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we need fewer songs about falling in love and breaking up and MORE songs about famous disasters of the sea
being told you’d cruise the seas for american gold you’d fire no guns, shed no tears, now you’re a broken man on a halifax pier might not be a universal experience, but like neither is the club. so a little perspective might be nice
Why settle for either when you can have both?
You know those stories about how someone says "I like pineapple but I just wish it wasn't so spicy."?
And then someone has to tell them it doesn't taste like that to everybody, they've just got an allergy?
I don't know if I found out I had a Pineapple Allergy yesterday.
I'm attending a yoga class at the local YMCA
(I say attending because there some poses I just can't figure out how they're supposed to work [eagle arms], some where the most the instructor will get is enthusiastic wiggling [standing splits], some where I don't even attempt [full monkey], and some where I wouldn't think it was even possible if I hadn't seen it myself and the closest I could get would be laying on my back and wiggling my arms and hands in the air [tortoise])
Here's how class started.
Instructor: "Seated positions, whatever legs feel best for you. Long backs, long necks! Now release all the tension in your ears. Just feel it all drain away."
Internal monologue: "I did not even know ears could feel tension. Mission accomplished?"
Instructor: "Now stretch your ears up. UP! UP! UP! All the way! And release ... lower them all the way down."
Internal monologue: "...wat?"
So could tumblr tell me .. are you supposed to be able to do that with your ears? I know there's a couple parts of my body that are non-standard, and I'm wondering if this is just another one to add to the list.
god, i wish i could have a list of what terry pratchett was reading when he wrote Night Watch. i’ve read this book almost every year for probably 15+ years now, and every year i’m more impressed by the depth of knowledge behind it. of course there’s urban design understanding, but he also concisely laid out a lot of concepts in civ-mil relations, the specific difficulties of fighting in urban environments without defined combatants and noncombatants, anti-escalation conflict management, the tension and symbiosis of idealists and those working within an imperfect system needing practicality, civil society and public service, community policing… just to name a few, and just the ones i’ve dived into myself. i’m not surprised when i see this kind of writing come from like CSIS or USIP or think tanks, and of course all of terry’s writing is very smart and displays good knowledge of the world, but it is remarkable to have it in a fantasy book about a time-traveling policeman in a vague les miserables backdrop, and to have it to the degree i keep recognizing more and more
The only things the Annotated Pratchett File mentions are a lot of those similarities you saw to Les Miserables and a single line joke reference to Hamlet.
This episode was a few years later, but I wonder if one of the writers for it hadn't recently read Night Watch:
Always bear in mind that there is absolutely no legitimate evidence that Luigi was actually the one who killed the insurance company guy.
Of course he wasn't. He was at a party with me that day.
No but like literally, actually. All bits aside.
He didn't do it.
The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.
Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?
From the moment of his arrest, even left-of-center media has been presuming his guilt without examining anything (e.g. calling him "the killer" instead of "alleged" or "accused") and then when I say he didn't do it, the nearest person chimes in with some quip that tells me they think he did do it but should go free anyway. Don't get me wrong, I would have the same attitude if he had done it. But he didn't. It makes me feel like the only sane person in the world, even among my staunchly leftist friends.
The cops might not have clearly planted evidence, but they obviously did an illegal search, and did it so sloppily that there's now way any juror shouldn't have reasonable doubt as to what they say they found.
Cop 1: "All right! We found the guy who shot that insurance executive at the McDonalds."
Cop 2: "We should search his bag ... for a BOMB!"
Cop 1: "Why would he have a bomb instead of a gun?"
Cop 2: "STFU! And don't bother evacuating the McDonalds for this bomb scare."
Cop 2: "Okay, all I found in his bag was a notebook. No bomb. You take him down to the station. I'll be right behind."
Cop 2 turns off bodycam, makes a stop to meet another cop, and passes evidence between them without a clear and impartial record of what they were doing with it.
Cop 3, at the station: "Let's empty out this previously searched bag and inventory everything in it. Okay, still no bomb, but now we found a gun!"
Even if you take the cops at their word, even if you believe they are being 100% completely honest, the fact that they searched a bag for a bomb, determined that no bomb was in it, but missed a gun means that even Barney Fife would tell them they're goddamned morons.
