In America, a stranger will say "bless you" when you sneeze.
It is meant to be nothing. A reflex. They do not even look up.
I know this.
That is the problem.
The first time, I sneezed in a grocery line. The man behind me said "bless you" and kept scrolling his phone.
He had guarded my soul. In its weakest moment, when it tried to leave my body, he called it back.
Then he forgot he had done it.
Where I am from, a debt like this is repaid over three generations.
I turned to thank him.
He was already gone.
So I started a list. Every voice that has ever caught my soul mid-flight and asked for nothing in return.
The list is forty-one names long.
I will never find them all.
So I have chosen a different path.
If I cannot repay them, I will become the one who guards.
Now I stand near the registers. Silent. Listening for the moment a soul tries to flee.
Yesterday I blessed four sneezes, two coughs, and one shopping cart whose wheel cried out as it passed.
The cart, I admit, was a mistake.
But I could not take the risk.
Its soul, at least, is safe.
Has anyone here ever heard a soul leaving, and known you were the only one close enough to call it back?
The screwworm program wasn't charity, it was a $10 million fence that kept a billion-dollar problem from eating our own livestock alive. That's the thing with most USAID funding: it looks like "aid," but it's really cheap self-defense. Solve a problem there, and it never lands on our doorstep. But sure, let a bunch of guys who can't define DEI without Googling take a chainsaw to it. They didn't stop to ask, "Will this cut hurt us too?" Unless that's the point, burn it all down and call it efficiency.
As usual our inept agriculture secretary, blaming the Biden administration as usual, instead of offering a solution to the problem they created.
Texan here
A screwworm infestation is a nightmare for cattle, causing horrific wounds and economic devastation. For Texas, the situation has escalated dramatically in the last 24 hours with the first confirmed case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in over 60 years! This could have been avoided!
Infested animal can kill a cow in less than two weeks.
Treatment is extremely difficult and time-consuming, requiring the painful removal of every visible larva and deep disinfection of the wound. Ranchers no longer have much experience with this labor-intensive process, and there is currently no approved pharmaceutical treatment to make it easier.
This has triggered a massive economic threat. The USDA estimates that a widespread outbreak would drain an astonishing $1.8 billion from the Texas economy alone in livestock deaths, labor, and medication expenses.
How will this affect you? Tightening supplies will drive already high beef prices higher.
The part of CCS that has aged the most poorly as now every single one of us, every single time, has to take our shoes off before boarding an airplane. While waiting in line and on the cold hard floor.
Reminder that Stargate was so good it actually survived replacing their extremely popular main character as he stepped back into a more writing, directorial and supporting cast role.
bu kabusu bi tek ben gördüm sanıyordum meğer herkes görmüş.
bu rüyayla ilgili hatırladıklarım;
- çocukken genellikle ateşliyken oluyordu
- tam bi rüya gibi değil, yarı uyanık yarı uyur halde görüyordum
- nesnenin ne olduğu önemsizdi o an
- asıl his bir şeyin inanılmaz derecede büyümesi, ağırlaşması veya sonsuza kadar genişlemesiydi
- yoğun bi huzursuzluk, panik ve "bi yerde bi yanlışlık var" hissi oluyordu
- bazen gittikçe büyüyen bi ses ya da cızırtı da olurdu
- sanki beynin ölçek kavramı bozuluyor gibiydi
- büyüklükten çok, sonsuzluk hissi korkutucuydu
hala hatırlıyorum ya çok ilginç
People just can't help themselves from creating new myths by trying to debunk old ones.
Are pitched battles overrrepresented? Yes.
Were incredibly long sieges where armies remained idle the norm? Fuck no.
It's all misrepresentation.
No matter if it glorifies or ridicules.
A couple years back a Japanese guy was arrested for illegally making a gun & trying to sell it for $1200.
Quoted as saying, “If Americans can make ‘em then I can too”
The 54 year old (unemployed) man had building guns for 20 years...in his public housing apartment
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