Funny title prolly a good thread I mean picture

Got my surgery finally. Flew over to 90210. Horrible weather. Surgery was extremely uneventful other than me having some variation of anxiety and an upset stomach for a couple hours before the surgery began. It's all local anesthesia - you're awake for it. I talked to the surgeon throughout the whole operation. He told me if I wanted to buy a nice 911 I should do it through a broker and not a dealer. I was able to drive home even though they "require" that you get a ride home. I'd honestly have thrown up if I had to have someone drive me home, I was too nauseous from all the drugs.

Got back to my hotel off the beach and just hung out there all day. I wanted to do a lot of walking but it was sideways raining and I can't get the bandages wet. So, I didn't walk much until it was very late when my pain was surging insanely and the rain had let up. I needed to walk as well because it helped with the nausea and more importantly - the blood pooling in my face. By walking I could get more blood into my legs and lessen the pain. I couldn't do anything more intense at home like squats because that would be too intense on the body and blood vessels. The pain was so intense when the anesthesia wore off - the pain pills felt like they did nothing but contribute to my nausea. I ended up walking about 20k steps and talking to someone on the phone for most of it. It was the only way to get the pain off my mind. We argued about immigrants and what it means to be American.

I am an extremely open person with all of my friends. So, naturally, everyone is calling and watching my stories intensely with a lot of questions. People are weirded out but some say things like, "I can see the vision". We'll see where it goes. The healing process is really painful and it takes a while. I hate surgery for good reason. I'm on my third day of recovery and I feel better now. The pain is much less and I have some appetite which makes taking these pills cause less nausea.

I'm just really glad I'm not recovering in NYC right now. I'm back in SF and it's so quiet and peaceful. I don't have to deal with people yelling, loud butt sirens constantly, garbage pickup at 3am every night for 30+ minutes, etc. I miss living here and the parts of the life I had. There are things I enjoy about NYC but even the air you breathe there is so unhealthy for you. I miss the peace and quiet. I miss seeing flowers, trees, and green grass where I lived. I miss seeing tall redwood trees. I miss the sunshine and not living in shadows.

I still can't believe that I had to get surgery for anyone to find me attractive though. This is the life we live.

Watch Bram Stokers Dracula or Egger's Nosferartu to see my point.

Both storied also suggest the young women were into the creepy vampire before they were of legal age. I'm not going to talk about the fact that Orlok is technically a corpse.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274518/

Elon Musk, the richest guy in the world, is going after USAID, which feeds the poorest people in the world.

Next, he’ll go after the programs that impact you: Medicaid, Medicare, community health centers, Pell Grants, affordable housing.

We can stop him. pic.twitter.com/rchI5Ltdt0

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 8, 2025

Oh vey

“USAID in 2016 gave $310 million of your taxpayer money to a Palestinian cement factory.

What did the Palestinians in Gaza use all that cement for, paid for by your taxpayer dollars? Any ideas?

Oh yeah, that would be the 300 miles of terror tunnels that Hamas built underneath… pic.twitter.com/ZcLSC7aXJO

— Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@JewsFightBack) February 7, 2025

Anonymous is super lame

Anonymous is mad USAID was cut? 😂😂😂
It is a CIA tool pic.twitter.com/nbvGEPcGCR

— Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 安德龙 (@angeloinchina) February 8, 2025

Michael Moore

🚨Well, well, look who had his chubby fingers in the USAID cookie🍪 jar🫙$$$ pic.twitter.com/0C3CLOdLQ5

— Giordano Bruno (@GioBruno1600) February 8, 2025

I hope this is true because it's really fricking funny

🔥 EXPOSED: Doge uncovered that USAID funneled $84 million in Haiti relief funds to Chelsea Clinton—and guess what?

🤔$3 million went to her wedding
👀$10 million bought a luxury mansion

Meanwhile, Haiti got next to nothing. Who else is sick of this corruption? 🤬 pic.twitter.com/OlnX0QCiwH

— Desiree (@DesireeAmerica4) February 8, 2025

Funny bit from a repub

Ilhan Omar: “USAID is the reason I am here and not in Somalia.”

