I made the mistake of looking at some Itaewon videos on twitter. Haunting stuff.
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There was one scene exactly like the one described above, where the crowd had fallen over in a tight alley. Rescue workers were pulling with everything they had on the people at the bottom of the wedge in front, and couldn’t get them free.
Multiple different scenes of a dozen people in costumes pumping on the chests of other people in costumes - after they’d been pulled out of the crowd. So presumably they’d been in cardiac arrest for a while and had little chance of coming back. Rescue workers were spread so thin they couldn’t help everyone, so the kids were working on each other.
I think the many ways, good, bad, and neutral, in which standard US culture influences other parts of the world is underestimated. This can be things like aviation practices, legal accountability, demand for open politics, holidays, disrespect of authority, music, etc.
I think US culture is likely, if unintentionally, influencing events in Iran.
I don’t have any recollection of The Pixies, but they opened and the second act was Primus. Primus got the crowd going pretty good and JA killed it. I was surprised to find videos and I’m pretty sure one of the guys falling headfirst into the crowd is 24 year-old me. Can’t confirm, but it happened to me at least twice that night and the on video looks right, but the resolution sucks.
My first pixies show was frank black, first Jane’s show was porno for pyros. I missed Nirvana in Tijuana because it was one week into my first year of college and didn’t know any other fans.
Rage against the machine opened for porno for pyros, but I’ve never been much of a Rage fan.
Saw smashing pumpkins at the belly up in San Diego and pixies at Coachella and at an amphitheater in SD. Saw Arcade Fire at a 200 person secret show in like 2011.
I couldn’t even name one Pixie’s song even though they should have been completely in my demographic and musical wheelhouse. No idea why it just completely missed me
Underlying most efforts to cut Social Security benefits is the claim that Social Security is facing “insolvency.” This is a scary word that is neither technically accurate nor effective at getting people to understand the thing the word is used to describe.
Under current law, Social Security cannot technically become insolvent because the program’s benefit levels are constrained by a solvency requirement. When the aggregate amount of benefits people could receive under the Social Security formula exceeds the revenues and trust fund assets, this triggers an across-the-board benefit cut to make sure that the two sums are balanced.
According to the latest Social Security projections, absent program changes, this benefit cut will be triggered in 2035 and will amount to a 20 percent reduction in 2035, growing to a 26 percent reduction in 2096.
In fact, the thing advocates call “insolvency” — an across-the-board benefit cut — is really no different than raising the retirement age. In the scenario graphed above, “insolvency” results in a 20 percent reduction in benefits in 2035. By contrast, “raising the retirement age to 70” is a 23 percent benefit reduction. So “raising the retirement age” doesn’t avoid “insolvency” as these are just two opaque phrases used to describe the exact same policy .
The main reason advocates are able to frighten people with the specter of insolvency is because of the current law that requires the Social Security program to respond to revenue shortfalls by cutting benefits. But policymakers could easily change this trigger and they should.
For example, the relevant law could be amended to state that, whenever revenue falls short of scheduled benefits, the Social Security payroll tax will automatically be increased to make the two sums balance. In fact, you could get even cuter with it and make it so that revenue shortfalls trigger Social Security payroll tax increases only on earnings exceeding $150,000 or similar.
Changing the trigger in this way would not require any new taxes or really change anything at all about how the program operates in the near term. All it would do is change the default outcome of so-called “insolvency.” No longer would “insolvency” mean automatic benefit cuts. It would instead mean automatic tax increases on the rich.
The Kali Yuga, in Hinduism, is the fourth and worst of the four yugas (world ages) in a Yuga Cycle, preceded by Dvapara Yuga and followed by the next cycle’s Krita (Satya) Yuga. It is believed to be the present age, which is full of conflict and sin.
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Lasting for 432,000 years (1,200 divine years), Kali Yuga began 5,123 years ago and has 426,877 years left as of 2022 CE.
