Well this is interesting

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May it give them empathy for those who stand before then in court.

:rofl: jk we know that won’t happen

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At the same time, as I have seen pointed out, look at the framing.

Try this on for size:

3 friends go out drinking. They have more than a few, admittedly. A car of strangers passes them and someone in the car crudely catcalls the woman. She responds rudely. The guys in the car don’t like that snd decide to escalate. Maybe even “teach her a lesson”. Her friends step in to help her, and someone from the car starts shooting.

In other words, “she should have just ignored it.” It’s her fault for being offended and responding to someone who felt entitled to her.

Even her statements are classic examples of women trained to take responsibility for the misbehavior of men. “I can get aggressive when I drink,” sound an awful lot like “If I hadn’t said that, he wouldn’t have hit me.”

Take away the “judges” aspect and suddenly it’s a scenario that we’re all very familiar with. If they weren’t members of the judiciary, this wouldn’t even be newsworthy in gun-happy US of A.

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That’s how I saw it to start with. And it is framed as amusing in a mean way, I think because it happened in the state of the self-righteous VPOTUS we love to hate, Mike Pence. And they’re judges, who are supposed to act better than that outside their robes. Like Kavanaugh, I guess?

I expect we had to be there.

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Wait. Isn’t that the Blue Line flag? The one to commemorate cops killed in the line of duty?

I’m so confused.

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It’s a humorous bit of misinformation intended to turn gullible, patriotic types against one another.

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Nothing new, but it still looks cool.

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I found fan-fic that I wrote in 1981 or 1982 that was an “X-Men” story (comic books; S/FX weren’t ready for the big-bang from which the MCU would emerge).

I shredded it for use as cat litter. You’re welcome.

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From 1985

I get the impression that Assyriology was, before Unicode came along, quite a slow field.

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Lebanese weddings are my latest YouTube rabbit hole and they are just so over the top, it’s madness.

Well, this lady is the younger sister of this asshole (whose wedding was similar but not as nice, IMHO)

Hope you like sports cars!

Yes, the bride always wears a gown that is the size of a circus tent. Most of the time the gown is covered in crystals. This one is quite restrained. Generally the bride appears to not be able to walk properly due to the size of her dress, and possibly some kind of blingy shoe that you cannot even see but is probably there anyway. For some reason, there is always a big staircase reveal of the bride, which seems weird since she cannot walk properly.

Hello! Drummer guys! I’m available. Text me.

Drone camera footage of these weddings is de rigeur. I read that the older brother’s involved about 5 drone cameras.

The first video is of the entrance. The second video shows the entire wedding and if you scroll through you can see the reception with the crystals, fireworks (there is always fireworks), etc., but I think their entrance was pretty damn fun.

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Fairly typical one of these. The poor bride looks like she is in agony walking down that long ramp. The big reveal moment has a nice extra touch.

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I can’t stop. There must have been a million dollars in flowers alone at this one. At least she can walk.

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Read “I Ran Into Some Trouble” by Peggy Caserta. Seriously. do eet!

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