My dad gate-kept access to his mom after she declined to a problematic state. I have no memory or her deep in the throes of it, and for that I’m ultimately grateful.

He was a paramedic and fireman in his time. He already had a DNR/no-heroics order from that. But yeah, he says it solidified his plans.

Yeah. Him and Bibi will stand trial on the same day.

He’s not really from Florida?

Admit it – you weren’t sure.

We keep that a secret. So if we’re gonna do it, you won’t know until after.

I hear it’s a car dealership now for fat old white guys, so maybe no one will notice.

Even after reading the article, I have no idea what an Apollo does. Is it a store? A freight line? What is particularly shocking about its trade fight? Who’s it fighting?

They don’t need to court the Quebec separatists or the one green seat if they can get agreement as they go from the new orange leader.

For the record, the greens have a bad rep that is not 100% deserved: they have, many times in the past, fielded a “responsible resource management” plan that included managed forest and plausible plans for extraction and sale of other natural resources. Canada would be well-served with more green presence keeping the blues honest about oil well cleanup and pushing some solar panel plans forward. However, what we see on the news about the greens are a bunch of hippies snarling about drinking straws and logging (except in fairy Creek, natch, because someone got paid) and it scares any widespread support away.

But if we allowed coalition governments instead of continued buy-in and support during the cons’ weekly no-confident motions, we’d see a merged party of both separatist groups, and that would be darkly funny until each refused to speak the other’s language.

Best for Canada, but typically fall apart after about a year. We’ll be at the polls again in 2026, and that’s really not enough time to teach the tiktok generation about caring for others and why hate is bad.

WaPo already called it? It’s still ongoing, Belle.

Sometimes it not some patriarchy conspiracy. Just sometimes.

That’s the point.

Pease tell me you know of someone where this actually was true: that they made crazy money and they’re set for life.

Because, based on 30 years in and a complete lack of knowledge of anyone who got out and retired early, either personally and via someone I know, I conclude the only people for whom this worked were C-level. Even the smartest man I know didn’t cash in and get out.

I do know someone who retired at 48, though. He was a heavy duty mechanic. Paid off his house in a town he chose specifically for location, and bikes and kite-surfs all summer and skis all winter.

Yeah, mechanic. Union. Half pay for life is still half pay, but it’s FOR LIFE. He won.

ITT: hillbilly gun-clutchers who don’t realize cars are only working when you don’t hit something, and guns are only working when you do hit something.

Which one has he denied?

According to a recent post, he made that statement - and in many cases used it to prop up his own self-assessed effectiveness - 53 times.

I think it’s number 41. That one seemed insincere and flippant.

Canada needs to watch and learn.

I love how we’re just repeating gizmodo’s shitty headline writing, with the comma splice. Is it indolent or intentional?

So issue warrants for everyone involved you fucking coward.

Start the clock. Custodial contempt charges for all until the citizen is returned; and then everyone is charged with 6th/8th amendment violations on top. FILL GITMO.

Shoulda kept going.

That’s too bad. Until Russia returns crimea and pays reparation for all the damage it caused in this belligerent invasion - in cash or clean land - trade needs to be a challenge.

If ICE is going to play letter-of-the-law, it’s time to hold entire command trees of agents and supervisors in contempt until citizens are retrieved. If they want to fill pre-trial jails, let’s fill them with people breaking the law pending an investigation of their conduct.

Reparations need to be extensive.