Libs will say "You need to support the best of the realistic options even if you don't like it very much" and then oppose Assad.

Abe, Bojo, Truss... who are the rest of the small squares?

You could switch him out with Keir! and no one would know the difference.

"This will continue to be the case until one day, we get proportional and ranked-choice voting."

Democrats could spend 20 years worth of political capital to try to get this, and still come up 3% of votes short.

It's never going to happen. Nothing is ever going to progress with the Democrats.

There is no factory that makes Democrats, they are a brand with no product connected to it.

Do you want an answer to that?

Because the Democratic Party is not a political program. The Democratic Party is a brand.

Turns out all you had to do was believe in yourself, and use AI.

11, I think, across 4 different sectors: college/work-study jobs, agriculture, food service, small business logistics. Some of those were short-term gigs though. At least 4 gaps of longer than a month where I wasn't employed or in school.

Been fully unemployed and living off savings for the better part of a year, but looking to boost the number, build savings back, and get some businesses going. With any luck, if the businesses take off enough, I'll be able to employ others in a cooperative model, and never have to worry about having to work on the extremely unfavorable terms of someone else again.

I thought it was just part of these times for jobs to only last a year or two. The longest that I've been on any one company's payroll is 4 years and some change.

Quite a lot. And I thought I was a late ADHD diagnosis in my late teens.

It's been less frequent after college, where there is no carousel of moderate-future requirements that "ruin your life" if you don't meet them. In fact I've found that as long as tasks for work don't extend beyond one day/shift and don't have me getting on a PC, it's really easy to meet them. Then I can do whatever I want (let the meandering stream/hyperfocus take me where it will) for the rest of the waking hours that I'm not working. Leaving academia meant giving up on a dream, but many radical dreams appeared and made life a lot more fulfilling and exciting than what I could have imagined.

If you don't have kids super young, don't have addictions to alcohol or tobacco or other substances, sidestep car ownership with carpooling and/or mass transit, and don't live in a super expensive city, you can support yourself quite reasonably on 20 hours a week. Being able to do this, plus lending a bit of slack to local radical projects on top of that, made me feel so much better about myself.

If it was brown instead of iridescent green, I would've believed it. Tame by Florida standards.

Unironically, to dispose of complicated* wastes well, you want to find some place that groundwater doesn't really drain out of, then put all the waste in a deep pit there, ideally sheltered from wind. Then you leave it for the future archaeologists or prospectors to find.

*Anything that's not compostable, combustible, or practically recyclable.

But you don't want to do this within 100 meters of a living space, and definitely not as a Groverpit right underneath your foundation!

Someone close to me had a pretty strong case of this, also since late childhood/pre-adolescence. It wasn't always uniform but they usually ended up wearing hats. The longest it ever subsided for was long enough for about 2 inches of hair all over their scalp, which felt like an accomplishment.