I am only surprised that people are surprised.
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It depends on the instructor, doesn’t it?
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Same here! I’m glad people are finally noticing and getting angry, but also…
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To some degree yes. But there are going to be some people for whom past traumas and life experiences are so raw and strong, it won’t matter who the instructor is, they won’t feel comfortable coming forth.
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True enough.
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Just a quick mixed bag of fuck today, yesterday, and the night before that combined with great relief that none of my family and friends, and their family, died in the floodings in Germany.
The pics coming in from them, however… Holy shit.
ETA: just seen the pics from Austria. Friend of mine is currently in the area. Usually lives in an area of Germany which just got flooded last week while they were already in Austria.
Well. This ain’t. Over.
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I’ve had a whole bunch of things I meant to bitch about here, but… yeah.
We sold the horses. It was gonna happen after Mia died, but when we made that plan we didn’t know it would be triggered quite so soon. The process of finding the right family went much quicker than expected, and they left last Sunday. It’s weird now. I’m taking a break from the barn reset effort, and hearing Zevon doing Heaven’s Door isn’t cheering me up at all, just like it never has even once.
Tuesday morning I picked up a sheet of plywood and received a very very brief, yet rather large and obnoxious splinter that was so brief because it [nearly] tangentially speared me in the soft spot above the thumb without detaching from the wood. I went inside, cleaned it thoroughly, bandaged it, and went back out. An hour later I was back inside because I couldn’t use a tape measure anymore. Just a wee bit of tenderness in the index and middle fingers of my left hand. We did another cleaning and a deep irrigation with peroxide and hoped to avoid medical escalation.
There was no indication of actual infection of any sort, just the same intense localized pain and tightness that set in right after the injury. The pain didn’t subside until Friday, and it was Saturday before I had usable strength in the main part of my dominant hand. It’s still a bit sore, but down below the level of normal arthritis soreness. I was obviously confident about my decision not to escalate (which was revisited a couple times), but damn was shit testing my faith for a while.
James Brown has really improved the color of the air in here. Sugar and spice. Thanks, Pandora.
This week we also decided/accepted, after months of the seller trying to keep one of the four pregnant in time to travel, that the Beatrix 
will stay at their originating farm until October or November, which means that the first baby will be born there instead of here in September as originally planned.
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Stay safe. Saw today 200 dead and 1000 missing. Horrible. Good thing climate change is a hoax, eh? (/s)
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My less than 5 year old TV decided to die on me and I had to spend the weekend dealing with getting and installing a new one (and e-cycling the old one). Money I definitely did not anticipate spending, and not how I planned to spend my weekend. Trivial first world problems, I know, but it still sucks.
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It’s kind of like a cell phone: a huge luxury not that long ago, but now essential.
Especially if your whole family has been stuck at home for the last 18 months.
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Sucks indeed, and also a first world problem with um, lesser world? poorer world? consequences. Appliances in general seem to be built more and more for quick deaths, often resulting in environmentally damaging disposal in poor communities, and sometimes countries. It’s one more thing that pisses me off when another piece of relatively new junk dies on me.
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The exponential increase of wild pigs in the US is bad news, though I was tempted to post it in “Encouraging News” because of the lethal viral threat that wild pigs pose to the horrendous pork industry.
Wild Pigs Could Trigger Decimation of US Pork Industry
https://www.agweb.com/news/livestock/pork/wild-pigs-could-trigger-decimation-us-pork-industry
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Exponential? That means one day you could have two pigs, then very quickly you would have 30-50 wild hogs smashing into your yard while your kids play!
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(Wonders if I should bring up the whole ‘decimation = cutting by 1/10th’ or not.)
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Probably not, since such pedantry about original, and thus supposedly still accurate, meanings of terms isn’t especially welcome in this here juke joint.
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A group of Seattle moms had their breast milk tested, and all of them had ‘concerning’ levels of toxic ‘forever chemicals’
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Seriously? What the hell kind of logic is that?
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