RIP maxis. May you one day be reborn. 😔

Mmm, nah. I'm not giving money to EA for the sims. I will continue to get every new install of sims and sims 2 from the open seas and play them with WINE without issue like I have been.

I see you EA, trying to get an emergency cash injection via nostalgia after flopping with the veilguard. This won't keep you off the chopping block forever.

Good.

I am personally very disinterested in using bikes to collect data. That's one of the benefits of traveling via bike - that the manufacturer can't just track you and everyone around you!

If the problem is that cars aren't safe around bicycles, then the solution should be to not allow cars near bicycles.

Don't tempt me with a good time.

Currently cows are the main carrier of interest for one of the two strains of bird flu that are a concern in the US. The viral particles are being detected in their milk. Hence bird flu milk.

Perhaps, but that is what I was told by my doctor for my area. Seems like she would know.

That is really helpful to know. I don't recall there being any MinuteClinics around here, but I'll take a look for next time, thank you :)

I live in NYS. I had to pay $200+ out of pocket for the booster because my medical insurance would only cover vaccines administered by a doctor's office, and the booster was only distributed to pharmacies. My medical insurance does not cover ANY prescriptions because apparently it's an optional DLC now.

Only CVS and Walgreens were given the boosters too so they could set whatever price they wanted.

I don't know a single other adult other than my partner that paid out for the booster because it was so expensive. If my immune system worked I could play roulette with vaccines too, but it doesn't so I just continue to get my physical safety held hostage for more money.

Which billionaire owns WSJ again?

I simply cannot fathom why a billionaire would want to devalue one of our highest paid working sectors left by flooding the labor market with cheaper labor. What could they possibly have to gain from holding workers hostage by their visa status?

What a mystery.

Being allosexual sounds exhausting. You get some kind of feels for a person just by looking at them? I can't wrap my head around that. Or sex drives. I don't mind participating, but I could live the rest of my life not having sex just like I could live the rest of my life not eating a specific kind of cereal.

To me sex is optional. I don't usually even think about it unless our allo centered world forces me to.

Today someone threatened to murder me.

Our car battery died during a snow storm. We only have one car, but I have an e bike and the auto parts store is less than 10 minutes from me. The roads were shit, visibility was shit, but 80% of my ride was on a state designated bike path so I figured I'd be fine for a quick trip.

I came up to the intersection in question and there was so much snow piled up between the bike path and the street I had to hop off the bike to get through it. The light was red in my favor, all traffic was stopped with no traffic coming from where the light was green. I started to cross the street and a HUGE truck waited until I was directly in front of him to slam on the gas, travel several feet at me, and then slam on the brakes just to intimidate me.

I doubt I would have survived if he had decided to just keep driving. Even if the light had changed by the time I managed to get off the road, is one life really worth less than the 20 seconds it takes to wait for someone to cross??

Is there a word for when something looks like a vulva?

Y'know, like phallic, but... That.

Ew. Pass.

I'll stick with my local small business retro shop that doesn't stink of wage slavery, misogyny, and poor corporate decisions, thanks.

That's fine the Olympics are terrible for people, the economy, and the environment anyway.

Me too.

I couldn't believe that people were convinced to vote for him the first time. I couldn't believe that after a term people were even considering voting for him the second time. Now, I'm struggling with how the man is allowed to SPEAK IN PUBLIC.

Any other felon would have been shunned to obscurity.

Felons struggle to find work and housing, yet this man gets another crack at leading a nation.

The man who complimented AMERICAN TERRORISTS after they successfully murdered his constituents gets to try to LEAD A NATION.

Republicans like to scream about CaNCel CuLTure, but fucking where is it now? This man shouldn't be allowed to own his own clothes just for his financial crimes, and yet he is treated as a viable option for the presidency.

Edit: oh yeah, I forgot that he was impeached twice, refused to leave office, THEN lost the vote and tried to stay in office via violence.

I am absolutely grieving right now because of how much of the discourse following the debate is "BIDEN OLD". Both of them are old. I wish I had another option other than Biden, but at this point it's between him and a 34-time convicted felon that tried to throw a coup as soon as he was going to lose power and STILL will not admit he is wrong about the election results. Nor will he promise to honor the results of this upcoming election. There really isn't a choice here.

What a fucking failure our political system is.

And so the cycle will continue until rank choice voting gets through. 🫠

And even when not speaking during tonight's debate, he often looked totally bewildered.

To be fair, my partner and I also looked totally bewildered by the things falling out of Trump's face. I don't know that he actually answered a single question, but rather spouted the same racist nonsense over and over.

I also stan aftershokz. For gym use I use ear plugs to block out machine sounds and I can still hear my book/music/video just fine. The battery life is great - I charge them nightly to be certain they won't die, but haven't had any problems running them two days at a time for 8+ hours on the occasion that I forget.