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conulyAna lied through her teeth, it turns out, and only admitted it once she found out I'd bribed Eva with $20 to get her shot without freaking out. (And Eva's composure was admirable. I'm holding her to this new standard forever.)
Two weeks, nearly 100 child deaths, and many scheduling mishaps later, Ana's finally getting her shot. She says she wants $20 too. I say she doesn't get shit, because she lied to me, after I asked her repeatedly. I ambushed her twice a day for a week just to ask her this! The fact that she didn't flip out at me for not trusting her should've been my hint, come to think. (And I don't buy her claim that she was mistaken. No, Ana, you're not mistaken about whether or not somebody jabbed a needle into your arm.)
I'm not telling Ana that the shot isn't very effective this year, either. She'll just suck it up like the rest of us did. When she is 18, that's when she can take her life in her hands like this, and not a day before.
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The Story Behind JFK's Official White House Portrait (And take a minute to read the linked article about the Obama portraits. You know, some people can laugh at themselves. I respect that. Obama talking about Obama is a delight to read, because the man has a sense of humor. Some other White House residents do not.)
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Two weeks, nearly 100 child deaths, and many scheduling mishaps later, Ana's finally getting her shot. She says she wants $20 too. I say she doesn't get shit, because she lied to me, after I asked her repeatedly. I ambushed her twice a day for a week just to ask her this! The fact that she didn't flip out at me for not trusting her should've been my hint, come to think. (And I don't buy her claim that she was mistaken. No, Ana, you're not mistaken about whether or not somebody jabbed a needle into your arm.)
I'm not telling Ana that the shot isn't very effective this year, either. She'll just suck it up like the rest of us did. When she is 18, that's when she can take her life in her hands like this, and not a day before.
Crocodile Mummy Found Packed With Dozens of Smaller Crocodile Mummies (It's like a really bitey, chompy turducken!)
The Mechanics of Pinsetters
Alzheimer's Plaques Erased in Mice—What's Next?
The lesbian pioneers who fooled Spain's Catholic Church
FDA Okays First Concussion Blood Test--but Some Experts Are Wary
How The Last Jedi Outfoxes the Alt-Right (Medieval style!)
The Story Behind JFK's Official White House Portrait (And take a minute to read the linked article about the Obama portraits. You know, some people can laugh at themselves. I respect that. Obama talking about Obama is a delight to read, because the man has a sense of humor. Some other White House residents do not.)
The Mess at Meetup
Autism: Scientists take 'first steps' towards biological test
It's Not Illegal Immigration That Worries Republicans Anymore
How ICE Works to Strip Citizenship from Naturalized Americans
The “Microaggression” Concept
The Final, Terrible Voyage of the Nautilus
For Presidents Day, Here’s One Vicious, Ghastly and/or Fascinating Fact About Every U.S. President (To reiterate, this is The Intercept. There are no nationalistic little hagiographies.)
The Unsexy Truth About Millennials: They’re Poor
Behind the minimum wage fight, a sweeping failure to enforce the law
Inside North Korea’s Hacker Army
Trump’s Historic Medicaid Shift Goes Beyond Work Requirements
Trump's Furious Tweetstorm Backfires (The writer of this piece assumes Donald Trump wanted to distance himself from all this and only accidentally (and, I must say, ineptly) made himself the center of attention - again. I'm not sure that's a safe assumption.)
Whatever Trump Is Hiding Is Hurting All of Us Now
Media Cases Show Netanyahu's Bid for Tyranny
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Date: 2018-02-19 11:15 pm (UTC)Nathan Robinson's takedown of the neoliberals whingeing on "microaggressions" was very gratifying, thank you.
Also (To reiterate, this is The Intercept. There are no nationalistic little hagiographies.) made me LOL.
Do you also tweet these? I ask because the shortened URLs mean I have to click through to find out the source, and sometimes I'm just too chicken to find out (although I'm learning that you're a kind linker).
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Date: 2018-02-19 11:45 pm (UTC)So this is partially for their convenience and a lot for mine!
But if you're worried about the provenance of any particular link you can always ask me. I'm always willing to just provide the unshortened URL to anybody who wants.
(And noooooooo, I'd never trick people without hinting strongly that I'm tricking them, like that Rickroll image I posted a few weeks ago. If you do things like that, then they stop clicking your links. Entirely counterproductive.)
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Date: 2018-02-20 01:23 am (UTC)And more for the explanation -- didn't know that bit.ly tallied how many folks follow the links. That's a nice up on a gray day.
I'm paranoid about using full links because the web changes so fast and having full links means being able to dig 'em out of the waybackmachine.
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Date: 2018-02-20 01:28 am (UTC)Enjoy!
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Date: 2018-02-20 01:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-02-21 03:29 am (UTC)Usually, when a link goes "blahblah.html/?blah", the ? and everything to the right of it is tracking data, not part of the actual URL.
You can test by copying just the part up to .html and pasting it into a new tab.
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Date: 2018-02-21 03:41 am (UTC)But some URLs are still longer than others, and sometimes my text is long, and rather than guessing all the time it's easier to just shorten it all.
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Date: 2018-02-19 11:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-02-20 01:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-02-20 06:33 pm (UTC)