Cygnia

At the risk of making some sweeping generalizations...
   Japanese cuisine contains many standard Western dishes and fast food restaurants along with the more traditional ones that feature things like sushi and highly spiced condiments like wasabi.  The American diet on the other hand is much more limited in its taste palate and the average American is unwilling to try dishes from other cultures. 

Not if you're Matter Eater Lad.
Or if your teeth qualify as an HKA, without any focus or real weapon-type limitations...at that point they wouldn't take damage.
Or probably if you have, oh...4-5 rPD or so, that represents it's your body.  Or PD Damage Negation, same way.
 
(2d6 physical and energy damage negation would have saved me SO MUCH pain over the years.....)
 
 
OMFG.................................
No one's brought this up?
This is HORRIBLE!!!!!!
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/us/building-collapse-miami-thursday/index.html
 
It's totally terrifying to me because the entire wing of the complex literally SLOUGHS OFF!!!!!  There is NO trigger or anything in the video from one of the nearby buildings, it just acts like a Jenga pile that gets its base pulled out.
 
The death toll right now is low...but there's almost 100 people unaccounted for.  It happened very early in the morning.  Town mayor said the floors have practically accordioned...much less, of course, the fully collapsed rubble pile is going to take a great deal of time.
 
It's clear there will be many deaths, and many others who lost everything.  Man....
 
USA Today cites a study showing the building had been determined to be sinking in the 1990's but no one's calling that the cause...yet.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2021/06/24/building-collapse-miami-structure-had-been-sinking-into-earth/7778631002/
But subsidence is definitely what I was thinking of as the cause.

Slate rather gleefully (to no one's surprise) dissects the ruling in great detail:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/06/rudy-giuliani-law-license-suspended-hilarious.html
 
 

New one up!
https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1237.html

Yeah, Rachel Maddow covering this last night was especially brutal.
 
The organization which pulled the stunt basically wants mandatory comprehensive federal background checks before gun purchases, no exceptions.
 
Maddow pointed out that if the gun rights advocates had done even a cursory background check on the fake school that they would have easily discovered the school was a fake, the school website was a newly-created fake, there were no students, and the award that they were to receive had never existed or been given out to anyone in the past.
 
The people pulling the stunt didn't try to cover their tracks or make it hard for the targets to figure out it was all fake. They just assumed the targets would fall for it without question.
 
And they did.

Ouch.
 
Ex-NRA president, gun rights advocate unknowingly speak at fake graduation representing kids killed by gun violence

Rudy Giuliani’s Law License Suspended Over ‘Demonstrably False’ Statements
 
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/breaking-rudy-giulianis-law-license-suspended/
 
“We conclude that there is uncontroverted evidence that respondent communicated demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers and the public at large in his capacity as lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump and the Trump campaign in connection with Trump’s failed effort at reelection in 2020,” the court found. “These false statements were made to improperly bolster respondent’s narrative that due to widespread voter fraud, victory in the 2020 United States presidential election was stolen from his client. We conclude that respondent’s conduct immediately threatens the public interest and warrants interim suspension from the practice of law.”

Too often these stories read like a cop on a power trip.  To be sure, that's the ones we *hear* about.  Nothing says this was normal in any way.  
 
THAT story has a pointer to THIS video.
If you have ANY doubt that the cop is *totally* out of line, you can watch this.
BUT LET ME WARN YOU...IT WILL ANGER YOU.  It is BAD!!!
 
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/outrage-after-florida-trooper-uses-taser-on-teen/
 
I suspect that the video will force action.  The cop's actions are utterly egregious.

Salt Fruit Summer

Salt Fruit Summer

I was trying to avoid saying "X-ian Caliphate" but...
 
Yes, this is more or less what I've been trying to warn about.  This follows with the pattern of increased attacks following the pandemic - these shootings and attacks go up because of desperate circumstances.  The real question is whether there will be other significant emergencies over the next few years.

Check your teeth, dude...

Grow a backbone, you mango hued snowflake! 
You've got the material in those extra bone spurs!
 
I'm sorry, that.. that just slipped