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So hey there; is that an onion in your pants, or are you happy to see me?

Probably companies that supply live food for reptiles. Possibly bait shops.

Probably doesn't answer your question completely, but I'm a big fan of the phrase "my understanding is . . . " In other words, this is what I "know" as fact, but I'm aware that my knowledge could be wrong or insufficient and I'm willing to be corrected or updated. I use this phrase almost any time I'm asserting something as fact, as a kind of cya.

Was at a church yard sale yesterday and they had the same setup. Pretty sure it was not a progressive church.

Hurricane in Florida. A work friend invited my mom and I to stay at her place if it got bad. I'd spent time with her and her husband before, and thought we would have a good time playing games and hanging out.

It started to get bad, so we headed over. She didn't answer the door or phone. Finally she comes out, says we woke her up (it's 3pm) and laughed at us getting "freaked out" by a little wind. Guess we were supposed to wait for the full hurricane force winds before driving across town. Spent the remainder of my birthday on the closet floor with mom and dog.

The Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein, though sadly she never finished it.

See also Emergency Skin by NK Jemison.

I'm not even going to try to type the name of this one. It's Estonia's contribution to this year's Eurovision and it makes me happy every time I hear it.

Apparently the chorus translates roughly to "Why no, officer, those are not our drugs."

So those polled voters indicate what they want in a poll. Yet those same voters elect (choose) the politicians (their representatives who speak for them) who want something different.

By that logic, everyone who votes for Harris supports Israel's genocide against Palestine. Voters make the choice they feel is best out of what they're given.

Because understanding people's motivations is valuable in figuring out how to reach them. But I'm obviously fucking up the circle jerk.

Are you serious? Because they lie. And because they demonize the other side so hard, their base will vote for them no matter what. For example, polling shows most republican voters are not in favor of extreme abortion restrictions. They want abortion up to a certain point and for certain reasons. But when they're told the other side is murdering full-norn babies, they go for what seems to them like the lesser evil.