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I'll just say that yes, I lived through that, and no, it was totally different.
There is a fundamental difference between, "This disease exists, it can affect everyone, and it's God's punishment for these people's immoral behavior," and, "This disease does/does not exist at all."
EDIT: OK, OK. I'll spoiler.
** spoiler omitted **This is generally true - starting around 1985 or so.
If you go back to 1981/1982, there were definitely a few years of refusing to take it seriously. Those were years of politicians asking “why should we care about some new cancer that only affects gay people?”
I'm actually quite curious on the topic, and, being from the Bay Area, I happen to have resources: My uncle-in-law was in the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus when it hit, and my retired co-worked is on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, so I have a couple of people I can talk to directly who were profoundly impacted.
Being willing to learn. What a concept! :-O
EDIT: Apparently learning is best while nekkid. Who knew?
EDIT 2: And yeah, being from the Bay Area, *we* saw it being taken very seriously from the start, so I definitely got a skewed viewpoint.
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I'll just say that yes, I lived through that, and no, it was totally different.
There is a fundamental difference between, "This disease exists, it can affect everyone, and it's God's punishment for these people's immoral behavior," and, "This disease does/does not exist at all."
EDIT: OK, OK. I'll spoiler.
** spoiler omitted **This is generally true - starting around 1985 or so.
If you go back to 1981/1982, there were definitely a few years of refusing to take it seriously. Those were years of politicians asking “why should we care about some new cancer that only affects gay people?”
I'm actually quite curious on the topic, and, being from the Bay Area, I happen to have resources: My uncle-in-law was in the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus when it hit, and my retired co-worked is on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, so I have a couple of people I can talk to directly who were profoundly impacted.
Being willing to learn. What a concept! :-O
EDIT: Apparently learning is best while nekkid. Who knew?
EDIT 2: And yeah, being from the Bay Area, *we* saw it being taken very seriously from the start, so I definitely got a skewed viewpoint.
I don't think that being completely nekkid while learning about AIDS is a good idea...
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Hah. The day after I accept a new position, my current employer sends out a notice for a furlough update tomorrow. I really hope it is calling everyone back to work, but if it is I get to decide which company to disappoint.
Sometimes, I hate being right. Whatever severance they give will be a nice touch, not that I expect much.
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I'll just say that yes, I lived through that, and no, it was totally different.
There is a fundamental difference between, "This disease exists, it can affect everyone, and it's God's punishment for these people's immoral behavior," and, "This disease does/does not exist at all."
EDIT: OK, OK. I'll spoiler.
** spoiler omitted **This is generally true - starting around 1985 or so.
If you go back to 1981/1982, there were definitely a few years of refusing to take it seriously. Those were years of politicians asking “why should we care about some new cancer that only affects gay people?”
I'm actually quite curious on the topic, and, being from the Bay Area, I happen to have resources: My uncle-in-law was in the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus when it hit, and my retired co-worked is on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, so I have a couple of people I can talk to directly who were profoundly impacted.
Being willing to learn. What a concept! :-O
EDIT: Apparently learning is best while nekkid. Who knew?
EDIT 2: And yeah, being from the Bay Area, *we* saw it being taken very seriously from the start, so I definitely got a skewed viewpoint.
Here’s an article with some history.
Reagan didn’t acknowledge that AIDS existed for 4 whole years.
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According to the General's parents one of her nephews caught the Corolla virus.
I guess that explains his suddenly improved gas mileage.
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I'll just say that yes, I lived through that, and no, it was totally different.
There is a fundamental difference between, "This disease exists, it can affect everyone, and it's God's punishment for these people's immoral behavior," and, "This disease does/does not exist at all."
EDIT: OK, OK. I'll spoiler.
** spoiler omitted **This is generally true - starting around 1985 or so.
If you go back to 1981/1982, there were definitely a few years of refusing to take it seriously. Those were years of politicians asking “why should we care about some new cancer that only affects gay people?”
I'm actually quite curious on the topic, and, being from the Bay Area, I happen to have resources: My uncle-in-law was in the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus when it hit, and my retired co-worked is on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, so I have a couple of people I can talk to directly who were profoundly impacted.
Being willing to learn. What a concept! :-O
EDIT: Apparently learning is best while nekkid. Who knew?
EDIT 2: And yeah, being from the Bay Area, *we* saw it being taken very seriously from the start, so I definitely got a skewed viewpoint.
Here’s an article with some history.
