5/7 with rice.

This bridge has been stupid low for decades, and it’s a main artery from downtown to the (e hospital and) highway. As of the last time I drove past it, the advance warnings signs didn’t seem adequate to me.

Oh shit, I posted a separate comment before I read yours – this is my bridge! Oo

There’s a bridge near me with scuff marks on the underside like that. I’ve driven under and briefly wondered about the stories behind each one, and now your post makes me want to investigate further.

Kinda brilliant to disguise malware as a captcha, though. I won’t be surprised.

Oh this one cuts.

I spent a lot of my childhood in Arizona, and we did field trips in school to ‘ghost towns’ (e: the old west towns), Montezuma’s Castle (back when you could actually walk through it before vandals ruined it for everyone), and Pueblo ruins with indigenous living history reenactors.

I never even saw a modern gun in person until I was 16. It just wasn’t a thing. And yet we managed to survive.

The amazing thing about that idiocy mostly flew under the radar at the time:

According to neurologists, in the test he was bragging about (aside from being extremely easy because it’s meant to screen for dementia), those would not have been the words.

The point of the 5 words portion is that the words are never related, because that would defeat the purpose of the memory test. They’re always carefully selected unrelated words, like daisy clock giraffe piano door.

He very obviously did not remember the words and was just naming things he could literally see at the time.

His niece, Mary Trump, knows him well and is a licensed clinical psychologist. She’s spoken and written extensively on his mental disorders (normally a psychologist won’t do that publicly, but she’s said he’s such a danger to the nation, she feels she has no choice).

She’s well worth reading and listening to.

This is the inevitable outcome of the combination of the proliferation of guns in the US + the over-the-top fearmongering of certain high-profile personalities (specifically on the right). It was never going to end any other way.

Scare people into thinking everyone is out to get them and tell them they have to arm themselves, and you get tragedies like this: the guy that shot a teenaged girl through his front door when she was looking for help. This kid shot in the face looking for a place to take pictures.

People like Tucker Carlson and all similar scaremongers (too many to name) are partly to blame for this. I’m old enough to remember the red scare, where average people thought communists were hiding in every suburban neighbourhood, and also the satanic panic – this is all that but on steroids.

Everyone isn’t out to get you. They never were. But people are becoming millionaires by riling people into killing each other *for no reason *, and unlike back then, now everyone is armed and convinced to shoot first like every place is the fucking OK Corral.

e: and to add a layer of irony, yes, Wild West high-noon shootouts are the same kind of myth-sayings as boiling frogs – pretty much all old west towns required you to surrender your guns to the sheriff on entry. Things were actually safer back then.

Many other comments here have a share in the reasons, but a huge reason is he’s looking at more state and federal charges, and more lawsuits (which haven’t going well for him).

He NEEDS to run and WIN so he can make all these cases go away for good.

Did you miss this recent news?

Justice Department Disrupts Covert Russian Government-Sponsored Foreign Malign Influence Operation Targeting Audiences in the United States and Elsewhere

Influence Operation Relied on Influencers, AI-Generated Content, Paid Social Media Advertisements, and Social Media Accounts to Drive Internet Traffic to Cybersquatted and Other Domains

e: or was that /s? Poe’s law broke my sarcasm detector years ago

Family/close friends/doctors: 95% (I only don’t if I’m in the toilet, at the doctor, or etc).

Unknown/unsolicited: 0%. If it’s important, leave a message or fuck right off.

Nearly 98% of my calls come from that last group, though, so basically never.

Teenaged boys, unfortunately.

Go mow the lawn, kid, or you’re not getting your allowance this week.

I wasn’t talking about the Cold War, though. The US was deeply involved in several hot wars during that period, including the Laotian Civil War, the Dominican Civil War, the Cambodian Civil War, the bombing of Libya, the Tanker War, the US invasion of Panama, and others. The US has literally never not been involved in some war, somewhere. That’s kind of its thing.

I never watched The Hardy Boys. I should see if it’s streaming. He seems dreamy, too.

e: oh shit, it is!

1774?

Sadly, no amount of liquor has been able to erase live-action Smurf porn from my brain.

Whoever invents the ‘unsee’ pill will become richer than god.