Everyone else: “That’s why we want to get rid of it.” pic.twitter.com/wEyZcGtBYq

— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) February 8, 2025

Not looking good for Gaza

This is where the three hostages released today were kept just before their release… a tunnel paid for by UNRWA and USAID pic.twitter.com/2SCsK3PQKL

— Cheryl E 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🎗️ (@CherylWroteIt) February 8, 2025

Liberal twitter still a thing

Who else thinks Chelsea Clinton and Ben Stiller should sue the ever-loving heck out of any MAGA spreading lies about them taking money from USAID?

🙋‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/AcrwXu8rNO

— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) February 8, 2025

The tinfoil hat crowd supports this

https://x.com/liz_churchill10

USAID=Crimes Against Humanity pic.twitter.com/PjTGVa2YwI

— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) February 7, 2025

Usaid employees need better pr. No one likes faceless bureaucrats

USAID employee Christian Gil tears up as he says Elon Musk fired him after 20 years at USAID.

The Democrat Party has been SCAMMING America for DECADES by using USAID.

Dems laundered countless billions, if not trillions, to artificially prop up the Democrat Party.

It’s over. pic.twitter.com/rqYglwYKzy

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) February 7, 2025

Soros!!!!!

The target of the USAID purge, was George Soros.

The USAID slush fund was how he financed his global Left-wing influence machine.

It’s how he bought politicians, MSM, newspapers, radio shows, judges, prosecutors, etc.

Elon and Trump just cut off the head of the snake. pic.twitter.com/pNlLzAEsJ2

— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) February 7, 2025

Unfunny woman comedians

Now that USAID isn't propping up unfunny female comedians I hope we see a bloom of funny female comedians pic.twitter.com/hm3DtM5qc0

— Guy (@nosilverv) February 8, 2025

Usaid's defenders have had a pathetic showing

Trump's USAID shutdown: the real motive pic.twitter.com/41GWDTa4FD

— Richard Angwin (@RichardAngwin) February 8, 2025

Chemomics international

The top recipient of USAID funding seems to be a company called Chemonics International inc. and they’re not up to anything good.

Though I have yet to find them funding trans operas, they seem to just fund Hillary Clinton’s friends stealing our tax money.

Podesta even came up🤷‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/D7EQxqjXIM

— Ian Carroll (@IanCarrollShow) February 7, 2025

South Africans are pathetic

Beijing 🇨🇳 offer 🇿🇦 R16b in aid to replace R8b 🇺🇸 #USAID

"We'll not be bullied" pic.twitter.com/hXRfPBC54t

— Thuso™ 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 (@ramalokot) February 8, 2025

Gloating

USAID offices soon: pic.twitter.com/PTxrVJYbt7

— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) February 8, 2025

God I hope this is true because it would be so fricking funny

BREAKING: The U.S. government funded the education of an al-Qaeda leader

Anwar al-Awlaki received financial aid straight from USAID.

Washington “unknowingly” paid for his college degree, only for him to become one of the world’s most notorious terrorists. pic.twitter.com/2DM9cPlfyi

— ADAM (@AdameMedia) February 9, 2025

Chemtrails

This man claims that ever since Donald Trump and Elon Musk cut off USAID funding, the skies above him have completely cleared—not a single chemtrail in sight.

Can anybody else relate to this? pic.twitter.com/PajaRr1SaA

— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) February 7, 2025

Defense is losing

Trump's dismantling of USAID, a humanitarian program delivering aid globally for decades, is almost complete as thousands of employees are put on forced leave and the signs are being removed and covered.

It's a gift to our enemies and competitors.pic.twitter.com/aY2sEd0w3y

— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) February 7, 2025

Still funny

Sindh Before Sindh After
Billions in USAID. Billions in USAID pic.twitter.com/piHaMf2cm4

— Mir Mohammad Alikhan (@MirMAKOfficial) February 8, 2025

Judge

🚨NEW: U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols has blocked Elon Musk and the Trump Administration from firing USAID employees.

RETWEET to thank Judge Nichols for standing up for our democracy! pic.twitter.com/rIU8troeoG

— Protect Kamala Harris ✊ (@DisavowTrump20) February 7, 2025

The wewuz people hate usaid

https://x.com/DavidHundeyin/status/1887964867044221405

Destiny sucks

USAID paid streamer Steven Bonell (known online as Destiny) 6 million dollars to perform oral s*x on several men pic.twitter.com/wOYkvJl2Ez

— Kaguya’s Top Gal (@hayasaka_aryan) February 6, 2025

pic.twitter.com/4A1vxXbl9G

— Reginald D Hunter (@reginalddhunter) August 15, 2024

Like buttholes

Everyone has am opinion
If we didn't laugh at these atrocities
We'd all be crying 😢

I don't think it's bullying
I think it's political commentary and expect to be amused or outraged.
Chin up reg xx pic.twitter.com/4D9bBJkcvW

— Jacqueline mk2 extreme! (@JacquelineCabl9) August 15, 2024

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx287xz58jxo

Keep pushing those boundaries my man ✊🏾. We wouldn't have it any other way!

