I’ve been playing a ton of stardew valley lately. I bought it for ever ago and just thought it was meh. But figured let me try it again maybe I just didn’t get into it and I was right because holy heck I’m hooked right now having a ton of fun and loving it. It’s such a cute little game I love it.

Right now I’m at the coffee and pajamas phase so like a 2.

Probably another century of nominating old white guys for president.

I do have those things and wish I could tell you that they do help. Fact is the feeling really doesn’t help or go away. The only thing that helps is not being home alone at night.

Real answer, in college the apartment I was living in was broken into by a neighbor and attacked my roommate. When I heard noise coming from his room I went to go check on him and the attacker turned on me and started to attack me. My injuries were far less severe from my roommate’s. Ever since then I can’t fall asleep unless I check all the doors to make sure they are locked even if I know it’s locked I’ll double check it before laying down for the night. At times when I’m alone in the house I can still get to sleep but it’s a restless sleep because of how uneasy I feel about being alone in a house at night. That shit sucks to never feel fully safe in your own home.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami just a magnificent read, you probably couldn’t go wrong with any of his works.

Hey we’re birthday buddies! Same I was wondering if anyone else was going to post 9/11 in this thread, and here we are.

17th birthday, literally 9/11. I have never before seen such a sad rendition of happy birthday ever or since.

The face I made when I read that title and it was not good.

I’m not voting for Biden, I’m voting against trump.

I just always figured when I went through one of those was someone was looking at my junk, pervs.

Good.

Oh no, so how will I be able to tell a difference?

That joke dives deep.

There in lies problem. With there being no Senate investigation into the allegations we will never actually know the truth of the matter. Truth is Franken was a sacrificial lamb. Dems could claim the moral high road, justice or not, while republicans could continue to try to defend trump after multiple allegations that were of a much more serious degree.

Franken did say, “I would have sworn that I’d never done anything to make anyone feel uncomfortable, but it’s clear that I must have been doing something.” That alone is reason enough not to call them liars. It’s clear that he admits he did something to make these women feel uncomfortable, but he himself at the time didn’t feel like there was any inappropriate actions at the time. Men are often oblivious to things they do that make women feel uncomfortable, trust me I know, been there before.

Now, for why he hasn’t sued them for defamation? The burden is wildly different for public figures vs. private figures in the U.S. The bar for defamation is higher and harder to prove for political figures, to the point it’s almost impossible for politicians to prove, so they don’t even bother with it. Who knows though, with this Supreme Court I guess that’s subject to change now tbh.

Why does he avoid calling them out? IDK, I can’t speak for him or put words in his mouth and I’m not going too either. The cynic in me says he knows he is a high profile political figure that he has gotten on the bad side of dems and republicans and saw him a strong political contender. So strong that if you had ambitions of higher offices he could easily get in your way. But if a convenient opportunity arrived to oust him from office, and get him out of the way so be it, all the better.

I guess people do only what their lawyers tell them to say and not actually go through personal growth; learn that their actions may have negatively affected someone, learn from that experience and grow as a person to become better from what they were before.

Don’t worry, I found it.

From Wikipedia:

“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sent Tweeden’s accusations to the Senate Ethics Committee for review, a decision supported by members of both parties, including Franken.”

“Although Franken had asked to be allowed to appear before the Senate Ethics Committee to give his side of the story, on December 6 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told him he had to announce his resignation by five o’clock or he could be censured and stripped of committee assignments.”

Got to love due process and justice for all.

What was the outcome of the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee’s investigation into Al Franken’s misconduct?