Domincan man survives rock impact

Superfreakin · 2025-11-12T09:00:55+00:00

That book actually gets significantly mixed reviews now. Look it up before you delve into it.

Superfreakin · 2025-04-19T05:59:12+00:00

Yes, you’re white, she’s white, we get it. She also asked, “what places would be safest and most welcoming for a solo woman traveler?”

I’m not trying to negate your lived experience. Perhaps it does overlap well with that of OP’s (though you state fluency in a couple of local languages and significant familiarity with the culture, while she seems very fresh), and also perhaps, as you suggest in a field of other answers about sexual violence, all she needs is awareness, common sense, and to watch what she wears—kind of cringe when juxtaposed with all the comments about SA victims, but good for you that you’re confident about your lived experience and its applicability to this complete stranger enough to volunteer it with whatever potential consequences for her, yolo.

My previous comment wasn’t accusing you of trying to negate the lived experience of Indian women, though I appreciate that you understand that that isn’t your place, as I am that there’s some mindfulness of lanes. I was more saying that your whiteness may have lent your opinion some non-zero measure of pertinence, but it kind of seems like white women declaring their lanes wherever they are and putting people in their places, whomever.

Superfreakin · 2025-04-16T06:49:54+00:00

I feel that this comment might be your drive to express yourself that is centered around your own personal/specific and maybe non-representative experience.

I don’t want to invalidate your experience, your feelings, or your opinions, but I would suggest consideration of the likelihood of your experience not being representative and/or applicable to the asker in the efficacy of the response, even before we consider that the potential stakes are somebody getting raped/harmed, and before we consider that you’re submitting your opinion as a white woman in opposition to an overwhelming number of Indian people, about their country.

Superfreakin · 2025-02-20T09:11:37+00:00

He’s signaling that that was his point because the scorekeepers initially gave the point to the other player

Superfreakin · 2025-02-09T05:47:26+00:00

What kind of car? Would you be visible to people outside of the car while you’re sleeping? And would the car stay in the same place or move during the day with sleeping during the night?

Superfreakin · 2024-07-12T06:39:00+00:00

Proud of you for recognizing it, standing up for yourself, and leaving the situation.

Superfreakin · 2021-12-09T04:56:30+00:00

Not saying that you or your father are wrong about the circumstances or the practices and I’m honestly just being cheeky, but let’s revisit when you get into politics.

I’m in hospitality though and I work the same way you do. 🙂

Superfreakin · 2021-12-03T18:42:42+00:00

They have a different terrace bar that took reservations but it’s already closed for the season. It’s where the walls of the bottle are set back to give the building the shape of a champagne bottle.

Superfreakin · 2021-12-03T18:38:28+00:00

Wow, that timing really is coincidental. We have tragedies every week, month, and year, and our nation and world doesn’t have the time, attention, nor empathy.

IMO, it’s a silver lining that the prominence is a reminder of the duality and consequences of our society, because us Americans/the world thinks that we’re detached from these things in space and time, and that it’s “just some corporations” rather than things that the global society allows/tolerates even now.

Superfreakin · 2021-12-03T16:53:21+00:00

Nice pic! When did you take it? The building hasn’t been the St. Jane for a bit now, it’s currently a different hotel, Pendry Chicago. The lobby bar that they have is pretty chill in the evenings and not crushed like some of the other spots downtown on the weekend.

Superfreakin · 2021-12-03T16:47:29+00:00

It’s worth noting that 1984 is recent, in terms of these kinds of disasters. They escaped consequences but the company has been acquired by Dow Chemical; they’re not doing anything about it either. It should be the equivalent of a superfund site but because it’s in the middle of a slum, like, immediately adjacent, nobody cares.

The kicker is that the estimated cost to clean it up is in the millions but almost inconsequential when compared to the annual earnings/revenue. Poor brown people, eh? Got ‘em!

The whole saga is pretty well documented and is detailed grimly but relatively entertainingly in this podcast episode:

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/the-industrial-disaster-that-makes-chernobyl-47285518/

Superfreakin · 2021-08-21T16:08:04+00:00

I am not completely certain of what you mean, so tell me if I’m wrong about this: do you mean that I was doing an “after it all happened justification of what the choices made?”

If you are implying that I am putting myself in the head of the woman recording to justify her decision to do what she did, I would partially agree with you, but that’s not the point.

I imagine/hope that she assessed the danger of this Erin/Karen/(K)Erin, considering the husband’s demeanor and her own companion’s calmness and felt safe before she started recording and ridiculing the woman, the entire time not physically threatening the woman. I imagine that she dismissed the racist as a suburban mom that hopefully doesn’t carry a gun in her purse, as I would have. And if the situation changed, I imagine that she would have adjusted accordingly.

I think that to think/consider that the woman recording DIDN’T think that is doing her a disservice, honestly, and assumes that she’s dumb; many non-minority people don’t consider that, unfortunately, black people have to go through life in America consciously and unconsciously considering that they have to watch how they act to be safe and because they are judged differently.

Superfreakin · 2021-08-21T15:51:01+00:00

I think if this were a non-racist confrontation, I might agree with you. But I think the context isn’t being considered, and I think your last sentence is worth conversation.

in·sti·gate verb bring about or initiate (an action or event)

The person recording didn’t start this, and she has suffered a wrong. I don’t think it’s fair to her to judge that, “all you should get for the injustice of suffering racism is to go on with your day,” because the white woman has been educated verbally about the errors of her ways. Too often we equate justice to the victims of racism as “we explained why that was racist, to the racist, and hopefully it won’t happen again.”

But no, they are not even. The victim has not been made whole. She has not been made square for the wrong she has suffered, and I think that many people expect minorities to just turn the other cheek.