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Interesting read, thanks. It was my high school years, and I was far more worried about Reagan sending me off to war or starting a nuclear exchange with the USSR. I still have no idea why anyone considers him a "great" president. But that's just me...
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I'll just say that yes, I lived through that, and no, it was totally different.
There is a fundamental difference between, "This disease exists, it can affect everyone, and it's God's punishment for these people's immoral behavior," and, "This disease does/does not exist at all."
EDIT: OK, OK. I'll spoiler.
** spoiler omitted **This is generally true - starting around 1985 or so.
If you go back to 1981/1982, there were definitely a few years of refusing to take it seriously. Those were years of politicians asking “why should we care about some new cancer that only affects gay people?”
I'm actually quite curious on the topic, and, being from the Bay Area, I happen to have resources: My uncle-in-law was in the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus when it hit, and my retired co-worked is on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, so I have a couple of people I can talk to directly who were profoundly impacted.
Being willing to learn. What a concept! :-O
EDIT: Apparently learning is best while nekkid. Who knew?
EDIT 2: And yeah, being from the Bay Area, *we* saw it being taken very seriously from the start, so I definitely got a skewed viewpoint.
Here’s an article with some history.
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Interesting read, thanks. It was my high school years, and I was far more worried about Reagan sending me off to war or starting a nuclear exchange with the USSR. I still have no idea why anyone considers him a "great" president. But that's just me...
From how he was discussed in my years among the right, it mainly comes down to him being the president when the "modern" Republican party really got its stride going, him being both the first and last Republican to recently win by a significantly large margin (and hence why they've been desperate to declare every R president victory since as a "landslide" even though none come close to how Reagan did), him overseeing the end of the Cold War, him being in such powerful support of the Moral Majority, and him being the one that pisses the Democrats off the most.
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One of my cats...the smarter one...jumps up and starts demanding that it's dinner time. She's only two hours early. She waits for me to take my hand off my mouse. She then sits on it. And she starts randomly right clicking on things. With her butt.If I could do that with my butt, I imagine I'd be able to live a non-extravagant-but-comfortable lifestyle with my own softporn video website.
<_<
>_>
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So... Reagan...
Deregulation and taking us back to the "good old" 1890s when companies could kill employees and customers alike with impunity, because it wasn't the government's business to make sure that products were safe? Check.
The "War on Drugs" that saw the militarization of the police, the consequences of which we're reaping today with the George Floyd riots? Yep. Reagan.
"Greed is good" so it's OK to do a hostile takeover of a company and lay off 30,000-40,000 workers, so long as YOU make a cool $800 million? Yep. Reagan.
Deficit spending at a breakneck pace, all to spend the Soviet Union into bankruptcy? Check!
There are many, many more. But essentially he took a "business first, people last" approach that is antithetical to my beliefs, so I will always consider him a terrible president for the United States.
For the rich, he was great.
For those who would prefer a theocracy, he was great.
I will give him credit where credit is due: He managed to take down the Soviet Union, though I think Gorbachev deserves a lot more of the credit. However, if the U.S.S.R. weren't in dire financial straits thanks to their arms war with the U.S.A., would Gorbachev have ever come to power?
But the whole, pro-business, people-and-the-environment be damned approach to rule is something I cannot condone, so I didn't like him.
Spoiler:For the rich, he was great. For those who would prefer a theocracy, he was great.
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IF anyone needs to know my opinion so far it seems it follows NH and Orthos pretty well. just reference them.
Just a quick question. Who is the scapegoat of the day around here? I know it is not me.
Just a quick question. Who is the scapegoat of the day around here? I know it is not me.You could always blame Seth. It's usually what I do.
Nah! But we should blame someone who is not here right now.
Tri posted earlier but I doubt he's here atm how about him?
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This will get Vanykrye and Woran going:
Customer: For security concerns, we don't want to use Customer ID for the import, so we're using Customer Name.
Support: OK. We support that. So, what's the problem?
Customer: We have multiple people with the same name and we need to distinguish them.
Support: So, how about using some kind of ID to distinguish them?
Customer: We don't want to do that because of security concerns. What else do you have?Er... I dunno? Make sure your customers all have different names?
I'm just going to curl up in a ball over here.
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I'm just going to curl up in a ball over here.This will get Vanykrye and Woran going:
Customer: For security concerns, we don't want to use Customer ID for the import, so we're using Customer Name.
Support: OK. We support that. So, what's the problem?
Customer: We have multiple people with the same name and we need to distinguish them.
Support: So, how about using some kind of ID to distinguish them?