If you were on a jury, wouldn't you want to know how they knew there wasn't a bomb in that backpack but missed the gun?
i've finally read and finished heir to the empire, abt a third through dark force rising now! what am i doing after the og thrawn trilogy though am i meant to attempt to read like. all of everything in legends in order after this or is there a recommended certain set of books to get through? help me legends girlies you're my only hope
A lot of the Legends continuity novels were ... not bad, but not great. They were a cash cow, and milked appropriately.
Timothy Zahn wrote a few more pre-Disney Star Wars novels; I don't remember the Hand of Thrawn pair as being all that great, but I did like Outbound Flight. Death Star was also enjoyable.
You could also try to find some of the Dark Horse comics; a lot of those were really good.
excerpts from erin in the morning's article on the ioc's ban on transgender women and sex testing policy
The fact that they're not testing men says it all.
Wikipedia articles for the two athletes mentioned who committed and attempted suicide. Horrible.
And before you start to think that maybe they learned any bit of a lesson from the previous attempt? That maybe they thought "Okay, that test was fucked up, but so we'll try this new thing instead"? They didn't.
The test they're going to be using in 2026, the SRY gene test, is the exact same test they were using in 1992 and 1996.
They know that what they're doing will not work for their stated purpose, and will only result in people dying. And they're doing it anyway.
Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???
Had a coworker at lunch one day go on a rant about how every - literally every - TV show was not required to have a transgender character.
I asked him which show he was talking about.
"All of them".
Name one. Just one.
"I don't know man, I don't watch TV."
About six months after that he walked up and proudly gave me an answer to that question. "Netflix made Joe Exotic's boyfriend gay in Tiger King."
Okay Jeff, first off - gay and transgender are not the same thing. Secondly, Netflix did not make Joe's boyfriend gay. Him being Joe's boyfriend in real life made him gay.
I'm not sure he ever figured out that Joe is also gay.
And to tie into your racism angle; this is also the same coworker who swears the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery. Even after I showed him the articles of secession for our state where they clearly and explicitly say "We're doing this to protect slavery", his only changed his answer to "I don't know what it was about, but I still know it wasn't slavery."
Stupid orcsess!
What's more unethical
pretending to be gay to dodge the Vietnam Draft
being gay but not admitting it to the draft board and serving in the Vietnam War
Serving in Vietnam, hands down.
There might be a time when it would be unethical to dodge the draft, but it would not have been then and for that war.
What month were you born in?
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Doing a final project in my stats class, we have to pick a subject and collect data on it. We need at least 100 data points, and I figured this blog is big enough that a poll on here could get to that pretty easily!
Doing my project on if it’s more likely to be born in certain months :]
I have gotten the OK from my teacher to collect data using a Tumblr poll, btw. I’m also going to have to send her this post as proof of where I got the data from / proof I didn’t just make up the numbers. So. Behave
I have to imagine (and the results here seem to support the idea) that each month would be just about the same. Maybe people will be stuck indoors and bored more in winter, and so you'll have more people born summer, but I think it'd even out.
It might be more interesting to go all the way down to individual dates.
Or, in my case, potentially horrifying.
I counted backwards from my birthdate once, and figured out that my parents must have seen both physical and metaphorical fireworks on Independence Day.
I really like this guy's business videos
He's got a calm vibe, polar opposite of Jim Cramer, and puts in just enough sarcasm that it doesn't sound like he's just reading a copy of a wikipedia article.
However ... his video review of Wall Street films, specifically the bit about American Psycho, has a pretty big problem.
He says the nail gun scene doesn't make sense because Bateman didn't hook his nail gun up to an air supply (valid complaint), and that battery powered nail guns weren't around them. But was that the only option?
Now, I don't know when the first battery powered nail gun was available for sale. But I do know that Snoop bought her powder actuated one only a few years later at a regular hardware store, so I'm pretty sure someone with Bateman's money could have gotten his hands on a Hilti.
NEGLECTED MURDERESSES SERIES
Angelica Transome — so disposed of her infant brother that he was not found until many years later (Nether Postlude, 1889).
