Me, before clicking: “psshh, I’m sure it’s just people being overdramatic…”

Me, after clicking: “yeah I don’t think I can fall asleep after seeing that…”

I think the NWS relies on a mix of radar signatures and trained spotters to issue tornado warnings. Since this didn’t seem like a severe enough weather setup to get anyone’s attention ahead of time (from what everyone’s saying - I don’t live there anymore), it’s somewhat understandable that they weren’t caught. A huge bummer, but understandable.

Pretty much just that. It was the last tornado in Pittsburgh proper and I heard so many people talk about it “coming right over Mr. Washington.”

Eudial was so freaking capable, only to be undercut by someone who wasn’t remotely worthy. And she wore her seat belt. ;)

The Crystal version actually made him compelling. The 90s version dropped the ball hard.

Even though she’s a terrible driver!

I guess the old “tornado coming over Mt. Washington” story has finally been dethroned…

Fun fact about perimenopause…

They’re all over Japan, too.

I order them from Swagath in Bellevue on the regular.

That account only has 40 followers. It’s full of the most vitriolic racist and sexist garbage imaginable, but it’s not like a high-visibility account where this stuff would get out widely on its own. And yet this image has made it onto several subreddits, guaranteeing that this loser now has an audience.

Is she saying “よ”? It sounds like “わ,” without a strong y sound? But then again, when she said “聖杯を渡したら,” she didn’t enunciate the last ら and let it ride on her voice breaking (really great voice acting moment!)…though I guess since she’s, you know, getting actively choked, enunciation of nonessential words isn’t her top priority…

And it really was just this one word that’d been nagging at me because I couldn’t hear it clearly. I searched on variants of what I heard and just never thought of this one, lol. I can speak Japanese decently well, and lived in Japan for a couple of years a while ago - but beyond standard conversation, I’ve forgotten all of my even mildly niche vocab. Ah well. :)

It was a B!! Aaahh thank you so much! It’s just such a departure from the usual “yurusenai”-type dialogue so I have been wondering like crazy. I appreciate you!

I’m trying to make out a single Japanese word from an old Sailor Moon episode, because what I thought it was isn’t in my dictionary. (Sailor Neptune says she’ll despise Sailor Moon if she hands over an important artifact to a villain, and I can’t figure out what “despise” is.)

I’ve gotta be at work in under 8 hours. WHEEEEE

Is St. John’s equipped to be an emergency airport as well, like a smaller scale version of Gander? This incident illustrates how it’s the closer of the 2 airports for some of the trans-Atlantic routes, so for instances where planes can’t/shouldn’t fly the added distance to Gander, can it support them in a comparable way?

Gander’s a different airport than St. John’s. But - yes, yes, it is!

Why do you want a Japanese language tattoo? The words don’t change in meaning whether you write them in Japanese or rōmaji. Getting a tattoo for a language you don’t speak comes off as exoticism.

Good that you prefaced that as being your opinion, because it’s flat-out wrong.

Socialized medicine and public transit (compared to much of the US). Depends which parts of the west you mean, though.

Indian here too. That guy can fuck all the way off. I am SO SORRY you have to deal with such nastiness and toxicity.

Could you use it yourself?

Yes, but I’ve lived there before and would probably go live in a more rural and scenic area, as coworking spaces are all over the place now.

I appreciate this post and its replies, because I (a brown woman who grew up Hindu) went with a friend to a magick shop recently, and I noticed they stored their Ganesha and Shiva idols on the lowest shelves, so I brought it up to the owner to consider moving them because keeping important things by one’s feet is very offensive in Hinduism, and she (white woman) had gone stiff and wide-eyed while I was talking and then snapped, “okay.”

And note that this was delivered VERY politely (“hey, um, I grew up Hindu and just wanted to let you know…”), with none of my typical “stop fucking up our shit, white people, wasn’t desecrating yoga enough for you” rage, lol

I have pagan friends who try hard to be respectful. I’ve had many more pagan acquaintances who don’t give a shit (“you’re speaking English and wearing jeans, so you’re appropriating my culture, too” etc etc). I’m cool with syncretism if it’s done intentionally and respects the roots of the various beliefs - they all do overlap and connect in lots of ways - and doesn’t treat them/us as exotic window dressing.

In short, follow the rules around these various symbols and rituals, and also respect the contemporary context of the originating group. And respect that some things might just be off-limits. If you center the originators, rather than focusing on how to make it yours, you should be fine.

Thank you for sharing! That looks a lot like a bright meteor that just took a few seconds to burn up.