Ann W. Parks 🇺🇸🌻🇺🇦

Writer, editor, journalist, disability/health law advocate & lover of all things Victorian who went to law school more than once. INFJ.

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@neal_katyal FYI, I just saw this tweet from Neal Katyal retweeted by Mark Hamill before I saw it from Neal.

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@Cryptoprofeta1 I can see how in this day and age, people are lulled into believing that submersibles are now normal and safe. But I wouldn’t do it, especially not if I knew you were bolted in with no way out on the surface, not certified by experts in the field, not made of contiguous material

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@usappa00 @krassenstein I was reminded of those amateur guys who bragged about building a giant water slide in an amusement park. Everyone with professional knowledge said it broke the rules of physics, and a child was decapitated. Doing things that engineers say can’t be done isn’t always a good idea.

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@Sonny49589277 A sailor would know better. My dad had a little 24-foot sailboat. I shuddered when I read this thing was 22 feet. Someone who knows boats would probably not trust their life to a 22-foot, homemade, unregulated TicTac of a vehicle that drops 2 miles beneath the Atlantic Ocean.

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@jessicamisrael I saw an interview with one person who went on one of these dives, and the current two miles down almost rammed that submersible into one of the Titanic’s massive propellers resting on the ocean floor. They were lucky to get away.

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@MrStigsby This man’s hubris boggles my mind. Even assuming that it was the safest vehicle ever built by man, it is no match for the ocean and definitely not two miles down with the cold and the pressure. These guys learned nothing from Titanic and just repeated it on a much smaller scale.

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@EmmaSamms1 @rhda8386 @finolahughes I was in high school when all this happened in 1985 and I had the best of it on VCR tapes. We just had our 35th reunion. Hard to believe, but yes!

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@EmmaSamms1 Do they prefer coffee?! I bet those (wonderful!) horses would like a nice cup of tea too!

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@AKBrews And here I worry that my cat is going to get out in the car on the way to the vet.

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@thejackhopkins My dad grew up on a farm and had zero interest in guns. I saw him get the shotgun exactly once in my life to kill a sick groundhog that he was afraid would hurt our dog & cat. He played lacrosse, went to UVA and became a banker. Shotguns from the farm gathered dust in the attic.

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@Disc_light I honestly can’t choose one. They are both spectacular.

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@AnnieStaley6 @AKBrews No concern whatsoever for them, no helping them in the car or anything. Total narcissist.

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@AKBrews I had to watch that three times to believe that the person holding the child was really all the way up in the center of the field with the animals ready to get between her and the car. Imagine your parents being dumb enough to do this when you are four years old.

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@disabledtrans @AKBrews I guarantee you that this sheriff’s deputy was not hearing impaired, just stupid. If he was hearing impaired, he would have felt the vibrations and would have been paying close attention to the lights. I’m disabled too. Go correct someone else.

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@KaylaChowShow That pitcher says red Kool-Aid to me. Red cup.

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@mattxiv What people don’t understand about persons w/ disabilities—we have dreams too. We may want to dance in a school play or on Broadway, because inside our bodies we don’t feel any different than you. If that makes you uncomfortable—well, we’re not going to sit home because of you…

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@HistoryMuppet Hey. Everyone my age knows Crocodile Rock from The Muppet Show…

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@amockingbird I remember being so young that I understood absolutely nothing about the opening theme song, even though I loved the song and the show. My Dad had to explain that they worked in a beer bottling place and that those were bottles of beer. I guess I only knew about beer in cans?!