Ben Hur Horse Race

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • yeah it fuckin sucks. you dont need to believe it or not, I swear to you (it also happened to my wife, Im a US citizen and she isn’t) this was in the dublin ireland departures when you go to the states. you actually go through immigration when youre still in ireland. so you go down an escalator to a specific part of the airport thats sectioned off from the rest for this. walking up to the desk, before i had a chance to take my passport out of my bag, while I was still about 10 feet away, he TSA agent said “hello [name]” they did the same thing to my wife. its disarming as youre not expecting it. there’s no knowing where in the line the facial recognition already took place. the idea you can consent/not consent is almost certainly purely theater.





  • I quite literally remember having teachers in elementary school teaching about the holocaust/hitler and asking the class if if they could foresee this happening in the US. Every kid shoot their head and chuckled assuredly, how absurd to even consider.

    I still remember the look on Mrs. Begasto’s face of “oh yeah? so confident, I know something you don’t, I know the world in a way you are entirely naive to.” I didn’t understand why she felt that way, but I could tell she was certain about something I didn’t get. The closer we edge to a fearful, uneducated public thinking a bully king is what would be good for the country and the world the more I find myself thinking about Mrs. Begasto’s worried smirk.





  • I live in Dublin (NOT UK but there are many similarities) and this drives me fucking crazy. We have teensy-weensy little roads all through the city. they have made it so there’s parking on both sides of these little roads, and they are two-way streets. This is just possible for two smaller cars, like a civic or a yaris to squeeze by one another.

    enter the one person in a range rover or BMW suv and everybody’s gotta fucking wait for these hulking ICE powered shit boxes to clear the road.

    Forget parking at shopping centres with them around as well. They will stick out in the front or back, which takes up two spots, of course. Full sized American pick up trucks have started to show up, also, not a blemish in the flatbed.

    The road taxes are based on weight, so they do pay significantly more than I will with my 1.4l engine, but not enough for them to not care that they cant see things that are in front of them, that they’d kill every occupant of a normal sized care they hit (its a big part of why they report to like owning them, for “safety” read: killing a family of 4 in a corolla with my truck that I use to drive to work alone)

    I do not like it!