I was mildly uncomfortable with black people as a young child, but my love for comedy made me accept Bill Cosby and many others.

I will not let his shitty actions keep those lessons from me. It has been a good example for me of burning the speaker for transgressions, not the completely unrelated message.

He only took down the mob by working with the Russian underworld, so it was all a ruse that didn’t really make NYC safer.

If it wasn’t for his media handling of 9/11, he would have been completely irrelevant in the years that followed.

I am very glad that more people here are to the left of me rather than the right, but it hasn’t seemed to make discussion any easier.

I just don’t see the Fediverse catching on widely overall, and if it does it will splinter.

I will no longer tolerate bad faith discussion, targeted violent rhetoric, and blatantly insulting comments.

We have, largely, been better here, and I hope to… if not keep it that way, then at least continue to advocate for a better form of discussion that promotes understanding. I say this because, as a leftist, I have been dragged further left by being here in ways that have measurably changed the lives of people around me.

Keeping a social media space relatively non-toxic HELPS PEOPLE. Let’s try.

I am mildly annoyed at myself that I didn’t notice in episode that it was JoCo.

And hell yes it is a fun song.

Got an old computer that a friend gave me up and running. It’s much better than the crappy one I was using, so I handed that one off to my Dad.

This will let me get back to a couple of personal projects I was struggling to complete on the old computer.

Also indulging in political news again, which I had to swear off for a couple of years for my mental health.

Seems to be about half of their comments.

That’s unfortunate. I would prefer that we left that kind of discourse to reddit.

You can also be too cruel to yourself.

I always thought of myself as ugly but aged into my looks. Now I am out of shape still but not bad looking.

Changing your outlook (which I am not saying is easy) also changes how you hold and present yourself. That confidence is also attractive.

Had this been filed before the election, the hindsight reporting would be entirely different. And the Republicans might have done slightly better.

Sure, but do the women who yearn for their Prince Charming understand the true cost?

Yup. Oops.

Can’t remember the first time for sure, but it was likely for a Linux install as well.

To install Linux on a computer in my basement.

Edit: Oops, that was the last time.

I get commercials for their AI search.

I also use their non-AI search.

It seems valid to bring this up when they are trying to become the standard for some schools.

I would like to believe that they are above board, but I do not believe anything about corporate values, because corporations are not people. (And even the agendas of people can change. Looking at you, Andy Yen, Proton CEO.)

I saw that in the theater, at age seven.

My parents also took us to see Airplane! when it was released. No complaints. My parents were nuts, but we knew this.

The original The Wicker Man is almost perfect in this regard.

Telling a friend’s girlfriend that he was doing much more serious drugs than she was comfortable with.

This did kill their already strained relationship (They were broken up after he had drained their joint bank account with pay-per-minute online porn) but somehow my friendship with both survived for a few years after.

They never got back together and his life went to shit, including some jail time for embezzlement.

She, as far as I know, bedded the next guy to hit on her and had a kid. I hope it worked out as she deserved better.

My other friends had always hated her, and loved that I had driven a wedge between them… until they found out that I essentially outed them for giving/selling him the drugs.

Following that, all my friends knew where I stood, and those who distanced themselves from me… I knew why. One of them, more than a decade later, is in prison for murder after selling fentanyl-laced drugs and causing a fatal overdose.

Several I am still close with. They know me, respect me, and understand that I will do the right thing, even if I am not the wronged party.

With Alzheimers and Lewy Body dementia, I am glad he can rest now.

What a terrible combination of diseases to suffer from simultaneously.

Absolutely, and I still do it at 52 years of age. Powers of two, three, five. I also convert letters to numbers, add them, and subtract 26 to figure out which letter is the total of the word, phrase, or license plate.

If I play boggle a lot, I will start to dream word patterns.

When I was a teenager, my Dad would point out a license plate and have me total them and convert to hexadecimal.

Kitty!

I know that’s not really scat, but I have fun with it.

There’s also a song called ‘Taxi to Bombay’ that became, and please don’t, ‘Text Me Your Butthole.’

I have a funk playlist that I listen to and scat to, and your username will be added to the scatting repertoire.

badaddabutada Ooh Yiddish McSquidish

badaddabutada They’re not at all skittish

badaddabutada They don’t follow Quidditch

badaddabutada It’s Yiddish McSquidish!