I recently met a guy from Atlanta who put his kids in the bathroom tub and stood at the ready with an AK-47 in his high rise Buckhead condo during the Atlanta protests. He willingly disclosed this and apparently thinks it was normal behavior.
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When Preet thinks youāre moving too slowlyā¦
https://twitter.com/preetbharara/status/1294761866917490691?s=21
https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1294740327908089856?s=21
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And no doubt heās fighting like hell to shovel his kids back to school. And no goddamn masks either.
My NextDoor has a very busy thread about the Post Office going. Itās mostly running supportive and some people are saying they will mail ballots early with extra stamps to help the PO. There is one Trumpy person, but several people talking about how this is Trump trying to steal or cast doubt on the election.
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I can imagine that a large-scale mail slowdown will screw up peopleās bills as well. In theory, they could be past due by the time you get them. I still get a few bills by mail. So far I havenāt seen a slow down in how long it takes my checks to cash, but weāll see if that changes in the future.
100%. He looked at me like an alien when I said my kids are doing virtual learning.
Now do an overlay with the number of ice cream shops!
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Lol you think his behavior was unusual among rich white men in Georgia? The ācrazyā lawyer couple out on their front lawn like Scarface wherever that was (outside STL iirc) were more ānormalā than weād like to think.
Obviously thereās a healthy dose of racism in there, but a lot of this also boils down to a virus you canāt see and a ālooterā you can.
Iāve been to ATL once and it was to a wedding in Buckhead. My wife was in the wedding so day before and day of I adventured Atlanta on my own. I got dumbfounded looks and āoh thatās not safeā comments when I told other attendees about how I traveled around the city on my own to check it out while Mrs. Cooler was busy. People are so scared of āthe otherā.
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Yeah that line of thinking is such bullshit. I grew up with it, too
So, you people arenāt enough for me. Iām on NextDoor today.
This came up in the post office thread for some reason
A:Ten years ago I went got a passport. Why? Because I hoped they would make you show it when you went to vote. I think people who are not sick should vote in person and show proof they are American citizen. I can run around collect or steal vote by mail ballots or register under many names and vote as many times as I like. One manās cat got a ballot in an election.
me:You could commit a felony that could get you imprisoned and deported all for the chance to have maybe 1/120000000th of a say in who the POTUS is. Unsurprisingly, essentially no one ever does that.
also me:Less that half the people who can legally vote actually do it, but those industrious illegal aliens are out there voting multiple times! Felonies be damned! You canāt stop them from voting! I guess they just really really really love democracy.
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Not quite the same but I saw something where the IRS is way behind opening mail so all kinds of folks that sent in checks are getting late notices and assessed penalties and interest while their payments just sit unopened.
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Btw, @JohnnyTruant, since you are here now and Iām thinking of it, Iāll post it here even though it belongs in the covid threadā¦
I spent a few hours yesterday and this morning in a dusty attic and man these loose medical type masks do not do what the regular m95 or whatever they are dust masks with the valve thing that I would usually use do. It was full of mouse poop, so I probably have hantavirus now.
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Press F to pay respects to microbetās mouse poop.
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When I was younger I used to wander around San Bernardino at night drunk and just run amok in that city growing up. To be clear their crime rate was one of the worst in the country at the time, probably still is. I had some problems growing up, got jumped a few times, but honestly if you donāt fuck with people 99% of the time they donāt fuck with you.
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Ha. I went to the damn aquarium and Coke Factory and like two bars in a āsketchyā area o my own too.
Funniest interaction Iāve got related to this topic was from family that lives in NW DC. Outside of Georgetown itās one of the nicest areas in the city. While staying with them I went to visit one of my bffās and his wife who live in NE DC. His block recently had a bunch of shootings. It was all drug related. My family member literally grabbed me by the arm telling me I couldnāt go there and wouldnāt allow my cousin to go out there. I sorta just chuckled.
Iām old now but HStreet area in DC is hella fun for anyone around there.
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I sent a copyright short form assignment to the U.S. Copyright Office in either middle of April or early May. In normal times, the process takes 6 to 8 months to get the database updated. I did the recommended Electronic Title List that can speed that up by a couple of months.
With the forms I sent, they will send you an acknowledgement they received your material if you provide a second copy of the paperwork and a self-addressed stamped envelope. They make it very clear this is only to let you know they received it and does not speed up the process at all. I still have not received anything coming up on 4 months later. I would imagine this sort of back up is happening at every single federal government agency that receives a lot of material via regular mail (I could not file my copyright assignment online based on what it was).
Im sure we all have stories about our white friends and families scared of the āriotersā. Iāve even posted about it before with my rural Kansas MIL calling my wife in a panic about how she saw something on FB about how they were coming for her and she was scared.
The only plus side is this. The amount of people willingly telling on themselves for being racist scum has multiplied x10 from even where we were a year ago. Fuck them all forever.
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