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It’s a stressful situation, a funeral. It seems insurmountable before it happens and once it gets going it becomes mostly manageable. I get why you don’t want the stress and all the family dynamics and the religious top layer.

That being said: yes, you are unreasonable. If you like going to funerals, there is something wrong with you. Nobody likes it. For much the same reasons as yours. That’s the baseline.

Think of it as a game and try to avoid talking to all the family members you don’t like. And since it will be your father’s funeral, you have the perfect excuse to have a thousand mile stare and be monosyllabic. And then you treat yourself when it’s over.

There is no need to make your father sad now. Tell him you’ll attend. Because it matters to him. Even if you have no intention to show up, which you should though. He’ll either come back to haunt you from the afterlife (slim chance) or the only people who will maintain a grudge are your living relatives. That’s the bed you’ll be making for yourself and you can avoid a whole lot of additional shit in the future by investing half a day and attend the goddamn funeral.

Sad.

I get she was frustrated. I get this was a joke. You don’t make bomb jokes in line at the TSA either.

She may have overestimated the degree of privacy her DMs had. That’s also on her. Other e2e encrypted services are available to make the crass jokes. But if one of the three recipients had also failed to get the joke, a Signal chat would’ve sufficed to get those deputies showing up as well.

And one shouldn’t expect that a company, even of dwindling importance as Snapchat, won’t do everything in their power to cover their asses. Imagine if this teacher did go amok and they flagged it but did nothing.

In a way this might be explained away with changing expectations by the audience or it’s a way to grab audience attention. I think it also depends which media you consume and how that’s funded. I think public broadcasters like the BBC are less likely to add music to their proper news segments than CBS because they don’t need to sell commercials for pharmaceuticals with an unending list of side effects. In my European view, American news at least since CNN became a thing has always had an emphasis on form over function with more pretty people reading the news, sound effects, animated graphics, breaking news alerts, etc. Unfortunately, a lot of that has filtered through elsewhere as well.

Music on news is nothing new though. I remember Enya infused VTs of collapsing World Trade Centers and videos of the tsunami and exploding nuclear reactors in line with some trip hop beat. And I remember people getting mad about that back then as well.

If you can’t (or won’t) cut down on having firearms freely available, and if you cannot (or will not) do more on the mental health side of prevention, and you have already invented bullet proof whiteboards, doors like battlefield tanks, and implemented a system of metal detector entry checks and maybe deployed an armed guard, then this is an almost good idea. It’s the blinking light in the window and an alarm system sticker on the window that may deter a thief but for school shootings.

I’m not sure about pepper spray. Is a blind shooter unloading their AR-15 magazine an improvement over a fully sighted one? Why aren’t they equipping them with tranquilizer darts? Cross promotion potential for zoos as well.

What are the odds that we get coordinated school attacks and we find out one part-time student at the control center can’t fly 5 drones in 5 different high schools at the same time?

If they’re going to Singapore, do tell them because bringing durian on public transport can get you in trouble. I think it’s just a fine and not a caning but still.

Straight pride.

The report also seems not to realize that it is being written by the Trump administration.

There are a few delightful digs like this in this article.

The only thing that’s golden is the tacky veneer on the White House walls in the picture.

Album ≠ album. There are certainly ones worthy of listening to them as a whole. But there are plenty of albums that are just utter garbage too. The war on the single by record companies in the 90s produced a number of albums that were at best a couple of okay singles plus 8-10 pure fillers. Name another Chumbawamba song, you can’t without googling.

In a way we are reverting back to the 1950s where the single reigned supreme and albums were an afterthought. Now the single song does better than an album again. Some musicians release every streamlined Spotify curated 2 minute song as a “single.” Since most of it is done digitally only why not?

Dogma is useless.

Fast food is slop anywhere.

Do you feel the cartoon was based in reality much? A cat is a mouse’s predator too, yet the mouse lives to see another day again and again. It would be a real golden age of television finale if an owl flew into the sunset with Tom in one talon and Jerry in the other.

There is an etymology section in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honky-tonk but it will leave you disappointed unfortunately. It’s a lot of could be this or could be that but mainly eff knows.

I share your view on humanity. I’m glad you said something. Tone is tough to transport online.

I should have added /s.

Voting is better than not voting in my opinion. That being said, this is a topic I would not throw to the internet to help you decide. The way you have written your post you’re opening yourself up to a lot of partisan replies from the good people of both sides that will probably not aid massively in your decision making process.

Since there is a power imbalance, I would not put much stock in praise like that. People not wanting to leave, not calling in sick a lot, not going to HR to complain are probably some better indicators, with the caveat that every job is different and those are not universally applicable criteria.

You’re answering your own question.

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47, like his erstwhile buddy Epstein, deals in favor/counterfavor. The sheiks who paid for the jet scratched his back in exchange for a US favor, possibly pushing the repeat Nobel peace laureate runner up into war on Iran. And if he and his own can get rich in the process, no, wait, that’s plan A. All the rest is just theater and headline generation. I suspect the ballroom is just helping direct tax funds into construction companies that are owned by his former fixer’s neighbor’s third cousin’s dog’s groomer’s husband. The NYT will enlighten us in time.

I think the US military will be able to inspect the plane and discover any hidden bugs. You don’t really need to track the plane; it’ll be on the news. As for the White House, even if a republican wins the next election, I’d fire the entire staff and send the military counterintelligence outfit through there with a fine toothed comb. A Democrat incumbent will probably sleep somewhere else for a while, pointing to “necessary” renovation work. I don’t think that that would be paranoid.

There is a lot of talk about bringing back the wooly mammoth that way but they are collecting funds and not delivering so far. I think some celebrity cloned their dog but IIRC they took samples while the OG puppy was still around. To be fair, I am not sure about that story.

Technically, it’s probably possible with a human but the science isn’t quite there yet. They like to test this first on other creatures before they graduate to bringing back Napoleon or whoever. And that is saying nothing about ethical and legal restrictions on top of that.