Oh damn that was THIS year? I thought that happened further back haha, whoopsie

We had Grip sent away a couple years ago to be treated. It had some kind of mites living in there that would have eventually decayed it away, but we're glad that Grip is back- it's one of our proudest possessions!

but... blue checkmark

i know that our country hates trains

but trains are a much better solution to the problem of misunderstanding how charging works AND the amount of space cars take up

most people should not own cars. most people should have access to trains and buses

a cantab is another piece of evidence that connections is RIGGED.

DC47 is experiencing internal turmoil- their members want to strike beside us in DC33 but their leadership's been dragging their feet. DC47 Strike vote coming up!

I saw the snake guys! They were really nice. Just vibing with snakes

do not threaten me with a good time

fun fact, colorado has (or at least, once had) the highest rates of UFO sightings on earth

think those two might be connected?

Yes and no. It's the activist's dilemma. How do you get people who had plans to do nothing and get them to do something? The right has this very clearly solved because their voters ALWAYS turn out. The left needs to get its shit together and get organized so that our voters also turn out.

I did run! People didn't turn in their ballots!

Yeah unions are democratic but what is a democracy where people don't participate?

I am not a Teamster, but I am a union member with officers that the membership simply don't trust. In my case, and I suspect this is the case in many places, low voter turnout leads to dinosaurs running every group everywhere. Unions need to get their members engaged or they'll keep losing forever.

I am of the opinion that there is no such thing as the Dark Side. The Force is incredibly powerful, and that power is attractive to shitheads. Shitheads with power become fascists

Gianmarco the joke about his beard being the brush for dinosaur bones was RIGHT THERE

yaaaaaay.

Oh yeah 100%. I was totally convinced on the day Putin invaded Ukraine that WWIII was here. 3 years later, no world war. I don't know how much longer that will last. With Gaza, the Congo... it really feels like we're primed for the worst.

<3 Globalization was designed to prevent war, and in a lot of ways it succeeded. We haven't had a WWIII! A major downside on making every country dependent on every other country is that now, revolution & decoupling is a LOT more complicated. Just look at the Brexit disaster...