no one is thinking about the weird thing you said at a party they’re thinking about how armadillos give birth to four genetically identical babies at a time you’ve got to stop taking yourself so seriously bro
@SouthwestAir - if we can’t book a return flight on Southwest until four days after the original, cancelled, return flight was scheduled, can we get the cost of a quicker non-Southwest return flight covered? I can’t wait that long to get back home (work, pets, etc.).
@ETSshow The tests are closed book & there is a standardized final written by the American Chemical Society. Sometimes your professor hasn’t had time to cover all of the material on the standardized final in class. The national average is about 50%. Students have a minute and a half per ?
@BeschlossDC I was 10. I was with my parents in a midwestern theater, watching a play. They stopped the play midway-through so that someone could come on stage to announce Nixon’s resignation. There was stunned silence for maybe 30 seconds, and the play resumed. I will never forget it.
@joshtpm That’s how I see the wiping of the texts. It would have been worse (for the Secret Service agency) to have them disclosed than the outrage over their disappearance.
@joshtpm Do you remember when the CIA destroyed the videotapes of prisoners being waterboarded? They knew it was against the law. But decided that the publication of the tapes would be worse than the repercussions of destroying the tapes. They were right.
@mattyglesias My recollection is that in response to rising wages after the plague, the government prohibited workers from traveling to other regions to work so that they’d have to accept whatever wages were offered locally.