Eh, young people are racist too. The rules always change, give it 20 years and there will be tons of stories about how racist millennials are. It won’t be about GenX. Nobody remembers we exist.

Well regulated also meant well supplied meaning they had to have a certain amount of powder and ammunition available at all times.

So you’re an authoritarian who wants to control dialog and define good and evil based on your own worldview? I’m anti racist, anti nazi btw before you start throwing strawmen at me.

I agree wholeheartedly. I’m a weird mix of politics, radically left and radically right and also sometimes the middle. The radical middle, but fuck centrists. I almost never find like minded people and that’s why I’m here. And why I get banned from echo chambers sometimes. That used to mess with my head. That was a long time ago. I just don’t give a fuck.

I’m not a fan of any of them but this would be hilarious.

The news stories about Trump’s actions will slow down but the gap between real wages and living wages will keep widening. Has been for generations now.

The extra cash was from side hustle money and she never cares where I spend that anyway. But yeah. I never said that it only cost $380, and I never said that it didn’t.

Spoiler, they won’t.

I’ve had this problem at Microcenter and Best Buy too. All the salespeople have a key but there are only two and they’re both tied up helping some grandma who doesn’t know what she wants. After waiting over 20 minutes, I’m like I just need to get this one thing out of the cabinet.

I know you can order ahead and pick up but I like to sometimes pay fully or partially in cash so I get less grief about expensive purchases from my spouse. According to my credit card charge, when I bought my 4070ti the day they came out, it was only $380.

Yeah I’d like to know if you hear back. I’ve only had a short hike in the Shawnee National Forest and I got about six ticks on me. It was high tick season and not nearly my worst tick experience. I got hundreds somewhere in southern Missouri, if I looked at a map I could probably figure out where but it’s kind of the opposite of a recommendation. Just avoid the hills of southern Missouri during tick season.

I camp almost every time I have 48 hours away from work so if you have a campground recommendation I’d love to hear it. I’m currently in Cincinnati so all I have to do is get across the barren landscape of Indiana to get there.

Yeah now I’m generalizing another state. I think Indiana has really weird laws and is mostly boring but Indianapolis has a ton of energy. I go there for concerts pretty often. Geographically the only interesting places are near Lake Michigan and in the very south along the Ohio river where there are some hills. Clifty Falls is beautiful but the campground isn’t great. The town next to it - Madison, it’s like out of a movie, and one of the few places in that part of the state where both progressives and conservatives might feel very comfortable.

I can’t quote your text on the android app I’m using, but talking about the deliverance music - you’re not wrong lol.

I’ve also spent a lot of time in rural places, not just big cities. And there are some amazing and wonderful hillbillies/rednecks whatever they call themselves. So welcoming and will spend half their day helping you out asking nothing in return. There are also some really terrible people in those nowhere swamps and hills. You don’t want to be stuck needing help with the wrong people around. [deliverance music continues]

Oh one more thing, I mostly agree about the places I worked being the bad side of St. Louis. Except Alton. Alton is a nice little town and has it’s own vibe. I haven’t been there in quite a few years but if it hasn’t gone way downhill it’s a nice place.

I never really spent any time in East St. Louis. I worked in Belleville, Collinsville, Fairview Heights and Alton. I’ve been down south and up north and most of the middle of the state. I’ve lived in Minneapolis too, and a lot of other big cities both in the US and Europe. Minneapolis wasn’t my favorite either. I love Portland, San Francisco, Duesseldorf, St. Louis and Cincinnati. I’ll pass on most of southern California too. Paris is another one I’m not a fan of, but France overall is nice. I think it’s okay to have broad opinions based on your personal experiences. Obviously I’m not judging every individual. Some places just have a certain vibe.

He was going to give it to whoever won. Of course he wants to be on the good side of those in power. It’s not about the president, it’s about Tim Cook.

He always has.

Thanks, Obama.

I don’t have a strong opinion on Chicago, I’ve only spent a few days there and it was downtown in a cold snap in February. There were some nice things to do but it was expensive and overall I’ve had better experiences in other cities. I liked it better than my wife did, she hates the cold. I on the other hand like to go snow camping (without her).

The people in the rest of the state hate Chicago because it dominates the politics, and the few Chicagoans I know aren’t a fan of the rest of the state. For awhile I lived in St. Louis but worked across the river. I still have to drive across Illinois pretty often. It’s flat fields of corn and thunderstorms in the summer, and frigid and hostile in the winter. I don’t really hate Illinois by any means and I didn’t choose to move away - I was only two and my parents moved to the Netherlands. I actually like Champaign/Urbana, I have lots of connections there. I still wouldn’t choose to live in Illinois though.

The rest of Canada would never have a vote worth anything ever again. California and Canada have about equal populations.

Everybody hates Illinois. People who live there even hate it. I was born there and promptly left.

I find Wendy’s and BK are less consistent than McDonald’s. McDonald’s isn’t the best but I can stop at one anywhere in the US on a road trip and receive the same quality. The Wendy’s near me is fantastic, the BK is awful - but I have encountered the reverse while traveling.

As far as McDonald’s pricing, I think they’re trying to drive everyone to the app. The have good deals in the app and if you’re not using those deals I feel like you’re choosing to pay 20% to 100% more. The also are realizing people who refuse to install restaurant apps have dropped off their spending because of the inflated regular prices, so they’re finally putting a few “value” options back on their menus, starting just this month.