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Wow, that sucks. There's hot single women in my area.

Just need this one trick--that doctors hate--to hook up with them. They won't tell you about it though.

I have a Giant Sulcata Tortoise. She's almost 100lbs.

Super easy to care for. She mows the lawn to eat but St Augustine grass doesn't have all the nutrition she needs so we supplement her diet every two days with some fresh lettuce, fruit, and tortoise pellets.

Right now our yard is full of pumpkins donated by our neighbors that she enjoys very much (her poops turned a bit orange, haha). Watching her eat them is a surprisingly satisfying and relaxing experience.

Her home is an old lawnmower shed that my father-in-law had lying around and she goes into it every night (we cut a tortoise-shaped hole in the front and put some "baggage flaps" over it to keep the heat in). Interestingly, we didn't need to "train" her to go in there she just figured it out on day 1 and settled in the very first night.

She comes when she's called and loves to come see us when we're out in the yard (hoping for treats!). We often get the leftover produce from Publix that's going to be thrown away and feed her that. She doesn't care that the lettuce has gone all wilty or about damaged fruit so it's better than sending it into the trash 👍

Now that Trump doesn't need to get reelected I think conservative Christians are in for a very big surprise: He actually doesn't give AF about them. In fact, he thinks they're idiots (he's said so in the past).

I seriously doubt he's going to attempt to appease them much at all during his next administration because he doesn't need them anymore. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he completely throws them under the bus in any number of fashions.

I guarantee we're going to get a lot of headlines next year similar to the woman who said, "he's not hurting the right people!" This will include a whole lot of conservative Christians who thought Trump was going to institute their agenda but will instead totally screw them over.

I wouldn't be surprised if he demands the taxation of churches so he can further line his pockets with more grift. He'll say it's necessary to pay off the debt or something like that then we'll find out that the money is directly going into his and his allies pockets.

Don't forget pardons! He's going to pardon a great many people who were rightfully convicted and deserved their punishments.

He's also going to screw up implementing his own policies because he really doesn't understand how most government agencies work. Even when he legit wants to make the government do it's job he'll fuck it up every time just like last time.

I hate to break this to you but this shit level of empathy has been with humans for thousands of years. This is not a new phenomenon. It's not caused by microplastics.

What is new is empowering those without empathy to decide world leaders that have an obscene amount of power. That's a relatively new development for humanity.

It seems RFK Jr is walking back some of his previous statements about vaccines. Notably, that he doesn't seem to want to ban them all anymore. From just two days ago:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/04/election-trump-rfk-jr-vaccines-fluoride

He's still planning on making everyone's teeth rot though.

Nope. They instituted serious anti-immigrant laws here in Florida that severely hurt many businesses. For example, enormous construction projects just stopped. Just Google, "Florida immigrant law halts construction" and you'll get all sort of fantastic examples.

So yes: Right wingers did shoot themselves in the foot in order to hurt immigrants (which is what their base truly wants in their heart of hearts). The Republican legislature knew it would be horrible for the economy. They knew it was going to hurt innocent people and loads of small businesses.

They didn't care. That's what the Republican party is all about, after all: Not caring. They will actively seek to hurt their perceived enemies no matter what! Consequences be damned!

Liberalism. (noun) a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution.

What they're saying is that revolution is the only option.

"I'm unhappy, financially so I'm going to vote for the felon, racist, sexist, fascist" still doesn't add up.

What does add up is that enough of the American people didn't know or fully understand just how much of a racist, sexist, fascist and total scumbag Trump really is. Or they heard about his misdeeds and absolutely abhorrent statements/views but didn't believe it; "fake news".

They had all the time in the world to just pay attention or ya know, just look shit up but they didn't do those things. Now those very same people are going to be surprised AF that their friends and family are being rounded up, arrested, detained, and/or deported. They'll say they had no idea that Trump planned to do that or that "they didn't think he'd actually do it."

They suck. There's no excuse at this point. Just like the article suggests.

Then there's his actual supporters who like the awful things he says and nod in agreement. If anything, this election has revealed that your Republican neighbors absolutely are horrible human beings. Again: If someone is still a Republican at this point they're saying to the world that they're in tacit agreement with these things. They share the same values as the Republican party and Trump is the Republican party platform at this point.

It looks like a toilet bowl. A huge toilet bowl.

No, it's just as basic as the OP let on... Going to church every Sunday indoctrinates the, "appeal to authority" logical fallacy. The very premise that the religion itself is the source of truth in the world is the trap that leads people down the road of falling for charlatans and other scam artists.

All it takes is for their priest or pastor to endorse (directly or indirectly) any political view, candidate, or person/product and "the flock" will adhere. To not adhere is to deny the authority and thus, the religion itself. That often also means expulsion from their community and very real other social and sometimes worse consequences.

The only "escape" is to simply not participate which actually resolves into two scenarios:

• An honest one where the former adherent admits that they no longer believe (the authority; not necessarily the entire religion).
• A dishonest one where conformance and piety is claimed and faked as a sort of performance art. After all, who can deny piety exists in an individual? It's all in their head. This method can be quite profitable if you have no scruples! (For example, a Jesus fish in an official company logo/slogan... That's basically the modern day version of the money changers in the parable of the money changers!)

At an even more basic level, going to church and claiming publicly that you adhere to a religion like evangelical Christianity opens you up to be scammed. Since there's no official tests or regulations regarding what counts as "Christian" literally any scammer/scummy company can claim to be Christian and thus, "on the team".

Christ's teachings are pretty clear that everyone is on the same team and not to favor one group over another based on ethnicity (and by extension, religion) as given by the parable of washing the prostitute's feet. However, that's not really taught much in evangelical churches these days! In fact, if your pastor isn't bringing that up right now--as Trump promises to intern immigrants, forcing them away from their families/communities--with regularity they're probably in that second camp I talked about: Faking piety for profit.

Ahaha! Microsoft employees are using AI to ~~write~~ hallucinate their own performance reviews and managers are using that very same AI to "review" said performance reviews. Which is exactly the dystopian vision of the future that OpenAI sells!

What's funny is that the "cult of Microsoft" is 100% bullshit so the AI is being trained in bullshit and as time goes on its being reinforced with it's own hallucinated bullshit because everyone is using it to bullshit the bullshitters in management who are demanding this bullshit!