If folk want safe, inoffensive comedy that they can watch with their grandparents then there's always the likes of Michael McIntyre.

— ZigZag (@JamesMartinCla1) August 15, 2024

I wouldn’t worry about it Reg, a ‘review’ in the Telegraph is about as much use as a review on day care centres in Khan Younis by Benjamin Netanyahu, not worth a wank.

— Kelev Ra. (@ra44538785_ra) August 15, 2024

Y'all, y'all know this is a Black man from the South? And a comedian, someone who does comedy, that's the baseline. What fricking games you tryna play eejits? Go bomb some more children to calm your nerves

— Juan Siôn Castillo-Glas (@InflammaSean) August 15, 2024

I didn't read any of it but she is really, really passionate about horses in games. Her entire post history is about horses.

!schizomaxxxers

it’s 2028. your husband smacks your butt as you unplug the crockpot full of seed-oil free buffalo free-range-chicken dip. he picked you. you’re one of the good ones. your friends have turned the living room into a symposium, your CRISPR-IVF kids are laughing from the playroom.…

— Audrey Horne (@credenzaclear2) February 16, 2025

- Lil B

(CNN) —  When a series of lightning strikes took down power across New York City on the night of July 13, 1977, streetlights, neon signs, and the bright lights of houses and skyscrapers went dark.

And just like that, for the first time in decades, the Milky Way could be seen streaked across the black sky, speckled by thousands of shimmering stars.

"I saw a (starry) sky from my location in the Bronx," said Joe Rao, a meteorologist and amateur astronomer who was living in New York City on the night of the blackout, "which I had never seen before and have never seen again."

Barring a freak power outage, the light emanating from towns and cities due to unnatural light sources is so bright that it washes out the stars. Today one-third of all humans, including 80% of North Americans, cannot see the Milky Way.

For a growing number of people, natural darkness has been lost. When the lights went out in 1977, New Yorkers could see how much they were missing.

Light pollution, the term for the brightening of the night sky by unnatural lights, is increasing worldwide. On average, skies are getting 10% brighter each year globally, with the fastest rate of change in North America.

Many species are suffering the consequences. Every year, up to one billion birds in the US are killed by colliding with buildings, a global crisis exacerbated by bright lights drawing them off their migratory paths at night. Unnatural lighting can disorient insects, and affect the leaf development of trees. A 2017 study found that light pollution poses a threat to 30% of vertebrates and more than 60% of invertebrates that are nocturnal.

Nesting sea turtles, which rely on the reflection of light on the water from celestial bodies to guide them to the ocean, can be disoriented by unnatural lights around beaches, resulting in fatal dehydration or predation.

"We've found sea turtles in elevator shafts," said Rachel Tighe, lighting project manager at Sea Turtle Conservancy, a Florida-based nonprofit funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. For the animals, she added, "it's confusion and chaos."

And humans are affected, too. While the health implications of unnatural light are still being investigated, research has linked light pollution to obesity, depression, sleep disorders, diabetes, and cancer.

"We know that if you start to shift temperatures you have really profound impacts on organisms across ecosystems, so you would imagine that if we start to mess with light cycles, we might have similarly profound impacts," said Professor Kevin Gaston, a light pollution expert at the University of Exeter, in the UK. "We're all ultimately dependent on this stuff for our very existence."

Unlike other environmental issues like climate change and deforestation, the problem of light pollution could be curbed overnight — by turning off the lights.

In 2020, the small town of Crestone, Colorado, switched off its streetlights when it ran out of money to pay the electricity bill. At night, the streets were dark, but the sky above was bright with stars.

"At the next meeting (of the Board of Trustees), someone said, 'You know, we kind of like it dark,'" recalled Kairina Danforth, mayor of Crestone at the time. Inspired to preserve natural darkness, the town decided to leave the streetlights off.

