Phenomephrene

Phone, wallet, keys, pen, lighter, knife.

I’ve seen letter openers that are more threatening than that thing.

Trump’s specific faults are irrelevant to the calculation insofar as they are profound, and they are legion. Anyone who doesn’t understand that he should never hold the reigns of power is damn near irredeemably ignorant/hopelessly deluded. Ideally he would keel over and land in a trash compactor.

The 2 year age gap between the two is hardly the point. If that’s what you think those calling for Biden to step aside are focusing on you’re not understanding what the issue actually is.

I can only speak for myself. The reason I think Biden should drop out is because I. DON’T. THINK. HE. CAN. WIN. If we need to discuss whether Biden’s downfall is fair, unfounded because of x, y, or z, the product of unscrupulous conjecture, etc., etc., ok. Ultimately it hardly matters if in the end the remaining conclusion is still that I. DON’T. THINK. HE. CAN. WIN. Biden is infinitely more desirable than Trump, but if he can’t pull off a victory it’s more important to remedy that than barrel forward into calamity because “I thought it was clear he was going to be the nominee”.

Genuinely, I don’t know that I could take another Trump term, let alone the prospect of this looming fascism taking root. I would rather roll the dice than play a hand that I absolutely believe will lose.

We can disagree on this. This is a complex situation, and the stakes are high. I’m not going to pretend that I can see into the future. Whatever happens I’m hoping for the best.

Hats off to them! Where are the rest?

The US doesn’t do conscription. We have something of an economic draft in this country. There’s a whole different conversation to be had about that. I suspect a non-zero change to the frequency and motivations behind our deployments to follow if we make earning privilege compulsory. Our veterans services would likely look a fair bit different as well.

I didn’t say anything about reverting back to medieval weaponry or battle tactics. More than a couple ways to make their ears ring these days even if they aren’t the tip of the spear.

Royalty and nobility taking part in actual on-the-ground warfare. I’d be curious if that would have any effect on military operations…

I used to work for a building materials distributor; we moved a lot of composite decking. From what I remember the manufacturer didn’t recommend leaving a cleaner on the decking, that if a cleaner was used it should be rinsed off before it has the chance to dry. I can’t speak to Pine-Sol specifically, but we would use Simple Green on any boards that needed cleaning and would wipe it down with a couple rags (one to remove the excess cleaner, and a wet rag to follow up).

Edit: Here’s a url for the manufacturer’s product care page that we dealt with. If you know the brand of decking you have installed there ought to be a similar page on their website if there are any differences.

https://www.timbertech.com/resources/care-cleaning/

Mayhem - Whore

Magnolia is such an honest depiction of human fallibility. Almost unrivaled in its verisimilitude to modern life (or modern as of it’s release date). Incredible movie. Good shout.

I enjoy both. More typically I go for coffee in the morning. Pretty stuck on the same exact coffee, but I try this and that when it comes to tea. I’ll always have both stocked in my pantry.

The Seventh Seal [Ingmar Bergman, 1957]

As the plague ravages Scandinavia, a Swedish crusader returning home is greeted at the shore of his homeland by Death. To buy enough time to make it back to see his wife he challenges Death to a game of chess.

A film about different human reactions to the inevitability of death. One of Bergman’s masterworks.

Whatever happened to Whiplash? You know, that spider monkey that would dress up as a cowboy and ride around on a border collie at rodeos and in a few Taco John’s commercials. Put him in there. The border collie can be his running mate… (get it? get it?)

Got a session of Pathfinder in with my group who seems plagued by the scheduling monster. Always glad to get a session in when we can.