Miss Elspeth Lipsleigh — eventually succeeded in causing the death of Arthur Glumm in Towage Regis, 1892.
Nurse J. Rosebeetle — tilted her employer out of the wheelchair and over the cliff at Sludgemouth in 1898.
Mrs. Fledaway — laced her husband's tea with atropine in the spring of 1903 at Locusts, near Puddingbasin, Mortshire.
Sarah Jane (“Batears”) Olafsen — hacked to collops nineteen loggers between March 1904 and November 1907 in and around Bindweed, Oregon.
Madame Galoche — in May 1911 added a tin of insecticide to a potate purée Crécy aux perles at the soup kitchen she operated for the indigent of Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Belgium.
Miss Emily Toastwater — smothered her father after evening prayers, London S. W. 7 (1916).
Mrs. Daisy Sallow — eviscerated her daughter-in-law with a No. 7 hook afterwards crotcheting, over the course of three evenings her shroud in snowflake pattern (1921).
Natasha Batti-Loupstein — pulverized a paste necklace and sprinkled it over a tray of canapés, Villa Libellule, Nice, 1923.
Lady Violet Natheless — strangeled the hon. Opal Gentian at Gilravage Hall on Midsummer's Eve, 1925.
Lettice Finding — shot Edgar Cutlet, whose mistress she was, during the interval of a touring repertory company production of Rosmersholm in Manchester 1934.
Miss Q. P. Urkheimer — brained her fiancé after failing to pick up an easy spare at Glover's Lane's, Poxville, Kansas, 1936.
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I'm not sure what definition of collops Ms. Olafsen was using; probably 'thin slice of meat served just before Lent' instead of 'the amount of land in Ireland needed to graze one cow'.
But either way, logger #20 must have gotten the message to stop making fun of her ears.
Or maybe she was just a Terry Pratchett fan: "Right, you bastards, you're... you're geography!"
Was he too drunk to notice the irony?
In chapter 18 of Project Hail Mary Grace says he has a temporary office on the aircraft carrier that used to be a storage closet for bathroom supplies. He describes himself as "approximately as critical as toilet paper" and I'm over here like, that's pretty damn important Grace. Toilet paper? The thing everyone went crazy over in 2020? Critical component of western hygiene and plumbing systems? Without which everything literally goes to shit?? Half of my fucking job is refilling toilet paper. Toilet paper basically pays my fucking bills. It's a very apt description of how much Grace undervalues himself.
Never been on an aircraft carrier, but there was about a month of boot camp where our platoon ran out of toilet paper (our best guess was the the drill instructors were just fucking with us; which is a solid guess for anything bad that happens in recruit training).
And let me tell you; toilet paper is important. Guys were trying to make their own by repeatedly scrunching up notebook paper in the (it turns out vain) hopes it wouldn't tear their assholes. Socks were being flushed into plumbing that probably dated to before the war. A couple guys had anticipated this and bought baby wipes on one of the rare trips to the PX, and defended their hoards like Smaug himself.
That was just eighty guys instead of two thousand, and even it things got grim.
The Martian: If all the powers of the world could be focused into a single point, they would do everything in their ability to save a single human person in a terrible situation.
Project Hail Mary: If all the powers of the world could be focused into a single point, they would do everything in their ability to put a single human person into a terrible situation.
Andy Weir would have written the best O'Brien Must Suffer episodes of Deep Space Nine.
The Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases were designed to study viruses that could jump from animals to people, including ha
Purcell was a 2006 Supreme Court ruling that said you can't change election laws or procedures too close to an election; basically that you can't change the rules in the middle of the game, that voters should have a clear idea of what they are voting on and what they have to do to get their votes counted.
It's been replaced by the current court with the rule of "Whatever Daddy Donald wants, and nothing he doesn't."
The Merrill v. Milligan stay was issued in February, four months before the primary election, and the Alabama legislature had drawn the map in question in less than a week. Mail in ballots had not only been sent out in the Louisiana case, but some had already been returned. And Louisiana has since cancelled the election.
"If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy." - and that's a quote from the George Bush speechwriter who came up with the 'Axis of Evil' line.
