I remember 90’s era Starbucks and a bunch were still pretty grungy corners of strip malls. But the point was they were still coffeeshops, despite being a chain that went corporate.

Now they’re glorified coffee stands with real estate baggage and little sandwiches. And zero of that ‘third place’ shit they used to dominate the market.

Technically, it is a dual role of Librarian-Cat Tree Getter. There’s an overlap in duties.

I have seen many an occupied barn in rural America.

This kind of situation is usually a medical condition and the land inherited from grandpa. The piece of land and shanty structures on it are all they have. Which is actually a whole lot given the value of land these days.

But for the most part they’ll stubbornly die on the bit of land they grew up on. If they have kids who left, they sell afterwards. If there’s kids that don’t leave, they perpetuate the cycle another generation.

For the people I was referencing it was more racial association with people from South and Central America being predominantly Catholic.

I remember a congregation out where I live, in Yankeestan, had astened a crude structure onto their truckbed and they called it their mobile chapel. They’d drive out to agriculture zones and try to preach to migrants against catholicism.

Man this is like every 1 minute interlude jams or 20 second outtro of every metal band ever.

The outtro to Floods by Pantera, for instance.

The one about the snek bites I remember being rather neat.

Then they signed a deal with the U.S. Navy and they never recovered for me.

Sure. Nothing is really stopping anyone from doing that when judging a content creator. If you’re deep into wondering why he’s got so many defenders and attackers online though: he’s political. People get wrapped up in that.

There’s not a lesser of two evils argument there, so it makes sense it’d be unconvincing.

This is more of a ‘judge him by his enemies’ type thing.

This is barely Sabra hummus.

As far as political streamers with fanbases under 30, he’s one of the few alternatives to the manosphere types and groypers. People can have a kneejerk reaction to defend someone those groups routinely target.

People tend to overdemonize feminists and what feminism stands for. This comic is making fun of that by portraying an absurdist scenario where a perfectly normal feminine practice: getting a training bra, is beset by moon-dwelling feminists who seek to destroy the earth.

Instead of, well, recognizing and demanding equality. The original straw man antifeminists make is to deviate from the idea that feminism is about equality. That’s probably the critical foundation this comic needs to make sense as that’s what it is poking fun at.

The joke is that it’s ‘Straw feminist’ as the title, as in ‘straw man fallacy’. The portrayal of the moon-dwelling earth-destroying feminist is the hyperbolic parody of straw man arguments against feminism.

Progressive Americans have to defeat the mini-boss (DNC) before they can on the main-boss (GOP).

There’s a chance the GOP can crack open for a Progressive popout but the MTGs and such already got there years ago so I wager thats about at 0% odds now.

The harbor/bay at the north of that circle is Aberdeen and Hoquiam. It used to be a larger city and a major port, but with Seattle’s development, the railroads from the east terminating at Puget Sound, and the boom of WW2 making the region a military base, it became overshadowed and neglected for the last 100 years.

Turbox Tax worked hard to get AI some revenue.

If you didn’t do the multi-step downgrade of your service (have to downgrade two or three times to get to the free version) then you might’ve counted. The AI doesn’t do anything, but it starts as a way to justify charging you like $140. It’ll default you paying for it even if its unused.

Just some bots. Any human user that needs to be blocked is going to get themselves banned anyway, so they’re already going to be spinning up new accounts and instances to keep it going.

So you know our creepy uncle who runs a corner store? Has he met a customer for you!

Junji Ito is a gift to us all.

Rented until I got married and we decided it was worth shaving our monthly housing costs down by taking a 30 year mortgage. We locked in our lives and weren’t going to be moving away anytime soon.

And then we refinanced when we’d made enough payments and most of all when fed interests rates were insanely brought to 0%.

Now we’re locked in paying a fraction of what the landlords charge my neighbors. And we are constantly barraged with calls and mail to sell to corpo landlords.