There’s still room for improvement. For example - Biden actually dies of old age and after a bruising battle - Kamala takes over.
You might want to repost that. The image is huge and Hexbear is super-slow right now.
alt right
I stopped using that term about a week after Charlottesville. I started to call everybody on the right-wing - right-wingers except those rare times I use “conservative” because that’s the term the US media insists on even though it’s ridiculous to call fascists conservative.
i wondered what the big red orbs in front of Target were
I want that to be a song lyric.
I learned the word late in life. I was in Japan and I had this dialog with my girlfriend…
“What are those called?”
“Do you know what they are called in English?”
“You don’t know? You really don’t know?” And she giggled a little.
“Nope.”
“They’re bollards.”
“Oh.”
You can’t get any more American than that. Other countries usually use bollards to protect pedestrians, bicyclists, and people in general. Americans use bollards to protect property and to protect against terrorism. I’m American and I wonder how many Americans even know the word bollard. My guess is much less than 1%. My guess if an American is shown a photo of a regular old bollard used in a foreign country to protect people - he says “That’s like a smaller version of the anti-terrorism things we have to protect buildings.”
Bollards are used to control traffic. Those anti-homeless things are not.
rapid passage through varied ambiances… a specific uninterrupted period of dériving
Help! I’m stuck in a pretentious tautology loop!
It reminded me of my searches years ago. But that effort was actually better. I miss old google. I never thought google itself would become garbage.
Jeff Beck said something like “Things work out better by accident but you can’t plan accidents.” And that idea is wrong. You can encourage randomness to sort of “guide” you potentially happy accidents.
I remember googling “dérive” years ago and checking out the Wikipedia page but I didn’t like what I read. What’s a good, concise definition? Is dérive basically the walking around version of aleatory?
aleatory (also aleatoric)
1 Depending on the throw of a dice or on chance; random.
1.1 Relating to or denoting music or other forms of art involving elements of random choice (sometimes using statistical or computer techniques) during their composition, production, or performance: aleatory music a photograph can capture the aleatory chaos of modern urban life
Etymology: late 1600s from Latin aleatorius, from aleator “dice player”, from alea “die”, + -y^1.
“as walkable as Paris”*
*Walkable areas in private sections only
My very first thought was “Hostile architecture defeated”. But it’s not defeated at all. That bed is dangerous. If a mattress slips - he could fall onto those nasty bollard-like things and get seriously hurt.
[Edit: I made a small change.]
I wonder who that will be. My money is still on Nikki Haley. Although it would be much better if Trump went goblin mode and chose somebody like Kid Rock.