Rhaedas

Tulsa and Wilmington are two examples of reactions to black people starting to build themselves up, as per the American Dream.

And as an NC grade school student, do you think Wilmington was mentioned at all in any history class? But we learned all the governor names…

SImple solution is to just go into the turn slow. This gives a hint to the car behind you that you might be doing something beyond a left turn, and reaction time for any traffic that you may have to yield for (whether or not they legally have the right-of-way). Once you start turning more it ought to be obvious.

Of course lots of accidents are from obvious situations that could have been avoided, but not doing a legal U-turn isn’t going to fix stupid people.

Gen-X quietly in the corner, remembering how they watched TV a lot too, but also mostly got kicked out of the house to play outside and “don’t come back in until dark”.

Edit to emphasize this wasn’t necessarily a choice we made for ourselves. Boomers (and the Silent Gen before them) wanted their peace from the kids, so we were on our own. Good and bad points to that kind of character building.

Narrator: The fire detector in fact did not work.

There’s more than one kind of backup in life, check them all.

For the films, it would have ruined the pacing at the very least. And it wasn’t needed information for the rest of the story, which is what tends to get cut out or omitted when trying to reduce the amount. Let’s be honest, if Jackson had done anything with Tom, it would have added to the drama at the time about how he’s ruined everything. Either it wouldn’t have been done right, would have been too much or too little, or would have taken away from the core story. All to include a character that book fans still argue about. It was the best decision, just not to have it at all. (Wasn’t there some very subtle reference, somewhere?)

Don’t forget the sound, that clunk with every step is what sold it as real.

And magnetic shoes.

Been using my dad’s MacBook from 2009 (that he had obtained from a pawn shop long ago) as a secondary laptop. Had tried to update the existing OS, but it was too old, Apple had already abandoned it, so I installed Linux Mint XFCE. Now it’s modern again. Slow as hell for some tasks like browsing the web, but it’s the memory that’s the bottleneck, planning to go from the stock 2GB to 4GB or 8GB soon, which will fix that, possibly another SSD later too.

That’s what happened with ours. They were pushing to have longer and more complex passwords, which was great, since forever they had stuck with an eight character requirement (which I couldn’t believe, that’s breaking a few basic rules of security that I knew about, and this is a large corporation).

So I figure okay, I’ll make my next password something that’s finally decent. Except when I go to use the older terminal based systems that are still crucial to operation, they won’t take anything past eight characters… because that’s what they were programmed for. Turns out IT had jumped on the better security bandwagon before they either had gotten to migrating things at the core level, or they didn’t think that far until the tickets started hitting. Likely the latter.

It all works now, but it was funny having to go back to a less secure password for a while because of a slight oversight or assumption on IT’s part.

Seems most things are. Just being realistic.

Less total carbon. It’s morbid, but burning ourselves out faster ends up with a smaller number than if we persist in this. If you go with some assumption that economic collapse allows us to survive… well I guess you have a point.

True enough. But even if we had gotten a magic benevolent dictator decades ago, the damage was already done. We’re just piling it on at this point. In some aspects, maybe a speed run into hell will work out better than a long braking. Better overall, but still a disaster.

This may be a common human thing to do. The difference is the buffer zone that someone has before things become unbearable. Not an excuse, the right thing to do in a society that’s interconnected and educated is not to wait until that point to take action. But… we could probably argue how interconnected and educated people are with echo chambers and propaganda designed to keep them in control.

At some point things do break, regardless. Hopefully sooner than later.

Then Britain and friends jumped in and drew new borders for everyone because that’s exactly what wasn’t needed.

As a sidenote to things flying off, if you’re in an area that’s had snow, ice, or even just freezing temps, stay far back from any semis pulling a trailer. Guarantee that they don’t get up there to remove what’s there, and large chunks of ice can not only do damage to a following car, it could be lethal. It is absolutely the responsibility and even maybe the legality of the truck driver, but that doesn’t help the dead.

I think most people using them know that there’s not something there, and yet when using it they’ll still act as there is. Even giving it that benefit of doubt in what it outputs as valid, as if it’s from another person, maybe even one who knows more than they do. So it’s a gray area of “not believing”.

Many popular writing experts say to write messy. You want to get the ideas out, even if they’re ugly and imperfect, and go back later to fix the mistakes. Same can be said I suppose for any art. It’s what Bob Ross used to talk about in painting. Music, you can’t experiment and find what works without making some noise.

Sam Harris had a video on free will, and in it, he asked the audience to think of something (a color, or something simple but spontaneous). Then he asked them to try and think when in their thought process did that choice make itself known and get picked? I don’t think it’s as simple as there being free will or not, but I think what we experience is a bit of both coming together to give a sense of choice and self, when actually some things are deterministic by who we are or have become through life and experience. The wiring in the brain and its software. We’re not so hard wired that we can be perfectly predicted every time, but we do have preferred pathways created over time that influence any actual choice that’s made at the core.

So in answer to the title, it’s yes and no. There are some things that are far more fixed in our personalities that we understand at least partially why we do what we do. Then there are others that we don’t or can’t, or take years of therapy to figure out. But it’s a mix.

Of course they’re stealing; they have no morality in anything else they’re doing.