Pickled fish is pungent enough to ruin the breakroom for the whole shift, and for some reason Terri insists on eating it every fucking night. Ron tried to cover the smell with his tropical smoothie vape, but now Jacklyn’s asthma is acting up so she went home. And it’s inventory tonight, we really needed everyone here

The families that had TV shows, podcasts, wrote books, and otherwise tried to monetize their Christianity are who are most snarked on. Sometimes they call someone a “minor fundie” if they just use IG or whatever to spread their views. The Bairds that I mentioned are Girl Defined. They wrote some books and guides on being a pure Christian teen or young adult woman, with some marriage advice sprinkled in. Now they’re married with kids and still trying to cling to what made them “famous”.

It started mostly with Quiverful families like the Duggars, and others that couldn’t get shows despite a ton of kids like the Rodriguez family. Most of these people do not take good care of their many children, the Collins kids have a lot of hospitalizations and injuries from neglect. But there’s also people with awful misogynistic views like The Transformed Wife who are snarked on.

I mostly was there for the wild admissions, like Bethany (Baird) Beal talking about using her husband’s toothbrush without his consent

The Bairds must be seething at this, spice was their (new) thing!

I’m a terrible human, but I deeply miss the Fundie snark sub reddit lol

He also said things about Trump that make me wonder why Trump thinks he’d be loyal.

I know someone who is the target demographic for Trump (white, evangelical, 50+ yo man), and refused to vote for him. However, he “couldn’t bring” himself to vote for Kamala.

It’s so stupid

In the space of about 300 years the captital was moved four times. The last capital, Harran, was only the captital for the last three or so years of Assyria, after the larger cities were burned to the ground by the Neo-Babylonians and the Medes.

It’s kind of amazing how fast Assyria declined from its peak

My 15yo cat has never learned how to use scratching posts or anything, despite having an assortment and a whole other cat to show her how. If I don’t trim them she gets stuck in things, and they grow really thick because the outer layers aren’t being shed. I’m assuming that’s more painful to walk/jump on than extending her claws to trim them.

It’s really not the same as declawing, which is like removing a joint from their fingers.

Cory Booker is doing a great job with his protest speech. I started watching while he was talking about social security, and I’m so glad someone is talking about our fears in congress.

This isn’t even an issue of legality in Trump’s world. Trump is upset that Waltz has the number of a journalist that Trump doesn’t like, which apparently is an indication of disloyalty. So it’s still weird that he hasn’t just fired the man

What’s weird is that it didn’t seem like he put any thought into firing people during his first term

Someone get this commenter a Snickers, stat!

He made himself redundant, if the executive order folding the justicial branch into the executive is any indication

Interesting that the one in Montana is in the blue part of the state

It’s true, I made a reply to another person in this thread that I used to work for a tech giant. I’ve since moved to a rural and impoverished area, so my idea of who goes to Burning Man was definitely colored by who I’ve known that could have afforded it

I think they want us to take ourselves out, like Trump said yesterday that immigrants need to self deport

I’m just preparing to be homeless again, like I was before I started receiving disabilitypayments

I’m so tired of the uncertainty and chaos these guys are causing. I’ve spent weeks worried that they’ll shut down social security, and that I’ll lose my income. I feel like this won’t really be the end of that anxiety

That makes a lot of sense. I used to work for a tech giant

Every person that I’ve known to go to burning man is “socially liberal/fiscally conservative”. They aren’t maga, but they definitely vote that way.

It’s amazing that they want to take away social security because there may be a trivial number of fraudulent claims, but refuse to get rid of the death penalty even though innocent people have been killed

There are alternatives made from plant resin (chicle) like Simply Gum, but they definitely lose flavor and texture much faster than the plastic based gums