Partial transcript of an interview (with a link to the audio of the complete interview): If the midterms were a battle for America's soul, who won?

No tl;dr possible - it's too detailed and far-ranging. (And if anybody replies within a half-hour of seeing this post, I'll know you didn't actually listen to the interview.)

There is this, though:

Quote:If you look at when positive social change happens, it rarely happens through voting for the people we like, who then pass a law. What happens is that you have a great groundswell; you have communities of activists, of parents, of sympathetic people who begin to make changes. A thousand small sanities are usually more effective than one big idea.

Youths sue US government over climate change, government argues they have no legal right to decent environment.

"By contrast, the US Department of Justice argues that “there is no right to ‘a climate system capable of sustaining human life’”

Just... fuck right off. 80s cartoon villains are better human beings than you assnuggets.

Sadly, it's not a set you can buy.



Several more pictures here:
https://hiconsumption.com/2018/05/lego-sr-71-blackbird/

And with this post I open the new video thread. (And for anyone who missed it, the old thread is here.)

Don't bother with guns, don't bother to hide
You'd better just run, don't shelter inside
Godzilla is coming to town

He's making a mess, stomping it twice
Gonna put out those bright city lights
Godzilla is coming to town

He sees you with his tonsils
Your screams won't change your fate
Human weapons are useless
so you'd better flee fast for goodness sake

Try not to get et, and try not to die
You can't hope to win, be glad you survive
When Godzilla is coming to town



Come on, everybody join in!

A few lists, from what data we have in the wiki. (If there's canon data of this type for characters that aren't listed here, please add it to the wiki.)

Birthdays (canon and non-canon):
January 3: Fujitaka Kinomoto
January 6: Hotaru Tomoe
January 13: Mimi Hanyu
January 15: Mio Akiyama
January 27: Haruka Ten'oh
January 30: Akari Mizunashi
January 31: Sawako Yamanaka
February 2: Aika Granzchesta
February 3: Tohsaka Rin
February 9: Tomo Takino
February 18: Hikari Horaki
February 22: Homura Akemi, Ui Hirasawa, Kazari Uiharu
February 29: Touya Kinomoto
March 2: Matou Sakura
March 6: Michiru Kaioh
April 1: Sakura Kinomoto
April 8: Jun Suzuki
April 9: Artoria Pendragon
April 15: Emiya Shirou, Emiya Shirou (Servant)
April 17: Rei Hino
April 24: Keiichi Morisato, Sakaki
May 2: Kokono Misaka, Mikoto Misaka, Misaka Misaka, Nana Misaka, Niiko Misaka, Rei Misaka
May 10: Chiyo Mihama
May 20: Nadeshiko Kinomoto
June 4: Hayate Yagami
June 6: Shinji Ikari
June 17: Kaji Ryogi
June 26: Osaka
June 30: Usagi Chiba, Usagi Tsukino
July 2: Tsumugi Kotobuki
July 11: Maya Ibuki
July 13: Shaoran Li
July 29: Akira E. Ferrari
August 3: Mamoru Chiba
August 9: Kagura
August 16: Kaorin
August 21: Ritsu Tainaka
September 1: Alice Carroll
September 3: Tomoyo Daidouji
September 10: Ami Mizuno
September 12: Kensuke Aida
September 19: Koyomi Mizuhara
October 3: Madoka Kaname
October 22: Minako Aino
October 29: Setsuna Meioh
October 30: Alicia Florence
October 31: Ruby Rose
November 11: Azuza Nakano
November 21: Ritsuko Akagi
November 27: Yui Hirasawa
December 4: Asuka Soryu
December 5: Makoto Kino
December 8: Misato Katsuragi
December 21: Hyoga Kazakiri
December 22: Athena Glory
December 24: Kaname Chidori
December 25: Yukito Tsukishiro
December 26: Nodoka Manabe, Toji Suzuhara

Heights:
114 cm: Usagi Chiba
135 cm: Chiyo Mihama
145 cm: Alice Carroll
148 cm: Hotaru Tomoe
150 cm: Azuza Nakano
152 cm: Kuroko Shirai, Madoka Kaname
154 cm: Artoria Pendragon, Kaorin, Ritsu Tainaka, Tomo Takino, Ui Hirasawa
155 cm: Akari Mizunashi, Nora Valkyrie
156 cm: Kagura, Osaka, Yui Hirasawa
157 cm: Homura Akemi, Kyoko Sakura, Ruby Rose, Tsumugi Kotobuki
158 cm: Mami Tomoe, Nodoka Manabe, Usagi Tsukino
159 cm: Sayaka Miki, Tohsaka Rin
160 cm: Aika Granzchesta, Keiichi Morisato, Mio Akiyama, Ruiko Saten, Weiss Schnee
162 cm: Minako Aino
163 cm: Koyomi Mizuhara
164 cm: Ami Mizuno
165 cm: Alicia Florence, Misato Katsuragi, Sawako Yamanaka
166 cm: Kaname Chidori, Rei Hino
167 cm: Emiya Shirou
168 cm: Akira E. Ferrari, Blake Belladonna, Velvet Scarletina (not including her ears)
170 cm: Athena Glory
173 cm: Michiru Kaioh, Yang Xiao Long
174 cm: Makoto Kino, Sakaki
175 cm: Lie Ren
181 cm: Setsuna Meioh
183 cm: Coco Adele, Pyrra Nikos (in heels)
185 cm: Cú Chulainn, Jaune Arc
186 cm: Haruka Ten'oh
187 cm: Emiya Shirou (Servant)
188 cm: Fox Alistair
191 cm: Mamoru Chiba
213 cm: Yatsuhashi Daichi

