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skeletonsiro

in our copy of hana-bi the subtitles never leave the screen until something else is said

hickeywiththegoodhair

dude’s fucking TORN about whether or not to buy a beret

ralfmaximus

Drug arrives years after pandemic’s peak, but could still offer protection to vulnerable populations.

An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus at home, according to trial results published today in the New England Journal of Medicine1. The drug could be a lifeline for those who still face real danger from the virus, such as care-home residents or transplant recipients on immune-suppressing medication.

There are good things happening in the world.

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prismatic-bell

Look, this is something I'm extremely passionate about, so indulge me for a minute and let me tell you how this should have been done.

The RIGHT way to do this would have been to have a month-long event that went to twelve different cities, with Philadelphia hosting during July because that was our capital (insofar as we had one) in 1776; the other eleven stops could have their own significant-in-the-Revolution days (for example: Washington crossing the Delaware on 25 December, the start of the First Continental Congress on 5 September), and you could get commemorative items from your stop's specific event.

All fifty states AND FIVE TERRITORIES should have been invited to attend, not charged for it. And we should have done it Colombian Expo style: respected thinkers and educators speaking, concerts, "come look at our wild new inventions," and cultural events. If I was in the Oval Office my first thought for this would be to contact ethnic leaders to see who wanted to tell their story. Tribal leaders. Civil rights leaders. Local arts groups. Let us celebrate your food, your art, your dance, your place among our people; and let us also recognize that the flip side of the coin of amazing inventors and economic prosperity on a global scale has been devastation and exploitation. You can't tell the story without both. It's not fair to leave out things we've done for good (Mark Twain! Jonas Salk! Airplanes! Comic books! Musicals!), but it's equally unfair to leave out the lives we've taken and futures we've destroyed. We can't do better if we don't look at these things and say "no. Not again. Not on our watch."

The state fair format is extremely American; I think that was a good choice, I'll give credit for that where it's due. But "that was a good idea" is as far as it goes. Because this doesn't look like a state fair. It looks like a church revival on the third day when all the tents are out of food and everyone is hot and tired and wants less Jesus and more air conditioning.

It could have been so good. My only hope is that we have a Democratic president in 2037, and that they take the opportunity for a Constitutional Celebration Year (it'll be the 250th for the Constitution that year, and ours is the oldest constitution in continuous use in the world), and do it right.

engineerlady

That would be a very cool format! I would suggest that, instead of all 12 locations being significant to the revolution, they be aignificant to US in general. (montgomery alabama, for wxample).

That would allow for a greater location spread. More expensive to move, but would allow people across the country an easier/less expensive travel to get there.

prismatic-bell

No, no, I mean every location would have a significant date they could build their experience around. It wouldn't be "well, sorry, Seattle, but you're getting June, not July, so no big holiday for you." It'd be "hey Seattle, you're in June! That's Washington taking the army and the Battle of Breed's Bunker Hill!" Then Seattle could choose to, say...have an image of Washington inspecting his troops as their "and on our commemorative STUFF we have...." image.

Otherwise everything would be in Boston, New York, and Philly. That ain't gonna work. The Big Day should be in Philly, tho.

penig

As someone who remembers 1976, the Bicentennial, this is all very pathetic.

In 1976, the Bicentennial was everywhere. There was merch. You could decorate your home with it. In the city where I lived, the Girl Scouts were asked by the city to go around painting all the fire hydrants red, white, and blue. American history was the hot topic in publishing and people were buying history books and even talking about them. One of the TV stations used commercial breaks to air "Bicentennial Minutes," 60-second spots in which actors from current shows (I specifically remember Loretta Swit from MASH and Nancy Walker from Rhoda) told us little snippets of social history, like the state of garbage collection in the Colonies, with appropriate visuals like political cartoons and paintings from the time period. High school proms had Bicentennial themes. You never saw so many people put flags out. Every town worked hard on their firework displays and some had more than one.

Yeah, we all knew it was overblown and a bit tacky but also people were into it. The energy rose for months to the climax and lingered into the next school year -- I remember all my pocket folders for that year were glossy prints of classic patriotic paintings, The Spirit of '76 and The Declaration of Independence and so on.

For the 250th, nobody cares. Because it doesn't feel like we're living in the United States of America, where freedom was for everyone and our freedoms were expanding every day and history was a vital living force.

You can't celebrate history without teaching it.

You can't expect people to celebrate freedom when we're losing it.

kereeachan

Also b/c orgs that had put nearly a decade of planning towards it were hijacked by Trump's Freedom250 group (named to confuse people that they were still America250, the real bipartisan group, like with the arists who all backed out from performing on the Mall once they realized the difference) within the last year and essentially told "give us your funding and go pound sand." And then tried to throw together their own MAGA celebration and make money off it and it was SUPER obvious.

People were protesting stuff during the bicentennial too! DC had a Potomac Tea Party to protest only having a non-voting representative on Congress. The American Indian movement held multiple large protests! People mocked the commercialization by calling it the "Buy-cenetennial"! But the main planned events still occurred so that's what people mostly remember!

My guess is this year people are mostly going to remember the states' various celebrations because the federal one has been SO screwed by grifting and mismanagement. They have somehow made it so there is almost NO ONE on the national mall during PEAK TOURIST SEASON. You have to use specified entry points, there's armed national guards everywhere, and the electricity powering things like the ferris wheel and food booths has broken down multiple times already.

How The Battle Over America 250 Turned The National Mall Into A Ghost Town State Fair - The National Mall in Washington, D.C. should be buzz

Freedom 250 is calling crowd critics "Negative Nancy skeptics" as DC News Now reported sparse attendance at the Great American State Fair.Pr

The Great American State Fair has failed to impress the president’s own voter base.

captainlordauditor

Why do we call it a yeshiva when we could be calling it debate midrash

shamebats

Why teenagers are the best.

Posted by @ missfiction (she/her).

tvguts

something about Toy Story toys is so strange to me. versions of animated characters based on real world toys, turned back into toys that are slightly different than the actual toys. slinky dog with a rubber spiral instead of a classic metal slinky. the porcelain bo peep and cloth woody turned into jointed plastic action figures. when toy story 4 came out and i saw a $30 talking action figure of forky, a character made out of a spork and a pipe cleaner, i stood in the walmart toy aisle staring at it like cameron from ferris bueller's day off staring at that painting in the art museum

egberts

i made a video game music/homestuck music inspired track that i think is super solid all on its own without lyrics or anything but i also need to make money to live and survive so i put it on bandcamp instead of soundcloud and spotify for now. if you like the song and have a few dollars to throw at a struggling artist then i would be incredibly grateful! if you like the song and just want to reblog or only listen to it then that is cool too, i'm just shooting my shot here, because i've heard you miss 100% of the ones you don't take

chaumas-deactivated20240115

as a very young child I was a big fan of Madeline and I definitely remember thinking Pepito was cool and that I wanted to dress like Pepito but I just looked him up and I’m fucking crying

intactics

"rickrolling is mean" rickrolling is the gentle, kind, prosocial descendant of what we used to do on the internet, which was putting a redirect to goatse in every possible misspelling of a url

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I made the mistake of looking at this while taking an order over the headset at work and started laughing really hard and had to gather myself for a second and my coworkers kept trying to look at my phone to see what I was laughing at

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nearly ran a redlight thinking about >penis ripped off by penis gnomes on my way home from work