Mom: We have cold war at home.

Possibly if they weren’t just guessing.

Yeah that’s called “prejudice” and isnt a good quality.

Swap “southern” for “black” or “gay” and see if you’d be proud to make that same claim.

Fucking lol at hateful idiots stereotyping an entire geographic area. I’m sure in their minds it’s completely different than stereotyping people because of their race/creed/gender/whatever.

It’s impossible to have a conversation here without a half dozen people chiming in with "ackshually!

I, and every other neuro-normal person knew what you meant. I’d wager the commenter did too they just didn’t know how to contribute because the social skills thing.

Seriously if anything good can come from this the U.S. needs to stop fucking around with other countries sovereignty and handle it’s own affairs for a few decades.

I legitimately know a woman who’s divorcing her husband, finding out he was a Trump supporter was the final straw. They’ve been in a rough spot for the last year or so, he doesn’t cook/clean at all.

She was going to leave him a year ago but tried to make it work, finding out he was a secret Trumper sealed the deal for her.

The body is Rottweiler-sized, segmented into overlapping hard plates like those of a rhinoceros. The legs are long, curled way up to deliver power, like a cheetah’s. It must be the tail that makes people refer to it as a Rat Thing, because that’s the only ratlike part - incredibly long and flexible.

The grass under the Rat Thing is beginning to smoke.

“Careful. Supposedly they have really nasty isotopes inside,” Hiro says behind her… “A radioactive substance that makes heat. That’s its energy source.”

“How do you turn it off?”

“You don’t. It keeps making heat until it melts.”

The body converges to a sharp nose. In the front it bends down sharply, and there is a black canopy, raked sharply like the windshield of a fighter plane. If the Rat Thing has eyes, this is where it looks out.

As part of Mr. Lee’s good neighbor policy, all Rat Things are programmed never to break the sound barrier in a populated area. But Fido’s in too much of a hurry to worry about the good neighbor policy. Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.

That already happened to like 90% of us thanks to the same cultists.

I didn’t say the kid suffered?

It’s a shitty spot for bio-dad to be in. Kid may see it for what it is and may not. If I were the dad I simply wouldn’t put myself in that sitatution. They can go enjoy their vacation and I’d spend the time with my son after.

Why did you assume I was talking about the dad?

You know a whole lot of parents don’t love their kids and don’t want to spend time with them, right?

I’d absolutely assume mom & new dad would have several romantic dinners and activites alone while bio-dad entertained his kid.

edit; oh I see someone grew up in a loving household and assumes they’re all like that

I haven’t run into that particular issue (I wish I could replace some old ones) but we stream back to a Linux box and then out to cloud storage for archival purposes so maybe we aren’t hitting the onboard stuff as hard.

edit: the primary reason we deal with axis is because they’re extremely configurable/fixable remotely

Axis makes good (the best) IP cams, I use them commercially, they’re pretty much the gold standard. Super fucking expensive though so probably not worth it for home use but you might be able to pick up something 2nd hand.

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Feel free, leftwing flailing doesn’t help anyone (see the last 70 years as proof)

edit: Also funny you think I’m a centrist when I specifically called Harris a weak milquetoast pro-LE candidate.

beyond obvious that if people didn’t vote in this election, they’d literally never

Except for the 10m people that voted for Biden in 2020 but sat this round out.

You did say their apathy was justified, but it NEVER will be.

Where did I say that? There’s plenty of blame to go around and non-voters will receive their share but right now we’re talking about the rich ruling class who were unable to form any coherent argument or defense against an openly fascist, 34-time convicted, rapist. If that doesn’t show what they bring to the table then I don’t know what does.

You think it’s a sign that the politicians did something wrong that people literally can’t be bothered to stop obvious and imminent fascism.

You don’t? You think politicians did their jobs? I think they’ve been asleep at the wheel for the last 4-5 decades.

Funnier still, you claimed they cared but not voting wasn’t something they could blamed for.

I never said they cared, the opposite in fact.

bothering to vote

Ah yes the absolute lowest bar for civic participation and they still couldn’t reach it meanwhile Republicans are winning schoolboards across the country.

I’m actually coming around to your side though, both sides aren’t the same, one of them is good at politics.

“They saw how dangerous the people actively working against democracy were and were *still unable to form a coherent argument against it or court the millions of people who were afraid of it.”

I’m not sure evil through incompetence is any different than willful evil. One smiles while they patronize you, the other doesnt.