Ages (biological, not "she's a clone so she's only a few months old"):
6: Diana, Misaka Misaka, Usagi Chiba
8: Alicia Testarossa, Sasami Masaki
9: Fate Testarossa, Hayate Yagami, Nanoha Takamachi
12: Kazari Uiharu, Kuroko Shirai, Ruiko Saten, Sakura Kinomoto, Shaoran Li, Tomoyo Daidouji
13: Chiyo Mihama, Hikari Horaki, Hotaru Tomoe, Kokono Misaka, Mikoto Misaka, Nana Misaka, Niiko Misaka, Rei Misaka
14: Asuka Soryu, Kensuke Aida, Rei Ayanami, Shinji Ikari, Toji Suzuhara
15: Ami Mizuno, Makoto Kino, Minako Aino, Rei Hino, Ruby Rose, Tenchi Masaki, Usagi Tsukino
16: Alice Carroll, Kaname Chidori, Mii Konori
17: Azuza Nakano, Blake Belladonna, Haruka Ten'oh, Hyoga Kazakiri, Jaune Arc, Jun Suzuki, Lie Ren, Michiru Kaioh, Nora Valkyrie, Pyrra Nikos, Ui Hirasawa, Weiss Schnee, Yang Xiao Long
18: Aika Granzchesta, Akari Mizunashi, Kagura, Kaorin, Koyomi Mizuhara, Mio Akiyama, Nodoka Manabe, Osaka, Ritsu Tainaka, Sakaki, Tomo Takino, Touya Kinomoto, Tsumugi Kotobuki, Yui Hirasawa, Yukito Tsukishiro
19: Mamoru Chiba, Mimi Hanyu, Setsuna Meioh, Signum
20: Noike Kamiki-Jyurai
21: Alicia Florence
22: Akira E. Ferrari
23: Athena Glory, Mihoshi Kuramitsu
24: Maya Ibuki, Sawako Yamanaka
"25": Washuu Hakubi
"27": Nadeshiko Kinomoto
29: Misato Katsuragi
30: Kaji Ryogi, Ritsuko Akagi

But that isn't the case any more.

Canadian Press: Atheist United Church minister to keep her job at Toronto congregation

That's a self-described atheist, not somebody else calling her that.

I can understand a psychologist or a counselor or an outreach worker or a social worker being atheist; it makes no difference in those jobs. But how can somebody whose job includes preaching the existence of God say there's no God?

Starting Sunday, the performances of the Dominion Carillonneur will be livestreamed. (At least, in Canada.)

Get the program and the link here. EDIT: Oops; that's the permalink for Sunday. Get the daily program and link at this link.

(What? "Who's the Dominion Carillonneur?" She's the one who plays the bells in the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, at noon Eastern every weekday September to June and at 11 a.m. July and August. Sunday's a special occasion - 11/11, and this year the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI.)

In this particular case, How to spot a pattern of denials in the #MeToo movement, but it applies elsewhere, too.

It's a simple pattern with the acronym DARVO:

1. Deny
   
2. Accuse
   
3. Reverse Victim Order
   

Brett Kavanaugh Wrote:The drinking age was 18 in Maryland for most of my time in high school and was 18 in D.C. for all of my time in high school. I drank beer with my friends. Almost everyone did. Sometimes I had too many beers. Sometimes others did. I liked beer. I still like beer. But I did not drink beer to the point of blacking out and I never sexually assaulted anyone.

Brett Kavanaugh Wrote:Dr. Ford's allegation is not merely uncorroborated, it is refuted by the very people she says were there, including by a longtime friend of hers. Refuted.

Brett Kavanaugh Wrote:This whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit, fueled with apparent pent-up anger about President Trump and the 2016 election, fear that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial record, revenge on behalf of the Clintons and millions of dollars in money from outside left-wing opposition groups.

Quote:University of Oregon psychology professor and Stanford fellow Jennifer Freyd, said that the reason it gets used frequently is that it works.

"I did not expect ... that so many people actually found the DARVO convincing. But it makes sense. I mean that's why people use it," said Freyd.

We only have 15 "guests" trying to force their way into the boards today.