Well now, this is looking better! Mercury has gone back to being a sensible planet, and with the return to direct motion comes a burst of the better aspects of the planet’s influence: good luck, good news, clear communication and speed. It’s a good thing we’ve got this, because there will be sufficient chaos with the Moon beginning the week in Aries. Fortunately, you should be able to wrangle the instability to your advantage. The one bad thing is that the moon and Saturn do make conditions right to lose your house to flooding, so any of you with beach property might want to secure your insurance documents. But assuming that doesn’t concern you, we see another meaning of “lucky” come into play at the end of the week. On Friday (the day of Venus) we see Venus come into alignment with Jupiter, indicating the prime time to engage in matrimonial whoopie-making. This linkage persists the entire weekend, so married folk can enjoy.
Aquarius continues to have their big month spoiled by Saturn (which also contributes to that flooding problem mentioned earlier). And Capricorn… can you please stop complaining for a week? You literally have all the good stuff going for you. You’ve got the matched set of Venus + Mars, PLUS you’ve got Mercury going direct — not only will your decisions be the right ones, even if you make a stupid decision, it’s still going to work out anyway.
Aquarius: 8 of Swords – Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny, sickness.
Pisces: 5 of Coins reversed – Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.
Aries: Three of Cups – The conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment, sorority party, happy issue, victory, fulfilment, solace, healing, wine club.
Taurus: 3 of Swords – This card is a heart pieced by three swords. In the rain. I’ll let you decide if that’s good news or not.
Gemini: 3 of Coins – Métier, trade, skilled labor, nobility, aristocracy, renown, glory. While this is not canon, I’m convinced this is an interior scene from the building portrayed in the 5 of coins earlier. Possibly at an earlier time.
Cancer: 8 of Cups reversed – Great joy, happiness, feasting.
Leo: Knight of Wands reversed – Rupture, division, interruption, discord.
Virgo: 6 of Wands – Victory, triumph, great news.
Libra: Knight of Coins reversed – Inertia, idleness, repose of that kind, stagnation, placidity, discouragement, carelessness.
Scorpio: The Emperor reversed – Benevolence, compassion, credit, confusion to enemies, obstruction, immaturity.
Sagittarius: The Hermit reversed – Concealment, disguise, policy, fear, unreasoned caution.
Capricorn: Temperance reversed – Things connected with churches, religions, disunion, unfortunate combinations, competing interests.
Cancer: 8 of Cups reversed – Great joy, happiness, feasting. – color me skeptical
I’m gonna run with it.
It does sound like a trap but I’m going with it too.
House walk-thru and close tomorrow. We signed tbe sale papers yesterday. Next weekend we pick a rental place.
Congrats!
To which state are you headed?
SC – upstate.
I live in NC. We drive to SC to get the good fireworks.
May I recommend a restaurant to celebrate?
https://restaurant17.com/
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Excellent!
Italian Greyhound – that seem misleading that dog look neither gray nor italian
Aaaay, wasamatta you?
That’s a spicy meatball!
Great morning at the park. Took Lily for her first walk off leash through the woods. We went with a large group of owners and dogs and she never went too far away, and always came back when called (admittedly I was holding a treat, but still.) Watching the dogs be happy dogs was just joyous. It took me a while to come down off of the euphoria high.
That’s good to hear. was goind to say I haven’t left the house all week, but I went to the grocery store, so that’d be a lie.
It was very nice to see that she’d check out where I was, and it gave me excellent opportunities to work on her recall. 6/6 today, which is frankly better than I got in obedience class. I am really hoping she’s going to be a travel companion.
We spent most of yesterday driving down to WV (and back), to have a look at a GSP looking for a home. Our boy is 14 and really showing his age, and he won’t be with us a lot longer. We’ve always replaced after one passes, but we had the opportunity to take a look at a 2 year old male (still intact) and we agreed to take him. He’ll stay with the kennel for some more training, he should be nearly a finished gun dog when he comes to us (late March), and he’ll be neutered. So we’ll be 3 dogs, at least for a while.
There’s a GSP at the park named Bruno. Yes, he wears a coat.
*Sigh*
I have a ton of stuff due this week. Great.
