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…i disassembled the factory radio in my 1990 geo prizm and soldered an auxilliary cable onto the pre-amplification stage traces; it worked pretty well suspending a portable CD player from the rearview mirror for shock protection back in the days before memory buffers were a thing, even better with those little vinyl bands installed around the disc edge for additional gyroscopic stability…

…i believe that, officially, he’s just a consultant: some woman whose name i can’t remembre is the nominal head of the department which nominally-isn’t-DOGE…

…i shop women’s shoes when i can; they generally offer a much wider selection…

…my mazda 2 outhandles my MX-5s and is the only car i’ve driven which keeps pace with my elise; we’ve been waiting for an electric subcompact hatchback for about ten years now but the stateside market keeps doing everything it can not to offer me one…

"Expertise - and Patience - "

…i think the word they’re looking for is competence…

…nope; her education was 1980s DoDDS, mine was 1980s TEA…

(yes, secession; autocorrect squiggled it into another word as i was typing)

…just that, though: we were taught that emancipation was just one of many issues stemming from increasingly-fundamental differences in economic, social, and international policy, and that the war itself precipitated from the southern states asserting a right to secession and sovereignty which the federal government did not grant…

…we were also taught that the spark was actually southern states’ seizure of federal assets…

…likewise; my wife was apoplectic when i suggested that the civil war was about secession…

…call a spade a spade: the executive branch is a russian asset and anyone who’s convinced otherwise is embracing willful ignorance…

…the avalanche has already started; it is too late for the pebbles to vote…

…this is the crux of it: until we confront the disinformation sphere authoritatively, the problem will persist, and crossing that line is antithetical to the american identity…

…i fear that the american identity must immolate itself, one way or the other…

…if they don’t want to be called fascists, maybe they should consider not being f*cking fascists…

The Definition of Fascism

…there’s a german word for people who supported the nazi party even though they didn’t agree with all of its policies: nazi…

…he did emerge victorious from the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny, though…

…i always use my signals to unambiguously communicate intent; the only time i’ve been embarrassed is after carrying that habit onto the track, but it’s tough to break…

…my wife uses her signals to ask permission, which i feel can cause confusion, but she feels the same way about me…

…i was going to say 16 ⅔ feet based on 1 ½ meters being about 5 feet, pretty close…

…don’t forget starfleet space force…

OH YEEAH BAYBEE!!

THEN YOU ARE LOST, ANAKIN!

…this is its best use case: something very specific but with waaaay too niche to justify its production cost, like an image for one scene of one session of one group of four players…

…if you have the economy of scale for publication, real art by real artists is often (but not always) definitively stronger…