“Residents within a one-kilometer radius of these terrorist companies across all countries in the region are also urged to evacuate and move to safe locations.”
Americans: “The fuck is a ‘kilometer’?”
Also Americans: “The fuck is a ‘radius’?”
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Two come to mind, I’ll drop the heavy one first so if it bums you out, read the fun one next:
Married - Jack Gilbert - from the collection “Great Fires”
I came back from the funeral and crawled
around the apartment crying hard,
searching for my wife’s hair.
For two months got them from the drain,
the vacuum cleaner, under the refrigerator
and off the clothes in the closet.
But after other Japanese women came
there was no way to be sure which were
hers and I stopped. A year later,
repotting Michiko’s avocado, I find
this long black hair tangled in the dirt.
The Country - Billy Collins - from the collection “Nine Horses”
I wondered about you when you told me never to leave a box of wooden, strike-anywhere matches lying around the house because the mice
might get into them and start a fire. But your face was absolutely straight when you twisted the lid down on the round tin where the matches, you said, are always stowed.
Who could sleep that night? Who could whisk away the thought of the one unlikely mouse padding along a cold water pipe
behind the floral wallpaper gripping a single wooden match between the needles of his teeth? Who could not see him rounding a corner,
the blue tip scratching against a rough-hewn beam, the sudden flare, and the creature for one bright, shining moment suddenly thrust ahead of his time—
now a fire-starter, now a torchbearer in a forgotten ritual, little brown druid illuminating some ancient night. Who could fail to notice,
lit up in the blazing insulation, the tiny looks of wonderment on the faces of his fellow mice, onetime inhabitants of what once was your house in the country?
Simpsons did a variation with Mr. Burns…
“Zero-Zero-Zero Zero-Zero Zero-Zero-Zero-TWO!
DAMN YOU, ROOSEVELT!”
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Normal post surgical stuff after, you know, getting gutted like a fish. 😉 Stage 2 colon cancer surgery.
Happens all the time… Back in the day if you had a chip with a failed math co-processor, you just sold it as a cheaper version without it. That kind of thing.
Sycophantic, but also “lawsuit avoidant”.
I was released from the hospital following surgery last month and I had a bleeding “event”. I use the word “event” because it sounds more festive.
Shortly after that, I went to the bathroom, the bleeding seemed to have stopped.
Just for fun, I thought I’d ask ChatGPT what it thought, telling it the nature of the surgery, the bleeding event, the non-bleeding event, and asking it “So… best of three?”
And it went HARD on “this is not a best of three scenario! Call 9-1-1! Do it now! You could pass out! Call 9-1-1!”
I did not call 9-1-1. The bleeding did not resume, I’m fine.
Aliens: Total Conversion - 1994:
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I loved the book and found the film worth it, but it’s clearly streamlined from the book.
For example, mild spoiler for the very start of the film:
When Grace wakes up in space, the computer tries to establish his cognition by asking him 2+2.
In the book, this period of testing isn’t limited to 2+2 and goes on A LOT longer than what the film does.
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Opening a discussion with other mods and Admins as to how we want to handle this.
I live in protest central, I know a useless protest when I see it.
Here’s the #1 problem with No Kings:
Trump doesn’t CARE. You can’t shame the shameless. The only thing that will cause him to take notice is if something impacts him PERSONALLY.
Get 8 million people in DC and shut it down for a month? That would have an impact.
A million people trapping him inside Mar-A-Lago? That would have an impact.
As it stands now? Every protest in a blue city or a blue state? Dismissed with a subtle jerking off motion, or in Trump’s case? Not so subtle. Nothing about him is subtle. LOL.
BUT - BUT - if No Kings moves to impact the upcoming Senate races to a point where people up-set the apple cart in the same way they are going to do the House? That is going to NEUTER him and he knows it.
The big thing is, this can’t be a “throw the bastards out” movement, it needs to be about how, specifically, Republican candidates, policy, and ideology are all toxic to us, as a country and as individual people. They went from “the party holding us back” to “the party actively harming us.”
Yeah, and No Kings is not that. Not in numbers or dedication.
That’s the thing, without further organization and action the net result was “Well that was fun!”
That’s fantastic they were doing a food drive and voter registration! Let’s hope they organize “turn out the vote” events leading up to the elections.
6 months to organize. A lot of people have to work on Saturdays.
It will be interesting to see if the general strike on 5/1 has any impact, that’s on a Friday.
There was a huge kerfluffle at NeurIPS last year involving statements about China, so they were already walking a fine line:
Apologies all around:
https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/neurips-apology-moving-forward/
What proponents don’t get:
Turning out in the streets with no action doesn’t actually “do” anything. Yes, it gives participants warm fuzzies, but that’s about it.
I really hope organizers used the opportunity to do something productive. Register people to vote, collect volunteers for the upcoming primaries and the general election in the fall, push the red states to reject Republican ideology and candidates that are actively injuring all of us.
8,000,000 / the current US population estimate of 342,400,000 is 2.34% of the US out protesting on Saturday. That’s fantastic, but it’s not enough to move the needle.
Where does it need to be?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
Just short of 12 million. We are getting there.
No Kings June, 2025 - 5 million
No Kings October, 2025 - 7 million
No Kings March, 2026 - 8 million
On this track, the next one is on track to be close to 10 million. We are at least 2-3 more protests of this size away from hitting the 3.5% thresh-hold, but it is do-able before the 2028 elections.
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