Customer: We don't want to do that because of security concerns. What else do you have?Er... I dunno? Make sure your customers all have different names?
Does anyone remember the rules to Woranball? It's been a while since I've played.
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Does anyone remember the rules to Woranball? It's been a while since I've played.I'm just going to curl up in a ball over here.This will get Vanykrye and Woran going:
Customer: For security concerns, we don't want to use Customer ID for the import, so we're using Customer Name.
Support: OK. We support that. So, what's the problem?
Customer: We have multiple people with the same name and we need to distinguish them.
Support: So, how about using some kind of ID to distinguish them?
Customer: We don't want to do that because of security concerns. What else do you have?Er... I dunno? Make sure your customers all have different names?
Don't feed her after (Dutch) midnight.
Don't feed her after (Dutch) midnight.Does anyone remember the rules to Woranball? It's been a while since I've played.I'm just going to curl up in a ball over here.This will get Vanykrye and Woran going:
Customer: For security concerns, we don't want to use Customer ID for the import, so we're using Customer Name.
Support: OK. We support that. So, what's the problem?
Customer: We have multiple people with the same name and we need to distinguish them.
Support: So, how about using some kind of ID to distinguish them?
Customer: We don't want to do that because of security concerns. What else do you have?Er... I dunno? Make sure your customers all have different names?
But, it's always after midnight. And I think she would be quite sad if we never fed her.
Besides, what's the worst that could happen? We get more Worans? That might make some people (like Freehold) very happy.
Well, Woran backwards is Narow, so maybe you'll get a load of short and excessively thin Worans.
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Something for VE and LM to look forward to:
Yesterday Impus Major finally got to spend a day with his friends, after 92 days of isolation. They spent the day wandering Albany and Berkeley, settled down in a friend's back yard, and talked about life. For hours. Then Impus major came come and sat on our front porch, watching the sun go down, for another couple of hours.
He finally came in after 6 hours of introspection, both alone and with his friends, and couldn't stop gushing about how amazing life was, how lucky he was, and, in particular, what incredible parents we were, and how grateful he was that we were such good parents.
After 19 years of feeling guilty about not paying enough attention to him, and trying to argue with him about how much time I'd not spent with him, and him arguing right back about all the time I had spent with him, it was just amazingly heartwarming.
My favorite snippet of conversation:
IM: And I love how when we argued you never once said to me, "Because I said so," or, "Because it's that way," but you were always open to talking things out with me.
NH: When have we ever argued?
IM: Fair point. If but we had argued, I'm sure you would've listened to me!
There was another bit where he went off about how I wasn't just some generic parent who didn't care, I was "Chaperone Joe" who looked out for ALL the kids, and that was just heartwarming as well.
Yeah, I slept well last night.
EDIT: For the record, the big ones were:
- Never using "Because I said so". I always had a reason for my decisions
- Actually caring about what he was doing and with whom, and explaining my concerns but letting him do things anyway
- Not being abusive. Apparently we were unique among Impus Major's friends this way. Which is pretty sad
- Spending some time with the kids. I felt horribly guilty that the *only* time I spent with them was a once-a-week game night where we played board games, I ran Pathfinder, or whatnot. Yet that's what Impus Major remembers; not the other 6 days of the week
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Don't feed her after (Dutch) midnight.Does anyone remember the rules to Woranball? It's been a while since I've played.I'm just going to curl up in a ball over here.This will get Vanykrye and Woran going:
Customer: For security concerns, we don't want to use Customer ID for the import, so we're using Customer Name.
Support: OK. We support that. So, what's the problem?
Customer: We have multiple people with the same name and we need to distinguish them.
Support: So, how about using some kind of ID to distinguish them?
Customer: We don't want to do that because of security concerns. What else do you have?Er... I dunno? Make sure your customers all have different names?
But, it's always after midnight. And I think she would be quite sad if we never fed her.
Besides, what's the worst that could happen? We get more Worans? That might make some people (like Freehold) very happy.
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Well, Woran backwards is Narow, so maybe you'll get a load of short and excessively thin Worans.Don't feed her after (Dutch) midnight.Does anyone remember the rules to Woranball? It's been a while since I've played.I'm just going to curl up in a ball over here.This will get Vanykrye and Woran going:
Customer: For security concerns, we don't want to use Customer ID for the import, so we're using Customer Name.
Support: OK. We support that. So, what's the problem?
Customer: We have multiple people with the same name and we need to distinguish them.
