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It’s because he crossed state lines?

Oh I don’t follow anime.

Burgers come from Hamburg, Germany, hot dogs come from Frankfurt, Germany, macaroni and cheese come from Rome, Italy.

I’m pretty sure it’s like this for every cousine.

The bottom line is that restaurants have to have a theme, right, how else would anyone even talk about it? And the theme is usually some region of the world with varying specificity, my favorite is “fusion,” where the restaurant has two, or even three themes. When you go to a place with any theme, it’s always a charicature. In the case of restaurants, I’ve found that the food rarely represents the daily cuisine of the regular people of whatever place or tradition, it’s rather the cuisine of a restauranteur trying to run a business.

It’s a few choice special dinner dishes, like Sunday or holiday meals, and a few chubby-kid approved favorites, and it seems just as often it’s stereoptyical dishes that may not even be from the place/culture, such as General Tso’s Chicken, that came from one Hunanese resteraunt in New York in 1972, and is now in the menu if every Chinese restaurant in America. And American restaurants abroad serve franks and hamburgers, despite the origins of both being in Frankfurt and Hamburg, Germany. In sum, there are no rules and everything is made up. You can get New Haven style pizza in Rome.

Is this some weird anti abortion grooming or something?

I’m woke as fuck because I support the Constitution and civil rights. Fuck me, right?

I think antifa is best described as a strategy to cope with fascist creep.

They’re like stupid children with bad parents. But they are whole ass adults.

It’s so pathetic.

That sucks. I wouldn’t go.

Haha whoops. I’m leaving it.

Is nothing scared.

I can feel it coming in the air tonight.

And it was also the day that the skeletons came to lifeeeee.

He was like 19 in this photo, too.

It’s like a magazine. A book brick magazine.

I wonder if there’s a travel itinerary for a year long journey to as many independence days as possible. How many are there? How many could a person attend within a year?

Edit: Found a list on wiki and could sort by calendar day. By my count you could attend a maximum of 119 independence days; that is to say somewhere in the world there is an independence day on 119 different days. Many days of course have two or more countries celebrating so you’d have to pick one. Maybe I’ll print the list and think about the geography a bit and see how many a person could reasonably attend; 119 is the maximum if you own a private plane and could land and takeout from the correct countries in order.

Conceivably, one person couldn’t possibly line up the entry visas to get anywhere close to 119. They’d need a small team of immigration lawyers working for months ahead of and during each leg; some chronological legs might be impossible due to entry restrictions on country of entry or country of origin. Visa requirements would get more complicated as time went on and less likely to be granted, although to the extent border controls are discretionary, with the right letters and proof, the durations of stay will be so short, how many border guard supervisors are going to turn you down for a one or two day entry visa when you have photos of you partying it up on Independence days around the world, celebrating the prideful achievements of the cultures of the world, and asking “won’t you let a kind traveler share your day of national pride with you, so that I may share it with others?”

And this is all flying privately with your own jet and unlimited money to keep it going on demand. Many legs would be interrupted by flight delays and travel bullshit. Flying commercially, even with unlimited plane fair money and very good luck in finding/planning accomodations (not living out of your private jet). This assumes the flight durations and time zones line up that you could make it in time from one to the next.

I would find it an amazing achievement if a regular person managed to get to like 25 of the these things in a year, and a lifetime achievement award to do anyone that hit 50. Maybe a very seriously dedicated individual could hit ~75. That last stretch from 100 to 119 I think would be insurmountable. With all the resources in the world I bet a few would still fall through for one reason or another.

If anyone finds some travel nerd somewhere that has really thought this out please share.

Well, what is it?

That’s how life looks, man. I noticed this same thing many years ago after the Reagan assassination attempt. There’s that photo in black and white of secret service agent Robert Wanko holding an Uzi, bodies on the floor. It’s so chaotic and normal, the president is just a regular person, same as everyone around him, just trying to keep it together.

Reminds me of the true meaning of that line from the Constitution, “we the people.”

People misread it. It’s about the people coming together to form a government, as commonly understood, but it also states affirmatively that no diety or higher power is going to come and govern for us, it’s just us; fragile, emotional, stupid, us.

I remember watching that number tick up.

I got Gmail on an invite.

Such majestic splendor.