Only a couple of cousins, but no, that relative is actually not right-wing at all and he’s highly educated. He’s just also a pre-Boomer. He lived through WWII but he was too young to remember it. I just don’t think he believes it could possibly happen again.

Thanks so much for the offer. I have a lot of family and friends over there who can help me too. And yeah, I’d rather not risk it considering my daughter is queer.

The link works! Also, “open the pod bay doors please, HAL.”

(And would it have killed them to at least paint the plywood?)

Hey, I haven’t forgotten. She had a super busy day yesterday but she said she’d try to think of a few today.

You can count on it!

Haven’t moved quite yet. We’re leaving on Monday evening, so I have just enough time to see the rapist turn America into a Fascist Dictatorship from the inside.

We pushed the schedule up because we’re worried that when he starts mass deportations, people who are even here legally will freak the fuck out and grab the next plane out of the country and I won’t be able to get a ticket. Also we think it will be much easier for me to find someone willing to hire me from within the UK and with a UK phone number.

Maybe all the worrying will be for nothing. One of my elderly British relatives, who is not conservative, said I have Trump phobia. Maybe so. Maybe this is all panicking for nothing. Or maybe I’m saving my daughter from kristalnacht. I don’t feel like it’s worth gambling if I don’t have to.

Anyway, we’re going to end up in a VRBO in Blackburn, Lancashire for a month while I look for work, so I guess I’ll know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.

Well I’m glad the error is happening today because I was literally just using that site yesterday. Didn’t end up needing it yet, but still…

Even got that error there.

Tried it in both Firefox and a Chromium browser.

I’m getting the same error.

I don’t understand this, but I also don’t hate it.

I will talk to her and see what she says.

We had a lot of help when my daughter was born, but when she was a little older and we were more on our own, my librarian wife read a bunch of books, and I went with “don’t do with what my parents did.” It seems to have worked out for both of us, but for me more than for her. I feel like leaning in on the idea that we’re 50% genetically identical and trying to see things from that perspective works better than “well, the book says X…”

Jerry had a political weekend talk show on Air America, the radio network that attempted to do for the left what the right had done with Limbaugh. To its credit, it started the career of Rachel Maddow and prompted Al Franken to run for senate, so it had its positives. Jerry’s Show? Boring as fuck. He seemed like an affable guy, but I can absolutely see why he revamped the TV show.

Also, Wikipedia left out why he was caught soliciting in the first place- he paid by check. There was a record. 🤦‍♂️

Mental retardation

What the fuck?

Okay, but your characterization as L.A. being full of panhandlers because of a photo of a bunch of people panhandling in a tourist area was not exactly an honest view of the city.

There are a lot of reasons to complain about L.A., but acting like Hollywood and L.A. are equivalents and Hollywood isn’t just a really shitty part of L.A. with a lot of tourists (so of course a lot of panhandlers will be there) is like acting like all of Las Vegas is just The Strip.

Most of L.A. is not Hollywood. I lived in the Valley and you didn’t see what you’re seeing in that photo. The places you will see a huge number of homeless in L.A. are Hollywood, for the reason I already stated, Downtown because Skid Row is long-established and hospitals actually dump people there when they discharge them (when I lived in L.A., they dumped someone’s grandmother with advanced dementia there in a hospital gown) and Santa Monica and Venice on the beach because of both the tourists and the fact that sleeping on sand is a hell of a lot more comfortable than sleeping on concrete.

Like I said, L.A. has a lot of problems, but calling L.A. a miserable dump based just on Hollywood is silly. Don’t base your opinion on a city on where the tourists go, it’s always going to be one of the worst parts of town.

I lived most of my time in L.A. in North Hollywood. It has nothing to do with Hollywood proper. It’s in the Valley and there’s a mountain range between it and Hollywood. It was never like that when I lived there as it was gentrifying, and now it’s a hip arts district that you would have no real reason to see if you were a tourist.

Absolutely. It is one of the best things in L.A., or at least was when I lived there.

How else would the slave-owning states have the slavery powers they so needed?!?

I don’t blame you for that. I would also never go to L.A. as a tourist unless I knew someone to actually show me around the city and know where to take me.

Otherwise you think that it’s worth doing things like walking down Hollywood Boulevard and seeing the Chinese Theater and it really isn’t unless you actually plan to go watch a movie there. And even then, there’s better options.

(That said, the only time I went, I got invited to the Aliens vs. Predator premiere and we ate really potent cannabis brownies beforehand and I was so high I barely remember anything about that movie, so I could be wrong and it could be the best theater in the city. But I vaguely remember it as kind of unimpressive.)

But yeah, unless you are going to a specific place in a touristy part of town, just don’t ever go there. And find someone who can tell you where the places that are worth going to are, like the beaches that are not full of idiot tourists and the museums that would actually be worth your time (I miss the Museum of Jurassic Technology so much)…

I think this also shows that if you are going to adopt a child that is not of your race, you really need to do your due diligence to raise that child to understand what their means in terms of their place in society. Maybe even find someone of their race to help you with that.

No offense meant here because this is a general statement, but adopting a black kid and never explaining to them what to do if they’re pulled over by a cop (in the U.S. at least) seems negligent at best and abusive at worst because it could literally get them killed.