(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Top Comments: Ch-ch-ch-changes [1] ['Tara The Antisocial Social Worker', 'News Corpse', 'Darrell Lucus', 'Greg Dworkin'] Date: 2026-08-05 When I retired and moved to Washington, I was ready to settle in for a quiet life. The universe has not stopped laughing yet. But first, a word from our sponsor! Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site’s best, funniest, most mojo’d & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! Here’s the new & improved DK6 version of how to submit nominations: If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition, please send it either to topcomments at gmail dot com or send a kosmail to the username topcomments by 9:30pm Eastern. Please please include a few words about why you sent it in as well as your user name (even if you think we know it already :-)), so we can credit you with the find! Some of you know that Packrat and I raised our niece (known online as Kali) from age 14 into her early 20s. She’s grown into an amazing adult, and we’ve missed her a lot since the move. Due to job and other circumstances, Kali has decided to move to Washington. Which means she’ll be living with us until she gets established. It’s a good thing, but it’s also a big change, and probably feels to her like moving backwards since she’s returning to the sorta-parental home. Also, she’ll be adding a cat to the 6 we already have. ON TO TOP COMMENTS! From ZenTrainer: In an after election “did not”, “did so” diary, there is a wonderful comment by irishangle about where 40 million donated to a candidate might have been better spent. From A Pagan in Arizona: From member Kozmo, commenting on Muriel Vieux’s diary about “doing your own research”, a description of an interaction with AI in which AI has no idea what it’s talking about and eventually fesses up about it. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/8/5/800080277/community/top/ Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/