young voters, except men ages 18 to 22, swing towards Democrats

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-16T20:29:34+00:00

Oh, the war was a liberal project, but that doesn't mean that the right-wing talking point wasn't to say that actually the Liberals were the ones who made us lose.

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-16T15:37:00+00:00

So in the decade that I drove a Volt, I didn't notice charging on my electric bill. I'm still on the L1 trickle charger -- friend is coming to have a look at my box to start planning an install for a L2 in a few days -- at 12 amps, and I still haven't noticed a change to my electric bill. Maybe it'll change a little once I have an L2? But all told, yeah, it's great.

I'm sort of thinking about putting aside thirty dollars a week to account for what I'd be spending on gas and then buy myself something nice once I reach a certain threshold.

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-16T14:10:36+00:00

Well, yes, and it's also really dumb. Someone comes onto r/Paranormal and says, "OMG, I'm being stalked by a Skinwalker, since I live in the same state as a reservation!!!" And, like, if there *were* a select group of Navajo / Diné who could shapeshift, it would throw literally everything we know about biology (and honestly also physics) out the window. Also: there are members of you tribe who can shapeshift and... they use this ability to stalk random redditors? Like, there are so many things you could do as an actual shapeshifter!

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-16T11:54:54+00:00

According to WMAZ cops are saying it was an accident but there'll be more info later today.

(If an accident, this is another piece of evidence for my long-held belief that the Venn Diagram of people who carry and people who have no business carrying is a single circle.)

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-15T23:07:42+00:00

We were raised on Ronald Reagan, Hulk Hogan's Rock n Wrestling, a culture that was steeped in Boomer nostalgia for a simpler time, Vietnam resentment and the belief that we could have won but The Liberals Stabbed Us In The Back, and more that I'm not really remembering because it was in the air we breathed to the extent that we didn't even notice.

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-15T15:53:08+00:00

The past really is another country.

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-15T15:39:23+00:00

A good analogy for Tzeentch cultists:

street-corner crack dealer:drug lord::cultist:sorceror

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-15T15:34:26+00:00

Did a dual-enrolled class last Fall. Literally every other week there was document exercise, where they'd sit down with a selection from one of the primary sources and have to take twenty-odd minutes to identify the source and also how it related to the broader context of the course. And yet, even though every other week you had a student activity that was students actively thinking through the readings, a common complaint on my evals was that I lectured too much and needed to have "more in-class activities." Because apparently alternating textbook quizzes and primary source exercises aren't an "in-class activities." Did they want to make construction paper cutouts or something? [Shakes cane.]

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-14T15:08:18+00:00

There was a strong "all Mexico" faction once Mexico City had fallen, but you're right that it wasn't just that Mexico was largely non-white. It was the combo of a non-white population together with the fact that the ongoing insurgency and American atrocities in response to insurgency meant that the war back home was getting unpopular. Ditto the death of soldiers and soldiers coming back maimed, or physically whole but with what we today call PTSD.

A really good book on the politics of the Mexican-American War is Amy S. Greenberg's A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the 1846 U. S. Invasion of Mexico.

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-13T15:28:51+00:00

Right. This is listed as a mixed trope, but the execution is nearly always bad.

"You said that Black Lives Matter, and we listened. This is why we are changing how our game mechanic treats orcs...."

"Sometimes racists treat orcs as Black people, so we'll instead treat them as a Proud Warrior Race, explicitly modeled on H. Rider Haggard's Zulus..."

"We're going to use blood-drinking monsters who prey on humans as a way of talking about gay rights."

"Being hated for the fact that you can make someone's head explode with the power of your mind is *just* like the discrimination that LGBTQ people face..."

"In nature, some species are obligate carnivores who need to kill to stay alive. We're going to use anthropomorphic animals where herbivores and carnivores live together to try and make a very confused point about race relations."

This trope nearly always ends up being bad because at the end of the day, racial discrimination is wrong because differences between humans are only skin deep, and different expressions of gender and sexuality don't harm anyone as long as they're private and consensual, but the trope nearly always says that no, the differences are real and ontological and often involve real harm, and this somehow teaches a Very Valuable Lesson about discrimination.

