HorthyMiklosKatonaja
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HorthyMiklosKatonaja
7hr ago
If Trump is somehow assassinated during his inaugural address, IMO that has a very good chance of kicking off a civil war.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3d ago
IIRC this is what the "lightning" thing in Kolmogorov Complicity was really about.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
4d ago
making fun and being cruel to people was perfectly aligned with being a pinko-sj hellhole.
See also the comments section on any WaPo article.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
5d ago
I picture the first two lines sung to the tune of Dixie.
As I've reached the age when the need to urinate comes every hour, often suddenly and strongly, even more often if I've just had a few beers, I've had to be mindful of this; when I take the Metro home from DC I always make a stop at the Harris Teeter (which still has open restrooms) before the half-hour walk to my house.
Visiting Phoenix last spring, I felt the need hit me while walking through ASU's downtown campus, so I trailed someone into the Walter Cronkite Journalism School building. I did manage to relieve myself but was peremptorily ordered out by a security guard despite the fact that I could by no means be mistaken for homeless. When did big-city university campuses start closing off their buildings to outsiders?
And supermarkets are supposed to always have open restrooms, but at a Fry's in Tempe there were those keypads on the doors. I pleaded urgent need at the customer service desk and they said they'd send someone over to let me in; thankfully someone left the men's room within a couple of minutes. And so far as I know, nobody ever came to open the door, unless they arrived and left while I was inside.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
5d ago
I've never gone to Starbucks, but if it's like any fast-food restaurant or other commercial space, there's loud annoying pop music playing all the time. I like to spend as little time as possible being subjected to such aural assault - unless I can get drunk enough that it no longer bothers me.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
6d ago
Eh. Back when everyone lived in one-room hovels, parents always had sex in the same room as their kids.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
10d ago
After reading (post-Floyd) about Arthur McDuffie, who was beaten to death by Miami police on December 16, 1979 despite having committed no crime, I would have expected that to spark nationwide rage. There were serious riots in Miami's black neighborhoods, but the cause failed to catch on nationwide.
I have to conclude this is because newspapers and TV stations outside Miami didn't cover it (but the black papers must have?!), so I guess social media made all the difference.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
10d ago
If any of you has seen Winter's Bone, the all-white Missouri community it depicts gives off a definite vibe of hostility towards outsiders (whatever their race). I personally would be too intimidated to set foot there.
And this is besides the place having few or no jobs.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
11d ago
And burying powerlines in earthquake-prone areas creates more problems.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
16d ago
Those things look like prop vehicles from Total Recall.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
19d ago
Obviously it varies by area, but a while ago I read (might have been in Reason) that in-home daycares have to comply with a huge laundry list of expensive-to-follow health and safety regulations; one that stuck in my mind was that the house had to have a circular driveway to minimize the danger of cars backing up - a measure which would leave most neighborhoods bereft of daycare facilities.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
19d ago
There is also the fact that a substantial number of Indians (nowhere near all, but quite a few) have a very strong, very unpleasant body odor. I've read that it comes from frequently eating curry.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
23d ago
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
23d ago
They could also serve as "don't-rape-me" dogs. I notice that, in my suburban neighborhood, you almost never see a (white, non-immigrant) woman on the sidewalk without at least one dog.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
23d ago
But when I was young, lots of people had dogs, but they left them home when they went shopping. Did so many people suddenly become so, I don't know, psychologically weaker such that they can't stand to spend a single minute away from their animal?
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
23d ago
I'm in northern VA too and I've seen dogs in my local Harris Teeter.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
29d ago
I've read - and it has the ring of truth to me - that the earliest form of the First Commandment was thou shalt have no other gods before My face (that is, no (other) idols in Yahweh's temple/tabernacle/whatever).
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
She was an earlier opponent of progressive excess, and as a female journalist of clearly conservative leanings, she was able to carve a niche by being the contrarian to the expected demographic alignment (i.e. a jewish woman who was not a progressive democratic partisan for social justice).
The fact that she grew up in the Soviet Union probably has something to do with this.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
I would never admit this on any left-wing site, but of the two great art exhibitions of 1937, I aesthetically prefer the "German art" to the "degenerate art". And I don't think that ipso facto makes me a fascist.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
They think the (mostly Christian IIRC) Dearborn Arabs are representative of Arabs worldwide.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
Or a pedestrian waiting at a crosswalk looking like they are about to cross
Or even a pedestrian who lurks on the sidewalk and deliberately runs in front of the car as an insurance scam.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
I haven't seen "grok" in at least forty years!
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
1mo ago
I've been waiting for decades for laser eye surgery to be perfected and standardized to the point that I can get my severe nearsightedness corrected to 20/20 or better, forever, by a robot at my local CVS for $9.95.
I was hoping he'd announce an executive order putting the whole country back onto year-round Standard Time.
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