You're here. You made it. That's all it takes for your life to have as much value as anyone else's. Plenty of people have children in less than ideal circumstances. That's their own lives. This is yours.

Haha awesome.

Good-cop/bad-cop ass system.

When I was growing up, the only bar in town open after 2am was a gay club.

Presumably mattering massively to someone, somewhere!

"I don't have online, and I don't do the emails".

Gotcha.

Damn, I'm guessing it must be a rape or murder investigation?

I'm not online (or well-read) enough to really take a "side" on any particular flavor of socialism or another. I do sympathize with a variety of viewpoints from across the spectrum. That said, I lean more towards our anarchist comrades. In my case, it may just be a result of actually having met a lot more of them than I have met communists.

I haven't organized in big cities, but in small and medium sized towns I always find anarchists, and they are always doing something: feeding people, organizing gardens, putting up propaganda, confronting nazis...

I've met very few communists, and the ones I have met don't seem to be doing that much. Reading clubs, collecting dues to send up to the leadership... I have had some that came and helped out with a mutual aid project. That group broke up over some internal drama though (this definitely happens to anarchists too!)

Keeping it real-- here in the US, it doesn't seem like anarchists or communists are really building any serious political power. In my experience, anarchists are at least more likely to be in the streets helping people out.

And how the fuck do they even think it's going to happen? As if the entrenched political duopoly is going to allow any meaningful reform of itself. The reason we don't have politicians getting assassinated all the time is because nobody's even allowed to become a serious enough threat to the status quo.

Can't be fuckin, with a full bladder.

Haha no, it is pretty predictable here. Breeze from the northwest in the daytime, generally. Changes with the seasons, but rarely anything but gentle. Far northern California.

Well that would make a vas deferens.

Penis lengthening, so it drips on your sock instead?

It's not just a hill. It's a couple of pretty big hills and a 15 minute drive on a highway with cars going 70+ mph. No alternate route. I was strongly considering getting a Sondors Metacycle, but they stopped making them before they delivered many. Like I said, I'm moving to town soon and even a regular bike will be fine then.

It's all good. I'm on the coast so the winds are predictable and rarely strong.

I live at the top of a hill. I ain't biking up no hill. I am about to move to flat land closer to my job, and I do plan to bike then.

This will definitely work. I did this recently when upgrading a Steam Deck to a bigger drive. Other suggestions below are probably faster though.

The guy getting raided has a shirt that says DPR. It says Dept of Parks and Recreation underneath, but we know it's really for Dread Pirate Roberts, given the circumstances of his arrest.

I get that. I meant that with the stakes so high, and the outcome so uncertain, that they might be thinking of a backup plan.