aramis87
joined 1 year ago
I liked the day where everyone just decided to post all their voids and just kinda took over the feed.
That was a really nice day :)
I speak English. And, as James Nicoll said,
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
I speak some Spanish and some Dutch, but I don't know if I borrow many words from them that aren't "normal" borrow-words.
So, face shields are clear shields that cover your face. You'll see really thin plastic ones in doctors sometimes (they were common during covid), and there are heavier ones for welders and such. Cops often wear them as part of their riot gear get-ups.
Thing is, the medical-type shields aren't going to very useful during the LA protests, and the higher-grade ones that would be useful are pretty expensive to be just handing out to people. And then you come to this line in the article
along with a broadcast clip from Fox News appearing to show a man providing masks to protestors from the back of a pickup truck.
So - masks. He was providing some kind of masks to people - surgical, N95, carnival, Halloween - hell, little ballroom masks on sticks or thin cloth Zorro masks. But I'm pretty sure that the prosecutor will decide the charges against him are overstated and drop the charges.
It's mostly a tactic to get this guy off the streets for a bit because he was prepared more than they liked and was helping other demonstrators potentially hide their faces, and to give anyone else with similar ideas reason to pause before they do it themselves.
This can only end well ...
The Pope is giving a virtual address in his hometown of Chicago at the same time as the parade. I don't doubt the Pope will get bigger numbers.
A chance of showers before 2pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 2pm and 5pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 84. Calm wind becoming north around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
That doesn't sound too bad, especially since he'll likely be under a cover of some kind. I wonder if something else is up.
Just seven of 50 surveyed GOP lawmakers are planning to actually attend the president’s birthday festivities over the weekend, reported Politico. Source
Ah, Mr Thin-Skin strikes again ....
And he'll vote for them again because he supports them and thinks "they just did it the wrong way". Dude, this is exactly the way they were always going to do it, but you never listen to the other side because they're "woke". And by the time you wake up, it'll be too late for all of us. Not just the fascist USA, by the way, because corporations and their enablers now have free reign to deny science and avoid action until the rest of humanity is dying in a cataclysmic hellscape. But I'm glad you were able to avoid seeing a couple of people holding hands, I'm glad all this was worth it to you.
Does the bill still have that clause that says judges are no longer allowed to try to limit the executive branch? Because that's the clause we should be campaigning against.
A slight chance of showers, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 88. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
The weather doesn't sound that bad.
Just seven of 50 surveyed GOP lawmakers are planning to actually attend the president’s birthday festivities over the weekend, reported Politico. Source
Oh, now that sounds good!
Oh, cool, more people to block, thanks!
I have no idea who Bo Loudon is, and I believe my life is richer for it.