I said to the man "No, you don't get it. I'm not asking to cut you in line. I'm saying that I was already waiting in line when you got here. You cut me!"

The man said very loudly, "Well, I didn't know that! But I already let you go in front of me!"

I said, "How are you mad at me? There's no need to get upset here. Just relax! It's a nice day!" I shook my head in confusion. The man and I switched places.

At this point, the conversation with me and the man was over.

Enter Karen...

I was standing in line to ask the front desk a question. I was masked up, and giving the person talking to the front desk attendant plenty of space (about 20ft). So much space that a man didn't realize I was in line, and stood in line behind the person talking to the attendant.

I said "Sorry, but I am in line! But don't worry I just have a very quick question."

The man didn't understand me, and said indignantly "I'm in a hurry too! Even if it is a quick question! But fine! Whatever! Go ahead!"

♥️♥️♥️Shoutout to the staff of the hotel I stayed at for expertly de-escalating a Karen situation!

♥️♥️♥️And shoutout to the white hotel guests that stuck around to make sure that hotel security heard exactly what she was trying to do. My favorite comment: "Wow! A Karen situation in real life! I've only ever seen these online! This is surreal! What is she thinking?"

End result, yours truly did not get kicked out of the hotel for no reason, and feels slightly better about the state of the world.

Worse. They are getting rid of the books. The schools won't have a library. Just kid jail.

If I put that in a short story everyone would go "make your villains more believable, no one is that cartoonishly evil!"

(The people responsible make mealy mouthed claims that discipline centers aren't 'jails for kids' They will teach 'leadership' or some nonsense. They say there will be books in the classrooms so who needs a library? The librarian is gone. Kids will know what this means.)

Plenty of people still live where they don't have the luxury of good cycling and public transit infrastructure and they don't all have the means to move - we need solutions that actually help create that infrastructure.

This whole book banning thing, Moms of 'Liberty' the pulling of school libraries, turning school libraries into detention centers.

It's obviously all connected & 'concerns' about trans people and CRT are just excuses to make the policy go down more smoothly with the public. To make the debate a mess, emotionally charged & awkward.

The real goal is obvious: Limit the exposure of young people to libraries. It's a war on libraries.

And I've been too shocked to really process what that means.

Buon giorno e buona giornata a tutti! Good morning everyone! 🌞

La domotica che ci piace

We're not doing shit, it's them, and they have names and addresses*

* for sending sternly worded letters, of course

Proposal: stop saying stuff like "we're destroying the planet" and change it to "they're destroying the planet", to pivot away from self blame when most of us don't have the power to change things and definitely would if we could, and towards laying the blame squarely on the elites propping up the fossil fuel industry so we can focus our collective anger on those actually responsible

That said, 1) there may be something I'm missing in the Hebrew that makes this more ambiguous than I understand, and 2) you can do whatever you want forever. I'm not gonna get mad at anyone for not turning on lights on the sabbath.

I would argue that a fire is combustion, which is an exothermic chemical reaction between a fuel and an oxidant (usually oxygen). But light bulbs are specifically filled with inert gasses, isolating the filament from oxygen so that it will not combust.

I'm not in the business of starting Big Jewish Debates, but I've never fully understood the Orthodox logic that turning on a light bulb is starting a fire.

Buona serata a tutti!

they're porting 'Stray' to the N64