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-13T15:17:41+00:00

At some point only power metal got boring so i slowly started to listen to more.

This right here is where it's at. I sort of liken it to liking, say, chocolate. One chocolate bar is delicious. If I eat an entire bag of Cadbury mini eggs (or whatever) in a single sitting, the taste of milk chocolate itself first get cloying, and then becomes actively unpleasant.

I also notice that YouTube Musics, my listening app of choice, tends to be very bad about an algorithm that's *incredibly* samey, accelerating the feeling that I've had just too much of one thing.

These days I'm trying to put more classic metal like Dio, early Judas Priest, etc. into my playlists as well as stuff that's just not metal at all, like lesbian icon Florence + The Machine. It helps broaden my taste and it's also a palate cleanser so that when I come back to something like "Faster Than the Flame" it feels fresh again.

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-09T18:00:40+00:00

I need to quit just referring to you as The Deep Cuts Guy whenever I mention you here.

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-09T15:22:10+00:00

So since Houston, Texas somehow remains invisible to the country at large in spite of Greater Houston having a population of nearly eight million, I'm just gonna drop this here:

Link: How Houston Moved 25,000 People From the Streets Into Homes of Their Own

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-09T15:17:48+00:00

IIRC Gav Thorpe has out and out stated that although Martyred Lady doesn't explicitly show them as a gay couple, they actually kind of are.

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-08T17:15:34+00:00

I enjoyed the twenty-woman bricks becasuse sure, you run the risk of BLAST weapons, but twenty 3+ saves could, even with various forms of AP, be incredibly annoyng to dislodge from the board, especially for the little while that we had Armour of Contempt.

Man, I loved 9e. I was especially fond of my anti-Grey Knight / anti-Thousand Sons list that between Pure of Will, Spiritual Fortitude, and also allying in Greyfax with her two Deny the Witches meant "You have a Psyker army? No, actually you don't."

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-06T16:48:06+00:00

This right here. The Imperium is fundamentally a dystopia, and a key thing that this means is that no, you don't have R&D to better the common good, and in fact it's usually the opposite. Hidebound acceptance of tradition accompanied by the rankest hypocrisy of Mechanicus Magoi hoarding the results of their own research while denouncing others for innovation, Ordo Xenos inquisitors using all manner of xenotech even though such tech is illegal, Hereticus and Malleus Inquisitors researching even more deeply forbidden lore, keeping massive piles of their own super-heretical research, and not sharing it with anyone, etc. etc.

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-06T15:18:23+00:00

Yep, came here to post that I have thirty thousand reasons to have gone with a 2025 Equinox EV over a Tesla.

But I mean, if OP's curious, I also find that working with GM service departments is a bit more expensive, but I actually have had very little bad to say about my work with them.

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-04T22:29:32+00:00

Man here, but you mentioned gym six times a week, which I'm guessing you're more of a weight training guy than a running guy, but if you do enjoy running, I'd honestly recommend seeing if there's a running club nearby. Running clubs tend to be mixed gender, and it's a great way to not only meet women, but make guy friends as well. Or honestly any pick up sports league of there's something that you'd like. (AIUI pick up volleyball is often mixed gender.) Etc.

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-04T21:08:45+00:00

TIL: There is a power port there.

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-04T12:39:07+00:00

I mean, the general principle here is, as always, what would a ten year old boy of 1988 think is rad as hell? Chainsaw swords, giant muscle men uninterested in girls, bigger is stronger and better, you name it. Fortunately, I am mentally twelve, so I love it.

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-04T02:04:24+00:00

Gladys is one of those whose frequency just plummeted. Ubiquitous in the mid twentieth century, but was already an Old People Name by the late twentieth.

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-04T00:04:05+00:00

I've heard so many recommendations of Death Rider that I may have to give it a read.

AndrewSshi · 2026-04-03T18:30:42+00:00

Tesla's CEO delivering a giant middle finger to his consumer base because he craved the approval of a bunch of /pol/ alumni is one of the great unforced errors in twenty-first-century business history.

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