College program in 06, seasonal transportation car member for two years after that.

Traditions! That’s what it’s called! Couldn’t for the life of me remember.

Where’d you work? I was a monorail pilot down in Orlando.

Sorry, was drunk when writing that. Meant it to be implied that this is what companies tell their employees about why they do it.

I’m registered unaffiliated because I’m an anarchist. Still voting though.

There’s all these iconic photos of Walt Disney where he’s pointing at stuff with a two finger point. I’ve heard that some within the company say that this is the example by which their resort employees always use the two finger point to direct guests.

In reality, he was holding a cigarette and the photos have been airbrushed. He died of lung cancer in 1966. Pointing with two fingers is just seen (kind of universally across cultures) as being non-accusatory. Like, say you saw someone talking to someone else and you cannot hear them (or it’s in a language you don’t understand); they’re pointing with one finger in your direction, you may be inclined to think they’re talking about you. If they’re using the two finger point, you’re less likely to think that… it’s the same for airliner flight crew.

I haven’t seen polling specifically for her district but, while Georgia is very purple (and has been since like 2014), her district is gerrymandered to hell and back to not be anything other than red. I think I saw that it’s one of the deepest red districts in the country.

You want to address the current set of big problems by … creating more big problems to address.

Right. There’s already a shitload of big problems.

Who cares what MAGA adherents believe… you don’t try to get the hard-core, brainwashed followers, they’ve already committed themselves. However, the undecided voter will see it as the GOP floundering, unable to govern.

Please shut the government down… please, please, please… while your party controls a mere one half of one of a branch of the government, please shut the government down during an election cycle. Please, please, please do it.

Well, they can, but the cost will get more volatile… super oversimplified, it’s the difference between drinking at home booze you bought at wholesale prices and keeping a running tab with a local bar/pub. You’ll be subject to the bar and any price changes they (read: the currency markets) want to make.

All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy.

I’ve seen some analysis that points directly to home ownership as a predictor of the shift in personal politics later in life. Fewer Millennials own homes than older generations; that’s mostly because of the 2008 Financial Crisis and it’s knock-on effects to generational wealth. Home ownership can create financial stability (highly regulated commodity one can borrow against in hard times) and not having that leaves one more exposed to economic downturns. Economic downturns over the last fifty to one hundred years have been consistently due, in part, to the lacking of (or the ending of) regulations as well as lack luster or non existent government intervention. The one party that’s been whole-hog on deregulation and haphazard/lackadaisical intervention for most of Millennials’ lives has been Republicans, so they (rightly) get the blame.

There’s also been the shift from traditional media to newer sources (both for the better and worse) and younger people are more likely than older to tune into those new media outlets. It’s finances driving that shift in media consumption… for instance (anecdotally), I’m in my late thirties and I do not know anyone my age and younger who has a cable subscription. Most would say they don’t need one, that it is undesirable compared to streaming services, but the general vibe is that it’s too expensive for what you get (streaming services are seen as expensive as a whole, but the ability to pick and choose what you but into is seen as enough of a plus to either cut the cord or never have the cord in the first place). Meanwhile, I know tons of folks older than me seemingly addicted to cable news, which almost universally skews right-wing. Sure CNN is mostly centrist and MSNBC tows a liberal-center left line, but there’s CNBC, Bloomberg, News Nation, FNC, and NewsMax all of which pull center right to far right… seemingly to chase that aging cable viewer demographic.

Looks like you’re right, however it’s darker colors mean solid and lighter colors mean lean or likely.

And Reagan had like a 48 or 49 state landslide.

LDS Church in 2079: “Okay, okay, God is trans actually.”

JFC. They literally stood there while he struggled. What the actual fuck?

Charlie is the one where you can’t tell if he’s got a giant head, a tiny face, or both.

Dude… he has a fucking Dreamcast? Tim Walz is the dad I never had.

Isn’t him doing that illegal? Like very illegal?

I’m okay with ads (just like on broadcast TV), but only if I’m not paying for the streaming/VOD service (just like on broadcast TV). Like, I’m okay with ads on a YouTube video, but I got rid of Netflix when they cancelled a series I liked and, now that they’ve started talking about adding ads, I’ll probably not go back.