The amount of dead birds you see on it is always a little depressing.

Nuke Israel.

It’s okay, they’ve only lost over a million people so far, and they still have all those women and children to send into the meat grinder.

Everyone knows this, of course. Kevin Mitnick…

What is this pied a terre tax if not a tax on the rich?

Don’t let the heat scare you away from Thailand.

Spend the first week with your mom up in Chiang Mai, go to “elephant nature park” up there, one of the few who actually are a real elephant sanctuary for rescued elephants and treat them well. You can feed, touch, and bathe them, it’s an awesome experience. There’s also great cooking classes to do that take you through the markets where you try different foods as you collect your ingredients to cook with later.

If your mom is open minded enough, go to the ladyboy cabaret, it’s good fun, I’ve literally seen families there before, it’s not x-rated stuff, just good song and dance with humor mixed in.

Night market every night, and Sunday walking street both offer tons of shopping and excellent street food options everywhere you go for literal miles. Don’t miss out on the best Khao soi of your life.

See the temples, Doi Suthep offers an unmatched view of the valley Chiang Mai lies in. Doi Inthanon is high enough of a climb in elevation that you get serious relief from the heat, and there are waterfalls to visit along the way, makes a great day trip.

Spend a couple days up in Pai to enjoy a peaceful hippie-ish town with beautiful views (about 3 hour drive by car). If you make the trip up here, you might as well go to the white temple in Chiang Rai - I can’t vouch for that one but it looks sweet!

Week two - fly yourself down to Phuket for the beach and nightlife. Go to a full moon party, do some shrooms or whatever floats your boat. Tons of bars and clubs in the area for you too. Also, if you’re up for something not as much of a party but still incredible while you’re there, look up John Gray sea canoe tours. They do the best day trips out in the bay, take you to a couple different hongs where you kayak under these caves into lagoons, see bats, monkeys, all kinds of cool shit… They cook you good food on the boat… You can do overnight trips where you camp on a tiny island you have to yourselves… Highly recommend them.

I spent a couple months in Thailand in college (over the summer months) so I’m always encouraging others to see it, even in the hotter months - don’t let weather discourage you. The people, the sights, and the food far outweigh any bad weather you might encounter. I liked it enough to bring my wife back for our honeymoon years later, we had an awesome time.

Nowhere worth living.

Naive take at best. Love the tone deaf armchair “advice” all the non-Americans have for us, like you’ve been through this before and led a political movement yourself to earn the social safety nets/benefits your country provides for you. I’m sure you fought for everything you enjoy, lol.

No doubt, getting everyone convinced to vote is a good thing, but the majority of this comes down to money in politics, which will take a fucking revolution to change, not a ballot.

I just lost my girl a couple days ago… Hardest call I’ve ever had to make in my life, I’ve been a fucking mess all week, my heart hurts, can’t stop crying. Despite being a 16 y/o kitty with kidney failure and the vet telling me it’s only going to get worse and they supported my decision, I still second guess myself on whether we put her down too early… Like I could’ve had just a little more time with her, she was still purring when I’d lay with her, would still give me kisses… But the last thing I wanted was for her to suffer any more than she already had, it was so difficult to see her feeling shitty, struggling to do the most basic things… I keep going back and forth, blaming myself for any shortcomings I may have had with her over the years, whether I was right or wrong, it sucks so bad, I forgot how hard it is to lose a pet, even moreso when you’re the one who has to make the call… Just awful. I wish I spoiled her more…

I’m so sorry for your loss, your puppy looks very sweet.

Despite knowing it’s all part of the commitment we make to our beloved pets from the beginning, it never makes it any easier when our time together comes to an end. What I would give to go back in time for another day on a sunny deck with my little cat…

Principle*

Lovely observation of the greatest commonality here, though.

Yellow crookneck squash.

Bundle up. I went through something similar in Oregon a few years ago. Ice storm took power out and it was in the teens/low 20s for 3-4 days. Power was out for the first 3 days of that. We could see our breath in the house

Well the ice agent feared for his life, so the baby had it coming.

I got banned for “encouraging violence” in the COMBATFOOTAGE subreddit for saying we should fly more drones around the Ukraine warzone to make the Russians waste more ammunition trying to shoot them down (the post was a video of some Russian moron emptying his magazine trying to take a Ukrainian drone down).

When I disputed it, claiming it’s not encouraging any kind of violence (unless you count violence towards drones as violence?), I got a permanent site wide ban. After 15ish years on reddit, I called it. That site has sunk so low in the past decade - seems to get worse as time goes on. The censorship there is insane now.

Don’t kink shame

Any recommendations for a replacement?

What about when your brain is capable of the mental gymnastics required to deny any culpability in said preventable tragedy? These morons tend to have that superpower.

He was brought to the US to be Trumps personal sex slave trafficker. He got poached instead of imprisoned.

Motocross.

Love watching the pros and talking all about it. Recently got a coworker into it and it’s been fun explaining all the ins and outs of the sport and, as a past rider, trying to relate track conditions/difficulties to him

One of the weirdest metaphors I’ve seen in a while.