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NobodysHome's Animal Adventures:
I'm beginning to feel bad about watering the lawn.
Not because of water use (still under 200 gallons a day for the 4 of us), but because of the poor skunks.
For the second time in 10 days, a skunk was on the lawn when the sprinklers turned on.
How can I tell? Oh, I don't nose...
I like having local wildlife like deer, raccoons, and skunks. I'll even tolerate the hideous local opossums. So hitting a skunk with the sprinklers hard enough to make it spray makes me sad...
EDIT: And if you're going to be in the sprinklers, you obviously don't want to get your clothes wet.
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After thinking about it, I realized that my post may be political. Hopefully it isn’t controversial - I stand by the fact that Nazism is horrible murder culture, and the USSR engaged in terrible atrocities in gross violation of human rights and dignity as a simple matter of history - but I do recognize the political nature of such statements. I thus flagged my own post as in need of spoiler tags, as I am unable to edit it right now (my phone currently brings up a strange looking version that has no editable field and no way to ineteract with the text, and I cannot use my desktop as my internet seems down at present). I tried at 39 minutes, 40 minutes, and 42 minutes for the record. I recognize that this post may be deleted for hosting political opinions and that’s okay. I’m mostly making this to inform moderators.
How can I tell? Oh, I don't nose...
Heh.
EDIT: And if you're going to be in the sprinklers, you obviously don't want to get your clothes wet.
I used to play in the sprinklers all the time! Clothed! Dang it!
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I dub thee PuzzleCasual Friday!
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Holy shit guys!
We are caught up on all 3 utilities!
Not just "paid enough to not have them shut off" - actually a zero balance!
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I want a descented pet skunk. They're taxinomically close to ferrets, so they have to be fun!
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I knew a girl with a skunk, it was super smart, well behaved and adorable!
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NobodysHome's Tirade of the Morning:
** spoiler omitted **
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“Nazis: they are the worst, no for real”
- all people everywhere who’ve had legit things ruined since Nazism was invented
people have been warning the general public about Proud Boys and the like for years upon years. Noone took them seriously. Maybe now they will.
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I saw a meme yesterday that said:
"If you could press a button and make an obscene amount of money, but it slowly killed someone you didn't know, you would have our economy."
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Gods, I think it's squirrel mating season. I know that it's squirrel gathering season. But they are SO full of it right now it's scary.
One was on our deck yesterday trying to menace the Fluffernutter.
If she weren't so clueless it would've been a dead squirrel. As it was, she didn't notice it. Because Fluffernutter.
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I saw a meme yesterday that said:
"If you could press a button and make an obscene amount of money, but it slowly killed someone you didn't know, you would have our economy."
GothBard and I were having a similar discussion just last week. If you wanted to summarize the problem with humanity, a very quick take would be almost identical to that: If you offered someone $1 billion, but someone, somewhere in the world that they didn't know would quickly and painlessly die, almost everyone these days would self-justify and take the deal.
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Gods, I think it's squirrel mating season. I know that it's squirrel gathering season. But they are SO full of it right now it's scary.
One was on our deck yesterday trying to menace the Fluffernutter.
If she weren't so clueless it would've been a dead squirrel. As it was, she didn't notice it. Because Fluffernutter.
I think the guy who created Ch'p, one of my favorite Green Lanterns(who happens to be an anthropomorphic squirrel) did so because he had a lot of squirrels in his area growing up, and witnessed the horrors of squirrel mating season first hand.
In the comics, Ch'p's planet needs a Green Lantern because a new World War breaks out every time hibernation season ends.
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We're supposed to get a lot of rain, but instead it went south.
Take that Illinois!!
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We're supposed to get a lot of rain, but instead it went south.
Take that Illinois!!
Lightning strike near my house. Aiymi says there's no power at home. Thanks, Cosmo.
Irritating: my desktop doesn’t connect to my functional internet, and my iPad mysteriously just became unresponsive. Rather frustrating.
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Irritating: my desktop doesn’t connect to my functional internet, and my iPad mysteriously just became unresponsive. Rather frustrating.
Usually the quickest and easiest way to fix these problems is to log off and log back on...
Oh...wait...
No.
Usually the quickest and easiest way to fix these problems is with the liberal application of open flames and accelerants.
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Since we're talking tech issues and I need to vent, as I mentioned, my installation of a dual-boot Windows/Ubuntu system did not go well; in particular since Ubuntu could not run any games nor recognize my 7 TB RAID drive, it wasn't going to be useful as a gaming system.
