i had a dream where tornadoes were made illegal or something i just remember like a dozen police cars driving directly toward a tornado with their sirens on and all getting sucked into the tornado
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Remembering those who lost their lives during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school shooting.
These are the victims of the MSD school shooting. Take a few minutes out of your day to read about them. They deserve to be remembered.
Alyssa Alhadeff:
- Alyssa was 15 years old.
- She played soccer and was on the track team.
- Alyssa was said to have been introverted and very close to her family and friends.
- She was a straight A student.
- Alyssa attended a jewish sleep away camp during the summer.
Scott Beigel:
- Scott was a geography teacher at the school.
- He is pictured above with the cross country team he coached.
- He was killed after unlocking the door to let students into his classroom to hide from the shooter.
- Scott was also a counsellor at a summer camp in Pennsylvania.
Jaime Guttenberg:
- Jaime was 17 years old.
- She loved dancing and was in a local competitive dance program.
- She was described as being kind-hearted and having a contagious smile.
- Her facebook page has been memorialized as tributes pour out.
Martin Duque:
- Martin was a 14 year old freshman.
- His brother described him as very funny, outgoing, caring and very sweet.
- His family is devastated at the loss of Martin, he was very loved.
- A gofundme page was set up by his brother, to help cover the funeral costs. The link is: https://www.gofundme.com/32z7etk
Nicholas Dworet:
- Nicholas was 17 years old.
- He was given a swimming scholarship to the University of Indianapolis.
- He also played for the school water polo team.
- Nick aspired to be in the 2020 olympics.
- He was described as being very charismatic and a very likeable guy.
Aaron Feis:
- Aaron was a football coach at the school.
- Aaron was shot and killed, shielding students from bullets.
- He was also reported to have been a security guard.
- He was loved by students at the school.
Chris Hixon:
- Chris was the school’s athletics director.
- He was described as the kind of person who would do anything for anyone.
- He had a son with special needs who followed him everywhere.
Luke Hoyer:
- Luke was 15 years old.
- He loved playing basketball.
- He is described as being very laid back, never causing any trouble.
- His family is devastated, saying that “it doesn’t feel real”.
- He was very happy-go-lucky. Never getting upset.
Cara Loughran:
- Cara was 14 years old.
- She was a great student.
- She loved the beach.
- Her family says that her death is “too horrible to be processed”.
Gina Montalto:
- Gina was 14 years old.
- She was a member of her school’s marching band.
- Her mother described her as being smart, caring, and brightening any room she entered.
Joaquin Oliver:
- Joaquin was 17 years old.
- He was born in Venezuela, officially becoming an American citizen on January 17th.
- He was described as being extroverted and always trying to make new friends.
Alex Schachter:
- Alex was 14 years old.
- He was a member of his school’s marching band.
- He was described as being a great kid, full of love and life.
Carmen Schentrup:
- Carmen was 16 years old.
- She was a national merit scholar semifinalist.
- A family member described her as being the smartest 16 year old they had ever met.
Alaina Petty:
- Alaina was 14 years old.
- She was part of her school’s JROTC program.
- She devoted countless hours to volunteering.
- Alaina was described as vibrant, determined, and loved by all.
THANK YOU FOR THIS. This is completely tragic what happened to these students. We rarely ever see information like this. Thank you.
a little different than what i usually post, but ive been working in this zelda pot for a while now ! finished it yesterday, im pretty proud with the outcome
god outta nowhere i just remembered the time i was in a game where the dm didn’t read one of the character’s backstories carefully enough and allowed someone to make it all the way to the final session with the hidden ability to turn into a motorcycle
lydia you cant just say stuff like this and then not explain exactly how this was performed
k so. one of the first big games i played with my current meatspace gaming group was a really excellent post-apocalyptic homebrew game. really excellent. but it was also wild as hell, had a lot of players, and was the dm’s first big game, so it was at times a real exercise in controlled chaos. and my good bro willie…my bro willie was kind of at the brunt of it. both in that he always to this day plays really chaotic characters that can’t avoid trouble, and also in that due to that and other misfortunes he died like every other session towards the end. he went through five or six characters by the time the campaign was over. one didn’t even last a full session. it was remarkable to witness actually.
but anyway, towards the end, the dm was fairly overwhelmed and dealing with a lot of other characters doing epic-level wasteland nonsense, and kinda threw reading willies backstories to the wayside. which was unfortunate for him, because willie hails from the ‘3 pages or more’ school of backstories, and by this time in the campaign was coping with his characters’ constant deaths by planning backup character well in advance, to the point where they all had intricate, complex connections to each previous character. so when he dies due to circumstances out of his control before the very last few sessions (the first but certainly not last character death he had due to betrayal: willie im still sorry) its not too suprising that he comes back as this brooding edgy darth vader guy with a five page backstory about how he had obtained a horrific nanosuit cyborg body, and the dm approves it, but sure as hell doesn’t read the whole thing bc he’s planning the final confrontation at this point.
cut to the middle of the incredibly serious final session, where his character and my character and my character’s children are fighting for their lives to escape the facility where they are currently caught in the crossfire between a raging, dying artificial intelligence and religiously zealous psychic juggernaut (long story). the dm is giving us a very bleak countdown of how long we have to get out before the whole place collapses but his character just turns to mine with a “don’t worry, just trust me” and willie smiles, looks up at the dm, and is like, “i activiate my nanite body and turn into a motorcycle”, which unfortunately was completely street legal with what he’d detailed in his backstory, so that’s exactly what he fuckin did, as the dm put his head in his hands.
end result: we survived.
this is my favorite 3 paragraphs ive ever read thank you lydia
I keep trying to like red wine like a grown-up but like … it’s rotten grapes, guys. You can drink things that don’t taste like rotten grapes. Why
Okay I don’t know when this post is from (I came across it stalking multiple blogs). But in case this might help, here is a brief science/wine lesson.
