Drusas

Clever. Makes you want beer snacks or cheese.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen something like printer ink at a grocery store.

The Safeway by me is pretty reasonably organized. Probably depends on the manager.

This is why the deer at Nara are such a menace. Cute, yes, but they do attack people, which is why they get their antlers trimmed down.

One attacked me the instant a cracker vendor handed me a pack of crackers. Little jerk.

More than mildly.

Thank you!

As a disabled person who looks like a youngish, able-bodied person, I try not to assume that the people sitting in the disabled seats are themselves healthy. If I need a seat and they’re taken, I will ask, “Is there anyone sitting here who isn’t disabled?” That generally gets somebody to stand up. Interestingly, it’s usually the older people. I guess they are better able to empathize with the need to sit.

And a lot of people hate that process and prefer to be able to book a specific seat.

Try a butcher shop or ethnic grocery store with a meat counter.

I don’t think that is the reason. I think the reason is people fear prison. That’s my reason, anyway. It’s hard enough being chronically ill and not in the American slave system.

Dealing with health insurance and disability insurance has made me sincerely wonder how people don’t target insurance offices with violence. I’m surprised this is the first time something like this has happened. The average person is treated as completely disposable. No more money in the bank? No ability to work for somebody else’s profit? No value to you.

They don’t want us to die; they just don’t care about us at all. As long as there are enough of us around being obedient little slaves.

This meme brought to you by the 14th century.

the alternative would have been a 6/8 ft fence with like 2 ft vine trellace

That’s what those of us who want a taller fence without breaking regulations do.

I don’t know many places that permit 10 ft fences. In more urban areas, you’re limited to six or eight feet.

Also me, who just came back from the grocery store with a frozen pizza, four boxes of mac and cheese, and a bottle of whiskey.

That sounds even worse than Japanese’s counting system.

Sure, buddy. Whatever you say.

The response to my comment suggests you’re right on that.

“Advocating for protecting a peaceful allied democracy, which has been actively fighting to improve its democratic system and root out corruption for years, from being destroyed and annexed by one of our two notable national enemies? Preposterous!”

It’s not as though the US is actually losing money over this. We’re making weapon sales and using old lend lease practices. And when the war is over, and Putin’s regime pushed out, investment in the country would also be lucrative. There is no reason for the US not to want Ukraine to survive.

On top of that, again, these are peaceful, innocent people (who willingly gave up nuclear weapon technology in order to achieve that peace), who are now being invaded and slaughtered by a foreign nation. Having their children abducted and indoctrinated into the idea that there is no Ukraine. It’s genocide.

If you’re only two lengths away from the car in front of you while driving at highway speeds, you are tailgating. Back off. It’s far more dangerous than speeding.

We should be sending THAADs to Ukraine. There’s been plenty of time to train their own soldiers to use it.