oh (the banana goat song)

Cool, I didn’t know there was an open-source alternative. Thanks!

Not a console, but PICO-8 can be installed on lots of stuff and uses lua.

I don’t see why you should put your face in his video if he isn’t sharing the money. It sounds like he wants free labor to me.

I’m going over to hang out with my sister, we’re ordering Indian food.

I went to a trade school to be an automotive tech, and they had a job fair near the end of the program where all of the local dealerships came out to give out information and set up interviews.

I came out of the program with an entry level hourly position as a technician at the BMW dealership and worked with a master tech until I was ready to start flagging hours.

Speaking as someone from the USA, so there’s probably a bit of a cultural difference, but I’d say it’s the most likely way to secure a decent job in the industry. Otherwise, you could likely get a job busting down tires and doing oil changes at a local shop. You’ll be getting experience that way, but what you learn will be very dependent on the individual shop. It’s a much cheaper alternative, though (at least in the US).

The third person said there is a lot of GOP frustration that the White House seems undisciplined at a time it needs to hammer its accomplishments on the economy.

Now what would those be?

The danger is not Sharia. The danger is the political machinery that turns ordinary Muslim Americans into objects of suspicion, targets of state power, and props in a culture war they did not choose. If there is anything Americans should fear, it is not Islamic law, but the weaponisation of fear.

Good article.

Truth in advertising.

Hell, they don’t even think once about doing what’s right. That’s twice as good as the ad says.

Get out into nature. Take frequent walks.

Be social, even if you don’t want to in the moment.

Have a goal to work towards that doesn’t have anything to do with employment (learn to draw, or play piano, or cook).

Be patient with yourself and others. It’s rough out there.

They work really well in third-person games for camera control. I beat Elden Ring on a Steam controller; you have a lot more speed and precision than with a stick.

It used to be that they’d put baseball games on broadcast TV.

Now you basically need a subscription to watch the team in my area. It’s like they don’t want anyone to see the games.