I should have known better than order from AliExpress, as I've had a $200 package probably stolen. It was delivered to the floor of the lobby in a building that has 300+ apartments, a Friday evening, and I couldn't get home until Monday. There are secure lockers but they were not used. So yeah, no package and AliExpress is like "but it was delivered so it's your problem".

Also, winter is coming here and I hate it, so I'm trying to plan a short trip in the Carribean in a few weeks, and maybe a longer one in January. It's probably going to be St-Martin for now. Hopefully, the planning and the trip itself will help me take my mind off all the recent shitty news.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 27 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

American here. I am numb, and profoundly sad for my country.

ETA, I also learned today that I’m probably going to be putting my dog down in a week or two. That will be the second one this year.

My week could be better.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Hey I'm really sorry to hear about your dog. It must be tough knowing that it's coming.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Thanks, it is. TBH, I’ve known it was coming. We took him to a neurologist today and she was getting red-eyed talking to us. Rough day all around.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 9 points 8 hours ago

unemployed and what I believe to be one of the worse presidents of my lifetime has been re-elected with his party winning control of both houses and a judiciary he stacked in his last time. Oh and he appears to have fallen deep into senility in the last year and his vice president is one of the few that can make him look good in comparison. Lastly his thinktank include rfk junior, musk, and host of other nutters.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Lmao

[–] obscur_e@lemm.ee 1 points 29 minutes ago

Literally

[–] sbf 13 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Quite well. I recently got accepted to one of my top three picks for school!

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 10 points 8 hours ago

Ooohhh sorry, school has been outlawed.

[–] Servais@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 hours ago

Well done!

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 13 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I live in the US south.

[–] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I live in the US.

[–] obscur_e@lemm.ee 1 points 29 minutes ago

I live

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 8 points 8 hours ago

My condolences

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I’m sorry.

-southern escapee

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Congratulations! You don't have to see the guy with a confederate flag skullcap tattoo around town and resist the urge to bash his face

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't see a guy with a face tattoo, but there are definitely Trump supporters and thin blue line people here too even though I'm in a blue urban area. A guy with huge obnoxious Trump flags attached to the back of his wheelchair was on the bus I took today 😬 Not so many people like that around that I feel like I'm back in The Bad Place, but any is more than you want to see, you know?

I'm sorry you're having to be in the eye of the storm and I hope you can stay safe.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It's FAR better to be in the eye of the storm than in the part that has all the winds and rain and stuff.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 hour ago

There's a good explanation from the Light Colonel here.