*Shakes fist at sky*
Scorpio: The Emperor reversed – Benevolence, compassion, credit, confusion to enemies, obstruction, immaturity.
And now for my next feat: curing cancer! – JRB46
Watching Reacher:
Even if you pick up your casings, leaving .50 AE slugs in someone is kind of a big clue.
Okay, so I’m super happy and extra horney today. I’m an Aries, so am I supposed to go for sex, or will it kill him??? He’s a Capricorn, but I think he’d play any position if the price is right…
You could try fortifying him with whatever it is they use to get Biden up and motoring for half a press conference. I think SF has documented the process.
Get a vibrator?
“will it kill him?”
You must be damn good.
Theoretically, she could be doing it wrong.
Ha, we’re the same signs but with the genders reversed.
What? An uncommon caliber isn’t inconspicuous?
Unrelated, I’m sometimes surprised at how bullets sometimes perform in real life. Case in point, watching a murder trial where a guy got shot in the face at close range (2-4 feet) with a 9mm. Going through the brow ridge and the back of the skull cost it so much momentum that it couldn’t pierce the scalp on the back of the head. Admittedly those are the two thickest parts of the skull.
That reminds me of an interrogation video I watched (semi) recently. The police detained a young man for quite a while as a murder suspect and didn’t realize until they had almost finished the interview that he had been shot in the face.
The slugs went through. Someone would have to find them.
Of course, the holes left behind are pretty conspicuous as well.
Or the entrance/exit wounds..
You could say it “was down right romantic.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LKoOzAb4Bs
Aghh. That was supposed to start at 56:11.
What movie did Slim Pickens not improve?
Sagittarius: The Hermit reversed – Concealment, disguise, policy, fear, unreasoned caution.
“Unreasoned caution”? No such thing.
Aquarius: 8 of Swords – Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny, sickness.
does astrology work for cats?
They have a whole different set of charts and signs.
The conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment, sorority party, happy issue, victory, fulfilment, solace, healing,
winewhiskey club.I don’t think I want to go to a sorority party.
I chose to read it as “getting together with girlfriends”, which I haven’t done since Sept/Oct
So what is the story with all the dogs? You had none and then just decided to rent the entire pound?
It’s a dog park. Dogs appear there as if by magic.
So how many dogs do you have?
Just the one. For now.
Pisces: 5 of Coins reversed – Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.
Gloom Despair And Agony On Me
Where da tall girls ?
Love these. My dogs hate their boots and jackets, so we only use them is miserably shitty weather. Which appears to be pretty rare here.
Leo: Knight of Wands reversed – Rupture, division, interruption, discord.
Back to normal, then.
ITA vs SWE mixed curling chix definitely worth breaking your boycott of the Whuhan Olympics
I may turn on the TV for the Norwegian curling team
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almida_de_Val
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefania_Constantini
Stop tempting me.
NA, when Spring and the mud come you need to take Lily after the dog park.
https://twitter.com/OntWtf/status/1487145212229021697
I watched a live feed of the protests in Ottawa last night. No violence. No smashing of windows. No graffiti. Fireworks were pointed up, not at people or buildings. Nobody was hiding their identities behind masks. Yet they are described as some horrible threat.
Yet last summer’s protests were fiery, but mostly peaceful. And the media wonders why nobody trusts them.
They are a horrible threat. A threat to liberals.
Lefties know that dissent is a threat to tyranny.
Its why the Commies in China are getting Hong Kong bend the knee.
Do the Stars say if I should purchase a KO MP-44 or a TE-01?
MP-44
https://www.forgottenweapons.com/mp-44-the-german-sturmgewehr/
Would an MP 40 do?
https://www.pyramydair.com/product/umarex-legends-mp40-co2-bb-submachine-gun?m=4312
(more affordable for us mere mortals.)
Lets turn up the screws on the rat colony and see what happens
Signs are emerging that the stresses and challenges of the pandemic are worsening gun violence in American schools. Researchers who are studying the phenomenon worry it will only get worse.
Already, campuses have been the site of 141 shootings so far during the 2021-22 school year – more than at any point in the previous decade, according to Everytown for Gun Safety.
