CVS maybe?

Hitler rose to power democratically.

Pol pot was elected.

American democrats fought to keep black people enslaved, and then with as few rights as possible.

An elected American democrat president put Japanese in internment camps.

An elected American democrat president marched Indians from their lands to Oklahoma.

Tyranny of the majority is still tyranny.

I keep toying with getting one, it's such a nice way to spend the day. The only thing I miss about living in Norfolk is their botanical garden though, theirs was a bit bigger/more established feeling.

My kitty passed away last Friday. So sad. Sympathy all around.

Had a lot of meetings because we're finally hiring a new employee for my team (which has officially put me into the 'lead/manager' role). Also overly caffeinated.

Thinking about getting the annual membership to Lewis Ginter - seems like the thing to do if you're going to go as a family more than few times during the year.

Has anyone else ever wanted to rent a wood chipper for an afternoon purely for cathartic stress release? Feed it scrap wood and bask in the whirrrrrrrrrr?

Of course they have, but that doesn't mean a monarchy is better. Lol. Go read some history, then get back to me.

I screenshotted it because I was like “Wait, this is epic. They did equal coverage of the parts on display?!?”

Basically. My primary care doc is already based out of internal medicine, my labs just moved up the weirdness chart

I really liked it. Reading the reviews afterwards, I’m in good company because 94% of Google reviewers liked it too.

So the US has never disappeared someone without due process?

I don't want to out them, because the messages are very entertaining. Since they're low key stalking me and likely reading this... Keep em coming.

If anyone wants to join my capitalist cult, holla.

How long are we supposed to wait before making a shitpost about finding a snake?

Thank you, I appreciate it!

Thank you!

Yeah I’ve been putting it off because it kicked my ass last time, but I’m going to NYC for Christmas so I needed to get it done.

A complete and total scam. I'm so sorry.

I still can feel that terrifying horribleness when you realize you've locked yourself out. I've done it several times at home and with my car and it sucks - my sympathies.

That's not a very well thought out statement.

You're a minority every time the other party that you don't support wins enough Congress seats and has a sitting president. That's how our system has worked for over 200 years, and while it's far from perfect, it's worked fairly well over time.

You having never lived under a true monarchy, means you can't actually compare what that means, but if you take a look at monarchies like Saudi Arabia or Brunei or historical European monarchies, if you disagree politically, they can disappear you or take all your assets without any lawful due process protections at all.

Healthcare in the US is a joke. it doesn't matter if you have insurance or not you can't find a doctor and if you can find a doctor you have to wait 6 months to see the doctor. what's the other option? going to the emergency room?

I recently made lemon blueberry muffins and now my baby sis has been demanding i make more because she loved them so much

I got both at the same time. Didn't feel so good for 3 days. Hope you fare better.

Well let me help educate you: I don't give a fuck about you or any of your professors

I get a small pension for being retired military, but the real benefit is the free health insurance. So grateful for that these days.

On that note, going to get my COVID booster and flu shot here in about 30 minutes. I want ALL the microchips!

I’m happy that a US citizen is no longer being held in the Russian prison system. That said, we traded a Russian arms dealer for her, and we got her out before negotiating a release for retired U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, who has been imprisoned in Russia for FOUR YEARS. I’m disappointed in our priorities here.

Edit - After reading a bit more, Russia initiated the negotiations and it was only going to be a one to one swap of Brittney for Viktor Bout.

> The ambassador said he believed the Russians "had in mind a particular deal in this case, because Brittney Griner is such a celebrity, so popular in the United States — popular, I might add, among basketball fans and others in Russia. Brittney's case really dominated the discussion and the focus."

So the basic timeline here is that Brittney Griner had a contract to play basketball in Russia, Russia invaded Ukraine, the entire world sanctioned Russia, Brittney chose to travel to a sanctioned country (one well known for imprisoning US citizens) to play basketball, Brittney was imprisoned for a vape pen she forgot in her luggage, and finally Brittney was traded for an arms dealer with the nickname “The Merchant of Death” at a time when Russia is running out of arms so badly they’re trading with North Korea for munitions.

If it wasn’t the vape pen it would have been something else. Russia has wanted Viktor Bout back since he was arrested a decade ago. Once again, I’m extremely happy she’s no longer imprisoned in Russia, but she made a decision to go to Russia when almost any other rational person wouldn’t, and that decision directly led to her being used as leverage against the US Government.

I guess I get the feeling that she’s going to get the whole welcome home publicity circuit deal that Jessica Lynch got back in 2003, but I personally think she needs to just fade into obscurity and live her life. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what kind of attitude she has about all this, it’s not fair of me to judge her before she’s even finished debriefing with secret squirrel.