To start off, some facts:
-White wine is made from sweet pulp inside of the grape (minus the seeds).
-Red wine is made from both the skin and the grape (and the seeds and stems…sometimes? Can’t remember).
-Tannin is the substance found in red wines, coffee, dark chocolate. Tannins are responsible for the bitter taste in those foods.
-Tannins are found in the skin of the grape, as well as the seeds and the stems. Therefore, most red wines will have tannins, versus most whites will not have tannins.
-Red wines vary in level of tannins, depending on variety of grape, climate, and fermentation process. Pinot noir tends to be very low tannin. Shiraz/Syrah, choice of poison for our beloved brunette surgeon, is very heavy on the tannins.
-Some white wines (most commonly Chardonnay) are aged in oak barrels instead of metal containers. Oak barrels have tannins, which seeps into the wine during the fermentation process. That’s why Chardonnays tend to be “drier” aka it has tannins.
-White wines like Sauvingnon Blancs are usually fermented in steel barrels (aka no tannins. Aka usually very fruity and light and sweet).
Your ability to taste tannins is genetic.
There is a genetic marker determining whether your taste cells are sensitive to tannins.
Basically two people can drink the exact same wine and have wildly different reactions because:
1. Person A can’t taste tannins, so they taste the actual wine flavor.
2. Person B can taste tannins, and that tends to overpower ALL the other flavors in the wine. Basically all they taste is tannins and none of the wine.
I am super tannin sensitive, so if I drink a wine like Cabernet Sauvignon (very tannin heavy, aka “very dry”, it tastes like bitter ethanol alcohol to me, whereas my best friend can’t taste tannins so the same wine is maybe a little bitter but they can actually taste the grape and different flavors. To her, a wine like Sauv Blanc is too sweet, tastes like sugar water. But to me it tastes good.
So unless it’s the taste of the alcohol or all wines you hate, chances are you might hate the taste of red wine, especially the heavier red wines, because taste the tannin overpowers everything else. And all you taste is bitter bitter ethanol bitter more ethanol.
More tannin info:
-Tannins bind to fat.
-This is why tannin heavy wines are recommended with fatty foods (Shiraz and steak). Whenever you eat food with high fat content, the fat builds up on your tongue. A sip of red wine will bind with the fat on your tongue and clear it away. That’s why the sip of wine between bites of fat heavy foods is considered a palate cleanser.
-By that logic, this is why white wines are recommended with low fat foods, like fish. Salmon is fattier than most fish, which is why Chardonnay (tannin heavy white wine) or Pinot Noir (low tannin red wine) is recommended with salmon.
-People who are sensitive to tannins can drink tannin heavy red wines with fatty food and generally the wine won’t taste gross. The fat on your tongue (from that steak) will bind with the tannin and neutralize the tannin taste. Aka the only time I ever drink Cabernet Sauvignon or Shiraz is with a steak or heavy, creamy pasta. Aka never bc I don’t often eat either.
-The reason dairy helps coffee taste better is because the fat in milk/creams binds with the tannins in coffee and neutralizes the bitter taste. This is why people who can’t taste tannins can generally drink coffee black without milk (sugar is a different story). It’s also why almond milk in coffee is the worst idea (almond milk is already bitter and has no fat).
More wine facts:
-90% of the “aromas” of wine are marketing BS
-You know the labels that say like “cherry with a hint of blackberry?” There’s no real way to infuse cherry or blackberry into grape wine without screwing with the fermentation process. It’s all created by the wine marketing industry to sell you win. Sometimes if you smell cherry before you drink the wine, you might taste it in the wine (because majority of flavor comes from smell). Or if you think there is cherry flavor in the wine, your brain can trick your taste buds into tasting it.
-The only true flavors found in real grape wine are grapes (obviously), oak/earthy flavor (the barrels), vanilla (barrels, oak sticks), tannins. (There are a few others but can’t remember. I think maybe cinnamon?).
-People’s perception of wine often affect how good it tastes to them. Social psychology studies show that people will rate the exact same wine differently if they’re told the wines are different in price. (They rated the more expensive wine as tastier).
tl;dr
Whether you can taste tannins is genetic. Exact same wines taste different for different people depending on your genetic makeup. If you’re sensitive to tannins, red wines won’t taste like anything other than bitter alcohol. Genetics/tannins are why people generally have preferences for red or whites.
this is extremely informative and i have learned a thing about myself, which is that i CLEARLY inherited the tannin-tasting genes from my teatotaling mother and not from my dad who subsists entirely on espresso and cabernet sauvignon.
“There are many things I hope you will remember, but if you can’t recall those memories, I suppose it can’t be helped.
As for me… I shall never forget…”