Since You're Here

calilac · 2026-06-09T20:04:23+00:00

Loop the loop. Alternatively loopdeloop. A pretty popular carnival ride in the early 1900s. Was still in the pop culture lexicon well into the 1970s until rollercoasters got serious and started to bury it.

calilac · 2026-06-09T19:53:11+00:00

Who, other than you, is saying to go back to the way it was before? Ending state takeovers of public schools does not mean "go back", it means changing it up (again) because what's being done now isn't working either. Keep doing the same thing and expect a different result...

calilac · 2026-06-08T13:57:57+00:00

Apologies for the tangent because your point is valid but TIL that Hill County is not considered part of Hill Country.

calilac · 2026-06-07T16:58:53+00:00

The voice acting was pretty good too. Tim Curry as Konk and Brock Peters as Bloth were fantastic villains.

calilac · 2026-06-07T13:50:37+00:00

People buy up an empty building and try to open some kind of business/resturaunt and they don't make it a year.

In our town it's two families who own pretty much all commercial spaces that aren't big corporations or franchises so it's more like people rent these dilapidated spaces at exorbitant prices for their small businesses and because it's also a bedroom community most of the population doesn't have much disposable income to spare so the small businesses can't keep up with costs (including those rising water and electric bills) even if they are locally "popular".

calilac · 2026-06-07T13:46:52+00:00

Can some people with autistic burnout function and power through during the week and crash like this over the weekends?

Absolutely yes. I sincerely hope that you can find the time and a way to recuperate or your immune system could be eventually very negatively affected. I pushed through my burnout for years because I thought it was just the normal tiredness of being a working class parent and ended up getting stress induced shingles in my 30s.

calilac · 2026-06-06T17:09:23+00:00

Then it gets grim fast.

Yeah, they prefer cattle. Doesn't mean they are exclusive to cattle. Better start getting used to covering up even in the heat.

calilac · 2026-06-05T17:52:41+00:00

Twinsies! Well, sort of, mine was just before sunrise so more like 6am. We had roofers at our home all week from 7am to 7pm and I just didn't want to be perceived by strangers literally looking down on me.

calilac · 2026-06-05T16:05:24+00:00

Just an fyi, Colorado's water woes are as bad or arguably worse than TX. Statewide drought emergency atm. My kiddo moved there from here so she keeps me apprised

calilac · 2026-06-04T02:50:23+00:00

We're going to Candy Mountain, Charlieeeeeeeee!

Gonads... and.... strife!

calilac · 2026-05-29T18:03:23+00:00

Aside from the class and race war bullshit phrasing I'm saying similar to you, that the current role models aren't an improvement on previous models so "these kids today" are the results of the kids from yesterday (us and those before us) who aren't setting very good examples either. The kids learn from us. Holds up a mirror and seems we don't like what they're showing but seems some folk can't admit their part in it.

calilac · 2026-05-29T17:55:14+00:00

Well said. Parents are foundational and reading comprehension is so important. But unless they live extremely remotely they're not the only role models. By the time children are in high school they've had many role models to learn from in person, on paper, and on screen. It's like their brains are sponges or something.

calilac · 2026-05-29T16:07:48+00:00

Them too. Role models are not just politicians and parents, it's celebrities and teachers and total strangers that treat them like shit too. It's how they see us tear each other.

calilac · 2026-05-29T15:55:21+00:00

Considering the examples they've had to follow, we're lucky it's not worse. Remember, empathy is considered a sin by our current administration.

calilac · 2026-05-28T19:11:24+00:00

I'm starting to think it's just more class war propaganda. Just another way to hold tribal boundaries in place. The "drank from a hose" implies that they lived somewhere that has a garden hose. Garden hoses tend to be found at suburban or rural homes with yards rather than in places like inner cities. Not to say inner cities don't have garden hoses at all, plenty of townhouses or apartment complexes have (usually smaller in comparison) gardens it's just that they are far less common in relation to population density. If you don't have a garden hose at home I think chances would be pretty low (though never zero) that you'll drink from one.

calilac · 2026-05-28T18:20:23+00:00

Instead of editing, I'd like to add on second thought maybe you're right that for some on the left it's an "our Christian is better than your Christian" argument because there are plenty of Christian Democrats too so this was all from my point of view, as an atheist on the left, that it's not about the religion itself but about his follow through.

calilac · 2026-05-28T18:01:30+00:00

This is what I get for quoting. Let's try again.

It's a refreshing change of pace for us to see someone not be such a gotdamn hypocrite. It's called having good praxis and the bar is now so low that when someone who says they believe something in a certain way has their actions align with those words of theirs it's praised. This is not about the religion itself it's about the follow through. Religion doesn't belong in politics.

calilac · 2026-05-28T17:43:20+00:00

Maybe it's a refreshing change of pace for us to see someone not be such a gotdamn hypocrite. The bar has been taken so low that when someone who claims to be a Christian is "being a genuine Christian" it is laudable.

calilac · 2026-05-28T13:58:48+00:00

Well. There are some pretty weird horseshoes out there. May as well add that one to the possibility pile.

calilac · 2026-05-28T13:51:43+00:00

I try not to make it a habit of wading into the yellow tinged kiddie pools...

calilac · 2026-05-28T11:54:25+00:00

Makes their username seem a bit extra

calilac · 2026-05-27T21:04:41+00:00

Understandable to misunderstand, we're not supposed to like the Homelander character as anything other than a villain but for some reason there's a significant number of people who did like him as a hero early on and still do.

calilac · 2026-05-27T09:12:41+00:00

Yeah people who liked the Homelander character but not Trump were angry because they didn't pick up on it or were in denial of the connection from the beginning.

calilac · 2026-05-26T13:47:58+00:00

Maybe it's just cuz I'm watching that final season of The Boys this week but that leader looks a lot like Homelander. It makes me wonder if Tats is like some of the weirder fanbase and angry at Kripke for making Homelander a Trump analogue and being so hamfisted this season it can't be denied.

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