I’m going to try not listening to news or even using the social medias tomorrow night. Instead I’ll try exercising and playing video games, that way my severe depression can muscle out any election anxiety I have.

Flood of “I was spanked and turned out fine” anecdotal posts by people who want to feel morally justified in hitting their own kids commencing in 3... 2... 1...

If the midterm elections (that you’ve already voted in or place to vote in, right?!)

To be fair, dropping Splinter probably counts as a quality-of-life improvement.

And the Trump Redemption Tour 2018 continues.

HOAs don’t have a kill count AFAIK, even their miserable existence feels like there is

Just use whatever canned phrase comes to mind.

I think the Democrats (at least the brass) underestimated how well the Republican witch hunt against the Clintons worked. Not that they ever got anything to stick, but they were so constant and relentless about it that their talking heads and news of their talking heads poisoned the general groupthink in America.…

I usually open straight with what I am waiting on. “I still need a confirmation on...”, “This data needs to be in by...”. Yeah, it might be curt, but if they didn’t care to respond to the first e-mail I have no problem with a direct-but-simple follow-up.

Then the fun people can enjoy their long lines and stale tacos, I’ll go to Burger King instead.

I have obviously not conferred my extreme reluctance for public interaction. I quite frequently skip on free or cheap offers if I have to go out of my way to use them or I feel the effort to do so does not make up for the savings (when I wouldn’t have done it in the first place, anyway.)

Yup. I was a cook attached to a unit that existed to test things out and stayed in the rear. We did field excursions in the US desert, but after AIT I never otherwise left that post.

The joke’s on them, I still go in most Fridays. They’ve only shooed me away for a specific set of hours.

I wonder why they don’t do some sort of voucher/app thing. I know the point is to get folks in with the expectation that a lot of them will buy food to go with their free taco, but this can be spread out to improve logistics, wait times, and decrease customer annoyance. I’m probably just cranky, but I specifically…

Counterpoint: ISIS.

Thank you, but it was far from original. :)

The only time I can remember using a dial to input text is when I spell out ASS as my high score name for Cruisin’ USA arcade cabinets.

I have a degree in computer science

Siri, how do I delete the internet

I served for an extremely brief time during the recession, albeit in the Army. Your Marine officer buddy makes perfect sense to me.