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Here's the thing (other than basic enshittification):

For a lot of rural and wild (mountain and desert) places in the US, USPS covers the last mile (or last 100 miles) that no other service does. At a loss.

Private delivery service gives no fucks. We know this because UPS and FedEx or any other hand their parcels to the USPS pony headed out beyond the pale to keep their oath.

If we privatize, then those places vanish. They also stop paying taxes.

You want to know why? Check out Behind the Bastards two parter on Reinhard Heydrich, noting his time running the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) in Berlin. TL;DL Heydrich eventually just made a list of people the party didn't like (based on what he didn't like) down to transients, people with mental illness, and people with jobs he didn't approve of.

This is not our first rodeo.

The adult stuff goes deeper.

There are furries.

Deeper than that, there are bronies and non-bronie MLP (FIM) enthusiasts.

And below that, there are furries who like animal genitalia.

And at this point, a few miles down into the abyss, there are lolis.

ETA What should be under lolis but isn't is CECOT. That is, is appears family friendly enough for VISA, also very real and sponsored and used by the US.

I hope he gets messaged every hour about how his name might draw the wrong crowd.

Also that he needs to take pills for a bigger penis.

ETA: And that he might be able to profit from Nigerian princes needing some money laundered through the United States.

Also he should try EA's FIFA offerings... okay, I'm getting carried away. No one deserves that.

Years ago, I played Homefront: The Revolution which was a ridiculous premise (North Korea magically invents and develops microcircuits in the 20th century instead of the US, and invades the US) but had solid weapons and a really great remote-control car bomb.

Its version of the flying cameras from Half Life 2 that actually identifies you and calls for reinforcements also was spot on.

It also had a pretty cool pause-screen song.

Then it had trouble working with computer upgrades, and I moved on to other things.

Giving the benefit of the doubt, it's illustrating a process for near-readymade art.

Terraria currently. Satisfactory and DRG before.

This is a much cooler (and much more 3D) bone than the two nodules at each end flat bone.

I get that they flattened it to make it cheaper to stamp, but still. I'm counting at least three peaks at the top.

< rant > ~~It is still a right-wing propaganda show.~~

No wait, its Newsom's show, and he's inviting far-right pro-autocracy bigots, and acts like he's one of them.

It appears Newsom has repeatedly announced he's been seduced by the dark side of the force.

As today's CR vote showed us in the US, the Democratic party is complicit, and Gavin Newsom can't think past his political career to see they're going to imprison him as an enemy of the state before there is ever an election again.

After the election we realized the Democratic party had two options: Go hard left and serve to restore government service to the public (thereby walking away from lobbyists and plutocrat money) or fade into irrelevance. It seems they like money so much they're willing to risk getting long-knifed by OG right-wingers.

It wouldn't be the first time the left-wing parties went Neville Chamberlain. It seems that other nations' voters are also choosing far-right parties over neoliberal parties, if those are the only choices they are given.

If we're going to stop the MAGA movement, autocracy and the holocaust they are oh-so-eager to get started, we need to start getting neighborhood nets and mutual aid orgs going.

(Sadly, I suck at social stuff so how to do that is beyond me. My current plan is to make a whole lot of Tollhouse cookies and give them to neighbors stating this situation.)

You may want to check your own elected officials and how tight they are with lobbyists and other agents of the ownership class. AOC and Bernie Sanders seem to be trying to build a resistance coalition but yeah, Newsom decided to keep the One Ring for himself.

Maybe I have other elected officials that might be useful.

Were using shouting and protest posters for now, but you may want to know where your supplies are for making molotovs. May it never come to that.

< /rant >

Those are ridiculously cute tea cozies. Would serve tea with them.

This is what I assumed. Assuming its non-injurious, the marble will sting a lot more, on the other hand, I'd be under a bowling ball (or holding it.)

If its at a significantly injurious amount of momentum, there is no right answer.

A) He's doing this stuff to make the libs jump (or more accurately do something that MAGAs believe will make Libs jump.)

and

B) When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

Also, Behind The Bastards has done a deep dive on the life of Musk. Find it. Listen to it.

Then check your local officials and see if they're die-hard ownership class, or can at least sympathize with the proles.

It's time to activate. Don't make Molitovs yet, instead find out where to march or stand. But do look at where your molotov-making supplies are.