I don’t know, I’ve probably never been nearer to a life of crime then in the depths of the black deck.

Are you a glass half full, or a glass half empty kind of person. 'Cause half of your dream is almost certainly going to happen.

She said ‘This was why I couldn’t get off and stay off. Just as the cliché warns. I literally wasn’t keeping it in the day. I was adding the clean days up in my head.’ She cocked her head at him. ‘Did you ever hear of this fellow Evel Knievel? This motorcycle-jumper?’

Gately nods slightly, being careful of a tube he now feels. This is why his throat had had that raped feeling in it. The tube. He actually has an old cutout action picture of the historical Evel Knievel, from an old Life magazine, in a white leather Elvisish suit, in the air, aloft, haloed in spotlights, upright on a bike, a row of well-waxed trucks below.

‘At St. Collie only the Crocodiles’d heard of him. My own Daddy’d followed him, cut out pictures, as a boy.’ Gately can tell she’s smiling under there. ‘But what I used to do, I’d throw away the pipe and shake my fist at the sky and say As God is my fucking witness NEVER AGAIN, as of this minute right here I QUIT FOR ALL TIME.’ She also has this habit of absently patting the top of her head when she talks, where little barrettes and spongy clamps hold the veil in place. ‘And I’d bunker up all white-knuckled and stay straight. And count the days. I was proud of each day I stayed off. Each day seemed evidence of something, and I counted them. I’d add them up. Line them up end to end. You know?’ Gately knows very well but doesn’t nod, lets her do this on just her own steam. She says ‘And soon it would get… improbable. As if each day was a car Knievel had to clear. One car, two cars. By the time I’d get up to say like maybe about 14 cars, it would begin to seem like this staggering number. Jumping over 14 cars. And the rest of the year, looking ahead, hundreds and hundreds of cars, me in the air trying to clear them.’ She left her head alone and cocked it. ‘Who could do it? How did I ever think anyone could do it that way?’

-Infinite Jest

Where do you think they’re coming from in the first place?

20 years ago was 2025

Damn I slept better than I thought.

Consensual Death would be a good band name.

Just a sode note, even if he was a financial genius, it isn’t his job to “lead the economy”. At best he would supposed to accomplish that through appointments and consensus if that were his goal. Here isnhis job description per the constitution:

The U.S. Constitution contains the only official “job description” for the President of the United States. According to Article II, Sections 2 and 3, the President:

1. Is the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of the United **States, and of each state’s militia when the nation has need of it **> 2) Has power to obtain information and opinions from heads of the executive departments
2. May grant pardons and reprieves for crimes against the United States
3. Makes treaties with other countries with the approval of the Senate
4. Appoints ambassadors, federal judges and heads of executive departments – all subject to the approval of the Senate; the President also has power to fill any vacancies that may happen while the Senate is in recess
5. Must report to Congress from time to time about the state of the union and recommend whatever measures he thinks are necessary
6. May call members of Congress together on extraordinary occasions, as well as adjourn their meetings when they cannot agree on their own about when to do this
7. Receives foreign ambassadors and other public officials
8. Is responsible for enforcing the nation’s laws
9. Issues commissions to all officers of the United States

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-2/

Am I missing the article link?

I will always bring this up. During the “birthday card” period, Trump was a Democrat. Democrats don’t care whonis implicated, we just want to punish ghouls.

I curse that cursor.

Vaccine skepticism

In 2009, Carrey wrote an article questioning the merits of vaccination for The Huffington Post.[149] With former partner Jenny McCarthy, Carrey led a “Green Our Vaccines” march in Washington, D.C., to advocate for the removal of “toxic substances” from children’s vaccines, out of a belief that children had received “too many vaccines, too soon, many of which are toxic”.[150] The rally was criticized by David Gorski, an American surgical oncologist on Science-Based Medicine blog, for being anti-vaccine and not “pro-safe vaccine”,[151] and by Steven Parker on the WebMD website for being “irresponsible”.[152]

On July 1, 2015, after the signing of a new vaccination law, Carrey called California Governor Jerry Brown a “corporate fascist” who was “poisoning” children by enacting the vaccination requirements.[153] The law disallowed religious and philosophical reasons for exemption from vaccination. Carrey was criticized for being “ignorant when it comes to vaccines” by Arthur Caplan, head of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University,[154] and by Jeffrey Kluger, senior writer at Time, who described his anti-vaccination statements as “angry, dense and immune to reason”.[155]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Carrey

What’s going on in Malta?

In my experience, most people for some reason. Honestly I usually get push back on this, I’m not used to people agreeing with me. There’s usually at least one person for example that tries to claim it’s safer for the knife since if it falls the tip is more protected when up.

This verges on actually mattering, but knives on magnetic strips should be blade down.

Pros:

• when grabbing the knife you are holding it in the safest way possible automatically with the blade pointed down rather than blade up like fucking Chucky.

• If you botch grabbing it, it falls away from your hand/arm rather than toward/on top of it.

• the handles hook over the strip and are more secure

• the handles are all on the same plane, and again if you dislodge a separate knife unexpectedly it falls away from your hand/arm

Green are quite tasty in paella though.

The “lesson” will be that the truly wealthy will stay so, and the rest of us will be pushed farther away, the discrepancy between our stations will diverge even further, and the relative wealth of the tippy top will increase just that much more. Don’t think for a minute that this bubble, or any bubble for that matter, is not egged on by those insulated from it’s poppings consequences.

The alien in the lower right.

I think Run is Capadonna, not Ghostface, unsure if that’s helpful or not.

MOULTON, Ala. – A fake mug shot posted by the Moulton city police department has garnered a lot of social media attention.

“I was very surprised. I think we are up to 6,000 shares,” said Officer Russell Graham.

Russell Graham is a Moulton City Police officer.

On Tuesday, he posted this photo along with other mug shots on the police department’s Facebook page.

“It just looked humorous to me, there were several that I went through and I said there’s our guy,” explained Officer Graham.

Graham wrote on the photo’s caption that “Barry Larry Terry” was arrested on charges of unlawful possession of a wild raccoon and no headlamp on bicycle.

“I can’t tell you where it came from I was just like I was just like ‘That looks like a Barry Larry Terry.'”

Graham says the other mug shots he posted were real, but this one was just a joke.

But what’s not entirely satire about the post, “There’s actually a law possession of wild animals. I don’t think it specifically says wild raccoon, but I just added that in there and here we are.”

Graham says the post was intended humanize the badge. He says he’s seen other law enforcement Facebook pages do similar posts.

“Across the world law enforcement officers are seen in a bad light. They’re seen as robots so to speak, supposed to be serious. We were trying to project a little humor, and hopefully build a little rapport with the citizens that come across the page,” Graham explained.

The photo has been taken off the Facebook page, but the viral idea isn’t going away so easily.

A Facebook user-created a page called “Free Barry Larry Terry” that is bringing voice to the convict and his furry friend.

One of the posts on the new page says “Can somebody come down here to the city jail. Put $5 on a my books and brang me some smokes.”

Reddit users also found the mug shot, and Mr. Terry is catching a lot of attention there.

The department recently posted that they now have more likes than the city’s population.

ACAB.

Could be photo shop? The hands come up from out of frame, so it could be a normal picture of john rambo with a bandana and gang sign hands just dropped on top. It does have that soap opera foggy quality though so you’re probably right that its AI.