So, I want to reclaim the space.
"Easy! Just create a Windows repair disc and repair the boot sector!"
Except... Windows errors out on trying to create a repair disk, it's been a known issue since Windows NT, and they have no solution.
A separate Google search says, "Delete C:\Recovery, run recdisk.exe from an administrator command line and it should run just fine."
I'll try it tonight, but considering how stupid this has been so far, I'm not hopeful...
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Gods, I think it's squirrel mating season. I know that it's squirrel gathering season. But they are SO full of it right now it's scary.
One was on our deck yesterday trying to menace the Fluffernutter.
If she weren't so clueless it would've been a dead squirrel. As it was, she didn't notice it. Because Fluffernutter.
My smart cat, Mieko, has a bed next to our glass side door. Sometimes it doesn't get completely closed and it allows bugs to come in. She enjoys this, because it gives her things to slowly torment.
Except yesterday she watched a fairly large cricket make its way in, and it jumped into her bed. She looked at it, and made room for the cricket to have space.
I watched this, and she just shared space in her bed with a random cricket for a couple hours. Once she left, I threw the cricket back outside.
No clue what kind of blackmail material that cricket has on Mieko to keep her from ripping its legs off.
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Lightning strike near my house. Aiymi says there's no power at home. Thanks, Cosmo.We're supposed to get a lot of rain, but instead it went south.
Take that Illinois!!
Well, I appreciate you guys taking one for the team, it's kind of nice getting overtime after only getting 25 hours a week the last couple of weeks.
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Gods, I think it's squirrel mating season. I know that it's squirrel gathering season. But they are SO full of it right now it's scary.
One was on our deck yesterday trying to menace the Fluffernutter.
If she weren't so clueless it would've been a dead squirrel. As it was, she didn't notice it. Because Fluffernutter.
My smart cat, Mieko, has a bed next to our glass side door. Sometimes it doesn't get completely closed and it allows bugs to come in. She enjoys this, because it gives her things to slowly torment.
Except yesterday she watched a fairly large cricket make its way in, and it jumped into her bed. She looked at it, and made room for the cricket to have space.
I watched this, and she just shared space in her bed with a random cricket for a couple hours. Once she left, I threw the cricket back outside.
No clue what kind of blackmail material that cricket has on Mieko to keep her from ripping its legs off.
now I just see you thundering as you throw the cricket out 'NO CAT OF MINE WILL BE SULLIED WITH SUCH FILTH' while the cat weeps silently "But daddy, I love him!"
Irritating: my desktop doesn’t connect to my functional internet, and my iPad mysteriously just became unresponsive. Rather frustrating.Usually the quickest and easiest way to fix these problems is to log off and log back on...
Oh...wait...
No.
Usually the quickest and easiest way to fix these problems is with the liberal application of open flames and accelerants.
I’ll let you know how it goes when I turn my computer back on again for the second time (as I’d turned it off and back on again once already - standard response procedure, you know).
I’d turn my iPad off and back on again, but, you know, entirely unresponsive (button presses or long holds, plug/unplug, etc. - nothing). Haaaaaaaaate it. It is a surprisingly effective way to reduce me from rational human being to quivering mass of sputtering and impotent rage directed at an inanimate object that literally has no choice in the matter. My grasp on sanity is apparently more tenuous than I thought.
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That symbol can be simplified into a much more powerful one. Just use the middle finger on one or both (for double barrel action) hands. Seriously, though. I don't recognize anyone's authority to redefine symbols that they did not create. I simply tell such people to go f!&! off.Ah, well. Looks like I'm going to get arrested soon. The OK sign that I've been using for nearly 50 years is now a hate symbol.
I'll be a hateful old man. Livin' the dream!
That's actually the insidious part about it. They don't HAVE to redefine it for you, because you're not the one they're signaling to, you re the one they're signaling PAST.
To those "in the know", co-opting an extant gesture, symbol, or word is a two for one, because it means they don't have to make up something completely new, and because the general population either won't know the new meaning (and the bigots can stay underground with it and use it seemingly innocently to signal each other while having plausible deniability), or the geberal population will react as you did and try to declare the new meaning irrelevant, which the bigots don't care about and makes their cause look bigger than it really is.
As the article mentions, this is common MO for such groups, they've done things like this for years. It's why other common gestures and phrases are now associated with extremist groups or mindsets.
