For the non-believers:

I would also love a source. I keep seeing the claim made over and over. It’s certainly plausible, and should be easily provable.

You’re not going to Heaven 
Eat a thousand crackers, sing a million hymns 
None of you are going to Heaven 
You’re not my children, you’re a bad game of Sims

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I don’t think I’ve thought about this episode in like 30 years. Yet I can hear the line like it was yesterday.

A lot of my favorites are already on Nebula. I’d ask the rest to follow but that would require a google account.

If Hollywood buys out much of the anime industry

Sony has quite a head start on this already, Hollywood be slackin.

smh. That’s supposed to go in cell A1.

That’ll shock a few people, but a whole lot of others are gonna need to buy more tissues.

And yes, I will kink shame in this case.

Irish people were among the most oppressed white minorities back in the day.

Most of the Irish Americans I know are just keen on dishing it back out to whatever Other they can target. I’m also related to most of the Irish Americans I know, so take that as you will.

What flavor is it?

Her opponents:

• Black mayor of a majority-minority lower-income city
• Jewish mayor of a neighboring majority-minority immigrant sanctuary city
• Black/immigrant teacher’s union leader
• Jewish legislator running on rightwing talking points
• White lapdog for the mob boss in the southern part of the state who has been deeply embedded in politics for decades

I would have preferred any of the first three listed, but when people call NJ solidly blue, that blue is on a national level, and leans heavily corporatist/“centrist.”. “White ex-military mom” is about as centrist as it got here, which unfortunately is what flies on the state level. The dem machine is thoroughly corrupt, and progressives don’t get much traction outside of their districts. The solid blue narrative really falls apart once you start getting local. There’s a band of blue that roughly follows population density between NY and Philly, with pockets of red where the pockets are deeper. Parts of the NW and SE are basically Alabama.

The current D governor (a milquetoast investment banker) is the first two-term dem since the 70s, and the second term was by a hair (to the current R nominee). He replaced two-term clown turned national clown Chris Christie.

People like to shit on NJ because of Jersey Shore memes and the areas around NYC being mostly concrete, swamp, and/or industrial. Save it. There’s plenty of real issues to dunk on. If the shade you’re throwing comes from an informed perspective, it’s more effective.

On a side note, I was very wrong about my predictions a few weeks ago. I was convinced that either the lapdog or the DINO was going to win… mostly because of campaign advertising. Sherrill completely ignored my area aside from some preliminary feelers early on. But she had the backing of the machine (which I was not aware of), and, well, here we are.

I wasn’t all that impressed with History of the World Part II. Hoping this fares better.

Maybe it depends on what I want to happen when that load spike comes.

I don’t know what they wanted to happen, but at my old place the load spike overloaded the UPS units.

Me: “we really shouldn’t be running these at 85 90 95%.”

Brass: “That’s not 100. Find room to ingest this company we bought when the CEO made a friend at a circlejerk.”

Overnight server update check: blip

UPS: Bypass mode, bitches!

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m near neither of those places, but both birds are regulars in my neighborhood. It’s kinda cool. Sure bears beats boring old robins and sparrows.

Clue, Tim Curry

I am convinced that given enough time, the gene for Tries Crazy Shit and the gene for Has Mad Skills will converge.

And have you ever seen a hurricane? Not on TV. Not on “satellite images” (which are just more made up computer pictures). I mean with your own eyes.

Indeed I have.

Hurricanes, nor’easters, the occasional derecho… a few tornados have been too close for comfort but nothing I could see. Have heard the freight train sound though.

Personally I blame those weird domes made of triangles. They’re definitely causing the weather. cocks shotgun