Don’t tempt me with a good time.

Currently cows are the main carrier of interest for one of the two strains of bird flu that are a concern in the US. The viral particles are being detected in their milk. Hence bird flu milk.

Perhaps, but that is what I was told by my doctor for my area. Seems like she would know.

That is really helpful to know. I don’t recall there being any MinuteClinics around here, but I’ll take a look for next time, thank you :)

I live in NYS. I had to pay $200+ out of pocket for the booster because my medical insurance would only cover vaccines administered by a doctor’s office, and the booster was only distributed to pharmacies. My medical insurance does not cover ANY prescriptions because apparently it’s an optional DLC now.

Only CVS and Walgreens were given the boosters too so they could set whatever price they wanted.

I don’t know a single other adult other than my partner that paid out for the booster because it was so expensive. If my immune system worked I could play roulette with vaccines too, but it doesn’t so I just continue to get my physical safety held hostage for more money.

Which billionaire owns WSJ again?

I simply cannot fathom why a billionaire would want to devalue one of our highest paid working sectors left by flooding the labor market with cheaper labor. What could they possibly have to gain from holding workers hostage by their visa status?

What a mystery.

Being allosexual sounds exhausting. You get some kind of feels for a person just by looking at them? I can’t wrap my head around that. Or sex drives. I don’t mind participating, but I could live the rest of my life not having sex just like I could live the rest of my life not eating a specific kind of cereal.

To me sex is optional. I don’t usually even think about it unless our allo centered world forces me to.

You know capitalism is really new in the scale of human history right? It wasn’t until the industrial revolution in the 18th century that the means of production could be privately owned which then allowed for further speculative capital (stocks, land value, etc) to be equated to power.

The people of the past weren’t inherently stupid. Plenty of scientific and cultural progress was made prior to capitalism being our economic model.

The problem isn’t smartphones, it’s capitalism.

All of those things would have happened anyway in a different form factor because capitalism is just a race to the bottom.

Except maybe UI design. That has been special in its enshittification.

Today someone threatened to murder me.

Our car battery died during a snow storm. We only have one car, but I have an e bike and the auto parts store is less than 10 minutes from me. The roads were shit, visibility was shit, but 80% of my ride was on a state designated bike path so I figured I’d be fine for a quick trip.

I came up to the intersection in question and there was so much snow piled up between the bike path and the street I had to hop off the bike to get through it. The light was red in my favor, all traffic was stopped with no traffic coming from where the light was green. I started to cross the street and a HUGE truck waited until I was directly in front of him to slam on the gas, travel several feet at me, and then slam on the brakes just to intimidate me.

I doubt I would have survived if he had decided to just keep driving. Even if the light had changed by the time I managed to get off the road, is one life really worth less than the 20 seconds it takes to wait for someone to cross??

Is there a word for when something looks like a vulva?

Y’know, like phallic, but… That.

Nah she’s always been written with BDSM references. Her original writer was definitely into that lol.

Seemed like an interesting guy. If I remember right he lived in a polycule with two dommy mommies and was aggressively feminist.

Okay, sure. Maybe it’s not from driving specifically, but it is just from sun exposure. Which I hear Aussies get a fair bit of, yeah?

Y’all it’s sun exposure from driving. You’re just old enough to see the damage.

One of my local shops uses a garlic knot instead of these. I don’t know why more places don’t do that. Delicious and functional!

So who’s funding you again?

Ew. Pass.

I’ll stick with my local small business retro shop that doesn’t stink of wage slavery, misogyny, and poor corporate decisions, thanks.

That’s fine the Olympics are terrible for people, the economy, and the environment anyway.

Me too.

I couldn’t believe that people were convinced to vote for him the first time. I couldn’t believe that after a term people were even considering voting for him the second time. Now, I’m struggling with how the man is allowed to SPEAK IN PUBLIC.

Any other felon would have been shunned to obscurity.

Felons struggle to find work and housing, yet this man gets another crack at leading a nation.

The man who complimented AMERICAN TERRORISTS after they successfully murdered his constituents gets to try to LEAD A NATION.

Republicans like to scream about CaNCel CuLTure, but fucking where is it now? This man shouldn’t be allowed to own his own clothes just for his financial crimes, and yet he is treated as a viable option for the presidency.

Edit: oh yeah, I forgot that he was impeached twice, refused to leave office, THEN lost the vote and tried to stay in office via violence.

I am absolutely grieving right now because of how much of the discourse following the debate is “BIDEN OLD”. Both of them are old. I wish I had another option other than Biden, but at this point it’s between him and a 34-time convicted felon that tried to throw a coup as soon as he was going to lose power and STILL will not admit he is wrong about the election results. Nor will he promise to honor the results of this upcoming election. There really isn’t a choice here.

What a fucking failure our political system is.