The question then becomes, are you willing to risk being mistaken for being part of such groups and mindsets now that this use of the gesture is openly known to be associated with them, just to hang onto its original meaning or intent? I'm not sure it's worth it.
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Irritating: my desktop doesn’t connect to my functional internet, and my iPad mysteriously just became unresponsive. Rather frustrating.Usually the quickest and easiest way to fix these problems is to log off and log back on...
Oh...wait...
No.
Usually the quickest and easiest way to fix these problems is with the liberal application of open flames and accelerants.
I’ll let you know how it goes when I turn my computer back on again for the second time (as I’d turned it off and back on again once already - standard response procedure, you know).
I’d turn my iPad off and back on again, but, you know, entirely unresponsive (button presses or long holds, plug/unplug, etc. - nothing). Haaaaaaaaate it. It is a surprisingly effective way to reduce me from rational human being to quivering mass of sputtering and impotent rage directed at an inanimate object that literally has no choice in the matter. My grasp on sanity is apparently more tenuous than I thought.
If that iPad is still under warranty, take it to an Apple store. If it's not, put it under a table leg to stop the wobble.
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Hand Symbolism Discussion
Unfortunately, I have to agree with Orthos on this one.
Not that agreeing with Orthos is unfortunate as a general rule. Just that the point that he makes on this issue is an unfortunate truth.
At least the gangs in the 80's and 90's were more creative with their hand gestures.
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If that iPad is still under warranty, take it to an Apple store. If it's not, put it under a table leg to stop the wobble.Irritating: my desktop doesn’t connect to my functional internet, and my iPad mysteriously just became unresponsive. Rather frustrating.Usually the quickest and easiest way to fix these problems is to log off and log back on...
Oh...wait...
No.
Usually the quickest and easiest way to fix these problems is with the liberal application of open flames and accelerants.
I’ll let you know how it goes when I turn my computer back on again for the second time (as I’d turned it off and back on again once already - standard response procedure, you know).
I’d turn my iPad off and back on again, but, you know, entirely unresponsive (button presses or long holds, plug/unplug, etc. - nothing). Haaaaaaaaate it. It is a surprisingly effective way to reduce me from rational human being to quivering mass of sputtering and impotent rage directed at an inanimate object that literally has no choice in the matter. My grasp on sanity is apparently more tenuous than I thought.
Ok...real advice on the iPad...
Let the battery completely die. Charge it back up, and then try turning it back on.
If that iPad is still under warranty, take it to an Apple store. If it's not, put it under a table leg to stop the wobble.Irritating: my desktop doesn’t connect to my functional internet, and my iPad mysteriously just became unresponsive. Rather frustrating.Usually the quickest and easiest way to fix these problems is to log off and log back on...
Oh...wait...
No.
Usually the quickest and easiest way to fix these problems is with the liberal application of open flames and accelerants.
I’ll let you know how it goes when I turn my computer back on again for the second time (as I’d turned it off and back on again once already - standard response procedure, you know).
I’d turn my iPad off and back on again, but, you know, entirely unresponsive (button presses or long holds, plug/unplug, etc. - nothing). Haaaaaaaaate it. It is a surprisingly effective way to reduce me from rational human being to quivering mass of sputtering and impotent rage directed at an inanimate object that literally has no choice in the matter. My grasp on sanity is apparently more tenuous than I thought.
Ok...real advice on the iPad...
Let the battery completely die. Charge it back up, and then try turning it back on.
I will definitely try that. Just as soon as I can figure out what the iPad battery is actually at!
That is not to say that I have to know what the battery is at in order to allow it to completely run out/die, as the easiest part of that is just to do nothing. The “joke “ In my post, was built around the idea that I have no actual idea what the battery is, and thus I won’t actually know when it has run out. But! It is still good advice. Thanks!
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I will definitely try that. Just as soon as I can figure out what the iPad battery is actually at!If that iPad is still under warranty, take it to an Apple store. If it's not, put it under a table leg to stop the wobble.Irritating: my desktop doesn’t connect to my functional internet, and my iPad mysteriously just became unresponsive. Rather frustrating.Usually the quickest and easiest way to fix these problems is to log off and log back on...
Oh...wait...
No.
Usually the quickest and easiest way to fix these problems is with the liberal application of open flames and accelerants.
I’ll let you know how it goes when I turn my computer back on again for the second time (as I’d turned it off and back on again once already - standard response procedure, you know).
