Reminds me of a Jon Stewart cutaway: "Context. It's why old people are sad."
Pétanque, a game similar to boules, has been popular here since the French introduced it in the former colony. But children often see the round, metal cluster munitions and mistake them for lost pétanque balls. “Many children pick up bombies thinking they’re toys, we hear this a lot,” says Ket. It’s why awareness and education programmes are as important as the land clearance operations, she adds.
Fucking hell.
Still, aid to clean up the UXOs pales in comparison to the cost of the bombardment – in 2023 dollars, the US spent $16 million every day bombing Laos for nine years. According to Legacies of War, funding to decontaminate now stands at just $45 million per year.
(16)(365)(9) = 52,560 million or 52.56 billion. 0.045/52.56 = 0.086%
“Frequently, I’ve come to regret things I’ve said. This, from 2001, is not one of those times.”
They called me a vampire for listening to too much "emotional, atmospheric music."
Had a prof tell horror stories about this kind of thing happening. Peers who started at a similar time were already postdocs or in industry, meanwhile their colleague had yet to defend cause their PI just would not let them go.
Only when I go to stand up after squatting for a time.
Cadets! This axiom may one day save your life: Phase first, ask questions later.
Is it an impostor? A clone or a hologram? Is it a chair or is it Odo? Too many questions! Now you're on your way to being composted into Ketracel.
Phase first, cadet! Phase like Tendi scans. Do not hesitate to phase out the answers to your questions. If a visiting Klingon does not remark, "There seem to be a lot of phaser scars on this station" you have not been phasing appropriately!
Do not wait for them to escape into a jefferies tube or Engineering. Phase them!
We have stun settings for a reason, people! Phase each other, play tag. But for Koala's sake, do not hesitate to fire. Our lives depend upon your itchy trigger fingers.
This reads like an episode of South Park.
70k people show up once a year, emit 100k tons of CO2, and the Burning Man Project wants to pretend it's concerned a geothermal well may 'disrupt the desert ecosystem.'
I hope it rains much harder next year.
To think, after all this time, all our lunches together... you still don't trust me. There's hope for you yet, doctor.
Andrew Matthews, former officer with the Yale PD and current lawyer for Yale's police union, said he doesn't think there was an attempt to fearmonger or scare people when police distributed their pamphlets.
Bullshit. That's exactly what it was. They know how impressionable freshmen are, especially those from out of state or country. They know the authority they have and represent, and because of this a lot of people will simply take them at their word. They also know the age old strategy of 1) scare people with an outside threat, then 2) present yourself as the only solution to said threat.
I think they meant the sub where life is treated like a game, a very poorly designed game (almost as if there was no Designer, just people).
Things like, "I'm level 18, should I spec my character into the biochem, robotics, or software guild?"
Or "What's the cheat code for an affordable surgery?"
You get the idea. Life's a game. And it sucks. Stupid devs.
I was not there, Gandalf. This was before even my time.