@mik said in I'm getting trolled. Via groceries.:

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This may or may not have been forwarded.

@george-k said in Who killed Ashli Babbitt?:

I keep asking, what is the policy for use of deadly force by the Capitol Police? No one seems to have an answer.

“An officer may use deadly force only when the officer reasonably believes that action is in the defense of human life, including the officer's own life, or in the defense of any person in immediate danger of serious physical injury.”

The main message of Vonnegut's short story "Harrison Bergeron" concerns the importance of balancing equality with freedom and individualism. The story demonstrates how equality is not to be confused with "sameness" and warns of the disastrous effects of suppressing individuality.

Maybe it's time to reread Vonnegut, all of it. He saw everything.

Several doses of Vonnegut might make a nice replacement for crt

@aqua-letifer said in Today’s Venn Diagram:

@lufins-dad said in Today’s Venn Diagram:

@aqua-letifer Asians with advanced degrees?

Circle them wagons! 😄

Shut up

I got mine. Stopped taking the methotrexate a couple weeks beforehand. Now looking to see where I can get the spike protein antibody test.

@mik Elon Musks Starlink program might be a vehicle for this. I think SpaceX has put more than 600 satellites into low earth orbit.

@lufins-dad said in Busy beaver:

I thought this was going to be another thread about @Aqua-Letifer s sister

And I thought (well, hoped) this was going to be a thread about computability.

@catseye3 said in Your Race Insanity of the Day:

@horace said in Your Race Insanity of the Day:

I think you mean, depending on what the story teller looks like.

No, I totally do NOT mean that.

One assumes everybody is listening when telling such a story in the workplace. At that point, the only safety is in what one looks like.

@larry said in Richest Woman in the World:

What a shame. She could have fed every hungry child in America for the next ten years with that money, but instead she chose to give it to wealthy arts organizations so they could all hobnob together at social events and tip their champagne glasses to her and talk about the "little people" that will benefit from next week's gallery of queer art.

lol. Yep, pretty much. Ms Scott is in the business of becoming a pop culture darling. I wonder if she was invited to Obama's birthday party?

@loki said in Actually, he's right.:

The minister said God did not ask him to climb the ladder.

DaFuq???

512 years old now - born in 1509

Leonardo da Vinci was middle-aged

@george-k said in Nicole Gee - "I love my job.":

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Note...The sailor is a navy corpsman attached to the Marines. My wife's first cousin was an Army combat medic in 'Nam. Two purple hearts and a bronze star. He always said a corpsman serving with a Marine line unit may be one of the bravest or craziest people on the planet.

My favorite story along those lines was about a couple who had been engaged in a drinking and crystal meth-fueled sex session. The spread-eagled gal passed out on the bed after the last round. The guy went back to the kitchen, took another hit and spied a tube of super glue in the kitchen window sill.

At the time, it seemed like a wonderful idea to be bonded to this woman forever. Superglue in hand, he heads back to the bedroom, where he drizzles it over her lady parts before driving home his point about forever love.

For those who don't know, superglue on vaginal mucosa is a bit uncomfortable. More like, burns like hell. Well, as any woman would do when awakened from slumber by intense pain in her nether regions, she brought her legs together, gluing her labia shut.

She got lucky, in that they were able to get things apart in the ED and not in the OR. The GYN consult still had to borrow a gallon of acetone from me after he ran out..😁 It took him a couple of hours to get things apart, with a nurse manning the squirt bottle.

Really would have been a mess, if she hadn't woken up screaming...I'm not sure how they would have gotten them on a gurney, much less separated...

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@lufins-dad said in With the exception of the baby...:

@george-k said in With the exception of the baby...:

@lufins-dad said in With the exception of the baby...:

have their employers contacted and threatened.

What???

Not like "we're going to slash your tires" more like "I wonder what would happen if we posted on your Facebook review page that you employee racists..."

Just sayin': I can attest to all of this. I lived in Loudoun County, and because of that my email was found by a handful of groups and now I'm on their newsletters—both pro- and anti-CRT. I haven't unsubbed because the shit that's going on is like my own private epistolary novel. Modern 1984, except it's Woke Karen turning the screws instead of Big Brother. It'd be entertaining if it weren't so insane. I keep reading just to know exactly how bad things can get elsewhere.

So very many things to digest…

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/taliban-afghanistan

The Taliban, which has between fifty-eight thousand and one hundred thousand full-time fighters, is stronger now than at any point in the last twenty years.

https://www.newsweek.com/which-countries-taking-afghan-refugees-which-arent-1623182

There are already 2.6 million Afghans refugees in the world—a figure that's sure to rise significantly as the U.S. and other allies race to complete an evacuation of the country by the looming August 31 deadline.

58,000 - 100,000 Taliban

2,600,000 Refugees

pretty good leverage

Yes, when he said he was instructed, I think it got everyone's attention.