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10:38:27
gingerale
Got a call from my doctor on the test results. "Pretty good, but please exercise more and give some thought on fatty products like cheeses you eat."
12:17:26
minty
there was a wreck on the route yesterday so i stopped and made sure the person was alright n called 911
12:23:27
minty
but when i got back from running mail they took my picture and made me write a short statement
12:24:12
Colleen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTO... Website (HTML), Title: Pink Flamingos (John Waters, 1972) - Filth are my politics! [SUB ITA] - YouTube
12:24:12
Colleen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTO... Website (HTML), Title: Pink Flamingos (John Waters, 1972) - Filth are my politics! [SUB ITA] - YouTube
12:25:52
minty
but no i had to write down what happened, which... when i was done reading it, looked weird? like, i had been trained to do cpr every year i was in the military so stopping for someone in a mangled vehicle i wrote down "she was awake and alert" and it just looked robotic?
12:29:50
minty
it wasn't a journalist. it was for the post office. for my boss to send up to the district. so i dunno... i'd read in our quarterly rural carrier union things stories of people stopping for fires
12:31:32
minty
but my supervisor called me a hero and that was really weird cuz to me that's not something heroic? like, i didn't pull a baby from a burning building or anything. i just stopped and called 911? that should be just, the baseline for regular humanity?
12:32:18
minty
like, what are your real options there when a person trapped in a mangled vehicle flags you down?
13:16:32
minty
ima take a nap i think... tryin' to read papers for this final paper but fallin' asleep
14:33:05
isoraqathedh
About May this year Taiwan had a problem with their electricity supply and so they had some blackouts.
14:34:08
isoraqathedh
Certain state media hooked onto this and laughed at the government of Taiwan saying that they're incompetents and how an advanced not-a-country can have two blackouts in five months. The stability in Taiwan must be bad, they said, and it should only take a missile or two to teach the breakaway government a lesson.
14:35:22
isoraqathedh
...fast forward to now, and multiple Chinese provinces now have "irregular, unannounced and until-further-notice" power cuts and blackouts. Some of these until March.
14:35:47
isoraqathedh
The result? He deleted the post, which people have by now dug up and changed the nouns on.
14:37:19
isoraqathedh
I mean if anything it still shows that many Chinese people still have their wits about.
14:38:53
isoraqathedh
I think in some way the average Mainlander is pretty good at this, because they've learnt how to deal with repression to some extent. We haven't...
14:40:36
isoraqathedh
Local government in China, where it exists, are known to be able to "interpret" edicts handed down from above to a form that benefits them. Sometimes this means that they'll protect those under their jurisdiction from others, if only because they pad them with just a few more coins.
14:41:28
isoraqathedh
The government officials around here, they're completely unused to any such "measures". They'll maximally interpret everything in a way that benefits (what they think) the God has handed down.
14:42:08
shinmera
That's true, though I think it's also just them fearing retribution after the show of force china had
14:43:00
shinmera
Given HK's rebellious activities I feel like they'd also be under much more scrutiny than some province that china thinks is fully under control anyway.
14:43:01
isoraqathedh
What I said was echoed by some people that presumably are better at reading other humans than I am.
15:25:05
Colleen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ony... Website (HTML), Title: guys i escaped my test chamber - YouTube
15:25:05
Colleen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ony... Website (HTML), Title: guys i escaped my test chamber - YouTube
17:43:28
suntmc
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17:44:43
suntmc
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