InevitableSwing [none/use name]

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Cake day: March 19th, 2022

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  • On the fly my friend created what I thought was a great Halloween costume. He wore an inflatable swim ring around his face and head. And he had a cheap tie hanging down from his chin over the ring. When people asked him what his costume was he said “(Of course) I’m a flower.”

    Before we got to the party we stopped off at a dollar store. He bought plastic bunches of grapes and he attached them to his clothes with safety pins. At the party - out of nowhere - a woman picked a grape off his costume. And then throughout the night a surprising number of women picked his grapes.



  • at the ICC requested arrest warrants for a few Israeli officials

    The US will say “Sorry ICC. Israel is covered under our law. Also - fuck you.” Emphasis mine.

    American Service-Members’ Protection Act

    The American Service-Members’ Protection Act (enacted August 2, 2002), known informally as The Hague Invasion Act, is a United States federal law described as “a bill to protect United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United States government against criminal prosecution by an international criminal court to which the United States is not party”.

    The Act gives the president power to use “all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court”.





  • Emphasis mine.

    Who is Marty the Robot and Why Do We Need Retail Service Robots?

    What Can Marty the Robot Do?

    When Marty notices spills or other trip hazards, he can alert customers verbally by saying “Caution. Hazard detected.” He can then contact employees through the store’s public announcement system. Marty the Robot can also scan shelves to check products and detect incorrect pricing or missing labels.

    Shoppers don’t need to worry that personal information about them is being collected. Any images or videos Marty captures is stored for a short period of time and is then destroyed. His focus is on identifying spills and price mismatches, not monitoring security.















  • characterized by something, a person who knows information (Be good or bad), and is in a situation isolated from the rest of the population, no one other than the protagonist or a very small group of people knows what is happening and what it implies

    It’s in Russian…

    Stalker (1979)

    A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

    Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

    The Wikipedia summary is a bit more detailed.

    The film tells the story of an expedition led by a figure known as the “Stalker” (Alexander Kaidanovsky), who guides his two clients — a melancholic writer (Anatoly Solonitsyn) and a professor (Nikolai Grinko) — through a hazardous wasteland to a mysterious restricted site known simply as the “Zone”. [There’s supposed to be a room there] which grants a person’s innermost desires. The film combines elements of science fiction and fantasy with dramatic philosophical, and psychological themes.