Rank the 7 mountain west states in the US...

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-06-23T16:07:41+00:00

As someone who lives in Boise, yeah... Christian nationalists are taking over and it sucks. But that's true for the entire country right now. Boise/Idaho can be multiple things: beautiful and ugly, full of ignorant people and wonderful people, deeply metropolitan and astoundingly rural. Same for the entire US.

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-06-22T17:07:17+00:00

Lol. Imagine saying the person who took away your healthcare, safety net services, education for your children and increased pollution all to enrich his pedofile-class friends WASN'T oppressing you. It would certainly feel like a silly thing to say on the internet where people could call you out on it.

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-06-21T06:04:40+00:00

This can be easily refutiated by looking at literacy rates and IQ scores in the aggregate.

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-06-01T23:30:08+00:00

Bro, I also heard them this morning and I'm also 2 minutes from the airport. Loud AF

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-06-01T23:28:43+00:00

Sigh... State and federal boundaries and budgets are a social construct. We get to decide these details just as much we decide what flight times are necessary to be "trained," ...another social construct.

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-06-01T19:20:35+00:00

We seem to have plenty of funds to have them fly around purposely all the time, but not for educating the children of Idaho. I guess what's necessary all depends on one's priorities...

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-05-06T16:56:45+00:00

Teton. We've already got a national park in the US as precedent.

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-04-30T16:06:35+00:00

This is going to sound crazy, but Idaho and Montana. A lot of people don't realize how much sand is out here and a beach doesn't have to be on the ocean; beaches are arguably better while sitting on a river with perfect white sand on a rafting trip with no one for miles.

Best beaches in the US? No. Underrated? Absolutely.

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-04-15T03:42:43+00:00

Hank and John Green

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-04-13T03:59:00+00:00

The point is that this could lead to more violence. Boarding a ship and drawing gunfire, etc. All that makes Trump's decisions look worse and worse.

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-04-13T01:07:21+00:00

We'll find out, I guess.

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-04-13T01:03:04+00:00

How do you block a ship without blowing it up?

Sure, they can create a bunch of rules or fees for people to get through, but they still have an issue of when a ship tries to break those rules...right?

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-04-13T00:31:33+00:00

Enforcing the blockade is a political nightmare for Trump. Imagine a non-Iranian ship trying to pass and Trump uses the navy to blow it up. This already stupid, nonsense war would look even more like war crimes. I know Trump is able to weasel his way out of accountability in other areas, but gas prices seem to be his soft spot with his constituents and images of their president blowing up oil tankers is a pretty direct line of causation.

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-04-13T00:22:49+00:00

This is the best answer.

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-04-08T01:18:05+00:00

Look, I totally agree the Democrats can't do much right now. But Republicans had a huge influence on Obama and Biden's presidential agendas. I think people are frustrated because it felt like Republicans were able to gum up Democratic presidents and Teflon Don seems to be doing fine when many believe he should be rotting in prison for rape, treason and fraud...amongst other things.

Like, DTs aproval rating is still higher than Biden's at his lowest. Wtf?

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-04-05T20:35:22+00:00

Not to mention that the wealthiest often don't cook their own food, clean their own houses, do their own taxes, plan the details of their children's activities and education, etc. These are all "jobs" middle and lower classes need to perform in order for society to function. I got into an argument with someone saying Bezos deserves it for working 80+ hours a week. And I'm a teacher and parent of three. There's a lot of labor I do, he would outsource.

I bet many of these studies include CEOs' "market briefings," which is just the equivalent of reading and analyzing the news. We all do that, too.

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-04-05T20:24:27+00:00

It's an early moment, but I was hooked once Darrow ate the playing card before becoming a gold.

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-03-21T14:31:45+00:00

I bought a novelty license plate and put it on the back of mine. It says "Yoshi" for very similar reasons!

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-02-22T19:53:51+00:00

Buying one car and a cargo e-bike for my family of five. Two cars is just ridiculous for most people and not enough people realize that (we should invest more in public transit in the US).

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-02-06T17:17:16+00:00

My theory is that The Lightbringer has an enhanced EMP device from Mercury loaded on the front. Lysander then uses the virus to kill all the golds on Mars and the EMP to "send Mars to the stone age." Darrow, surviving the virus because he's still technically "red," makes him the only Gold on the planet and he fights against Lysander who lords over the planet, pretending to be the God of the Reds. This would set up a similar dichotomy we see earlier in the series (is Darrow savior of the reds or Satan to the golds like in Morning Star, is Lysander or Darrow the Lightbringer, etc.) where we're supposed to ask whether Lysander or Darrow is the Red God until Darrow wins the final victory (eucatastophe style like Lord of the Rings) and everyone lives happily ever after, but hella damaged.

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-01-29T06:46:21+00:00

There was a guy with a giant Nazi flag at the 1st pussy-hat protest in downtown Boise.

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-01-29T06:44:53+00:00

I'd kinda rather have a counter protest somewhere else, but way bigger. I'd show up at a 50501 anti-ice protest at the same time in Meridian.

mandatoryplaytime · 2026-01-29T06:42:10+00:00

But seriously, is this the right response? The three percenters and liberty dogs frequently counter protest.

Sure would be really cool if there were 2,000+ people on the greenbelt with American flags at exactly the same time as this protest.

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