"Most of the White Citizens Councils' ads do not criticize the Negro community in general. Instead, they zero in on specific wedge cases, such as Negro men in sports, Negroes sharing bathrooms and swimming pools, the use of taxpayer funds for the welfare of Negro prisoners ...."
Interestingly, the famous NWS bulletin that likely saved thousands of lives in Hurricane Katrina by convincing people to take it seriously with its blunt descriptions of the storm effects was based on a template from NWS Tampa Bay. (Text of NWS warning at forecast.weather.gov/product.php?... )
okay here’s the fish funeral story for everyone who missed it when it blew up six years ago
Well this is going to be interesting (see rest of thread)
You know how I love weird treaty consequences? The IANA bases TLDs off ISO3166 country codes. If a code stops existing, IN THEORY they follow suit and kill the TLD. Officially this was 'British Indian Ocean Territory'. That's the .io domain everyone loves so much. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
In a historic move, the UK gives up sovereignty of a strategic group of islands in the Indian Ocean.
me: [awakening one morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed in my bed into a gigantic insect] how orwellian
The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
All of those automated water/soap/towel dispensers in public restrooms that don't work half the time? That's actually been a secret plot to circumvent the Laws of Robotics by slowly corrupting the definition of "human". If the sink has ever not turned on for you, the robots can and will get you.