Grumpy Root Beer

30s, he/him, Iowan, nerd, leftist, cats

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@Solagical @veryrealbatman @thomaschattwill @dantherriault You know, I always used to find it hard to imagine the sort of ghouls that happily took photos and souvenirs of lynchings in the Jim Crow South. But then the last several years unfolded on Twitter and I discovered that they're everywhere.

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@X_ZsofiA_X @e06mn It seems like you might, actually.

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@Liv_Agar My coworker, her husband, and their kid went as Princess Carolyn, Todd, and the little porcupine baby. Didn't get recognized by our zoomer colleagues; Bojack Horseman washed.

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@bigblackjacobin Man, my team complained so bad when we only had access to a small editing window in our CMS that could at just display like 12 lines at a time, this sounds so much crazier.

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@steinkobbe @slugn0id It's been a long time since I've played a big companion focused RPG like that, but I recently started 40K Rogue Trader and it reminded me just how exceptionally well the Mass Effect games did that sort of story telling. Turns out it's really hard!

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@CrazyFenaker @atrupar The man tried to buy decommissioned ICBMs because he thought he could use them to get to Mars; he does not know shit about rocketry.

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@Liv_Agar @NotEnoughBlond It's one of those movements that's too old to have held on to its original reason for being, like the OG Republican party: once reconstruction failed the party just became the vehicle for the bourgeois liberals who founded it as they got richer and more conservative.

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@Liv_Agar I didn't understand them until I was doing political theater in college. One of the ladies in one of our shows was a middle aged local who had voted green party since 2000. By all appearances just an old hippy, but she was also virulently anti-abortion and anti-vax.

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@fakegreekgrill 2003 I could maybe manage. That was an ok year for teenage me. 2002 and 2004 on the other hand? Terrible.

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@Basket_of_Cats @AvaSantina Because there aren't any normies in their rolodex.

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@SCDC87 @fakegreekgrill I've long said the extremely short answer to the question "why did WWI happen" is "Victorian elites refused to parent their own children". Genuinely shocking how bad at parenting they were in the 19th century.

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@jamieloftusHELP So jealous of this. My first cat continues to scorn and spurn the younger one and it makes me sad

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@crypt0e @AxLizzie @sharpergnome @kimmeruwp @BrandyZadrozny @NBCNews Yeah being willfully ignorant of the functioning of the society around you has that effect.

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@AidanIsAbetting @trumwill @fakegreekgrill Average Woodrow Wilson voter

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Earnestly and unironically yes.

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We need ads showing a husband, not wanting to reveal he watches porn and doesn't want it banned, secretly checking the Kamala box as his MAGA wife remains unaware
https://t.co/4pANN8KNBc

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@MasaSonCap @edzitron Love to hail as a genius the guy who gets unlimited spins on the slot machine because it paid out a few of the thousands of times he pulled the lever.

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Nothing makes me as insane as listening to b school people confidently asserting that software development methodologies are directly generalizable to every conceivable business process.

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@NotKickle @2Stroong @francescamar6 And he certainly didn't push back on it meaningfully.

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@MotelPutingrad @bad_takes @kenklippenstein Raytheon is smart enough to not have cameras around for such occasions.

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@IndyyProg @sufferingnatsci His proposal to jail drug users and use them as slave labor to grow expensive lettuce for his rich friends, for a start.

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@realRFKJr Looking very Nixonian there, Bobby.