@ChaosEngine I mean a person wanting to change a law, and making that happen, compared to her just up and moving. You're assuming some authority is already engaged off a single complaint. Did the glittery cost-fairy take care of getting that whole process under way?

There are more groups with objectionable views on a federal level than on a state level. You can't stop legislators from making stupid laws, but you can mitigate the damage by having them legislate over less citizens and territory, so less citizens are affected, and those who are can still move outside their reach. Despite those obvious benefits, I guess bashing on states rights is quite popular these days.

I know it feels unfathomable to you right now that your political views might be wrong, or that you might be the one with a "backward world view", but realizing that isn't moral relativism, it's admitting that you're human, fallible. Politics is a complex subject, I'm not saying there are no right answers, just that you should be wary of those who claim to have them.

Do you see black or is it more like there is something missing? I get that sometimes. I might be reading and suddenly for some reason I cannot make out the words in the middle of my vision. But it isn't blurry or black or bright or anything. It is just missing. It feels truly weird and it is hard to explain because how can there be nothing in just part of my vision without there being a hole there or a dark spot or something! Like if you look at a painting that is missing a part you can see a shape around the hole, you can see something on the other side. Having part of what you see be just missing without any artifact, it just feels slippery in a way. Like my mind just cannot process that part right now and in its place there is nothing, not even a gap.
>> ^TheFreak:

Forget deja vu, that description of Blindsight might explain one of the strangest things I've ever experienced.
I suffer occular migraines periodically. Generally, when that happens I get a blind spot that grows until my entire vision is gone, then after several minutes it clears up. The process takes about 20-40 minutes from beginning to end.
Well...one day I'm playing Halo online with friends and between games I begin to get an occular migraine. So I let everyone know I might end up running into walls for the duration of the next game. By midpoint of the game I'm completely blind. When the game ends I'm chatting with my friends on my team about the experience of losing my sight like that when someone says, "well for a blind person you played awfully well". Huh? So I have them tell me my score and I was top scorer in the game. Which is when it occurs to me that, even though I was fully blinded for the majority of the game, I never stopped playing.
So at one level I'm perceiving myself as totally without sight, while at another level I'm still moving and reacting, with great precision, to visual input.
Go figure.

Forget deja vu, that description of Blindsight might explain one of the strangest things I've ever experienced.

I suffer occular migraines periodically. Generally, when that happens I get a blind spot that grows until my entire vision is gone, then after several minutes it clears up. The process takes about 20-40 minutes from beginning to end.

Well...one day I'm playing Halo online with friends and between games I begin to get an occular migraine. So I let everyone know I might end up running into walls for the duration of the next game. By midpoint of the game I'm completely blind. When the game ends I'm chatting with my friends on my team about the experience of losing my sight like that when someone says, "well for a blind person you played awfully well". Huh? So I have them tell me my score and I was top scorer in the game. Which is when it occurs to me that, even though I was fully blinded for the majority of the game, I never stopped playing.

So at one level I'm perceiving myself as totally without sight, while at another level I'm still moving and reacting, with great precision, to visual input.

Go figure.

>> ^charliem:

Is there a followup to this? Im sure her foot is fine..if she could still move and feel her toes thats a really good sign.


She is fine now, at least her foot is 'pointing in the right direction'. Her boyfriend was with her when the ccident happened and he went to get help.

Rightthisminute has a recap and a follow-up store here:

http://www.rightthisminute.com/video/hiker-with-broken-ankle-waits-video-message-boyfriend-shoutouts

Is there a followup to this? Im sure her foot is fine..if she could still move and feel her toes thats a really good sign.

Indeed, it doesn't seem like he even gave them a chance to drop their (probably fake) weapons and surrender, just bang bang, oh, still moving? running away? bang bang bang. Sad.

>> ^Kofi:

Bloodlust. Why keep shooting after they have fled? Crazy gun nuts.

>> ^A10anis:

If you watch at the end, when he attempts to stop, you notice his feet are still moving backwards which almost makes him fall. Also, I think sparks are just discernible as he crosses pedestrian bit. These observations, coupled with the sound, make me think that he is wearing those shoes with the tiny wheels on them. My kids have them.


Yeah I tried googling up a pair of bright green shoes with wheels, couldn't find them. But the brand name I found was Heely.....maybe there's another brand.

>> ^A10anis:

>> ^Fletch:
>> ^A10anis:
If you watch at the end, when he attempts to stop, you notice his feet are still moving backwards which almost makes him fall. Also, I think sparks are just discernible as he crosses pedestrian bit. These observations, coupled with the sound, make me think that he is wearing those shoes with the tiny wheels on them. My kids have them.

Or the street is wet and slippery.

HMM, Ok. I bet you believe in big foot too..

For the record, I do not believe that Bigfoot can moonwalk.

>> ^A10anis:

If you watch at the end, when he attempts to stop, you notice his feet are still moving backwards which almost makes him fall. Also, I think sparks are just discernible as he crosses pedestrian bit. These observations, coupled with the sound, make me think that he is wearing those shoes with the tiny wheels on them. My kids have them.

Or the street is wet and slippery.

If you watch at the end, when he attempts to stop, you notice his feet are still moving backwards which almost makes him fall. Also, I think sparks are just discernible as he crosses pedestrian bit. These observations, coupled with the sound, make me think that he is wearing those shoes with the tiny wheels on them. My kids have them.

Bullshit! He's just finished a race, he's still moving forward on momentum, and she's in his lane. If he didn't want to go near her, he would have had to kill his own momentum and change direction. The onus is on the corporate worker to stay out of his way.

I'm sick of this nerfed world.

>> ^Januari:

>> ^budzos:
This is like the video of the tennis guys having to watch some corporate idiot talk for ten minutes before they could sit down after playing four or five sets. The guy has just run 3000M as fast as he can.... the race hasn't been over for TEN SECONDS you can't let him catch his breath, maybe experience the moment and store a memory? Maybe let things proceed with some dignity? No, you have to get your branding on screen at his expense immediately. Fuck that mascot, fuck her gift basket, fuck her employers and fuck the corporate PR/marketing whores who shove "branding" and "identity" down our throats incessantly. Fuck!

Yeah... lets ignore the fact that he walked 20 yards RIGHT to her... didn't have to go anywhere near her if he didn't want to.

Not sure I'd be one of those people running towards the helicopter when the blades are still moving. Sure, they aren't going so fast, but one of those upside the head would still hurt like hell.

Were they still moving when that happened?

That is fucking disgusting. You can argue all you like about whether or not it's still 'alive' or whether it's a reflex action. The problem is the barbaric disregard for another creature's life that is on display here.

"Look, poor hot liquid on it and it moves, HAW HAW HAW, how amusing, it's funny how the near dead creature still moves"

Fucking wrong.

There are a lot of westerners who hold up Japanese culture as being some pinnacle of human manners and decency and good... and then you look at hentai porn and the number of cruel and unusual ways they manage to eat/store/treat live animals and I have to question that a lot.

Yes we eat animals, as do a lot of other animals, it's all part of the food chain, but we should be above causing them distress and indignity merely for our amusement.

I upvote so more people can see the 'majesty of Japanese culture'.

(I am planning on having sushi for lunch... as an aside)