Problems that predated the pandemic – such as inequality and inadequate resources – have grown worse even as COVID-19 has introduced new challenges, like creating such stress that half of teachers say they want to quit or retire early, according to recent surveys by the National Education Association.
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Peterson said that while it is impossible to know exactly what is driving increases in violence, researchers agree the decimation of school services is a big contributor.
“We know that a lot of things that prevented violence, like after-school programs and sports, are still not up and functioning in many places,” she said.
“The pandemic,” Peterson added, “has shown us that schools are so much more than schools. They really hold our society together and hold our kids together in many ways, from mental health to physical health to food security. And we lost that.”
Experts pontificate. America
listens raptlyheats tar, fathers feathers.Only in my dreams, unfortunately.
“it is impossible to know exactly what is driving increases in violence”
It’s truly a Scooby Doo mystery.
Oh well, nothing a few more billion thrown at teachers’ unions can’t solve.
Will $2.3B be enough for Michigan teachers? We may get to find out.
https://www.woodtv.com/news/michigan/whitmer-will-propose-retention-bonuses-for-teachers-staff/amp/
Just turn them into orphanariums. No reason parents should ever be burdened by the presence of, let alone raising, those little germbreeders.
I hear a lot of school personnel blaming this pandemic and the response to the pandemic for negative outcomes that were already trending upward before 2020. Each June, as a part of my job, I review at student discipline and academic data for my district to help identify patterns that can be influenced at the school level. From a behavioral perspective, masks, isolation, and quarantines have certainly not helped, but this is a much deeper structural problem that is more related to the article OMWC provided in the morning links than what the pandemic responses have provided.
That typo will haunt my dreams
Social media?
Targeted, intentional intermixing of multifamily units and renters into suburban areas?
I’m sure there are a few more trends that could be identified, as well.
Decreasing parental responsibility for childrearing?
Social media plays a large part. I haven’t read a ton of empirical research on the subject, but there appears to be at least some correlation between social media use and negative emotional states. I don’t know that we can correctly identify all of the contributing factors because it has amounted to a decades-long evolution in parental expectations and what has become acceptable social behavior. My best guess is that culture has shifted, and that shift has left public education as an institution incapable of meeting its stated and implied missions.
because it has amounted to a decades-long evolution in parental expectations and what has become acceptable social behavior
Ha, I snipped a couple sentences on exactly this from my comment. I love it when that happens!
School discipline is a cogent example of this. The expectations and behavior have shifted so much in the last 70 years that it’s unthinkable to discipline kids in more than a superficial way. Furthermore, i think there are a lot of people who are in favor of stronger discipline in the abstract, but not by the current teachers and administrators. I know I wouldn’t trust the blue hairs at the local elementary school to dole out discipline consistent with my worldview.
I know that the chances of anyone reading this are slim since there is a new thread up, but I don’t want to stink up the GlibFit thread with my musings on school discipline.
In fact, I just deleted two paragraphs because this going to be an essay.
father, gather, whatever.
Never gonna happen
Dogs in coats is silly.
I’d like to suggest that if dogs in coats is okay, then why not dogs in hats? There’s a fortune to be made in boutique designer canine millinery.
Cowboy boots and sombreros.
Just because they have fur doesn’t mean they don’t get cold in extremes from what they’re used to all day. Or anxiety. Clothing works for both.
I just thought it was funny
the replies are rather cute
I think you’re just jealous that he’s a sharper dresser than you are.
*looks down at puppers wearing scarf and burrowed into couch*
Whatever.
Just turn them into orphanariums. No reason parents should ever be burdened by the presence of, let alone raising, those little germbreeders.
[insert school scenes from “Soldier”]
Rupture, division, interruption, discord.
Ah. Normal.
Well, I’ve gotten half of what I need to do today done. All my bulk proteins have been broken down and brining or marinading. Now all I need to do is make sure I take the trash to the curb after 5.
Now to decide what to do with the rest of the time.
You should start your own blog. Live Updates With The World’s Most Boring Man.
But how would I get you to provide the content?
Ask the idiot to be the first contributor.
Shut up, Broccolitard, we don’t take kindly round here to the likes of you and your constant cravings for penis.
All my bulk proteins have been broken down and brining or marinading.
