Wake up, no check engine light.
Drive to get car inspected, no check engine.
Drive into the inspection building, no check engine.
Get out of the car to have them inspect it, still no check engine.
Fails inspection for check engine light.
Light turns off 8 secs after leaving???
I once again checked with my accountant and she told me that this still isn’t enough money to make my sister stop being dead so I’m afraid I’m going to have to hold firm on demanding the Sacklers rot in jail.
Ideally you would just have AI handle all your intimate relationships, hobbies, learning, personal growth etc. and spend all that extra time watching short form video content.
Long-time @Capitals announcer Joe Beninati called Alex Ovechkin's first NHL goal. All these years later, he called Alex Ovechkin's record-breaking goal. 🫡
Iconic. #Gr8ness
🇬🇷 Today we celebrate Greek Independence Day
After 400 years of Islamic Ottoman rule that subjugated Greeks to a cultural and demographic decline, dhimmi status, jizya, and kidnapped children to serve in the Ottoman armies, the Greeks rose up, fought for their independence and decolonized the Peloponnese, Attica, central Greece, and many of the islands.
Greek peasants, merchants, sailors, clergymen, village stalwarts and brigands took up arms after Metropolitan Germanos of Patras raised the banner with the cross in the Monastery of Saint Lavra on March 25, 1821, on the Feast of the Annunciation, officially declaring a Holy War against the Ottoman Empire.
Although the Greek Revolutionary Struggle was organized to begin on March 25, the restive Greeks of the Mani peninsula in the Peloponnese, the only part of mainland Greece not captured by the Turks, were not patient and already declared war on March 17 under the slogan "Victory or Death" instead of "Freedom or Death" used by the other Greek fighters.
Kolokotronis, his nephew Nikitaras “the Turkeater,” Petros Mavromichalis, the warrior priest Papaflesas and 2,500 Maniots and other Greek rebels liberated Kalamata on March 23, the first major Greek town/city to be liberated from the Turks.
It took only a few days for the Greeks to liberate all of the Peloponnese from the Turks except the fortress towns of Patras, Acrocorinth, Monemvasia, Nafplion and the provincial capital of Tripolitsa.
In response to the revolution in the Peloponnese, the Turks showed their true barbarity in Constantinople, on Easter Sunday, by publicly hanging Patriarch Gregory V on April 10 despite the fact that he had condemned the Greek Revolution and preached obedience to the Sultan in his sermons.
After Gregory V's death, his body, along with those of other executed prelates, was turned over to the city's Jews, who dragged it through the streets and threw it into the sea, leading to several bloody reprisal attacks in southern Greece by the Greek rebels, who regarded the Jews as collaborators of the Turks.
In September 1821, the Greeks, under the leadership of Kolokotronis captured Tripolitsa but it would not be until 1828 and many more battles, suffering and tribulations that the independence of Greece was finally recognized and with borders much MUCH smaller compared to the size of Greece today and with the majority of Greeks still living within the Ottoman Empire.