The 2nd Amendment is no longer the right to bear arms. The 2nd Amendment has become the right to take lives. The 2nd Amendment is no longer aiding citizens. The 2nd Amendment is now abetting murderers.
When the laws don’t work, the laws must change.
Well, clearly you failed 9th grade Social Studies.
You know… I honestly don’t remember how did in 9th grade Social Studies?
I did okay majoring in Political Science and American Government in undergrad though. I graduated summa cum laude so I figure I must have learned something?
Law school also went alright I guess? I did somehow manage to get an article about the constitutionality and modification of excessive force laws through out the 50 states placed in a national publication. And I also managed to pass the Bar Exam.
But yeah it’s totally possible I failed 9th grade social studies tbh. I was a little shit when I was 15 and gave no fucks.
Here’s a fun one: going by the timestamps (i.e., when you downloaded it, not necessarily when it was created), what’s the oldest piece of digital media you have kicking around on your computer?
For my part, it appears to be a MIDI file cryptically named “ANGLERS.MID”, which I downloaded in August of 1993. It has no attributions other than the name “Basil Hendrick”, which appears in a comment near the end of the data. I initially thought there’d be no reasonable way for me to share it, but discovered after a bit of digging that, by sheer unlikely coincidence, someone had converted the exact same MIDI file to MP4 and uploaded it to YouTube back in 2013; the result can be heard here:
So that’s the oldest bit of digital media I have on my computer.
How about you?
I have a few of my old GW-BASIC and Turbo Pascal program files left, dated 1987-88 and salvaged from 5¼" diskettes in the mid-00s.
The oldest readable media file I still have, also salvaged from the same diskettes, is this:
UNICRN.GIF, 320×200 pixels, 25,600 bytes, dated November 27, 1989.
Nice one. Looks like it’s a cropped and colour-reduced copy of “Up From the Grid” by Sue Dawe, an artist whose airbrushed unicorns are kind of legendary.
Something about this seems very strange and liminal in a way that images of old things do not. A digital photo of a 400-year-old painting is simply a photo that anyone could take. A digital image, kept for 28 years, has a strange energy.
Maybe it’s because it’s saved as a GIF, and is thus an Artefact.
…. I thought the artefact pun was funny but I guess this is just a lossy format
“We may have been starved of supermoons in 2017, but January 2018 will offer two. Spot the Wolf Moon onJanuary 2, and a rare “blue” supermoon on January 31.”
THREE CONSECUTIVE SUPERMOONS
THE THIRD ONE BEING A BLUE MOON
Get ready, witches. Winter is coming.
There’s also a lunar eclipse on January 31st! This is a crazy special moon :0
Supermoon = moon is full while it’s closest to Earth in its orbit (making it bigger and brighter than usual)
Blue Moon = when a second full moon occurs within the same month as the one prior (each calendar month normally only has 1 full moon)
Lunar Eclipse = when the Sun, Earth, and Moon align perfectly (in that order) so that the sunlight reflected onto a full moon is eclipsed by the earth; thus, the full moon becomes dark for a short while
Three rare lunar events will be occurring on the same night.
The time for revolution is nigh
I don’t know if I should be thrilled by this, or terrified :O
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