Chuck roasts were on sale today for $4/lb so I stocked up. Never mind that $4/lb is higher than the regular price a year or two ago. I’ll break down and seal in vacuum bags for pot roast and Mexican shredded beef.
Still seeing widespread shortages at the grocery store. No fresh carrots of any type. And the entire frozen french fry aisle was completely empty.
In another forums discussing shortages there’s always a reply to “X is gone”, “well, it’s at my store so there’s no shortages”. Trying to whitewash what is clearly happening, more items out of stock, for longer, and the type of items that are rarely in the past. This isn’t just some snowstorm stockup or all of the stuffing and cranberries being gone on day after Thanksgiving.
I bit the bullet and bought a whole beef tenderloin at cash and carry. $13 something a pound, but even after trimming, I figure I can do better than what it’s going for retail at my butcher.
I’m marinating chicken with two different flavors.
Italian with lemon juice, garlic, olive oil, parsley, oregano, salt and pepper, onion powder, and mustard.
Mexican with lime juice, garlic, chipotle powder, hot sauce, onion, salt, pepper, cumin, and oregano.
I bit the bullet and bought a whole beef tenderloin at cash and carry. $13 something a pound, but even after trimming, I figure I can do better than what it’s going for retail at my butcher now.
Apparently there’s a surplus of squirrelmeat to be had.
Sounds about right. At least I’ll get my discord working.
Whatever the market will bear.
https://archive.fo/YLMyg
Reporting back from Truckistan. Here’s what I saw:
– smiling people
– families
– bouncy castles
– people of all colours
– a prayer revival
– watch your step / icy signs
– truckers shovelling sidewalks
– tents with free food / soup / coffee
– people giving food to truckers
– garbage bags set up and no garbage on the ground
– signs about peace and unity
– 1 rainbow flag, 0 Confederate flags, 0 Nazi flags
– no signs of violence at all
Love it. Go Canucks!
Those Canuckistanians are getting all uppity. I guess Twink of the North is going to have to teach them a lesson.
The very definition of insurrection.
If you squint through the prism in just the right way it looks like the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 or the firing on Ft Sumter.
This reaffirms my expectations with regards to the behaviour of protesters.
My first office with the state overlooked ‘protest park’ by the state capital. Groups looking for more free shit or privileges left it trashed. Those protesting against government overreach left it cleaner than they found it.
Excellent!
On a related note: The US truckers:
– There are splitters. Someone is posting on the DerpBook group I’m on about a different, more official (?) trucker group that is on telegram. This group is fake news according to her. I have no idea if she is correct or not. According to her, this group has not released any maps.
– A map from the group I am on shows the truckers bypassing New Jersey and New York City. The group mods explain this is due to tolls. The tolls for the GWB, NJ Turnpike, and Delaware River bridge would be about $100 per truck. So, skip New Jersey.
– Some folks have asked about the timing and why it is not earlier. Some people have responded claiming the Canadian truckers took eight months to plan this protest, and the US truckers are trying to do it in a month. I question the claim the Canadian truckers have been planning this for eight months. The Ottawa police seemed to have been unprepared for the truckers. Compare the Ottawa police response with the Toronto police response. The Toronto police were ready, Ottawa police were not. Also look at Coutts, Alberta, where it looks like the RCMP were caught unawares. The Canadian truckers must have had amazing operational security to keep this quiet for this long among that that many truckers. I can buy some incompetence/sympathy for the truckers on the part of the police, but not this much. Also note the Coutts truckers didn’t have any apparent outside legal support. Rebel News found them a lawyer. Maybe the Coutts truckers and the Ottawa truckers are separate groups, but I’m still skeptical of the claim the Canadian truckers have been planning this for eight months.
I’m out for a bit. I have some errands to run.
The Ottawa police were unprepared, and they know that they can’t end this themselves. We saw cops from other cities (Kingston, Sudbury, Durham Region). That was the most aggressive thing that we saw — cops walking in large groups through the crowd. Clearly meant to intimidate, maybe even to provoke.
Go Canada!!!!!
Also, I am watching Viva Frei atm and holy shit it looks cold there.
Meh, it wasn’t that bad. -12 C or so.
