MonkeMischief

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I'm really surprised nobody else posted this. My first thought was Goldeneye 64's snow level soundtrack. 😮 Like I could hear it just looking at this image lol.

We've had a GE fridge that's probably older than about 10 years. But you know, it's complicated enough that it feels like it's made to fail at some point.

Well, stuff stopped cooling but all the lights were on and everything else worked. It was really weird. We were thinking it might be a dead compressor or something. Crap, do we need a new fridge?

Nope! What basically amounts to a glorified computer fan with a fancier proprietary plug does all the work of distributing that cold air through the rest of the unit.

The proprietary plug is totally so they can sell it for $45, of course. Lol anyway, works like new!

Also get a dust mask and vacuum + blow out the back of your refrigerators, people. They get grooooss!!!

You've hear of fever dreams but this here buddy had a freezer dream.

HOW DID I KNOW 😂

You're not wrong about how they operate.

But there's absolutely far reaching consequences to major decisions by leaders in power. Don't fool yourself thinking "It hasn't burned down yet" just because it's not a Hollywood societal-collapse movie before your eyes.

Work sucks more than ever for us now. Know why? Long-dead Reagan absolutely destroyed workers' rights and established precedents that put bosses much higher on society's totem pole. Recessions happened. People get desperate and forget that they even HAD rights as workers. Clawing this back is the battle of our time at home.

Before that? FDR's New Deal actually secured quite a bit of prosperity for people amidst a complete disaster. People still benefit from Social Security to this day, even if only a little.

Teddy Roosevelt established the National Park system. Now we're happy we don't have luxury apartments in the middle of Yosemite or Yellowstone, or fast food chains all along the Grand Canyon. (Or it hasn't been used as a landfill or something because the hole was already dug so it saves costs!)

Citizen's United is why we have trillions of dollars in shadow-money funding "both sides" of a broken system. (Although that wasn't put up to vote, the people in charge were sworn in by people that were elected.)

TL;DR: I get it. It's all stupid, we're all constantly lied to. That's super lame. We know and we hate it.

BUT:

Votes. Have. Consequences.

Everyone knows capital-first politicians don't actually care about us. We get it.

I'm all 'bout that fancy praxis and mutual aid and all those lofty but pure concepts we definitely need to be working on. But we live in a society here.

Not voting right now is giving an out-and-out fascist a ridiculous amount of power to start crushing and punishing anybody with a different opinion.

We're doing what we can with what we have to soften the blow, so we can actually have the chance to work on the higher concepts like "changing the people involved in it."

I'd much rather be on the ground convincing people to form unions to safely backtalk their bosses, rather than rallying up guerilla units amidst a "boogaloo" because a bunch of hateful and uneducated people put a screeching orange baby on a throne who refused to leave and became "holy immortal emperor."

Lmao hyperbole aside. Seriously. Standing on the sidelines and going "hmph" is basically a vote for things that are likely Very Bad For You(TM).

"More now than EVER"

– Every political ad til the end of time.

"Walked back at the threat of trump", can you explain what you mean by this a little more? Sorry I'm just not sure what it means.

A gentle reminder that the Socialist Rifle Association is a thing! No personal experience with them, but I like that they're an underdog foil to your typical "American gun culture" stereotypes.

I should really be more active about this. I don't have the money to dump a ton of brass on the regular but I enjoy the freedom to do it while keeping my ideals!

Ha!

— Former Okie, now Nevadan, proud 50-somethingth in education for many years running

(Are we not aware of how many states there are or are we counting outlying U.S territories? Anybody's guess! 😉)

That's so much "fun" with all those tiny local offices. "Okay who is this person?"

Zero public web presence about them at all.

It'd be nice if there was something like Ballotpedia but public owned. "You want to run for an office? You need to fill out this profile."

I imagine lots of people are just like "Eh, this name sounds pretty." Lol

I thought RK bowed out, but he's still on the ballot? Odd.