MelodiousFunk

Pretty sure they don't usually do that.

And fuck Jon Schaffer in particular.

I think I can be a pro basketball player.

I'm wrong.

Her opponents:

• Black mayor of a majority-minority lower-income city
• Jewish mayor of a neighboring majority-minority immigrant sanctuary city
• Black/immigrant teacher's union leader
• Jewish legislator running on rightwing talking points
• White lapdog for the mob boss in the southern part of the state who has been deeply embedded in politics for decades

I would have preferred any of the first three listed, but when people call NJ solidly blue, that blue is on a national level, and leans heavily corporatist/"centrist.". "White ex-military mom" is about as centrist as it got here, which unfortunately is what flies on the state level. The dem machine is thoroughly corrupt, and progressives don't get much traction outside of their districts. The solid blue narrative really falls apart once you start getting local. There's a band of blue that roughly follows population density between NY and Philly, with pockets of red where the pockets are deeper. Parts of the NW and SE are basically Alabama.

The current D governor (a milquetoast investment banker) is the first two-term dem since the 70s, and the second term was by a hair (to the current R nominee). He replaced two-term clown turned national clown Chris Christie.

People like to shit on NJ because of Jersey Shore memes and the areas around NYC being mostly concrete, swamp, and/or industrial. Save it. There's plenty of real issues to dunk on. If the shade you're throwing comes from an informed perspective, it's more effective.

On a side note, I was very wrong about my predictions a few weeks ago. I was convinced that either the lapdog or the DINO was going to win... mostly because of campaign advertising. Sherrill completely ignored my area aside from some preliminary feelers early on. But she had the backing of the machine (which I was not aware of), and, well, here we are.

Can't speak for the single, but here's the album:

https://www.discogs.com/release/5137461-Ozzy-Osbourne-Blizzard-Of-Ozz

The only person who really felt my departure was my manager. Nobody else had a fucking clue what I did, aside from call out their bullshit. Most of the crap I worked on either kept working, or there was years of detailed documentation about how much of a dumpster fire it was and how little I was given to fix it. I did become a few people's favorite scapegoat, though. Glad to know they cared.

I read this in Michael McKean's singing voice.

My mom dumped Facebook for being too woke.

I wasn't all that impressed with History of the World Part II. Hoping this fares better.

Maybe it depends on what I want to happen when that load spike comes.

I don't know what they wanted to happen, but at my old place the load spike overloaded the UPS units.

Me: "we really shouldn't be running these at ~~85~~ ~~90~~ 95%."

Brass: "That's not 100. Find room to ingest this company we bought when the CEO made a friend at a circlejerk."

Overnight server update check: blip

UPS: Bypass mode, bitches!

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm near neither of those places, but both birds are regulars in my neighborhood. It's kinda cool. Sure ~~bears~~ beats boring old robins and sparrows.