This is seriously GSUSA screwing over the troops. It makes me absolutely livid.

https://www.snopes.com/church-scientology-tax-exempt/ Fake news, unfortunately.

Portland is SO white that some friends of mine who live up there are joking that it’s got to be the only place where tech gentrification means it’s getting slightly more diverse.

There are so many things that suck about today - emboldened white nationalism being one of many of them- but yeah, some how in the midst of all the horror, I find myself having just enough bandwidth left to get annoyed at all the people online rushing to prove their wokeness before actually reading whatever it is that…

I dug up an old garbage gmail account just to connect. Of course, I basically have to leave it in an incognito window at all times, but yeah. It seems pretty shitty that you CAN log in with an AVC account, but that they’re going to force everyone to hook up to a “real” account with one of the internet overlords. It’s…

Man, they do not make gimmick accounts like they used to. Where’s Cookie Monster?

It’s been around for a while. It was faddish in the circles I was reading a year or two ago, but it seems to have lost steam, which is why I was surprised to find it here. I think it’s a bit tiresome tbh and would be happy to see it go the way of the trans* asterisk.

I thought everyone decided Whedon was a dastardly villain some time ago. There was a huge backlash. Tumblr was besides itself. There was lots of raging over the Avengers and such. And then there was that alleged Wonder Woman script…

ISIS must love Trump, you know? Like God's gift.

Oh man, I hope so, but I did not enjoy app dating and in fact one of the things that helped this relationship get off the ground was that we met through some real life stuff. What did you use?

Yeah. And I'm not shy, but I'm definitely….not very good at being truly open.

The stupid thing is that I'm in my 30s. It'd be much easier to be like "oh, well, it'll come again." if I'd fallen in love several times before. Rather than maybe like…once before (though it died before it ever got the chance to get off the ground.)

so a little heartbreak today. Realized last night that I'm gonna have to end it with the guy I've been seeing and just had this whole whirlwind romance with. I've….never really fallen in love before, which makes this all the more crushing.

It seems quaint now to think of how much Romney was loathed.

Or if Johnson had been impeached. The fella that would have become president was a fire-breathing radical republican who thought Lincoln was being too lenient and was in favor of such crazy things as giving the vote to adult citizens of all types.

I still am in awe of winning a write-in campaign after losing a primary challenge. That's just jawdropping.

Maybe not. For all that it became fashionable to attribute it all to the Greeks, if you want to look at classical roots to modern democracy all lie in Rome. Greece doesn't matter.

This article really clarified for me why I avoid music pop culture discussions. They're just so negative. It's all about going "hey this popular thing? It's trash". Not: "i disliked this thing," or "it wasn't for me" or "I don't like music that uses….". Nope. Just "this is objectively garbage, the whole genre is…

On the other hand, I would happily live through the 90s as an adult.

There was a troll or something who was stalking people. I think they've opened registration back up though.