You know, one of the big third party candidates is Jill Stein. If you are one of those pro Palestine supporters who hates Israel… Stein is Jewish. She might be one of those Jews who hates Israel, but she’s still Jewish. I don’t mind her being Jewish, but I do mind her being vaccine skeptical, a Kremlin devotee, among other things.

Haven’t been there yet, but I bet it’s great!

New England theme parks rule! My mom says when she was a kid, there was another Story Land location in Cape Cod. Don’t know which part exactly, but she visited it probably when she was a toddler, maybe three or four years old. I’ll have to ask my elder aunts and uncles if they remember anything more about it. It was probably the early 1960s when she went and she’s not sure when they closed it. Internet didn’t have a ton of info on it last time I checked.

Sounds similar to Santa’s Village in New Hampshire. Somewhat close to Story Land in the White Mountains area, but I can’t remember the town it’s in. Jefferson, maybe? It was alright when I went as a kid, but damn hot. I think they’ve since added a water park so that’s an improvement, but it definitely needed more shady areas at the very least. I want to Indiana last year and do find it to be nice state, so I’ll have to consider Holiday Park if I ever go to Santa Claus.

When I was young, I wanted to go to Disney World because most other kids I knew went there. Now, I’m 28 and no longer interested. Maybe I will be one day, but not now. Disney as a company has gotten too big and the “magic” isn’t really magical if 35% of entertainment media is a Disney property. Not to mention the state of Florida is run by a tyrant, and then Disney Land in California is just in one of the most congested states in the nation. Haven’t visited a theme park in years but the best ones are Story Land (lots of toddler stuff there, but still fun) and Canobie Lake Park. Maybe Knotts Berry Farm or Busch Gardens are some better theme parks in the southeast.

Remember to vote against BJP. India has a beautiful culture and a lot of the Indian students I met in college were really amiable, thoughtful people, but BJP is ruining it.

It’s okay. I still peruse reddit sometimes because the subs here aren’t sufficient enough. Also, reddit has more variety. Lemmy is a bit too political. Like /c/news seems to only post political stuff. And it’s mostly liberal leaning (which I am), but too liberal occasionally. People hate nazis here but curiously, they also hate Israel. I’m looking for more communities that are less intense and charged. Stuff about crafting, plant rearing, literature, etc. The other big fediverse site, Mastodon, has a similar prevalence of charged stuff, but I’ve found a bit more silly things both on my own and with suggestions over there. I suppose I could start some new communities here but I’m doubtful I have the fortitude to make them get increased traction.

Can he just be quiet for once? Why is he even saying that? It’s a death threat but I think he’s too stupid to realize it. This is probably why so many of your family members don’t want to help on your campaign. Melania, Barron, Ivanka, Jared… and Tiffany and her husband. You don’t have to talk every time you are interviewed. You can ignore or decline requests to talk. Lord knows you do that enough with invoices.

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Sometimes I wonder if he became pedophilic because of his sad life. Between losing family in the Holocaust and losing more family and friends in the Tate/LaBianca murders by the Manson family, he must felt like his life was out of control. But it’s easy to control teenaged girls into having sex with you. Or maybe the genocide and murders he experienced had nothing to do with his sins. But it’s something I think about occasionally. I’ve seen only a couple of his movies so far but I notice some themes from his life, like the death of babies or babies being evil, and I feel like it’s some personal allegory.

I’m hardly an expert, just someone who loves studying law by myself until I can afford formal law school, and I did a little PR work during my internship, but despise my rudimentary exposure, Trump, his spokespeople, and legal team are approaching these indictments in the completely wrong way. They are too adversial and argumentative. Speaking little and gently would be much more helpful, and maybe even opting for a guilty plea. Trump needs to stop whining about how much he hates being prosecuted and the publicists and attorneys on his payroll need to stop regurgitating his bellyaches. It’s not like I think he won’t be sentenced for being agreeable. He likely will, but maybe they’d be able to make some compromises. Now I know why Ivanka will not work on her father’s current campaign. Her style of arguing is much more reserved, while her two eldest brothers have an aggressive style which seems to be the only one their father seems willing to emulate. I bet Trump did not listen to his daughter’s advice often enough. Edited a word.

