How the hell. I’m in Seattle and watched it and it was so faint, barely visible at all. You wouldn’t have even noticed it if you weren’t looking for it.
How the hell. I’m in Seattle and watched it and it was so faint, barely visible at all. You wouldn’t have even noticed it if you weren’t looking for it.
Damn, you had a better view of it than I did up here in Washington (State).
Just FYI, the striped pole attached to the hydrant is so it can be found under snow.
Answering the phone. Listening to voicemails.
There’s no reason I should fear these now, but I was hit by a car back when I was in college (nearly 20 years ago now), and I had no health insurance and couldn’t pay any bills. I was already barely affording to eat.
So, almost every single call I got was related to a bill that I knew I couldn’t pay. The trauma of that has stayed with me to this day and I will often leave voicemails which are perfectly innocuous unlistened to for days, weeks, eternity…
That kind of stress just stays with you.
Answering the phone. Listening to voicemails.
There’s no reason I should fear these now, but I was hit by a car back when I was in college (nearly 20 years ago now), and I had no health insurance and couldn’t pay any bills. I was already barely affording to eat.
So, almost every single call I got was related to a bill that I knew I couldn’t pay. And they were relentless. The trauma of that has stayed with me to this day and I will often leave voicemails which are perfectly innocuous unlistened to for days, weeks, eternity…
That kind of stress just stays with you.
This also extends to opening the mail.
Oh my god, is that a thing that happens? That sounds horrible.
I think that’s too realistic to fit the question.
That is a completely reasonable fear.
The magazine (Kbin for community) I moderate was polled on what rules they wanted a couple months back. They wanted them to be persnickety. More than I do, so I only bother with the persnickety rules if somebody reports content.
No, we’re talking about using it as a noun. Saying “an illegal”. Not saying “an illegal immigrant”.
Maybe so, but I’ve never heard it.
The congresswoman, who has been a strong advocate of an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, insisted she had already denounced Israel’s actions as genocide and therefore the protesters’ anger was misplaced.
“I already said that it was and y’all are just gonna pretend that it wasn’t over and over again - it’s f—ed up, man,” she said. “And you’re not helping these people, and you’re not helping them, you’re not helping them."
Are you going to pretend to know what she has said at work?
I thought it was a zucchini until I came to the comments.
Are they pretending the JROTC doesn’t exist? The US military absolutely targets minors under the age of seventeen for recruitment.
Yes, it does. That’s the whole point of why it’s bad to use the word “illegal” as a noun to describe people. And that’s why people do so. Dehumanization. They’re not an illegal immigrant. They’re “an illegal”. Barely even a person.
But they will happily use statistics which include both groups.
“Illegal driver” and “illegal doctor” are also terms that nobody uses.
Harassing someone who has been fighting for a ceasefire. These kind of protestors don’t realize how they only damage their cause by looking like extremists and idiots.
I get stuck in dreams like that semi-regularly. They’re kind of traumatizing every time.
I have a friend who is too beautiful (and unfortunately meek) for her own good, attracting stalker types with horrifying regularity. This is a great change.