Fucking incredible!!! I had really lost faith in the purple Texas that felt just below the surface for so long. I left last year and was feeling guilty that my blue vote today was going to a solidly blue California instead of fighting the good fight in Texas, but they fucking did it. I'm thrilled.

Yeah, the real dystopian truth is that people who are able to pull from a retirement account as a stop-gap are in a much more fortunate position than countless peers who live paycheck-to-paycheck and haven't been able to squirrel anything significant away.

Idk how it compares to Houston, but I was teeeerrified to drive on the freeway for like 2 months when I first moved to Dallas. Also the sheer audacity of some of the traffic maneuvers was something to behold. For example, I would routinely see people turn left from the right-most lane, cutting across 3 or more lanes of traffic. I just cannot comprehend why you would choose to do that instead of just circling the block or turning into a business to turn around.

Interestingly, the same defense team who defended Kouri Richins (the Utah mom) is defending the guy who killed Charlie Kirk.

Lmao I followed this trial start to finish but mainly listened to it in the background podcast-style so I didn't see most of the closing slides. Didn't realize how many typos were in those searches haha.

She didn't. She was in the hole $1.5M. There's a whole series of fraud cases which are basically her singled-handed personal ponzi scheme of bad loans that are still pending trial.

Yeah, that would actually be a great scenario for us. Dead Trump splitting the Republican vote for the next 2 decades would be chef's kiss.

What I really miss is the distinction between texting and instant messenging. I LOVED chatting on AIM when I was teenager. When you wanted to talk you signed on and when you were done, you just signed off. Now anyone anywhere can pop up in your pocket at any moment, demanding attention. Worse is that a good portion of people consider it rude to not answer a text immediately or even still, consider a day or 2 to be unreasonably long. Yeah, I might be checking my phone, but that doesn't mean I'm available to talk to you at this exact moment for any myriad of reasons, including that maybe I just don't feel like it. I started treating texts more like email and it has helped so much.

Because they don't need to remember that. They know they can shoot whoever they want with impunity as long as they follow a certain script.

Fucking unconscionable. We knew they were self-selecting monsters, but fuck. It's all so awful.

This is such an annoying take because of how uninformed it is. The people obsessed with the second amendment and the "well-regulated miltia" are the same folks building the dumpster fire.

My office is moving buildings and they are having an open floor plan. Of course, they are going on and on about collaboration, but they also mentioned that they are getting everyone noise cancelling headphones and will have multiple white noise machines. Dear god how loud do they expect it to be? It sounds like a complete nightmare.