Larry of the Lawn

Finished Ottessa Moshfegh's Death in Her Hands today, and found it to be an excellent and impressive piece of work. Mossfegh may be the most efficient writer I've had the pleasure to read, she is able to do things in a short novel that many wonderful writers would struggle to capture in an 800 page brick. The novel is told in the first person from a 70 something year old woman named Vesta Gul who finds a handwritten note in the woods on her morning walk with her dog. It reads "Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body". But there is no body to be found, and thus begins a journey down the rabbit hole that starts off slowly but rapidly accelarated into... well, read and find out. This book excels at injecting the reader with the narrator's loneliness and cultivating a feeling of psychological terror and uncertainty. That it as able to convincingly do this while having some laugh-out-loud moments nested inside of tragic, revelatory moments is a testament to Moshfegh's talent and art. Would highly recommend this to anyone looking for a quick but powerful read that will likely stick with you for a very long time. Next up: Canoe Rig by Todd Bradshaw, the new J.S.A. Corey, and then the China Mieville/Keanu Reeves collaboration

And the worst part: It's fucked up that the FEC is so toothless re: being able to act expediently during a presidential campaign, which is presumably when you'd want them to be able to do something.

There are a bunch of new voters who have no idea what happened in 2016.

I don't know if that's relevant though. Deplorable was something Clinton used to directly insult Trump voters. Weird has already become more of a meme to cue younger voters to look at policy and behaviors of Trump. I'm not sure it would matter if every Trump voter started wearing "Weird" clothing, because it's more about getting voters to look [at] what they need to vote against than anything else.

You're a broken record on this, jfc. Who the fuck is acting like that's some kind of moral victory? Israel / Palestine is an issue for a small part of the Dem electorate, and this is shaping up to be a close election, and your answer is scolding people about the behavior of smallest fraction of a fraction of protestors, who are themselves a fraction of the people for whom Gaza is an issue.

Wrong thread

Even if you renew online, in many states you need to do a vision test or submit proof of a vision test in person. Also, if you buy a vehicle from a private seller it's much easier and faster to go in person, at least everywhere I've ever lived.

You know those sickos in Massachusetts call it RMV? I know. I know.

What, indulging a masochistic kink for waiting in line while filling out forms, and registering to vote?

Can we not?

Or the shit about when Harris "became black". Or the racist ranting about immigrants.

What if every Democrat in Wisconsin and Nevada moved to California though? That could very well have happened in the last 4 years and no one would even know until after the election. And what if at the same time every Republican in New England also moved to South Carolina? Curious that the polls don't account for this. If the polls were made out of cheese, would you eat them?

Absolutely nuts to think one of the Presidents most responsible for disassembling the New Deal is ranked one off he best since WWII.

I don't think she was ever that progressive in Congress. I think she was into the Green party when she was in college or something.

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Over the last month or so at work I've listened to the entire extant Dungeon Crawler Carl series. The audiobooks are excellent. I thought it would be absolute drivel but fun, instead it's just really good. The first couple books are certainly weaker, but there is a lot going on beneath the surface. The series is, as far as I understand, considered to be "LitRPG" or "progression" fantasy, which is something I never thought I would want to experience, let alone enjoy, after reading the thread about this genre on this very forum a couple years ago. And yet! These books are fucking great The titular character and his ex girlfriend's cat, Princess Donut, end up in an 18 level dungeon when aliens decided to mine Earth's natural resources. They are coerced, along with 13 million others, to enter Dungeon Crawler World's dungeon, which is essentially designed to mimic an RPG style video game that is broadcast to the entire universe as entertainment. The series catches its stride in the last 3 books, and the author seems to be producing them at a fairly steady pace. I don't know that I'd have enjoyed reading the books as much as I've enjoyed the audiobooks, the production and narrator are absolutely wonderful. I'd probably read this over Acts of Caine any day. It's extremely fun, and a pleasure to listen to.

I'd like to formally take myself out of the running for VP. I've got a lot of other projects that are requiring my attention. Sorry not sorry.

Some of the Vance jokes are sofa king gross

How are you going to impose tariffs without causing inflation? It's immediately going to drive costs up? You're talking about a test to vote? Why not just impose a poll tax, or make poor people have to buy voting credits? We need to make voting easier, not harder. The student debt idea and lower taxes on the 99% idea are great. The rest of this is wild. You're coming after free speech policing...movie content? And then the "defamation" stuff? Your immigration thoughts are essentially what was in the proposal Trump told the House to shoot down recently.

Probably better off spending that time across swing states simply trying to get people to the polls, targeting whatever fraction of swing voters still exist and new voters. Trying to get likely Trump voters to change their mind is going to have a much lower success rate. Edit: Why? The recently proposed immigration reform was essentially a conservative plan. That bone was tossed in the trash by Republican MOCs.

If it came out that Vance had been an advocate for one of the Puppy slates I would not be surprised.

Just started Otessa Moshfegh's Death in Her Hands. Really enjoyed Eileen recently, and I'm pretty excited about it so far.

I mean, I guess genocide IS more American than flag burning.

Lol fuck that nonsense. That is fascist logic. Making the political religious or sacred is textbook fascism. Harris doesn't need to spout off this illiberal garbage about flag burning. It's not UnAmerican, it's an American right.

So maybe other protesters did that?