Family Dollar has a drive-thru?!

The children yearn for the broiler.

This is at the westernmost point in Michigan—the mouth of the Montreal River in Ironwood.

What then? Must one pray also for the pagans who died before Christ’s coming, and not anathematize them?

By no means should you anathematize someone who died before the coming of Christ. Even in Hades the preaching of Christ came, one single time. For John the Forerunner, going there beforehand, preached Christ. And hear what St. Peter has to say about Christ: “Going forth,” he says, “he preached even to those in Hades, who were sometime disobedient” (cf. 1 Peter 3:19-20). Now then, it is found in old tradition that there was a scholar who cursed the philosopher Plato exceedingly. So, during his sleep, Plato appeared to him and said, “Man, stop cursing me, you are only harming yourself. That I was a sinful man, I do not deny. But when Christ came down to Hades, there was in fact no one who believed in him before I did.” But when you hear these things, do not assume that there always exists [a possibility for] repentance in Hades; for this happened only once, because Christ had descended to those beneath the earth, so that he might visit those who had fallen asleep from all ages.

— St. Anastasius of Sinai

I've invited him to the chat.

All members of the channel do this.

Something to keep in mind when you see young people complaining about their economic lot.

I'm surprised no one is calling iodized salt goysalt.

The vegans have discovered ChatGPT.

If you're keen on a glimpse into the insanity of the current year, take a look at people complaining about OpenAI getting rid of their "4o" model. Apparently quite a few people "dated" and "married" this version.

Example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/comments/1r4a7ql/they_have_murdered_orion/

On the AI topics one sort of disturbing thing a coworker told me: they use it to generate bedtime stories for their toddler

There wasn't even much consensus among the people of the colonies. Just among the elites. To most people of the colonies, politics wasn't even real. They just wanted to farm, trade, and not be raided by chugs. Whether it was a distant king or to many of them, a congress that was just as practically distant to them, didn't really matter.

One thing I haven't read much here is how mass media has projected more "reality" into politics to the formerly politically apathetic masses. Instead we get revisionism about how everyone was a slave and how that's honorable and literacy was a mistake.

Grandma is pushing fent:

N. WISCONSIN - Following a Jan. 17 traffic stop on U.S. Highway 8 East, three Eagle River residents have been changed on multiple drug charges each. Susan Cody, 74, Barry Clure, 69, and Patrick Menting, 63, face Class C felony drug charges in Oneida County for possession with intent to deliver over 100 grams of fentanyl, allegedly part of a Chicago-to-northern-Wisconsin trafficking ring. The defendants confessed to traveling to Chicago on Jan. 16 to buy fentanyl/heroin. Cody admitted to a decade of Chicago purchases and selling fentanyl to Clure and Menting for 1.5 years. Menting admitted to contributing $320 to the $2,000 purchase and occasionally selling fentanyl, buying about eleven 0.5-gram bags weekly from Cody for a year and a half. Clure claimed the fentanyl found on him was payment for driving. Seized fentanyl from all three totaled over 125 grams. Judge Mary Sowinski set a $500,000 cash bond and no-contact orders for all three. Initial appearances are scheduled for some time this month.