Louisiana?
I'm from down that way and my mom still lives there. I remember getting off the plane once when I flew back down to visit her, and the wall of watery air hit me so bad I couldn't breathe for a second cause my brain stem thought I was drowning.
Sure. But we're in it now, and low fuel prices maintain the ability of the American working poor to survive. Changing this now would condemn millions of innocents to bankruptcy, homelessness and eventually death.
I don't like it either, believe me. I want walkable cities, and sensible zoning, and affordable housing. But we don't have that and there isn't a magic switch we can throw to just make it happen. We've painted ourselves into a corner about this.
"Americans think 100 years is a long time and Europeans think 100 km is a long distance"
I'm fortunate to not be in this situation anymore but the commute for my last job before this one was around 40mi. That's 64km and a bit. Prior to that it was closer to 60mi or 96.5km, I was driving over an hour just to get to work. This is not uncommon for Americans, especially poor ones. If you can't afford to live in the city but still need a job so you can eat, situations like this are sometimes unavoidable.
It started out as a parody and then just turned into one of the better dubs of the show.
The beginning is rough but it comes into its own quickly.
The rest of us non racist white people :(
Yeah, maybe. That's part of it. Learning that you're an asshole, if that's true, is the first necessary step towards changing that. That's part of what psychedelics do, they confront you with truths that you wouldn't otherwise recognize.
But they also confront you with lies. Just cause the mushroom tells you you're an asshole doesn't mean it's right. That's for you to think on afterward.
Or how no one in security noticed a dude with a high powered rifle climbing over the fence.
This one, at least, I can explain.
They did see him! Secret Service just elected to ignore it, apparently.
Snippet taken from the relevant Wikipedia page :
At 4:26 p.m., a local law enforcement countersniper ended his shift and spotted Crooks around the southernmost warehouse of a complex owned by AGR International, in which police countersnipers were positioned. The countersniper text-messaged his colleagues about Crooks, noting that he may have known about the police presence inside the building. The New York Times retrospectively described the text messages as suggesting that Crooks aroused police suspicion more than 90 minutes before the shooting.[57] At 5:14 p.m., one of the countersnipers still in the building saw Crooks directly underneath the warehouse and photographed him. The countersniper saw him "scoping out" the rooftop of the building and carrying a golf rangefinder, which particularly alarmed officers. The countersniper text-messaged images of Crooks to other members of law enforcement before heading outside to find him and keep visual contact while backup arrived. Crooks ran from his position and evaded a search joined by four other local police officers.[58][59][45][60] Law enforcement officers spotted Crooks between 20 minutes and 30 minutes before the shooting.[61][62] Multiple local law enforcement officers identified Crooks and believed that he might have been acting suspiciously near the event's magnetometer weapon detectors;[63] they expressed their suspicions over radio, and the Secret Service was informed of this at some point.[41] Trump arrived onstage at about 6:03 p.m.[64] At 6:05 p.m., he began speaking.[65] At 6:06 p.m., Crooks scaled an air-conditioning unit between the northernmost AGR International buildings to reach the roof of the complex, rather than using his ladder.[66] He walked across a series of interconnected roofs to reach his eventual firing position on the southernmost roof,[45][66] between 400 feet (120 meters) and 450 feet (140 meters) north of the venue stage.[2][11][12][67] The building housed three police snipers tasked with covering the rally, but none of them were on the roof due to a shortage of personnel.[68][69] Several bystanders witnessed Crooks on the roof and alerted the police about him minutes before shots were fired at Trump.[70][71][65]
It then goes on to tell how one of the local cops, not Secret Service, went up there to see what was going on, and spooked Crooks who then opened fire.
Hmm... Sounds blatantly illegal.
Put it on the pile, I guess.
I struggle with this a lot. Especially recently. I grew up reading sword and sorcery, where when A Bad Thing is happening, you go stab it. Where it is moral and sensible to bring violence to evil. Where almost any evil can be defeated by a small group of determined do-gooders.
In the real world, if I set off on a quest to defeat evil with a sword and a dream, I'll get picked up by secret service and locked in a nice hole before I make it two blocks away from my house.
Recontextualizing "heroic struggle" into things like community building, education, and charity is difficult when every instinct is screaming at me that there's a simple and obvious solution. That solution isn't really simple and obvious because we don't live in Middle Earth. But a million billion stories of a hero putting the tyrant king to the sword beg otherwise.
Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'enculé de ta mère
God damn fucking fucking shit fucking motherfucker asshole
I have to say I expected something more elequent given the number of unique words in the original but I guess that's French for you. They got like eight words for fuck?
Fucking hell I hate how sensible this actually sounds
What used to be an enjoyable 90s temp the last few years is about to become an unenjoyable 100s+ temp in the next few years, it's already starting