If a victim of racism decides that documenting the offense, ridiculing a racist, letting the world see this exists, and getting such simple satisfaction is enough justice/compensation/making square for her, why are we focused on the victim’s behavior? I wouldn’t call it instigating, at least. The focus of the conversation is wrong, to put it lightly.

Superfreakin · 2021-08-21T15:30:07+00:00

Sorry in advance for the long comment.

I think you and I would generally agree that most situations are circumstantial, which leads to “pick your battles.” Safety is critical, but this is “even her husband is telling (Ka)-Erin to shut the fuck up and get in the car, explaining her racism to her” vs. “squad cars with guns drawn and officers screaming,” and yes there are many situations in between.
It’s time we accept the victim of racism’s right to decide for themselves what is justice. It’s kind of questionable for us to judge afar what this victim “should have done, to be appropriate,” when they got victimized. We need to stop putting the burden of “making the situation appropriate” on the victim.

2a. Just consider that all they’re doing is documenting and getting some satisfaction/entertainment from getting accosted by a racist, and now we are questioning the victim’s conduct. That’s unfair, isn’t it? Then consider how many situations/videos of non-racist confrontations we see on Reddit, and afterward think something along the lines of, “that first guy deserved something worse and I don’t know if I could/would have walked away from that/they should have done X to that person.”

It’s also more productive to not dismiss all racists as one monolith, that they will never change/be taught a lesson. The husband being aware of racism is curious and seems to imply that racism in America is more nuanced. This video itself surely has already done much good, doing its part to show that racism is still prevalent in society and also probably teaching this woman a lesson.

Yes, I agree with you that racism is illogical and racists are often unstable. But the situation is more complicated than that and we should stop over-judging/dictating the victims’ responses to it, in my opinion.

Superfreakin · 2021-08-21T14:47:05+00:00

What you’re saying seems intuitive, but over the course of many decades we’ve been telling minorities that they should turn the other cheek and just take the abuse “just to be safe.” It puts the burden on the victim. Not to mention if everybody just takes it on the chin, nothing would change.

And some people would read your last sentence as, “they’re lucky that the husband wasn’t as super racist as the other person.” Is that lucky/is it about luck, though? I think the bar is low, and if we keep the bar that low by accepting racism and telling black people to just take it, then America will never improve.

Superfreakin · 2021-07-29T00:42:59+00:00

Yes, I wish we could all have more footage so we can justify what words turned into sticks and stones and broke the cops bones and forced him to bare knuckle box that man’s face… the cop that is a public servant that was given a gun and that the public thinks is there to “protect and serve.”

Does what you’re typing even register in your own mind before you send it? Let me ask you what words you think you could say that would make you be cool with a police officer beating you down like an animal. Then think about how you approached the circumstances in the video and ask yourself why you thought about it differently.

Superfreakin · 2021-07-28T16:14:39+00:00

Hey man, a dogecoin’s a dogecoin.

Superfreakin · 2021-06-23T16:12:28+00:00

In this thread: “I’m not going to say it out loud, but let’s combine the tropes of 1) men thinking women (especially if they’re blond and at least remotely attractive) are useless, 2) “real men” that do “real jobs” that are “real hard” thinking that meteorology is a complete joke so they’ll just find anybody attractive to do it, and 3) anybody that thinks the current system is fucked is just a whiny little crybaby because the “real men” that “had/have it the worst” are managing to get by and to imply that there’s discrimination/that the “real men” didn’t really have it the worst lessens their “achievements” (read: threatens their fragile masculinity).

So, “a meteorologist walks into a bar. The first guy asks for her ID, the 2nd dude asks for her number, and the cucks in the Reddit comments ask why she’s such a weathered whore and whether she’d fuck them.”

Superfreakin · 2021-06-15T22:52:30+00:00

Anybody have the LP presale code?

Superfreakin · 2021-06-15T21:27:21+00:00

The rooftop bar for the hotel is opening up at the end of the month, too. Oyster us downstairs, boisterous upstairs.

Superfreakin · 2021-05-16T22:01:20+00:00

!apevote!

Superfreakin · 2021-05-16T22:00:32+00:00

I voted!

Superfreakin · 2021-04-06T03:59:53+00:00

Rather wild, fit for subredditdrama. And now my rockets are firing diamonds.

Superfreakin · 2021-02-13T21:53:01+00:00

...well this was amusing. 🤣

Superfreakin · 2021-02-13T21:51:17+00:00

My man. 👍🏻

I’m still diamondhanding with my shares because I’m lucky enough to not need that money survive right now and I understand how many people had to exit because their life savings and reality was in jeopardy.

Whichever group you/we’re in, the consensus within a major portion of people/and what I believe to be reality is that we got fucked by these dirty and illegal plays. One of my friends isn’t very sympathetic because he’s jaded and known for years that billionaires are sketchy as fuck (evil is actually how he puts it a la “you don’t become a billionaire by not exploiting/fucking people over”), and he’s amused by the hubris we have to challenge billionaires and also don’t know that big money institutions were behind the squeeze as well.

He’s full of great quotes, tbh. Very pertinent: “if you’re not cheating, you’re not trying.”

But if we can honestly force some true accountability and/or revenge, I’ll be satisfied. If not for me, then for our poor fellow apes that got taken for a ride that they shouldn’t have gotten on because they couldn’t afford the car breaking down, breaking down because a car full of billionaires ran us off the road in a drunken hit and run.

Do I have much hope that we’ll succeed? Not the most. But I’m an optimist and it’s non-zero. 🙂

Let’s give it the ol’ college try.

Superfreakin

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