I’d turn my iPad off and back on again, but, you know, entirely unresponsive (button presses or long holds, plug/unplug, etc. - nothing). Haaaaaaaaate it. It is a surprisingly effective way to reduce me from rational human being to quivering mass of sputtering and impotent rage directed at an inanimate object that literally has no choice in the matter. My grasp on sanity is apparently more tenuous than I thought.
Ok...real advice on the iPad...
Let the battery completely die. Charge it back up, and then try turning it back on.
My response then is what do you mean by "unresponsive". On, but nothing works, including physical buttons, or doesn't appear to be on and won't turn on?
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That symbol can be simplified into a much more powerful one. Just use the middle finger on one or both (for double barrel action) hands. Seriously, though. I don't recognize anyone's authority to redefine symbols that they did not create. I simply tell such people to go f!&! off.Ah, well. Looks like I'm going to get arrested soon. The OK sign that I've been using for nearly 50 years is now a hate symbol.
I'll be a hateful old man. Livin' the dream!
That's actually the insidious part about it. They don't HAVE to redefine it for you, because you're not the one they're signaling to, you re the one they're signaling PAST.
To those "in the know", co-opting an extant gesture, symbol, or word is a two for one, because it means they don't have to make up something completely new, and because the general population either won't know the new meaning (and the bigots can stay underground with it and use it seemingly innocently to signal each other while having plausible deniability), or the geberal population will react as you did and try to declare the new meaning irrelevant, which the bigots don't care about and makes their cause look bigger than it really is.
As the article mentions, this is common MO for such groups, they've done things like this for years. It's why other common gestures and phrases are now associated with extremist groups or mindsets.
The question then becomes, are you willing to risk being mistaken for being part of such groups and mindsets now that this use of the gesture is openly known to be associated with them, just to hang onto its original meaning or intent? I'm not sure it's worth it.
I've got a problem with this one right now. I know I've bored everyone here before blathering on about my love for the Solidarnosc movement when I was a kid, and in recent months, I was excited to discover a surge in products (shirts, badges, mugs, etc.) available for sale with the emblem.
A weird feeling about it made me question why, and I read online that (and only Drejk would know the truth of any of this) Solidarnosc has been coopted by the religious right in Poland for some ridiculous political f**kery that, as an outsider, I don't really understand, but am pretty sure I don't like. So I bought nothing.
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** spoiler omitted **NobodysHome's Tirade of the Morning:
** spoiler omitted **
My absolute *favorite*, which I see once or twice a year, is when a train gate comes down, the lights start flashing, the bells start ringing, the car at the front of the line stops...
...and the car behind them (inevitably an SUV) swerves around them and the gate to cross the tracks.And I'm serious. I see it more than once a year here at the same train crossing (the Gilman Street crossing, so lisamarlene can confirm).
My response then is what do you mean by "unresponsive". On, but nothing works, including physical buttons, or doesn't appear to be on and won't turn on?I will definitely try that. Just as soon as I can figure out what the iPad battery is actually at!If that iPad is still under warranty, take it to an Apple store. If it's not, put it under a table leg to stop the wobble.Irritating: my desktop doesn’t connect to my functional internet, and my iPad mysteriously just became unresponsive. Rather frustrating.Usually the quickest and easiest way to fix these problems is to log off and log back on...
Oh...wait...
No.
Usually the quickest and easiest way to fix these problems is with the liberal application of open flames and accelerants.
I’ll let you know how it goes when I turn my computer back on again for the second time (as I’d turned it off and back on again once already - standard response procedure, you know).
I’d turn my iPad off and back on again, but, you know, entirely unresponsive (button presses or long holds, plug/unplug, etc. - nothing). Haaaaaaaaate it. It is a surprisingly effective way to reduce me from rational human being to quivering mass of sputtering and impotent rage directed at an inanimate object that literally has no choice in the matter. My grasp on sanity is apparently more tenuous than I thought.
Ok...real advice on the iPad...
Let the battery completely die. Charge it back up, and then try turning it back on.
Both. Plugging it in does literally nothing - black screen. No sign of response. Buttons do nothing - black dead screen, no response. Like the battery died, but no response to a power cord. It had >50% power and was perfectly responsive. I closed its case, drove home, opened it back up, and nothing since.
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Ok, take that to the Apple store...at least find out if there's anything to be done and what it would cost you.
Ok, take that to the Apple store...at least find out if there's anything to be done and what it would cost you.
That’s my “backup” plan if “really inexpensive” options (i.e. “do nothing but see what happens”) doesn’t work out.
