Curtis Evans, former Marine.
Shortly after that standoff, Curtis Evans stood directly in front of the gate with an American flag. The 65-year-old Evanston resident heard about the first protest on social media and came to represent “the ideals that our country stands for.” He said tear gas and pepper balls hurt, but “five minutes later, you’re fine.”
So he probably wasn’t protesting in the sixties — by himself. Probably was carried around protests, getting his first exposure from early on.
Hmm. No, got to look into that. Thank you for the suggestion.
I was never senior enough to really ignore anything to be honest, didn’t spend all that long in the field
They want to be dumb, cool.
I don’t think they do… they just are?
Which is kinda sad. They can’t help it. Well they could, if it weren’t for their personalities, I guess.
I think not, Mr. Nippl-e.
Oh yeah, of course you can do it.
I meant you can’t do it without coming off as awfully childish.
Ænglisc, you say?
I am one.
We had to be in a shipping container with tear-gas in it. Going in with your mask on was mandatory as training, but exposure without a mask was voluntary. Most if not all did do it though.
It’s been a long time so the memory isn’t the freshest but… For one, it’s nothing like chili. I would rather be maced than be exposed to tear gas. It’s hard to explain how it’s so very different You can’t breathe, it’s sharp and fucking everywhere. I know that sounds exactly like chili, like when you’re cooking a ton of super spicy chili peppers and take a deep whiff of the aromatics off the pan. But it wasn’t. Chili was like organic and warm, even if too strong and irritating. Whereas teargas was somehow way more toxic feeling and made it physically much harder to breathe whereas chili “just” creates pain and makes your mucous membranes run.
But here’s the kicker. The thing we were exposed to was iirc 10% strength of teargas. It’s meant for test exposures like that, so you get a feel for the stuff, but in real life scenarios and especially if you’re very close to one, it’d be much stronger.
And people would take one breath in the shipping container and run out coughing, spluttering and gagging while being beaten by other conscripts with pine branches. (Cleaning off the tear-gas.)
And none of us had any breathing problems. This unit is just balling through with his leather lungs. Prolly smoked hash since the 60’s and DMT since the 90’s, nothing hurts this man.
You can’t comment something like that with emojis on your username.
Dude looks like he was there in the 60’s, standing in the middle of tear-gas canisters, ripping a huge bong.
Leather lungs.
No stopping this unit.
I explained this to them, they basically said that there was no way they could do that.
Hahah, they’re actually equipped with RJ45 ports.
I don’t think they understand that printer can connect itself directly to a network by the sounds of what you’ve been writing. And I don’t believe they’re incapable of understanding it. But it sure fucking felt that way a lot of the time with IT-support, and it wasn’t about me being an autist, as none of those issues affected me in customer service jobs.
You should just set that up for them, then show how it works and then they’ll go “aaaaaaaaa that’s what you meant with all the annoying rambling phone call and emails I got from you after our last ticket”
Clearly. And I took it with grace and added it to my rum.
“No, REALLY, it’s their own fault!”
She would not be meeting with Far Right figures or sponsoring legislation if not for an outsized vicious attack against her shitty opinions.
“It’s their fault that I hate them and actively fund legislation to make their existence harder and more dangerous. THEIR fault!”
Oh cmon you’re not even trying, Hector.
I had a spike like protrusion in one of my icecubes from a regular ice cube tray you place in the freezer.
But couldn’t tell you why though
Who gives a fuck if JK Rowling has a less than enlightened view on trans people? Like other than a passing fuck you on that JK rowling, is that what’s really important here?
If money and fame didn’t equate political influence, then yeah, no-one would give a fuck about her personal opinions.
As it is though, she’s a billionaire who has helped fund and push through anti-trans (bathroom) legislation in the UK.
JK Rowling backs protest over Scottish gender bill
I read her posts about the issue and didn’t find them in and of themselves that problematic if that was just some person’s view. But, again, she’s an influential billionaire who wants to push through laws which actively endanger trans people.
I still like Harry Potter though, but I’m not gonna fund it in any way. And haven’t, for like 20 years.
Without googling, can you tell me who Hideki Tojo is?
It’s not that hard of a question and a lot of people willing know him, but unlike with say Hitler or Jesus, I also think there’s a lot who isn’t recognise the name at all.
Ofc it’s probably not hard to guess the context here, but still. The point is about name recognition. I wonder how familiar the teenagers of today are with Reagan or Nixon. Clearly on a meme basis the names are still recognised. But in 100 years, after a half a dozen more Trumps?
Prolly less so.
Anyways I agree with the other guy that it’s completely possible if not likely history will have ignored Trump in 600 years time.
But I guess none of us will be around to see that. Although I wouldn’t be 100% sure of that either.
Matches get wet.
Also, not that impressive to people who may already have flint-based lighters. And whom definitely had flint at least.
In 1662, Turkish traveler Evliya Çelebi visited Vienna as a member of an Ottoman diplomatic mission, and admired the lighters being manufactured there: “Enclosed in a kind of tiny box are tinder, a steel, sulphur, and resinous wood. When struck just like a firearm wheel, the wood bursts into flame. This is useful for soldiers on campaign.”
I think “needing” matches could be seen as you just not knowing basic shit. Kinda how we look at kids today in school. (“Back in my day we had a blackboard!”)
And since OP defined “a fantasy novel”, and not just medieval times, I don’t think my stainless steel knives would be that impressive. Probably good and worth a bunch, but you’d have some actually magical metals then, eh…
Hmm…
Honestly just as an all arounder I think my previous phone was kinda nice if you could have a solar charger. It had a camera better than my eyes (10x optical zoom), compass, bunch of sensors that could probably be adapted. Could hold Wikipedia and take notes. Hell, just edit a video a little to make a deepfake about the king being corrupt and other political demagoguery, especially for like a bard type character.
It’s a boring answer and it wouldn’t be that special tbh, but aside from having my ebike there with some sort of charger (although I think I’m fairly confident I could manage to build a charger / battery if it came to it, it’s not really that hard. You’d just need a very large one to get the voltage right. And I don’t known how picky the battery in my ebike is about the voltage it receives.
But if I had like a Wikipedia on my phone, oh wait no, then that’s two items, bike and Pedia. Pff. Bike would be so much more worth than a phone though, at least if we’re imagining a basic DnD party type of thing and not some massive political campaigns or bringing forth a new era of technology and culture through educating people with a Wikipedia.
Big Lie you say?
Oh it’s available for free as well. Like on purpose.
Cheers. Read some plot overview or smth seems cool yeah got to read that/those
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando-intro.html