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Dang so that daylight was from the explosion?

What time of day did this occur?

Its difficult for me to even get a grasp of scale. I really have no actual concept for what I’m looking at, above some kind of minimum threshold for what must be several buildings at least.

That may be the single most intuitive, and intuitively useful, app I have used in years.

Wow, instant default install.

Cursed autocorrect exposes dark secrets

For one reason or another the OP photo won’t load for me, but I can infer from the OP caption and your comment that this is a picture of someone posing next to the hottest temperature record sign in death valley or wherever.

The Tainterview of the century.

That is very kind of you to say, and the same to you.

I’m glad you haven’t heard it because from my perspective, the universe thought I had come up with it myself, haha. But I haven’t read Descartes either, so I cannot say for certain.

That Sagan phrase inspired me to adapt a Descartes principle:

Because I am conscious, the universe is conscious.

As a former evangelical Christian, the natural universe we inhabit is magical and exciting and fascinating in a way that it simply isn’t when you believe it was the creation of an all-powerful God as basically a training ground for Heaven or whatever.

There is so much more to learn and understand. It is fucking awesome!

If he was a nobody he wouldn’t be part of her list. I think you can do better than that.

What does a Kamala candicacy need from a VP, other than an old-but-not-too-old white man who doesn’t say much and doesn’t steal she show but conveys a sense of quiet competence to illustrate a kind of chaperone character for the benefit of older people who want to be progressive but are still basically racist? Not much if you ask me, this is the Kamala show. But having a tough looking mother fucking Astronaut whose wife survived an assassination attempt neutralizes so many Trump/Vance talking points right out of the gate, freeing up Kamala to be Kamala.

I wish it could be Buttigieg, but he can continue to be just as effective as he’s been without weighing down the ticket.

Kelly is the perfect choice for this race.

So it’s basically The Deep for Veep.

I wish I’d contented myself with the headline on this one.

It’s soothing to read it in his voice.

I share your hatred but that likely isn’t what is happening here.

Put simply, someone fucked up. At an airport, the competing concerns of health and security are in their most extreme tension. For some reason, someone on staff skewed security when they should have skewed health.

There is no excuse for it, and guaranteed it has already been resolved or soon will be. This is in one of the busiest international airports in the world, and masks are still very common in air travel, particularly from countries like Japan - and I believe this restaurant is even in the terminal that ANA flies into. Restaurants simply cannot afford rent if they intentionally impose restrictions like that on their customers.

Oh for sure this needs to be a Gizz album or a song at least

Which, honestly, sounds like the name of a prog metal album so he isn’t straying far