Support: So, how about using some kind of ID to distinguish them?
Customer: We don't want to do that because of security concerns. What else do you have?Er... I dunno? Make sure your customers all have different names?
But, it's always after midnight. And I think she would be quite sad if we never fed her.
Besides, what's the worst that could happen? We get more Worans? That might make some people (like Freehold) very happy.
Lol its been a while since I was short and thin :D
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Lol its been a while since I was short and thin :DWell, Woran backwards is Narow, so maybe you'll get a load of short and excessively thin Worans.Don't feed her after (Dutch) midnight.Does anyone remember the rules to Woranball? It's been a while since I've played.I'm just going to curl up in a ball over here.This will get Vanykrye and Woran going:
Customer: For security concerns, we don't want to use Customer ID for the import, so we're using Customer Name.
Support: OK. We support that. So, what's the problem?
Customer: We have multiple people with the same name and we need to distinguish them.
Support: So, how about using some kind of ID to distinguish them?
Customer: We don't want to do that because of security concerns. What else do you have?Er... I dunno? Make sure your customers all have different names?
But, it's always after midnight. And I think she would be quite sad if we never fed her.
Besides, what's the worst that could happen? We get more Worans? That might make some people (like Freehold) very happy.
excellent.
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To add a brief comment on the topic...
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Something for VE and LM to look forward to:
Yesterday Impus Major finally got to spend a day with his friends, after 92 days of isolation. They spent the day wandering Albany and Berkeley, settled down in a friend's back yard, and talked about life. For hours. Then Impus major came come and sat on our front porch, watching the sun go down, for another couple of hours.He finally came in after 6 hours of introspection, both alone and with his friends, and couldn't stop gushing about how amazing life was, how lucky he was, and, in particular, what incredible parents we were, and how grateful he was that we were such good parents.
After 19 years of feeling guilty about not paying enough attention to him, and trying to argue with him about how much time I'd not spent with him, and him arguing right back about all the time I had spent with him, it was just amazingly heartwarming.
My favorite snippet of conversation:
IM: And I love how when we argued you never once said to me, "Because I said so," or, "Because it's that way," but you were always open to talking things out with me.
NH: When have we ever argued?
IM: Fair point. If but we had argued, I'm sure you would've listened to me!There was another bit where he went off about how I wasn't just some generic parent who didn't care, I was "Chaperone Joe" who looked out for ALL the kids, and that was just heartwarming as well.
Yeah, I slept well last night.
EDIT: For the record, the big ones were:
- Never using "Because I said so". I always had a reason for my decisions
- Actually caring about what he was doing and with whom, and explaining my concerns but letting him do things anyway
- Not being abusive. Apparently we were unique among Impus Major's friends this way. Which is pretty sad
- Spending some time with the kids. I felt horribly guilty that the *only* time I spent with them was a once-a-week game night where we...
as a psych grad that did a ton of studies on child raising imma take my GD hat off to you sir...
.....can you adopt me?
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as a psych grad that did a ton of studies on child raising imma take my GD hat off to you sir...
.....can you adopt me?
Holy crap. That's it. This entire time you've just been doing a case study on gran. ...It all makes sense now...
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Me: To the high schoolers as they arrive at the job site): How's it going?
High Schooler: Another day, another dollar!
Me: Hopefully you get paid more than that!
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...can you adopt me?Something for VE and LM to look forward to:
Yesterday Impus Major finally got to spend a day with his friends, after 92 days of isolation. They spent the day wandering Albany and Berkeley, settled down in a friend's back yard, and talked about life. For hours. Then Impus major came come and sat on our front porch, watching the sun go down, for another couple of hours.He finally came in after 6 hours of introspection, both alone and with his friends, and couldn't stop gushing about how amazing life was, how lucky he was, and, in particular, what incredible parents we were, and how grateful he was that we were such good parents.
After 19 years of feeling guilty about not paying enough attention to him, and trying to argue with him about how much time I'd not spent with him, and him arguing right back about all the time I had spent with him, it was just amazingly heartwarming.
My favorite snippet of conversation:
IM: And I love how when we argued you never once said to me, "Because I said so," or, "Because it's that way," but you were always open to talking things out with me.
NH: When have we ever argued?
IM: Fair point. If but we had argued, I'm sure you would've listened to me!There was another bit where he went off about how I wasn't just some generic parent who didn't care, I was "Chaperone Joe" who looked out for ALL the kids, and that was just heartwarming as well.
Yeah, I slept well last night.
