Re: Assorted for Monday

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In better news:
https://apnews.com/article/france-gisele-pelicot-rape-trial-verdicts-2b25791099f785fabb3c46123d30d9f9


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 5:04 AM
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That case is so insane. Quick, someone replace this post with a guest post!


Posted by: heebie | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 6:17 AM
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If only we knew a FPP!


Posted by: mc | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 6:18 AM
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But I'm trapped in a hotel room and things are bonkers. Be the change, Moss.


Posted by: heebie | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 6:39 AM
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I used to be better at being alone, because I had a better attention span and enjoyed reading long-form writing. I read a ton as a kid.

I also used to listen to public radio talk shows. My favorite was WBUR's The Connection. I do still listen to WGBH's Boston Public Radio, because they mix conversation, culture and local issues and are anti-Trump. I don't want to talk about politics all the time, but I need to hear people calling out how bad Trump is. I need to hear that there are still other people who think what's happening is wrong.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 6:44 AM
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But thank you Mossy for that link, because it's hopeful. And I heard about those billboards somewhere else (probably Bluesky?) and was horrified.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 6:54 AM
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Does Texas plan to warn people coming from Oklahoma or Kansas that lots of Texans are rapists?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 7:19 AM
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It's like John Turturro's character in The Big Lebowski going around and warning all the neighbors as ordered by the law. They should try this with other states. Like New York could put signs up in Canada warning them that New Yorkers will try to get them to sell or buy pictures of feet.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 7:51 AM
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That's a very good idea.


Posted by: heebie | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 7:53 AM
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I'll mention it to Eric Adams.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 7:59 AM
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Illinois: We're not very subtle when we stare at your ass.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 8:05 AM
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Without making any excuses for the Texarchists, traffickers are the fucking scum of the earth.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 8:21 AM
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They are. That's why we need Greenland as a buffer zone.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 8:30 AM
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I'll take this opportunity to remind everyone that if we'd made Trump king of Greenland a lot of heartache could have been avoided. All hail Donald Fairhair!


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 9:11 AM
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I think maybe that's not his natural color.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 9:14 AM
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Sort of halfway between Elba and St. Helena.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 9:23 AM
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In the past several years I'ne had a succession of ~20yo US colleagues who I've fucking despised for their total lack of self-sufficiency. They seemed physically incapable of enduring more than 20 seconds of silence.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 9:25 AM
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I have an 18-year-old that I can't get to talk.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 9:38 AM
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I go solo hiking regularly but find it difficult to do anything I should focus on at home without putting some kind of tv on, and then I get things done but more slowly than if I just focused. I've done a lot of math/computer science homework while half paying attention to tv shows I've already seen. When short on time, I turn the tv off and then oddly enough I get things done more quickly. Weird.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 9:54 AM
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Meow Wolf is pretty intense! wow.


Posted by: heebie | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 11:20 AM
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I loved Meow Wolf Vegas. Not sure what their thing is in NM.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 11:24 AM
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No we loved it. Just feel a little dazed after two hours in there.


Posted by: heebie | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 11:25 AM
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Oh, no, I got that. Just that I know their installations are pretty different across cities so I'm curious the differences from Vegas. But it's the kind of thing better to see for oneself, so don't actually tell me.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 11:42 AM
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Done.


Posted by: heebie | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 1:06 PM
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I'm not sure that 1 is a bad thing. There are people in horrible situations, and these billboards are gross, but they are more or less true. And if they work in discouraging people from hiring smugglers, maybe that's good? I'm certainly not claiming to know anything about this.



Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 1:35 PM
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I'm fine with being by myself. That's what I'm best at!
I have to remind myself that there are limits to this -- when I was a divorced guy in my 30s living alone, I did get lonely. But now between the time I spend with my wife and stepdaughter and my job, I have all the social contact I need and mostly just want to be alone. That's probably why I don't have any friends.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 1:43 PM
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Meow Wolf in the DFW area was funky and weird and fun and interesting, and also nearly the polar opposite of being alone.

Otherwise, I'm very good at being by myself, though I like to have music going in the background. My dad keeps a tv going as background noise, and it makes me kinda nutty when I'm there because I can't pull my focus away from it the way he (and the others there) apparently can. But my in-laws never had any kind of background thing going, and that too drove me nuts. Just felt like the house was dead. So: it me, radio listener.


Posted by: Doug | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 1:43 PM
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I treated my in-laws to the Meow Wolf in Denver the last time we visited because it's the kind of thing they'd never spend money on themselves. We all had a great time, although--related to the OP--I thought that I might enjoy it more on my own so I could explore without keeping track of four other people.


Posted by: J, Robot | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 4:00 PM
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I finally had to search to figure out what Meow Wolf was.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 4:08 PM
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Man, last I checked there were like two Meow Wolfs. I wonder if they're sustainable.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 4:21 PM
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29: I'm avoiding it like it's political news.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 4:28 PM
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Heh, I'm going to see Meow Wolf Santa Fe tomorrow morning. Arrived Santa Fe late yesterday and I'm leaving on Friday. Family members wanted to do Christmas in the Southwest.


Posted by: md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 12-23-24 5:00 PM
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