Hylactor

My commentary was that 4th of July this year felt more like a going away party.

Honestly even two parties would be an improvement over what we currently have.

Some additional social constructs they may be more sentimental about: gifts, allowance, summer vacation, breakfast, lunch, dinner, doors, privacy, the internet.

The real miracle was creating chocolate chip cookies 1,908 years or so before they were invented.

No.

Bach on organ in general, specifically BWV 565 reliably makes me cry. Also Max Reger's Introduction And Passacaglia In D Minor.

And then on the other end of the spectrum, I once got some really bad news while listening to Pantera, and now I'm afraid to listen to them out of superstition. But that's not really applicable here I suppose.

I'm losing track, but don't they usually go good, bad, good, bad?

98 good, m.e. bad, xp good, vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 10 good, 11 bad, so maybe 12 good?

Obviously I'm over simplifying and I skipped over 2000. But at least since 98 I feel like the trend has been pretty reliable.

It's so frustrating to watch this regime try to kill the messenger. They are objectively wrong about so much. And get mad at the people who "point it out". And so attempt to muzzle people who are factually correct. Which even if successful, is just going to mean they know less and less, and are increasingly wrong. Which will make them even madder, and muzzle more. Which will make them wrong even more. And so on. It's the stupidest feedback loop.

It's like they can't drive, and rather than practice and learn, and actually become better drivers, they're trying to change the roads themselves to accommodate their shortcomings. But they're still going to be bad at driving no matter how much they change the roads. Meanwhile the roads are getting harder to use for everyone else. It's only a matter of time until something really important catches fire and emergency services can't put it out because the roads are all too fucked up.

NYPD has a field office in Kfar Saba. So, possibly more pertinent than it should be.

Fair enough. It still went on for a decade though. At the end of the day, how are you going to say "no" to a cop with an assault rifle?

I'm not so sure. They had plenty of time for stop and frisk:

In 2016, a reported 12,404 stops were made under the stop-and-frisk program. The stop-and-frisk program has previously taken place on a much wider scale. Between 2003 and 2013, over 100,000 stops were made per year, with 685,724 people being stopped at the height of the program in 2011.

The program also became the subject of a racial-profiling controversy. Ninety percent of those stopped in 2017 were African-American or Latino, mostly aged 14–24. By contrast, 54.1% of the population of New York City in 2010 was African-American or Latino; however, 74.4% of individuals arrested overall were of those two racial groups.

Well Oedipus pokes his eyes out with needles, his mom hangs herself, and his father is famously murdered by his son. I don't know who is supposed to be who in this analogy but it seems promising.