athos77

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

The First Nations aren't going to be happy with this

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

I went to a party that lasted all weekend. We weren't drinking or anything else, so I want to emphasize I did all this to myself, completely sober:

We were tossing lightsticks back and forth in the dark; I was barefoot. I leaped up to catch a lightstick; when I came down, my right foot landed fully on some kind of spiny, prickly, thorny plant, and I got a bunch of the pointy spiny bits embedded into the sole of my foot. This was particularly ironic, as I had made a point of pointing out the plant to everyone else earlier and telling them to avoid it.

The toilet backed up and I had to clear it with a plunger that had a broken handle. I cleared the toilet, and also managed to flay about a fifth of the skin off the palm of my right hand.

I slipped on the stairs and wrenched my back pretty badly. The dog ran underfoot and I sprained my left ankle. Something else happened, I don't even remember what, and I injured my right hip.

The worst part was that I had driven myself and a group of friends to this party, which meant I had to be the one who drove us back: my car had a manual transmission and no one else knew how to drive stick. So envision this:

My right foot, with the spikes still in it, was used for the gas and the brake. My left foot, with the sprained ankle, had to delicately balance the clutch as we drove up and down these narrow back hills. There was no way to balance my weight on my injured right hip, so every movement on the gas or clutch put some torque on the hip - as well as twisting my injured back. And I had to shift with my right hand wrapped like a mummy's, but the shifting pressure was still on the part of my hand with the flap of skin. And the roads just kept jostling every single injury I had.

It was an incredibly, insanely painful drive home. And it was still one of the best parties I've ever been to.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I've been saying for years that the insanely heavy-handed politics of both Florida and Texas aren't an accident nor are they a miscalculation. They're a deliberate policy to drive out liberals, attract conservatives, and ensure that both Florida and Texas (and their precious, precious electoral college votes) remain red.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The nursing homes near me an absolute minimum of $7000 a month. The food is shite, you have to share a small room, and they're severely understaffed. All the profit goes to the owners and shareholders - and they make that profit by understaffing, under-caring, and under-providing. For-profit healthcare needs to die.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Are they looking meaningfully at you while they're doing it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The extra magnetism makes it easy to find my car keys!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Got my booster for the summer last week. It'll be at full strength by Memorial Day, and should last through Labor Day. I get my fall booster in mid-October: it's full strength by Halloween and carries me through all the winter holidays. Plus an N95 (of course!).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I'm afraid that that information has had to be [redacted]. Choose another path.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

With climate change, Burmese pythons are expanding their territory and eventually expected to work their way up the coast.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Asking for bribes, no doubt ...

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago

The day after the ICC said they had evidence of Israel's war crimes, including video evidence, but I'm sure that had no bearing on their decision ....

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Argh, matey, that's a shame!

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