Fake News, #CapricornsRpeople2
Speaking of fake news, I’m sure it’s old news aournd here already, but I guess I finallly woke up from a 3 day long hangover and learned about CNN’s fate. Maybe there really is a god.
anyone seen Suthen ?
Not for a while…
Hope he’s having an uneventful (but enjoyable) life. Unlike the last times he’s been scarce.
Yes.
Suthen was sitting on about 1000 acres last I heard. Maybe he should declare it his own country and invite us all down. Hope y’all like gator.
4 DEG.
https://archive.md/EJq8a
Point of order: Some of those women are not wearing Dirndls.
Will finish perusing the gallery after my errands.
– smiling people
– families
– bouncy castles
– people of all colours
– a prayer revival
– watch your step / icy signs
– truckers shovelling sidewalks
– tents with free food / soup / coffee
– people giving food to truckers
– garbage bags set up and no garbage on the ground
– signs about peace and unity
– 1 rainbow flag, 0 Confederate flags, 0 Nazi flags
– no signs of violence at all
*ominous rumble of approaching hoofbeats*
Some good news for those who follow soccerball.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/05/canceled-woke-soccer-player-megan-rapinoe-left-off-u-s-womens-team-roster/
“Make me a sandwich, woman.”
Xe looks exactly like every Starbuck’s employee, ever. How can you tell these Xe’s apart, the all look alike to me.
The Subway shirt and the air of complete dejection.
That’s the same fucking Xe that worked at our local Starbucks. Wife and I debated whether Xe was a guy or gal for weeks and then I was in there alone one time and talked to Xe and told wife, it’s a girl, who wants to be a guy. Then we were in there again and my wife ordered a green tea frappacino and told Xe no sweetener and Xe says ‘Green tea frappacino’ is weet and it set me off. I told Xe ‘Not if she says it’s not’, don’t put any sugar in it, honey, you got that? I was about to make a scene but I guess she got it.
To be fair, she just got too old. Has nothing to do with politics.
As it should be, as much as I dislike her politics.
Has anyone confirmed she is not a dood?
“It’s not self-lubricating! It’s fake!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6yQOs93Cgg
Boreham Wood FC, which is beating Bournemouth right now, is located in Borehamwood. Which means the soccer club spells better than the government.
For those who dont follow it, Bournemouth is near the top of the Championship, competing for promotion to the Premier League. Boreham Wood is Tier Six, I think. National League South?
Note to sloopy: If Borham holds on, I demand a “The Wood Pops The Cherries” headline in the morning. Or I expect a refund.
Although Bournemouth are the Poppies. There’s still a pun in there somewhere.
Wikipedia agrees with me.
Oh I’m a moron. The poppies is the other Bournemouth team in some local league. Again. I am a dumb.
Tier five, National League. Not as low as I suggested. They are in position to possibly be promoted into League Two.
Those matches are the part of the FA Cup I used to like before it was moved off cable.
Ooo, Forest won. Cool.
*Florist
Only Hugh can prevent Florist Friars, and Hugh was committed to the rubber room while freaking the fuck out about hummus. /official survivor of the great hummus wars on TOS
The Wood wins 1-0. Looks like they completely parked the bus in the second half.
Sagittarius: The Hermit reversed
I am in full-on hermit mode.
One of these days, I need to venture back into the world.
Nah. Not worth it.
*Raises hermit glass*
This woman is terrifying. She sees not being vaccinated the same as driving drunk. They broke people.
Shutup, loper, and get your jab! Look at that poor woma, you’ve traumatized her with your unjabiness. She’s back in chains, chained to the stove and warshing machine and a life of only making sammiches.
More thoughts on Reacher so far:
-It’s an unusual mix of stereotype and unpredicted plot twists
-Lee Childs has taken to heart the advice about if he runs out of action to have the door kicked down by a guy with a gun.
-Venezuela must have been completely depopulated by the end of this series.
While not Q-worthy, Roscoe’s shower scene was fulfilling.
Dudes. Spoilers.
I have a soft spot for Collies. My first dog was one. Well, the dog my parents had when I was born was a Collie. That counts.
