Don’t worry, will smith didn’t participate in this game either.

Hey, thank you! Exactly what I was looking for.

These things are so cool They have their own festival! It’s kind of like the groundhog festival where Punxsutawney Phil predicts the upcoming weather, except they pick a wooly worm each year to make the prediction. It’s all Tongue in cheek obviously, and an excuse to have a party.

This is a cool community. I never expected so many helpful replies to this. Thank you all.

No wonder the sheets don’t stay on the bed 😂

Always fitted. I think that’s my problem.

I do latch them below the corners. I have a foam mattress topper, so fitted sheets just fit around the mattress. As a result, there isn’t a lot of extra material to go under the mattress.

I learned these straps exist. Going to give it a shot.

40 years seems like a relatively short time for natural evolutionary processes to adapt a mammal to a highly radioactive environment. That’s like 10 to 20 generations of wolf and suddenly they are cancer resistant?

After all the needless loss of life surrounding the Chernobyl reactor explosion, finding viable cancer-resistant genetic mutations would be the ultimate silver lining.

Remember how nut-jobs were convinced that using the LHC would create an earth-eating black hole? I miss the simpler times.

Uneducated conspiracy theorists seemed laughably quaint back in 2012.

You say that like Trump’s biggest legislative accomplishment wasn’t a massive tax cut for the wealthiest Americans.

If you watch the Jan 6 HBO (Max) documentary, you can watch one of these dumbfucks beat a cop with a “Thin Blue Line” flag. Treason shouldn’t be punished so lightly. These people should be made an example of.

This is a stupid article. Relevant XKCD

Would this have even made trial in a state with “Stand Your Ground” laws?

This is fantastic news. The identities of the grand jury that indited Trump were released publicly under GA law designed for “transparency”, which is an incredibly stupid law in high profile cases.

From a strategic standpoint, we are fighting a proxy war with one of the world “superpowers” without putting a single American soldier at risk. We are straining the resources of said “superpower”, exposing their military weaknesses, and thus indirectly strengthening our position of military power on the world stage.

From an economic standpoint, the war being in Ukraine is fantastic for the US military industrial complex. This is a rare case of public support of increased arms production. It’s an opportunity to offload old weapon inventory, and gives manufactures the luxury of honing logistics of new weapon production without the threat of conflict to the United States. Weapon manufacturers currently have live-fire test zone in conflict with a superpower to test old and new weapon systems.

It’s all red-state, support our troops, big-business war profiteering touted by conservatives for the last two decades safely bottled up on the other side of the world. Why would conservative-minded politicians not support the war?

Every headline of “We gave $X of new aid to Ukraine” is windfall subsidy for one of the strongest sectors of the US economy - weapons manufacturing.

Good luck squeezing a rounding error from any of these companies.

Smash Mouth story time:

At the ‘height’ of their career, Smash Mouth and Harwell were responsible for one of the funniest and most bizarre concert experiences of my lifetime.

Smash Mouth performed at Universal Studios during one of the Mardi Gras theme nights. The concert took place at an outdoor stage just after the nightly parade.

They were terrible. Smash Mouth refused to play either of their one hit wonders, instead they chose to struggle through a bunch of unknown songs. The crowd grew more and more agitated as the set list wore on. Eventually, enough was enough.

Freshly armed with Mardi Gras beads, the audience switched from booing to hurling the beads at Harwell. It wasn’t just one guy. Beads were flying at the band from all corners of the audience. In defiance, Smash Mouth continued to play whatever shitty song they were on about while actively dodging incoming bead fire.

Finally, Harwell took a string of beads center-mass. That was it. The crowd emerged victorious. The horrible Smash Mouth music stopped. Harwell ran off stage with the band following close behind. Beads continued to rain in from the crowd as Smash Mouth made their escape.

But it wasn’t over. Chants of “All-Star” echoed through the audience-turned-angry-mob. The people wanted their pound of flesh, in the form of a early 2000’s radio pop song. Someone backstage convinced Smash Mouth that running away from their fans was a bad look. The band returned several minutes later and angrily performed ‘All-Star’. The beads continued to rain in, and the band played on.

TLDR: I watched Smash Mouth get pummeled with Mardi Gras beads during a shitty, halfhearted performance.

A short story on how something like this happens in the first place:

A decade ago, give or take, nearby Seminole County, FL public schools created a department (called “Choices”) specifically to desegregate the school population. This was at the behest of the federal government applying pressure on the school board.

Due to Central Florida’s long history of geographical segregation, Seminole County was one of the most segregated school systems in the country. Even today, some areas within the county randomize school populations to eliminate geographic segregation.

School systems identify low social-economic status students (referred to as “low-SES”) based off free and reduced lunch applications. To the school systems’ credit, they provide additional services to low-SES students (ie. partnership programs with ISP’s for free internet). Low-SES students within Seminole Country are primarily located in geographically segregated African-American communities.

Central Florida has a long history of institutionalized segregation. Hell, I-4, the main highway that bisects Orlando, was routed through African-American communities and around white communities.

I’ve lived here 30 years. Anecdotally, I think things are getting better. However, we have such a long way to go to undo the social damage caused by our ancestors. It does not surprise me that school officials and teachers in predominantly white geographic locations would do something as stupid as this assembly. Institutional segregation and racism lingers on for generations after those who originally perpetrated it are long dead.

If you are reading this in the US, civil rights and social equality will be a constant evolutionary struggle throughout your lifetime. No one person can wave a magic wand and repair hundreds of years of racism. Be a kind person. Treat others who think, act, or look different from you with the same respect you have for yourself. Those who perpetrate racist ideals or philosophies should be admonished, and considered to be socially unacceptable.

Under Georgia law, names of grand jurors are publicly listed on indictments — an effort at transparency that some have questioned in light of ongoing threats in the aftermath of the charges against Trump and 18 others accused of conspiring to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results.

To a layman, publishing the identities of grand jury members involved in high profile cases seems incredibly stupid. Average people called to perform a civic duty are put in harms way for …better transparency?

Anyone care to play devil’s advocate and explain why grand juror identities are publicly relevant information? Why does this law exist?

I visited Yellowstone last year. The National Parks Service has an excellent walkway system which allows visitors to get an close-up view of the hot springs. All along the walkways are signs that say something along the lines of: “Step off this walkway and you will be boiled alive.”

The sheer number of people visiting these areas on an average day, and the quality of workmanship put into the park walkways projects a false sense of security. A few times I had to remind myself that I was standing above something that could kill me. Imagine being in a crowd of people seeing and experiencing something beautiful. Nobody there is unhappy, everyone is strolling along taking pictures and enjoying spectacular views of the hot springs. But in reality, it is a bunch of people standing on heat-resistant walkways above boiling lakes of death.

These warning signs are placed every few feet, but I can completely understand how idiots and children would ignore them and get themselves killed. Some walkways have railings, others don’t. Yellowstone is one of the most beautiful places on earth. The possibility of getting killed is not something actively going through your mind while you experience it.

Also, people taking photos of bison are incredibly cavalier about distance and safety. It makes sense that attacks and deaths are common enough not to make headlines.