I did a Google search on the Ristick family and saw a comment you made on Ars Technica Forums, back when you were Punk Walrus and your wife was alive. (At least given the similarity to username and background, I think it’s you.) My condolences on your wife. Did her death bring her father’s side of the family back into the picture at all? And did she end up writing the book everyone wants to read about the situation? They sound like a fascinating, but exhausting family. I’d think you’d need a robust journalism team to conduct all those interviews.

Oh, I was similar. When Chrome was new I liked it, but it seems to be vulnerable to get these weird superfluous add-ons that I may have acquired through malicious links. When I switched to Firefox I wasn’t as suseptible to malware, and the speed was just as good.

Poorly masked is a great way to describe it since these people are anti-maskers.

Well, my aunt kinda, but she’s mostly just following along with her husband (her most recent and current husbands have both sealed themselves off during my lifetime and I’ve never had an “uncle” relationship with either of them). She hardly has her own opinions anymore. I think both her husband and daughter had to get Covid vaccines for work and school, so I don’t know what they did. I hope my cousin has a mind of her own and went to get her vaccines with her sisters, but who knows. I feel like the husband might have some forged paperwork saying he’s vaccinated or he’s claiming a religious exemption (hahaha, he’s not devout, I mean he is Catholic but the Vatican and USCCB both said to get vaccinated). Same thing with this family friend of ours. Her daughters got her into vaccine hesitation. She doesn’t seem to feel as strongly about it as the daughters but still didn’t get the Covid shots last I heard, though her husband did. The older daughter had a kid who’s probably a kindergartner now, but she’s insisted she wasn’t going to get him vaccinated (specifically MMR) as a baby because that’s bad for development or something. She said he would eventually get vaccinated but not until he started school, which is probably around now but I don’t know if he’s vaccinated yet. She has another kid now too and I imagine she’s giving her the same approach. The younger daughter has a baby now too and is probably doing the same thing. Worse about the younger daughter is she is a nurse. Both the daughters are in their thirties and I grew up admiring them. I’m the oldest sibling so I always look to those somewhat older than me as guides for my near future. But now I realize how off-base they are from what I aspire to be.

There’s a famous saint, Brigid of Kildare, who was an “abortionist.” She was an Irish abbess who performed miracles. One of her nuns got pregnant (legend is spotty about how, if it was rape, consensual, or if the man was a priest or a layman) and Brigid stopped the gestation just by touching the nun’s abdomen. Conservative people will argue and say “no, it wasn’t an abortion, it was a time warp back so the fetus had never been conceived” or something… But… It seemed to be an abortion to me. Of course there’s no record of Brigid’s own memoirs or diaries, just those of her followers and some of the nuns who reported to her, so her life is somewhat mysterious. There’s other saints out there with similar stories about aiding in reproductive choices, but Brigid is the first to come to mind. And as far as the prophets go about the welfare of babies, Solomon encouraged two mothers to split a baby in half. He was somewhat joking as a test to see who was the true mother of the baby, but still, it’s kind of a sick joke and he’s supposed to be one of the good guys. (Also, the false mother is the one who is content about cutting the baby and that makes no sense to me. Even though the King determined the baby wasn’t hers, why does she have no humanity or knowledge of what happens when humans are split apart? Being horrified by his joke isn’t really a requisite to being a real parent).

Mark Zuckerberg was planning on introducing some subscription service like Twitter checkmarks to Meta, but at least he responded to questions about it in his comments section. Iirc the program might even have been delayed due to its apathy from users, but I haven’t heard much about its plans lately. At least he understood how stupid he sounded once he spoke with consumers.