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Nothing about our current reality disturbs and frustrates me more than the fact that this statement is considered no longer universally accepted.“Nazis: they are the worst, no for real”
- all people everywhere who’ve had legit things ruined since Nazism was invented
Or, my favorite: "You're just calling everyone you disagree with a Nazi."
And for the people who think I'm calling out a specific party over this and have hurt feelings, well maybe that party should go, find a safe space, take a deep, introspective look as to why literal Nazis feel so welcome within their ranks, and clean house.
I am sick to death of helplessly watching history repeat.
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I am so tired of Homecoming.
I am so tired of listening to the kids explain why TPing is such an important Homecoming tradition .
I am so tired of trying to guess which anonymous brat went and vandalized another class's float.
I am so tired of the kids in my class playing the victim when I tell them to stop throwing candy at cars or hard enough to hurt people. I wish we'd actually been able to vet who was allowed to ride the floats because there is a small faction on my list right now...
I am so tired of asking for volunteers to decorate who flake last minute only to show up at the dance and complain about how much it sucks.
I am so tired of the kids who refuse to get involved with anything at school that might let them have a say complaining about how much everything school-related sucks.
I told my co-sponsor I was sorry I couldn't make it to the dance this year, but I am so, so unbelievably relieved that I got out of chaperoning because of the play. I guess I've finally reached the stage of being sort of okay with lying, after all.
I'm just tired.
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That symbol can be simplified into a much more powerful one. Just use the middle finger on one or both (for double barrel action) hands. Seriously, though. I don't recognize anyone's authority to redefine symbols that they did not create. I simply tell such people to go f!&! off.Ah, well. Looks like I'm going to get arrested soon. The OK sign that I've been using for nearly 50 years is now a hate symbol.
I'll be a hateful old man. Livin' the dream!
That's actually the insidious part about it. They don't HAVE to redefine it for you, because you're not the one they're signaling to, you re the one they're signaling PAST.
To those "in the know", co-opting an extant gesture, symbol, or word is a two for one, because it means they don't have to make up something completely new, and because the general population either won't know the new meaning (and the bigots can stay underground with it and use it seemingly innocently to signal each other while having plausible deniability), or the geberal population will react as you did and try to declare the new meaning irrelevant, which the bigots don't care about and makes their cause look bigger than it really is.
As the article mentions, this is common MO for such groups, they've done things like this for years. It's why other common gestures and phrases are now associated with extremist groups or mindsets.
The question then becomes, are you willing to risk being mistaken for being part of such groups and mindsets now that this use of the gesture is openly known to be associated with them, just to hang onto its original meaning or intent? I'm not sure it's worth it.
couldn't have put it better myself. Except for that last part. Making bigots lives harder- or inhibiting their ability to blend- is ALWAYS worth it.
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I am so tired of Homecoming.
I am so tired of listening to the kids explain why TPing is such an important Homecoming tradition .
I am so tired of trying to guess which anonymous brat went and vandalized another class's float.
I am so tired of the kids in my class playing the victim when I tell them to stop throwing candy at cars or hard enough to hurt people. I wish we'd actually been able to vet who was allowed to ride the floats because there is a small faction on my list right now...
I am so tired of asking for volunteers to decorate who flake last minute only to show up at the dance and complain about how much it sucks.
I am so tired of the kids who refuse to get involved with anything at school that might let them have a say complaining about how much everything school-related sucks.
I told my co-sponsor I was sorry I couldn't make it to the dance this year, but I am so, so unbelievably relieved that I got out of chaperoning because of the play. I guess I've finally reached the stage of being sort of okay with lying, after all.
I'm just tired.
When my mother taught at her original school, she ended up being the homecoming coordinating teacher for about...15 straight years. She hated it. Everything you mentioned and more.
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I am so tired of Homecoming.
I am so tired of listening to the kids explain why TPing is such an important Homecoming tradition .
I am so tired of trying to guess which anonymous brat went and vandalized another class's float.
I am so tired of the kids in my class playing the victim when I tell them to stop throwing candy at cars or hard enough to hurt people. I wish we'd actually been able to vet who was allowed to ride the floats because there is a small faction on my list right now...
I am so tired of asking for volunteers to decorate who flake last minute only to show up at the dance and complain about how much it sucks.
I am so tired of the kids who refuse to get involved with anything at school that might let them have a say complaining about how much everything school-related sucks.
I told my co-sponsor I was sorry I couldn't make it to the dance this year, but I am so, so unbelievably relieved that I got out of chaperoning because of the play. I guess I've finally reached the stage of being sort of okay with lying, after all.
