Police said they initially responded after patrol officers in the downtown area heard several shots being fired nearby. They found six minors, among a larger group of kids, suffering from injuries consistent with gunshot wounds. An emergency medical services crew transported all of them to a hospital for treatment. One of the...
Believe it or not, the bookshelf here is surprising well-stocked and curated. Everything from John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, David Baldacci, both the complete Harry Potter series and the Twilight series, the complete Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, etc.
Not all my kind of thing (in fact, out of those, I only really car about Picoult and Douglas Adams) but unlike the internet, they put some thought into it.
I’m afraid they are not going well yet. We’re on the way to a diagnosis, but we haven’t gotten there. A couple of good things have happened, but it’s overall not good or bad news yet so far. But thank you anyway.
An average is just that, an average. And it’s an average heavily weighted towards the rich.
It means that a vast percentage of people spend less than that, some of them far less.
And what I suggest they do is keep doing it because it’s only a few bucks a month and it won’t make a difference.
My family is not poor and we do not spend anywhere near $300 a month eating out. But we do eat out sometimes. It makes us happy. Sometimes I buy Taco Bell for my daughter. It makes her happy and I like to make her happy because it makes me happy.
You would have us never do any of it.
What else should people deny their kids in the name of money? Toys? Let them play with a stick and a rock?
We’re talking in circles. You think I only mentioned Netflix. I didn’t. I also said fast food. You also think I said poor people. I didn’t. My suggestion is for everyone.
Hello! Another super-long Flying Squid post from my visit to the Mayo Clinic here in Rochester, Minnesota. I’d link to the background, but there’s been too many (requested) update posts at this point. Sorry for anyone new to this who actually reads to the end....
The reasoning at the time was that the Japanese would not believe the U.S. could do it more than once and they would have to believe the U.S. could obliterate Japan in order to surrender.
I have no idea if that would have been true, but that was the idea. It certainly is true that the Japanese were being told to fight until every last man, woman and child on the islands died, so it was a desperate situation all around.
But the fact is that it was only a matter of time before someone developed an atomic bomb and no one has been crazy enough to use one in a war since 1945. The main reason for that, in my opinion, is that the world saw what happened.
They did one test in the desert which did not clearly show the destruction. It did not show the deaths. It did not show the shadows on the wall. It did not show the burns. It did not show the blindness. It did not show the radiation sickness.
And the very first words in my post were, “I do not wish to justify the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” so I don’t know why you seem to think I believe they were justified.
Do you really not think anything the future can learn from can come out of a tragedy, no matter how horrific?
Mass shooting outside Indianapolis mall [Circle Center] leaves 7 injured, all children and teens, police say (www.cbsnews.com)
Police said they initially responded after patrol officers in the downtown area heard several shots being fired nearby. They found six minors, among a larger group of kids, suffering from injuries consistent with gunshot wounds. An emergency medical services crew transported all of them to a hospital for treatment. One of the...
Traffic Blockade Protests Were a Nuisance. Lawmakers Want to Make Them a Felony. (www.motherjones.com)
If you don't cross the streams, he'll just come back in three days. (lemmy.world)
If they're people, why aren't they in prison? (lemmy.world)
They do own 20th Century Fox... (lemmy.world)
Trump Launches Another Attack on Judge's Daughter, This Time with Photos (www.rollingstone.com)
The former president accused Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter of presenting a conflict of interest, possibly violating a gag order...
Majestic (lemmy.world)
Florida deputy’s son, 10, accused of selling dead father’s gun to classmate for $300 (www.nbcnews.com)
Two 10-year-old students were arrested in connection with a gun sold at their elementary school in Florida, county officials confirmed....
I'm working on it, ok? (lemmy.world)
Two tales of domestication (lemmus.org)
Sarahs Scribbles by Sarah Andersen for March 30, 2024.
Sorry, no health updates. I've been on hold for 2 days and now it's the weekend. So here's a few observations about the weirdness of Rochester, MN and more crazy mother stories!
Hello! Another super-long Flying Squid post from my visit to the Mayo Clinic here in Rochester, Minnesota. I’d link to the background, but there’s been too many (requested) update posts at this point. Sorry for anyone new to this who actually reads to the end....
Transgender athletes face growing hostility: four tell their stories in their own words (www.usatoday.com)
'Oppenheimer' finally premieres in Japan to mixed reactions and high emotions (www.npr.org)
Form over function, eh? (hackers.town)
You had one job…
Church attendance is dropping all across America. It's long overdue. (www.friendlyatheist.com)