Reminds me of Futurama. “You’re under arrest for child cruelty, child endangerment, depriving children of food, selling children AS food, and misrepresenting the weight of livestock!”

For me it’s “An Animated Description of Mr. Maps” by The Books.

I figured that was probably it. At the point I commented I didn’t see your other reply; you may have written it while I was composing mine. I was just trying to help explain the conflict.

Tango was saying that it’s sad that people probably will, in fact, build monuments to trump after he’s gone. You said that makes you happy rather than sad. ddplf was asking if you meant what that sounded like, i.e., that you were happy some people would still be sincerely celebrating trump after his death.

Yeah, good call. I meant to have a line about that. You would help a friend get over the blame and self-criticism and get to the actual business of changing for the better.

I think the idea is that, when you’re judging yourself really hard for something you’ve done, you’re asked to consider what you would think of a friend who had done the same thing. A lot of the time people would view the friend as having a made a forgivable mistake, even though they’re treating the behavior in themselves as evidence of an irredeemable and permanent character flaw. So it’s like, use supportive language when you talk to yourself. Remind yourself of all you’ve done right and all you’ve overcome, that sort of thing. Forgive yourself and build yourself up. It’s a specific instance of the kind of labeling-and-countering you’re talking about.

Really thought you were going to say leitmotif.

Oh, nice! Thanks!

I seriously admire this level of commitment to the bit.

oops! Sorry. It’s a recent (well, compared to the original) parody/homage/whatever of the poem:

• This is just to say
• I have eaten
• the rich
• that were at
• the golf club
• and which
• you were probably
• saving
• for class war
• Forgive me
• they were delicious
• so white
• and so old

It was posted on Twitter by “your friend Helen” (@hels) many years back. I assume they were the author but I really don’t know.

https://i.imgur.com/g9zpxpc.jpeg

Looks like a Stefan to me, though I can’t put my finger on why.

For me, Birkenstocks slip a little bit no matter what. If I don’t wear socks, the rubbing eventually makes me bleed (usually just under the ankle). If I wear socks, that doesn’t happen.

I’m not sure why that happens to me and not to most people. Maybe my skin is too dry? But yeah. When I wore Birkenstocks, it was with socks. These days I just don’t wear sandals.

So, for anyone else who became curious after this exchange:

I tried to look up how many there actually are. It’s hard to give a single number, since there are many different ways to count them, but vaguely speaking it’s in the range of dozens to a few hundred. GPS specifically has had 83 satellites built, of which 31 are currently operational, but most of the others still exist, they’re just parked in a higher orbit for retirement. There’s also GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS, and IRNSS/Navic. QZSS and IRNSS don’t have as many satellites, and the rest are kinda roughly similar in number (e.g. GLONASS has had 146 built and 24 currently operational).

So yeah. Nowhere near hundreds of thousands. Even Starlink, which now comprises more than half of the total satellites of any kind in orbit, has only about 10,000.

I live 3300 km away from Texas. That’s almost half again as far as Kyiv is from Paris. It’s not trivial to just pop down there for a march some weekend.

A derecho, flooding, and tornadoes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Gary_power_outage

I actually think they are saving a copy. They need to be able to redo the training if they come up with a better architecture.

I would have transcribed it as “Demnn Fennìrós.” But yeah. Sloppity slop.

chambermaid, maybe?