I'm just tired.
Yep. SOOOOOOOO know all those feelings...
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“Oh, look, a cute bug!”
- my Eldest about a Gelugon (Bestiary 1)
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For context, my Eldest is really into bugs right now.
And lizards (especially Komodo dragons - highlight of his Disney trio this summer with the grands was... seeing TWO Komodo dragons at the same time! And they were moving!) and rocks and plants and selling stuff to afford a Switch. So he can play Breath of the Wild. And collect bugs and lizards and rocks.
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So this, in a nutshell, is the problem with the entire U.S. security infrastructure:
(1) Plan on a major change to how things are done. I won't even bother to be judgy here. Just, "A major change is planned."
(2) Fail to adequately communicate this major change.
(3) Be surprised at the utter chaos that ensues.
The *only* reason I have a Real ID is that I lost my wallet. The *only* reason I've kept my passport active is that I don't trust my government.
So if you're just a run-of-the-mill 'Merikan, living your life without thinking too much about things, and then grandpa gets sick and you book a plane ticket to go visit him, you're in for a world of hurt.
Public Service Announcements aren't a PITA. They're very, very useful.
.Public Service Announcements aren't a PITA. They're very, very useful.
You know,
If we could get liberals and journalists to just NOT point out the stupendously freakin’ obvious, but maintain the typical circus while playing pretend...
... just tell the President that someone said both that his idea for RealID and Wall was stupid and said that he was a neener-head. The Public Service Announcements will take care of itself after that, as he endlessly rails about how both are the best ideas - he has the best ideas - and one way or another it will be the talk of the US. It’s the perfect exposure scheme. Just repeat for everything you want the public to become aware of.
And look. I get that the sort of crass manipulation such things entail don’t fit well with some. It is unbearable, after all, that his arrogance go unchallenged! So. Don’t think of it as intellectual dishonesty; think of it as proving yourself intellectually superior by aiding in the weaponization of one of the man’s more ridiculous tendencies. Only for good this time. Well, for public service.
The one problem with this scheme is that there is a reporter somewhere who WILL inform him by mocking him. Stupid reporters - always ruining a good thing.
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I've got a problem with this one right now. I know I've bored everyone here before blathering on about my love for the Solidarnosc movement when I was a kid, and in recent months, I was excited to discover a surge in products (shirts, badges,...That symbol can be simplified into a much more powerful one. Just use the middle finger on one or both (for double barrel action) hands. Seriously, though. I don't recognize anyone's authority to redefine symbols that they did not create. I simply tell such people to go f!&! off.Ah, well. Looks like I'm going to get arrested soon. The OK sign that I've been using for nearly 50 years is now a hate symbol.
I'll be a hateful old man. Livin' the dream!
That's actually the insidious part about it. They don't HAVE to redefine it for you, because you're not the one they're signaling to, you re the one they're signaling PAST.
To those "in the know", co-opting an extant gesture, symbol, or word is a two for one, because it means they don't have to make up something completely new, and because the general population either won't know the new meaning (and the bigots can stay underground with it and use it seemingly innocently to signal each other while having plausible deniability), or the geberal population will react as you did and try to declare the new meaning irrelevant, which the bigots don't care about and makes their cause look bigger than it really is.
As the article mentions, this is common MO for such groups, they've done things like this for years. It's why other common gestures and phrases are now associated with extremist groups or mindsets.
The question then becomes, are you willing to risk being mistaken for being part of such groups and mindsets now that this use of the gesture is openly known to be associated with them, just to hang onto its original meaning or intent? I'm not sure it's worth it.
Regretfully yes, to a degree.
Some parts of Solidarność became ugly ball of internal infighting, more or less hard social conservatism, and religious fundamentalism. Many of the old members left and started new political groups.The problem is that buying such merchandise might be funding political a*~$%%%s - and the Polonia in states who might be responsible for them is, at least as far as various polls around elections show rather tilted toward fundamentalist right wing, though—obviously—I can't really speak of political and social leanings of Poles living in USA.
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.Public Service Announcements aren't a PITA. They're very, very useful.
You know,
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Interesting political aside, but
The *only* way in which he'll likely be involved is that as October, 2020 approaches Congress will likely push for a postponement because it's obvious people won't be ready, and Trump will play to his base and vociferously oppose that postponement.
I wouln't plan on any travel in October of next year.
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NobodysHome's Tirade of the Morning:
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Bring back cow catchers