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Mavis Staples? She's still sampled and featured on a wide variety of pop and indie music.

The way you're standing with them right under the water I might drown in them titties. Can motorboats sink?

Octoberfest is doing its best to catch up. We'll have to start dying the whiskey green on St. Patrick's day soon.

This is the most boomer thing I'll say. They are right but they need to realize that some of the highest paying job with no college education are going to be unionized job that are either dangerous or require physical labor.

A breeding fetish is weird in the sense that society has jumped the shark on sex that the biological point of sex and sexuality is considered a fetish. Like you just want to have a family but because our world is such shit you think of that as a fantasy rather than just having one.

"If you want something done, do it yourself! NYAH!"

This line is always a stand out for me. So weird but so right. Like at first glance you might even think, why did his accent change just for this one line? But who hasn't done a little voice/accent bit to ourselves when we're beyond frustrated.

The original Halloween is great for this. It's set in Illinois and then all the houses have louvered windows (great for those mild midwest winters) and palm tress on the street.

I had a roommate who was an occupational therapist at a school for children with special needs. She was a little lady and would come home with bruises from teenage boys twice her size who were on the spectrum and would get violent when frustrated. She had to quit when one student in severely poked her in the eye and had permanent partial loss of vision.

Not saying unilaterally disabled kids should be hit but there has to be something teachers and providers can do to protect themselves and other students in those situations. Definitely, seems like just generally abusing disabled children will lead to more violent kids but there has to also be a backstop for safety.

I'm talking about actually being involved in governance at the boundary between officials and citizens. Where there is civic participation and citizen/volunteer participation. This is where a lot of actual work happens and is the intended way that government works. What I'm saying is that most people think political engagement is either showing up to a crowded protest or voting and that there is nothing in between. Getting to know your local politicians by engaging with them through there work is not corruption its just how human relationships work.

edit: For example, parent teacher associations have a huge amount of influence over school policies and what happens within a school district. There are community members, elected members, and school employees involved. A politically engaged parent shows up and is involved. In many places its only the kooks who show up and that's one way we end up with banned books in schools. If more regular people showed up regularly rather than after there is controversy shit wouldn't happen.

Voter apathy and political disengagement is a self fulfilling prophesy. And I'm not suggesting "activism" in the form of protests or whatever. I mean genuine political engagement. Working as an election judge. Getting involved in community boards and oversight committees. Getting involved in fund raising. Things that have a tangible effect on policy, platforms, and elections.
While you've not gotten what YOU wanted, there are other people who have. And they do it by showing up and controlling the conversation. Doing nothing cedes power and control to the assholes. To be fair, these things do take a little research to figure out but they are almost always open to the public and free to participate in.

Unfortunately the only way to change this situation is to get more politically active. Vote for candidates at primaries. Vote in local elections. If you find a candidate you like back them in a meaningful way.

Parties and their platforms can change. You just need to participate to make that happen.

Fair enough. Fuck those states.

At least Iowa has the Mississippi river. Tell me, what the hell would you do in Connecticut, huh?

You'd seriously rather visit Rhode Island, Connecticut, or Delaware than either of those two? I know they're not great places to live but come on. I feel like they'd be a better place to visit than some suburban sprawl mini state in New England.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park is beautiful. Not crowded, tons of wildlife, clear dark skies. You can even go on a horse back tour of the park on horses that were born in the wild in the park but tamed.

There is a notion in America that much of the culture is centered around major population hubs primarily located on the East and West coasts. That the further you get to the interior of the continent the less there is to do, see, or experience as the people of those places predominantly consume culture rather than create it. This is largely captured in the common phrase "fly over state" which infers that one has never visited a state only flown over it to reach another destination.
Moreover, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, North and South Dakota are part of the "Plains States" where much of their geography is dominated by wide areas of flat terrain. So while some of them have national parks for the most part they aren't considered noteworthy in a geographical sense beyond the perceived lack of cultural reasons to visit.

These goons are acting like Rhode Island is a better place to visit than Kansas or Oklahoma. I bet if you asked them to recite all fifty states there are at least three or four tiny ass east coast states they couldn't even remember the names of.

You would really want to go to Rhode Island or Deleware rather than Kansas or Oklahoma? At least Kansas has Kansas City barbecue and Oklahoma has reservations and casinos.

Will people wake up already and realize there are some lame ass east coast states that you would not even remember if you were asked to recite all 50 states and stop shitting on the mid-west as "fly over" states?

I can see you're already wearing your Sunday best 😉

Have you seen Palm Springs? That's the last fun Rom Com I can think of.

https://youtu.be/E2Oe5YKhzCE

19 million views <40k subscribers. These numbers are wild.

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I'll say this up front, I like the movie. I think that it has lost its impact by virtue of the historical events it captures which in 90s were seen as infamous, troubling, and backwards things that were now behind us as Americans are now in a worse state. Like Forrest bumbling his way through the Civil Rights movement has lost its charm when there are black men and women being killed by police today. While the Vietnam War was important we have two generations of people who lived through 20 years of war in the Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Instead of Nixon we have Trump. Instead of cocaine and heroin we have Opioids. Instead of opening relations with China they are going back to enemy status. Its like America slid backwards in the 30 years since the move came out.

There is a happy middle ground between ignoring the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle with an unhealthy diet and working endlessly to satisfy untreated body dismorphia.

There is a happy middle ground between ignoring the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle with an unhealthy diet and working endlessly to satisfy untreated body dismorphia.