The last raised bed, cardboard and fir chips underneath, filled last summer, was so tight with grass at the edges, when I tried to pull the grass out by the base a giant section of dirt 6 inches deep came with it. Roughly 1/6 the soil need replacing after that one pull.

There has to be a better way.

The part that makes things feel doomed in a Google search engine enshittification kind of way is when the articles with similar vein headlines read almost verbatim to one another, like everyone is scraping from everyone else instead of doing their own organic work on it.

But if you only ever doom scroll headlines, which some individuals do, you’ll never catch that pattern.

Fair. But it fits the trend. We’ll see how it goes with others this week.

I can get no one to admit any iota of criticism towards trump in any conversation. The only thing I’ve heard from the MAGAs is “his social media should be better”, and that’s it. It’s a wall of unity and parroted statements.

Even the insurrection wasn’t an insurrection, but a few bad players or, my favorite, paid performers, that went too far.

I’ve yet to hear any MAGA in alignment with these commondreams, newrepublic, dailybeast, HuffPost headlines that try to grab onto what the left wants, or even needs, to hear, since 2016.

How can people be so stupid?

Lawns are pernicious beasts that keep trying to take back the spaces we try to carve out for garden and food.

It’s worse than hedge bindweed and I don’t know what to do about it.

Is he? MAGA doesn’t care. I just talked to a MAGA today. It’s press sensationalism and bullshit, to them. I reliably get the parrot of the main byline in play from that MAGA, and that was the word today. They don’t care.

This reads more like the commondreams, dailybeast, newrepublic, HuffPost headline echo chamber filler that always tell you what you want or expect to hear.

I miss the Michael Bazzell podcast.

One of his followers did try to shoot him for it. Strange, the shooter’s reasons were not well publicized.

If you’re in a state with ballot measures, then you could campaign for rules against single family home HOAs.

Don’t forget the venture capitalist factor. Your doctor’s office and your PCP are different, more rushed, now because of venture capitalists.

They’ve hoovered up many clinics and now force each doctor employed by those clinics to book themselves like an airport. No more free slots. Regimented 15min time slots, back to back. Anyone late to an appointment loses their slot and may even have to pay a “no show”/late fee. None of these decisions were made by front lines workers, they were all made by corporate owners of those clinics.

Outcome? People don’t get heard. Don’t address all their issues (they’re allowed one issue per visit, for max profit, in addition to there only being time for one issue during those tiny appointments). They hate their PCPs (instead of corporate) and instead flood Urgent Care and the Emergency Department for PCP problems neither UC or ED will solve. Thus, everyone gets sicker.

Love TNG. DS9 is my fave. Love the new stuff too. OS is great as well.

Insanity. Pure, unmitigated insanity.

There needs to be a one room at a time rule.

It just means it’s time for solo 4x and single player RPGs.

Walz broke that a little, freely calling people dipshits and poking at Vance with Reddit rhetoric. But it didn’t win so they likely won’t roll it out again.

It looks like their main strategy is to roll Buttigieg out in increments as their new face.

Meanwhile, Bernie and AOC are going their own way.

I know I’m going to regret this but please post a link so I can read more.

I’ve never been able to get past the first episode. Half the crew is bland and uninteresting, Mulgrew is better as Flemeth or that crazy prison chef, and that blonde guy should be tossed out an air lock.

My siblings tell me I need to watch it in order to witness the worst captain in Star fleet history, but I can’t make it that far.

What is wrong with Texas’ public services? First that electricity debacle, now they can’t send an alert?

I’m standing by my theory that the powers that be in this country want to prune We The People down, passively.

For the first time ever, I’m interested in watching and episode of Voyager. But just this Q episode.

The dislike of Hillary was deeply entrenched. When Bill Clinton was elected and Hillary was First Lady they worked on a preliminary plan for universal healthcare that was dumped. Hillary was involved in the drafting of the plan.

This was a time when the 24h news cycle, via CNN, was only on the cusp of getting started. The nightly news, still in full swing, said awful things about her. They said she should stay in her lane and, worse, that she should be picking out china and curtains instead. They sneered at her on air with great contempt. Not Fox. ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN. All 4 were outraged by her stepping out of line as First Lady.

I cannot imagine this pervasive attitude wasn’t present in the Boomer+ vote.

In addition, Malcom Gladwell addressed some pervasive societal issues in Season 1 of his podcast in an episode called The Lady Vanishes. He predicted her loss.