Welcome to Lemmy where everyone’s correct always and the downvotes don’t matter. No worries.

Also, dude, we’re the same age. I’ll hit 43 before the year is up.

I look up vacuum everytime because I know it’s spelled weird. I don’t know another word with two U s off the top of my head.

In my late 20s, I memorized how to spell necessary because I always got it wrong… Seemed like a necessary word to know how to spell.

See you around!

If you really want to get on their level, that list would read: United States, Canada, and all of the Mexican countries to the south.

Friend, since this story is so important to your personal history, you may want to memorize the spelling of vacuum for future retellings. Just a friendly heads up. All good things to you.

Dude… Tell the whole story. It sounds interesting.

…did you sign the lease?

Oooo I know this one… Superior, Huron, America, Michigan, and Erie.

We don’t get anything. DJT signed this executive order on about the same day that a report came out saying the USA’s defense missiles in Europe are critically low and unable to repel a serious Russian attack because the missiles have been moved to the middle east and/or used against Iran.

Now we’re talking about Lake Ontario instead of our inability to defend our European interests and positions.

It was always intended to wag the dog.

I also don’t know who it is. “We have Carson Daly at home.”

Very early on was silly stuff – a dentist, a gangsta rapper. Glad those didn’t ever pan out.

In college I decided I wanted to be a comedy writer for TV. Dream job was to work for Conan. I ended up getting an MFA in creative writing and nobody could explain the process to becoming a comedy writer for TV, but I was naturally talented as a serious/literary writer and colleges could explain that career trajectory well enough, but then I needed to feed my wife and kid so I became a journalist. I worked my ass off as a journalist, rose through the ranks to locally prominent positions, and then I got burned out in my early 40s and quit. Now my wife makes money and I do projects around the house, meditate, and write essays that are infrequently published, don’t make much money and aren’t at all funny.

Turns out life is funny.

Say the whole word once.

…Jewy?

Bullet wounds? Sorry, 4th amendment rights.

That’s the 2nd Amendment, you dunce.

4th Amendment is unlawful search and seizure, like asking someone for their immigration papers during a routine traffic stop.

You don’t have to read this, and I’m not intending to proselytize, and I’m no expert (in fact I’m pretty new to this) but Buddhism believes in the oneness/connectedness of everything. I look at djt and his lackeys as scared unwise people doing evil out of fear (fear of ego, fear of different, fear of weakness, fear of change, and so on). I honestly feel bad for them. It must feel awful inside to look at and treat the world that way. So “See the good in everybody” seems like a concept that is close to awakening.

Dolly had nothing to gain by being political. I don’t blame her for keeping her personal politics to herself. In fact, I’d like it if more celebrities did the same. I disagree that her silence about politics undermined her children’s literacy efforts (because we all still talk about those efforts and will for decades to come).

I wish you all the best today.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

To be fair (don’t know why I would be fair to him, but here I am), presidents have routinely commented in similar circumstances. I’m reminded of Obama commenting when Robin Williams died.

Red and Blue alike love Dolly, I think. It’s one of those few things both sides agree on.

At least you get free breakfast buffet at strip clubs. (Or you did the last time I went to one more than 20 years ago.)

Who said that phrase didnt exist?

I, too, am originally from the Metro Detroit area. My Metro Detroit area chain pizza takes: Hungry Howies used to be better, I think (or I’m suffering rose colored hindsight). Jet’s Pizza is still pretty good. Dominoes was never really good and despite their commercials, they’ve not gotten much better.

Hot take: Buddy’s Pizza is overrated greasy dog shit.

I now live out of state, but I visit my family in SE Michigan every other month or so. I have a preference for Coney’s too.

Super interesting!

Dude, nice source. I rotated and highlighted for the next pickler that has never seen blue garlic before.

Last week I started and finished Exiles by Mason Coile. Short and engaging. I haven’t read a ton of stuff in the sci-fi genre to know how derivative it is, but familiar themes abound (I don’t think this is automatically a bad thing btw, and it didn’t bug me in this book). That said, the twistS and ending were pretty good – aw heck, the whole story was pretty good.

I’d give it 3/5 Fudgy Points (I’d give it a four, but it really could have been longer by burning slower and building suspense throughout… Just too short and lacking some explanations of Why).

I also started A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 by Bill Bryson. So far a fun read.