Official meme of Glibertarians.
https://archive.md/OhhXh/6f202ef889d3d28727f11002943b4c2cebf9f4e2.webp
Since Q is here today, there’s an urgent subject that needs an answer. Does Q like Jennifer or Bailey most?
Frei is a better man than me. I don’t think I could take listening to the same sort of apologists who would cheerlead Mengele’s work or the entire Nazi program. Those fuckers should be outcast from a free society.
https://youtu.be/bhFuL4aOt_o
I hope that bitch who demands the government suppress non-violent demonstrations gets curbstomped by the same thugs she wants unleashed. Can’t go to the office, can’t go to the store, can’t go to church. Assuming she’s actually trying to go to those, which I doubt, those cant’s sound awfully familiar… don’t worry bitch, it’s just for two weeks to flatten the authoritarianism.
Shit, I see Agent Sloper is already on it.
Oh that bitch is frightening. She would put us in camps if we disagreed with her. Now I am not sure if they broke people, or those people were always like that and now they just get to say it because it is allowed.
Those people have always been with us. The differnece is the internet. We gave the worst most miserable people in society a huge megaphone. We should have never invented the internet. I’m not sure if we will survive it.
*unplugs internet connection*
Klaus needs a word with you, from his lair under a volcano, with his cat, Me. Bigglesworth. Get jabbed, ze veel own nothing and ze veel be happy. If ze does not believe me, you need to talk to his senile eunuch, your president and master.
She sees not being vaccinated the same as driving drunk. They broke people.
Everything they don’t like is just like drunk driving. Reckless. Depraved indifference to the safety and tranquility of those around you (them). Why not just put on a blindfold and randomly shoot your machine gun while you’re at it?
They broke people like P Brooks breaks threads. It’s a far right conspiracy.l
The Ottawa police were unprepared, and they know that they can’t end this themselves. We saw cops from other cities (Kingston, Sudbury, Durham Region). That was the most aggressive thing that we saw — cops walking in large groups through the crowd. Clearly meant to intimidate, maybe even to provoke.
If those cops were smart (I crack myself up), they’d be walking on eggshells.
I wonder how many of the rank and file secretly sympathize with the refuseniks.
We only have one choice. Our awesome American president, who got the most votes in history, has to invade Canada.
I need lyrics for my new hit ‘The Day that CNN Died’.
American Lie
A long, long time ago
I can still remember
How that news used to make me realize.
I knew that if Turner took the shot
He’d have what no one else had got
A twenty-four hour enterprise.
But February gave an answer
To the leftists it was cancer
Bad news in the Tower
Their CEO just glowered
I can’t remember if I laughed
When Stelter made another gaffe
But my interest was raised by half
The day CNN died
So, bye-bye, misinformation & lies
Changed my channel to your panel of idiots and spies
Your good ol’ board were drinkin’ daquiris with rye
Singin’ “this’ll be the day that we die…this’ll be the day that we die”
Did Zucker plan out the leftist view?
And who are all the people who knew?
If Nielsen tells you so.
Do you believe in basic facts?
Or does reality make you just grow lax?
Maybe the truth is something you just can’t know.
Well, I know that you hate the right
‘Cause I heard you shout it with all your might
If I can risk being rude
You seem quite happy to collude
Skating, fading, don’t look at the ratings
Oh no, Toobin’s masturbating
But I was always anticipating
The day CNN died.
I started singin’ bye-bye, misinformation & lies
Changed my channel to your panel of idiots and spies
Your good ol’ board were drinkin’ daquiris with rye
Singin’ “this’ll be the day that we die…this’ll be the day that we die”
Now, for 10 years, they’ve gone to town
And grown fat and stupid like a drunken clown
But that’s not how it used to be
When Stelter squealed for the poopy-pants
About a story he got by simple chance,
He didn’t care about you and me…
While Zucker played the queen of hearts
Fox News stole the top of the charts
And the play was quite perfected
His resignation was not rejected.
And while Tapper read a book on Marx
PR said is was just a lark
And the tried to keep us in the dark
The day CNN died
I started singin’ bye-bye, misinformation & lies
Changed my channel to your panel of idiots and spies
Your good ol’ board were drinkin’ daquiris with rye
Singin’ “this’ll be the day that we die…this’ll be the day that we die”
+1000000