There is an actual belief out there that your feet get some sort of power by connecting to mother nature barefoot. It’s insane woo nonsense, but that meme lifehack literally would be something they might do, lol

You know, I get the sense Roddenberry and co. thought of WW3, riots, and so on were inevitable but had the hope that eventually mankind would get over it. Too bad the latter is probably the less likely part of that prophecy.

Sand really gums up the parts. Ya don’t want that.

As far as I know, both numbers aren’t confirmed. We’re hearing 2k to 20k at Trump’s birthday party, and anywhere from 5m to 11m on protests. They’re still trying to tally and I only saw a 2m temporary number. That said, with Boston having like 1m apparently, it’ll probably be pretty big (they combined pride parade with it so it’s a like unclear how you’d count that)

A more fun way to look at it is, the army parade had most of it’s route at 1 row of viewers. That’s… really really bad attendance. Lol

I think the difference there is you’d probably notice a ton of troops like, literally gathering for war. You’d have enough time to mobilize and house them. Parades are not important enough to pull that many troops away, and it’d be way more than this one cost.

Now, a civil war… nah, I feel like by the time anyone organized you’d have plenty of troops ready to squash it.

That’s the expression of a man who just had a random naked encounter with an albatross. It’s a mix of befuddlement and wonder.

I like it, except that’s so not how turtle shells work, lol.

Oh that’s what happened to my car when I got cutoff by that damn red monolith memes always talk about.

Restarts into Grub which autos to Linux and when I go back to Windows it’s all pissy at me.

There’s something primal about throwing feces at aggressors. I like it.

Yes but wouldn’t you like to sign up for an outlook account? No? Sorry that wasn’t a question, this full screen window has no X and you will comply.

… unless you do the thing that skips it, but man that’s an awful experience.

You know someone has been waiting forever to say that.

Add to my Heroes.

Hard to say but probably not. For instance I mention Hmong because they were political refugees from Laos in the 70s to various parts of the US as refugees, many of which didn’t move away after a generation. Only a few hundred thousand but they may make up a sizable amount of Asian in Minnesota and Wisconsin, not getting much say in where.

If you move by choice, as many modern immigrants do, usually you end up where there’s work, like California (and H1Bs and colleges get a ton of well educated East and South Asians). It was enough to make Irvine blue, which was astonishing!

And older generations? Probably on average close to where they originally landed (most people don’t move more than 50miles from home) but of anyone I’d see them most likely to move to like minded places, but work usually influences that more. Keep in mind, anything past 4th generation is pretty dang assimilated.

To be fair, it’s not a very well defined group. It’s heavily split by country of origin and economic status. Imagine differences between Indian men with traditional values, Hmong refugees settled in the midwest generations ago, 6th generation Chinese in Chinatown enclaves, or 1st generation Chinese recent grads from Beijing starting up in Tech, etc…

Other racial groups also lose out on interesting distinctions (e.g. Cubans are super red) but tend to still be fairly homogeneous in political views historically.

So technically it’s probably even redder across the board, although if I remember exit polling, black man are still blue.

Still close tho, and very depressing.

Not sure how I feel here. I hate overzealous legal departments and AI services, although admittedly Midjourney seems less scummy than some alternatives (like open AI). At least they’re not attacking someone who pirated Frozen 2 or made a fan game or something, like certain legal departments would.

Finally some good news today.

I also notice a lot less traffic on the west side during Jewish holidays. By this logic, is the suggesting rounding them up, too?

Oho, Shen should write for a Sliders reboot.