EDIT: For the record, the big ones were:
- Never using "Because I said so". I always had a reason for my decisions
- Actually caring about what he was doing and with whom, and explaining my concerns but letting him do things anyway
- Not being abusive. Apparently we were unique among Impus Major's friends this way. Which is pretty sad
- Spending some time with the kids. I felt horribly guilty that the *only* time I spent with them was a
Get in line.
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He's studying how I raise my kids? I don't know who I feel more sorry for: him or my (potentially fictitious) kids.Holy crap. That's it. This entire time you've just been doing a case study on gran. ...It all makes sense now...as a psych grad that did a ton of studies on child raising imma take my GD hat off to you sir...
.....can you adopt me?
I never said his study didn't have a flaw.
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Get in line.
I'm picturing you saying this with slumping shoulders and a resigned sigh.
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Don't feed her after (Dutch) midnight.Does anyone remember the rules to Woranball? It's been a while since I've played.I'm just going to curl up in a ball over here.This will get Vanykrye and Woran going:
Customer: For security concerns, we don't want to use Customer ID for the import, so we're using Customer Name.
Support: OK. We support that. So, what's the problem?
Customer: We have multiple people with the same name and we need to distinguish them.
Support: So, how about using some kind of ID to distinguish them?
Customer: We don't want to do that because of security concerns. What else do you have?Er... I dunno? Make sure your customers all have different names?
But, it's always after midnight. And I think she would be quite sad if we never fed her.
Besides, what's the worst that could happen? We get more Worans? That might make some people (like Freehold) very happy.
Blue is my favorite color.
Hopefully a nice deep dark blue. Not some sickly pale or light blue.
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...Something for VE and LM to look forward to:
Yesterday Impus Major finally got to spend a day with his friends, after 92 days of isolation. They spent the day wandering Albany and Berkeley, settled down in a friend's back yard, and talked about life. For hours. Then Impus major came come and sat on our front porch, watching the sun go down, for another couple of hours.He finally came in after 6 hours of introspection, both alone and with his friends, and couldn't stop gushing about how amazing life was, how lucky he was, and, in particular, what incredible parents we were, and how grateful he was that we were such good parents.
After 19 years of feeling guilty about not paying enough attention to him, and trying to argue with him about how much time I'd not spent with him, and him arguing right back about all the time I had spent with him, it was just amazingly heartwarming.
My favorite snippet of conversation:
IM: And I love how when we argued you never once said to me, "Because I said so," or, "Because it's that way," but you were always open to talking things out with me.
NH: When have we ever argued?
IM: Fair point. If but we had argued, I'm sure you would've listened to me!There was another bit where he went off about how I wasn't just some generic parent who didn't care, I was "Chaperone Joe" who looked out for ALL the kids, and that was just heartwarming as well.
Yeah, I slept well last night.
EDIT: For the record, the big ones were:
- Never using "Because I said so". I always had a reason for my decisions
- Actually caring about what he was doing and with whom, and explaining my concerns but letting him do things anyway
- Not being abusive. Apparently we were unique among Impus Major's friends this way. Which is pretty sad
- Spending some time with the kids. I felt horribly guilty that the *only* time I spent with them was a
Too late, hes mine!
Blue is my favorite color.Don't feed her after (Dutch) midnight.Does anyone remember the rules to Woranball? It's been a while since I've played.I'm just going to curl up in a ball over here.This will get Vanykrye and Woran going:
Customer: For security concerns, we don't want to use Customer ID for the import, so we're using Customer Name.
Support: OK. We support that. So, what's the problem?
Customer: We have multiple people with the same name and we need to distinguish them.
Support: So, how about using some kind of ID to distinguish them?
Customer: We don't want to do that because of security concerns. What else do you have?Er... I dunno? Make sure your customers all have different names?
But, it's always after midnight. And I think she would be quite sad if we never fed her.
Besides, what's the worst that could happen? We get more Worans? That might make some people (like Freehold) very happy.
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Job get!
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Never using "Because I said so". I always had a reason for my decisions
This this this this this. Even now as a 35-year-old adult my parents react to me disagreeing, arguing, or wanting to discuss their opinions or mandates with "stop arguing and talking back all the time and just do what you're told". It's beyind frustrating and makes it impossible to actually discuss anything of importance without it devolving into "because I said so"s.
Job get!
AWRIGHT
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WHAT THE EVERLOVING F+$%.
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The Wyrm is operating openly now. I thought Standing Rock was bad enough, but this is naked monstrosity.