Soon, Crestone became one of a growing number of towns around the world officially recognized as a Dark Sky community by DarkSky International, an organization that promotes the battle against light pollution.

"We are probably the only Dark Sky community in the world that has no residential lights because they couldn't afford to pay the bill," said Danforth. "Now there's a strong communal support for our dark sky."

As Crestone, and the residents of New York City in 1977, can attest, a total blackout will bring back the stars instantaneously. But efforts to tackle light pollution need not be so extreme to make a big difference, said Ruskin Hartley, CEO of DarkSky International.

"The solutions are simple," he said, "and they don't involve giving up anything apart from bad quality lighting."

Light pollution experts abide by the mantra: "keep it low, keep it shielded, keep it long." In other words, ensure that lighting is low to the ground, that it is targeted to avoid light leaking in all directions, and, if possible, that it has a long wavelength, typically observed as amber colored. Finally, turn lights off when they're not needed.

Some communities are following DarkSky's recommendations by retrofitting their lighting fixtures to reduce light pollution, or simply turning off more lights. DarkSky International has worked with communities and nature reserves in 22 countries to provide support and give official accreditation to areas that have made positive changes. Nearly 300 areas are now accredited.

In 2022, DarkSky, in collaboration with the Czech Republic, developed a European policy brief on reducing light pollution, recommending that "all light should have a clear purpose," that it "should be directed only to where needed," and that it "should be no brighter than necessary." The brief suggests using current EU legislative frameworks — on biodiversity, climate change, and energy efficiency — to push for light pollution mitigation measures.

As of October 2022, 20 pieces of nationwide legislation that concern the mitigation of light pollution had been introduced in nine member states of the European Union since 2000, according to the Czech Republic's Ministry of the Environment.

Countries are further incentivized by potential economic advantages. Electric-powered indoor and outdoor lights consume 17% to 20% of global electricity production, according to the European policy brief, and cutting usage means cutting costs. Areas with dark skies are also benefitting from astrotourism, a growing trend in which tourists travel to stargaze in locations with lower levels of light pollution.

"(Under) the stars are the places we told our first stories," said Hartley. "For many communities, these have been erased and lost because of the scourge of light pollution. But more and more are starting to recover and rediscover this."

Wildlife is benefitting, too. The Sea Turtle Conservancy has changed over 30,000 lights and estimates it has darkened over 45 miles of nesting beach in Florida since 2010, possibly saving as many as tens of thousands of hatchlings. "It's really cool to be able to see such a change so quickly," Tighe said.

Despite positive changes, stemming light pollution is an uphill battle.

Even in some parts of Chile's Atacama Desert, one of the darkest places on Earth, you can now see a distant glow emanating from nearby La Serena, one of the country's fastest-growing cities, said Hartley.

"You can't escape it anymore, and it is just a product of waste and ignorance," he added. "How can we get more people to care about this?"

For Rao, who was 21 on the night that the Milky Way appeared above his house in the Bronx, and is now 68, optimism for the fate of our skies is at an all-time low. "I'm beginning to wonder whether anybody is going to be able to see a good dark sky anymore, 30, 40 years from now," he said. "It's very, very sad."

But as the movement to save the dark grows, there is still a faint hope that a star-studded future is possible.

Rust is C++ minus jank. It's beautiful, it's a better language in every imaginable way. Yeah its full of but if chuds have a problem with that, maybe try making a better language?

Total victory btw.

Gm - Lil B

That HOA you've always yearned to oust in a violent coup?

1. No one is coming to check on your hedges. Let them grow.

2. Lawn ornaments? Back in vogue.

3. Poisoning your neighbors' overgrown plants is simply castle theory applied.

4. Plaster stickers with QR links to this hellscape everywhere so they too must suffer.

Also expel the Jews from the river to the sea.

Convince him to shut up about people over-reacting to the fact of the fascism and quit evaluating whether or not it is fascism because you only model confusion. We already know everything we need to know: it's definitely fascism and must be stopped. His equivocation on the matter is a liability, and that liability is on account of his age.

His poor judgment is not unusual.

But it is public.

And you are Writers, are you not?

Hit him. Nonviolence is yet

>We've found as AIs get smarter, they develop their own coherent value systems.

>For example they value lives in Pakistan > India > China > US

chuds btfo

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1injufw/video_shows_black_seadevil_fish_usually_only/

Any good places to start?