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They're the Temple Owls and they had a chance to get a Philadelphia bird lawyer and this is just a massive missed opportunity

Going offline for a couple weeks. I'll be running around on the coast and I'm leaving my phone behind. Recommend it for everybody.

It needs a congressional hearing IMO m.youtube.com/watch?v=TZca...

The PE thing is real, although it's more about consolidation that would be bad even if PE wasn't involved. High prices and repairs that take forever. Basically @doctorow.pluralistic.net enshittification with sirens The too-wide truck thing is also real but separate www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...

Wagoneer, whatever

I think it made sense in olden tymes when the job involved throwing buckets of water. Probably the only way a small town with no tax base could have a functional FD. But now? If you're doing wildfires/care coordination/ALS stuff it's reasonable to get paid. If the town can't afford it the state can

All local school buses have to be the crappy used Waggoners they can't get off the lot at Dave Smith Chrysler

TBH I'd happily volunteer as a county commissioner just to steer all the money to my real business

Don't take this the wrong way--hooray to you for doing the volunteer stuff--but the fact that we even have volunteer fire/EMS is honestly nuts. None of the county commissioner types leaning on the local volunteer ambo crew is talking about volunteer county sheriffs or volunteer ED surgeons

Even people in Puerto Rico have to breathe our smoke

It's hard to even see it, but this is a map of North America underneath the forest fires and smoke plumes. The whole continent is having trouble breathing.

Better watch out y'all. I needed to buy a new toiletry kit and the only one the store had was the Soldier's Toiletry Kit. Hell yeah all I have to do now to be a Warfighter is find the camo toothpaste

Well all the people whose job it was to talk sense into the president got fired and the leftovers know they'll only keep their jobs if they bless every stupid thought that comes out of Trump's mouth. We have the same problem now that the Russian military has.

When I was a kid reading Jack London stories at school I wondered why so many of them involved American dumbasses confidently going to Canada and dying out in the woods. I think I get it now.

Suggest handing this dude a rake and dropping him in some roadless peat bog in far northern Saskatchewan so he can fix the problem Rambo style and show the rest of us how it's done

I was at State at the end of the Bush years and every few months Bush or Cheney or whoever would start fantasizing about Iran, and then a bunch of generals and NSC types would materialize and show mountains, US bases within missile range, and gas price predictions, and that would take care of it

Suggest giving this guy a rake and sending him north to show everyone how it's done. Maybe some RFK Jr. approved beef tallow for sustenance so the bears can find him more easily. Anyway this guy's from New Jersey, the only trees he knows about are pine tree-shaped air fresheners

Lotta smoke from Oregon and Washington heading into Canada right now. Maybe Trump ought to give you guys a discount on the smoke tariffs?

Dammit!