Got_Bent

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to news in Supreme Court says Florida can’t enforce anti-drag law

Sorry dude. While I realize we’re dissecting legal semantics here, I was copy and pasting on my phone while sitting on the toilet shortly after a questionable dinner. I used the last descriptive word without considering its validity for the topic at hand.

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to news in Supreme Court says Florida can’t enforce anti-drag law

Huh. I looked it up and was ready to go all gotcha, but I don’t see any express references to drag. It does refer to chapter 847 which defines obscene acts. In those definitions are, “Predominantly appeals to a prurient, shameful, or morbid interest;”

So I’m thinking they avoided outright saying it, but that definition allows courts to interpret drag as a morbid interest.

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to news in San Francisco homeless sweep was cheered on by the right. It was also illegal

I remember homeless people doing exactly that in Santa Cruz back in the eighties to great success.

However, public sentiment over the past thirty years really seems to have swung aggressively toward the fuck you I got mine so die end of the pendulum.

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to memes in A tsarrible idea

I drank with Russians in Korea. The beer bottles and vodka bottles were the same size, say 300 or 350ml.

I drank beer. They drank vodka.

For every bottle of beer I drank, they each drank a bottle of vodka.

They drank me under the table.

They did have that delightful yellow skin tone.

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to lemmyshitpost in You guys need to stop

I’m still perplexed by my grandfather driving around in a manual with a beer and a cigarette. Did the WWII generation have a third hand?

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to lemmyshitpost in You guys need to stop

I remember that from Momma’s Family! Momma was trying to learn how to drive and asked, “What’s a PRNDL?”

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to science in US men are dying much earlier than women, as death 'gender gap' widens: Study

Has anybody considered that maybe we don’t want to live longer?

My entire life, I feel like my only value as a person has been to provide financial benefit to others. There is no passion. There is only obligation.

I’ve met those obligations. Those obligations required a whole lot of struggle and doing whatever was necessary with no regard to my physical or mental well-being. If at any time I tried to take pause and do something for myself, I was considered loathsome and…favorite zeitgeist buzzword, toxic. Only when I returned to giving all of myself to others was there any tolerance of my existence.

Now in my fifties, I’m tired. I don’t mean I’m I need a nap tired. I mean it at an existential level.

I refuse to spend my remaining years in doctors offices as they systemically extract every remaining dollar I’ve got while telling me I’m a terrible person for not living a perfectly physical life. I’ll choose the early exit and a nice clean estate to leave to my daughter.

When my time comes, I will go quietly into that cold dark void, and I will do so enthusiastically. I see no value in prolonging the inevitable merely for the benefit of others. Let me have this one small thing

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to funny in Bro is fuckin done

That’s a needle in a haystack search right there. It’s just one of those things I remember seeing on TV from when I was six. I was six quite some time ago.

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to funny in Bro is fuckin done

My favorite tall joke came from a show in the seventies called Make Me Laugh.

It pitted a contestant who would try not to laugh against a comedian.

The contestant was this tall guy.

Comedian: Wow. You’re tall. Is there really a god?

Contestant lost immediately.

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to aboringdystopia in WeWork founder remains a billionaire even with firm’s bankruptcy | The Straits Times

No single word in the English vocabulary grates against me more than when I hear owners of residential property refer to it as “units”.

It’s so dehumanizing. Rather, it’s monetizing humanity.

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to news in Ohio votes to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use, becoming 24th state to do so

I have some high school classmates who grew up in Oregon in the seventies and eighties. As I understand things, weed is a long standing culture in Oregon that was more or less openly tolerated to grow your own back in the day. Present day situation doesn’t surprise me at all.

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to news in Moms for Liberty members call the cops on Florida librarians

These right wing groups have fundamentally altered my perception of the meaning of the word liberty.

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to news in Virginia teacher shot by 6-year-old can proceed with $40 million lawsuit, judge rules

I can’t believe I just saw what I just saw. Then again, I totally can.

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to news in Virginia teacher shot by 6-year-old can proceed with $40 million lawsuit, judge rules

A good six year old with a gun would’ve solved this. /s

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to news in Target CEO says shoppers are pulling back, even on groceries

Unexpected item in bagging area. Please ask for assistance from the one employee overseeing all thirty six self checkout stations.