GraniteM @ GraniteM @lemmy.world

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"She's just one of the girls, she is not one of those one-in-a-million. As if to have and to hold would be holding me down with love and addiction. I think I've found someone, I've found someone to help me work it out..."

Kind of a soft alternative pop song from the mid-90s. I grew up in the northeast and listened to a lot of TMBG, Violent Femmes, and Talking Heads, so it's possible that it's from someone slightly adjacent to them, but it also might have just been on the pop radio station. It's not "One In A Million" by Bosson, Ne-Yo, Aaliyah, or Trixter. I'm pretty sure I didn't dream its existence.

What happens at the Pentagon when the Chief Executive decides that we need to start actively ignoring something that the Pentagon itself declared to be a massive threat to national security?

Like, suppose that Trump ordered the Pentagon to set fire to the entire fleet of F-15s and send troops literally marching to their deaths off the lip of the Grand Canyon. Surely there's eventually got to come a breaking point.

"Our jobs are hard! We deserve the occasional murder, as a treat!"

I don't know if you have these, but I'm a big fan of "Tightly-Laced Corset Ahead"

Americans bow to no king.

I got a call once when I was actively seeking a job and a seemingly-human voice on the other end said that it was calling about my application. Lured in by my desperation, I talked to it for about about a minute before I realized that something was off about the conversation, so I said "Wait, are you a robot?"

And the thing on the other end of the line laughed and said "No, they don't pay me that much. So I was hoping I could talk to you some more about your employment history!"

Now deeply suspicious, I said "What town were you born in?"

And it hung up on me.

I would 1000% support a law requiring robots of all forms to be clearly identified as such.

On 1 March 1815, Napoleon and his followers landed on the French mainland at Golfe-Juan and headed for Grenoble through the foothills of the Alps, taking the route now known as Route Napoléon. The 5th Regiment intercepted him just south of Grenoble on 7 March. Napoleon approached the battalion alone and called to them, "Here I am. Kill your Emperor, if you wish!" The soldiers responded with, "Vive l'empereur!" and joined Napoleon's men. Six days later, 5,000 troops under Michel Ney, who had boasted that he would bring Napoleon to Paris in an iron cage, also joined Napoleon.

I rather doubt Trump has the kind of personal magnetism and courage that would get him to go face to face with armed troops and recruit them to his own side.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

Roald Dahl, pleading with people to vaccinate their children against measles.

And nobody thought to install some glass breakers on the bottom of their boots?

Edit: Hell, I'd even consider wedging a nice sharp piece of quartz into the tread of a boot.

He looks like the bastard offspring of DJ Qualls and Marilyn Manson.

Did the statue get repaired at some point?

Where Is My Mind?

But you still have to carry the weight of what you did to all those chickens.

"I don't know what's scarier, that it's happened, or that it happens often enough that there's a word for it."

He's spent his entire life falling up the stairs.

Privilege is being able to love who you love and not have to keep it a secret almost unto the grave for fear of being destroyed personally or professionally or potentially even facing criminal charges.

The entirety of Holy Grail, for starters. My high school history teacher said that it was one of the most realistic depictions of life in the Middle Ages ever put on film.

After that...

"What have the Romans ever done for us?"

"The roads!"

"Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads--"

...and...

"Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh."

You ever watch Gabby's Dollhouse?

She stays in her room, full-time. She never interacts with anyone outside of her room. She receives deliveries from an unseen outside force, via a cart and ramp system that makes interaction between inside and outside impossible. She then uses her anomalous abilities to shrink down inside of her dollhouse and have adventures in a pocket universe.

She's happily protected, in a contained, secure area which she never leaves.

Gabby is a comparatively benign SCP.

America First, by Dr Seuss (1941)