“The people trapped down there are all that matters. While I’m dealing with Hela, I need you two to help get everyone off Asgard.” “How the hell are we supposed to do that?” “I have a man on the ground.”
I have had two weeks of hell with Vonage. They have taken my primary phone number of 26 years away with no authorization or instruction of any kind whatsoever from me. I’ve been disconnected and have no prospect of getting my number back.
They have managed to make my primary phone number since 1992 unusable
and still have no plan as to how to fix it. I have spent hours I do not
have on the phone with them and have been lied to repeatedly regarding
fixes that have not happened. I’m now basically being told they can’t
remedy a problem entirely of their creation, since I never gave any
instructions or account changes that should have affected this number.
And on top of that, they have failed to do the one thing I wanted
done, port a number out, despite multiple attempts and Vonage
acknowledging the information I provided for to T-Mobile was correct. I
now am told I have to go to T-Mobile’s “advanced porting department” to
see if they can get their counterparts at Vonage to sort it out. The
tech people at Vonage can’t do it from their side.
This is incompetence of the first order.
No one, and I mean no one, should every us them. If you use them now,
I would strongly urge you to cancel your service. If you ever have any
changes to make they will make an utter hash of it.
Gina
Haspel now appears to have secured enough votes to be confirmed as
director of the Central Intelligence Agency, after two additional Senate
Democrats today announced they will vote for her.
NEW: @SenBillNelson also a YES on Gina Haspel’s nomination to be CIA Director.
5 SENATE DEM YES VOTES ON HASPEL: Warner Heitkamp Donnelly Manchin Nelson
You can be personally responsible for destroying evidence of
torture to prevent war crimes prosecution, and then return to lead the
very agency you dirtied with your obscene embrace of Nazi/Communist bad
guy tactics.
In 2002, she ran a C.I.A. prison in Thailand during
which a captured Qaeda detainee, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who is accused
of orchestrating the 2000 bombing of the American destroyer Cole off
the coast of Yemen, was subjected to waterboarding and other coercive
techniques. She was also involved in the agency’s destruction of tapes
of interrogation sessions in 2005.
“In the world Republicans have constructed, a Democrat who wants to give you health care and a higher wage is disrespectful, while a Republican who opposes those things but engages in a vigorous round of campaign race-baiting is respectful. The person who’s holding you back isn’t the politician who just voted to give a trillion-dollar tax break to the wealthy and corporations, it’s an East Coast college professor who said something condescending on Twitter. So what are Democrats to do? The answer is simple: This is a game they cannot win, so they have to stop playing. Know at the outset that no matter what you say or do, Republicans will cry that you’re disrespecting good heartland voters. There is no bit of PR razzle-dazzle that will stop them. Remember that white Republicans are not going to vote for you anyway, and their votes are no more valuable or virtuous than the votes of any other American. Don’t try to come up with photo ops showing you genuflecting before the totems of the white working class, because that won’t work. Advocate for what you believe in, and explain why it actually helps people. Finally — and this is critical — never stop telling voters how Republicans are screwing them over. The two successful Democratic presidents of recent years were both called liberal elitists, and they countered by relentlessly hammering the GOP over its advocacy for the wealthy. And it worked”
This should be sent to Donnelly, Heitcamp, Manchin, and McCaskil. They’re all going to vote to confirm torturer and war criminal Gina Haspel to run CIA, and when the election comes around, it won’t matter at all, as they fight to keep their seats in the Senate.
I don’t understand why High School Musical 4 is going to get an entire new cast when all they had to do was set it at Chad and Ryan’s wedding
Sharpay – mellowed out some with age, still struggling to make it big, chronically single – insists she’s happy for Ryan but quickly devolves into her obligatory show-stopper about how she’s sick of waiting to meet someone who’s right for her. (Mostly the song entails Sharpay singing her ridiculously long laundry list of requirements while trying on bedazzled wedding dresses.)
There’s a running gag that Troy is supersupersuper late for the wedding. We may or may not ever actually see him, since Zac Efron didn’t even come to the damn ten year reunion and is apparently a huge party pooper. What we do see is Gabriella on the phone with him every fifteen minutes or so, urging him to hurry up. Eventually she decides that he’s obviously stuck in traffic because he doesn’t care about their friends enough and wonders if she should break up with him. Cue the obligatory once-a-movie Gabriella Is Sad song.
Taylor and Chad are SUPER amicable exes and she’s organizing the entire wedding with an iron fist. Chad and Ryan didn’t have to do anything. Kelsey is on piano. Zeke is baking their cake, obvs.
Troy is SUPPOSED TO BE Chad’s best man, but again, he’s supersupersuper late. At one point while Gabriella’s on the phone with him, Chad runs up behind her and yells “DUDE. GETCHA HEAD IN THE GAME” into the phone.
Sharpay elbows someone in the face to catch the bouquet when it gets thrown. Like, violently. It’s played for laughs, of course, but we all know that Kelsey/Jason/whoever should probably be in the hospital.
Assuming they can lock down Zefron, the movie will inevitably end up being about them. Troy proposed during the damn reception. Gabriella cries. Taylor and Kelsey are screaming. Sharpay is immediately trying to become Gabriella’s best friend and call dibs on being her maid of honor. Ryan looks affronted at this hijacking but nobody notices.
tHE FUCKING WEDDING COLORS ARE WHITE AND RED JUST SO CHAD CAN SCREAM “WILDCATS” AS SOON AS HE’S DONE BEING PRONOUNCED RYAN’S LAWFULLY WEDDED HUSBAND
Sharpay and Zeke reconnect after that moment at the of HSM1 where they were a thing for like 10 seconds. Sharpay Learns a Valuable Lesson about how maybe you don’t need a guy who’s perfectly perfect in every way when you’ve got once who’s a total sweetheart and can bake like a mofo.
Ryan brings some girl he knows from Broadway who’s like his best dancer or something. She spends the entire wedding flirting with Kelsey and making her all flustered. Everyone is trying to get them together.
It ends with an elaborate musical number at the reception. Possibly there’s a self-aware joke about how Ryan emailed everyone the choreography for it months ago, so they all better know it by now. It probably turns into a reprise of We’re All In This Together and then I cry into my popcorn for 6 hours
~the end~
HOW DOES THIS HAVE SO MANY NOTES ARE Y’ALL SERIOUS
holy shit can this happen instead
Chad needs to smash faces with Ryan right after screaming WILDCATS and then they need to leave, come back, and their clothing is swapped!!!!!
This sounds amazing. You have my vote!!
I don’t know who got this post circulating again but I’d like to give them a high five and a milk shake
It baffles and infuriates me that Hogwarts students don’t take Latin or Greek. Accio? Literally “I summon.” Lumos? Fucking “light.” Expelliarmus? Expel weapon!! Ooooh I wonder what Levicorpus does– you Dumb Ass Bastard. You ILLITERATE. It’s called Levicorpus, it lifts someone’s body, it LEVIES your goddamn CORPUS-
Hermione ghost wrote this
Ok but this is Hogwarts. You can’t have kids practicing Latin all over the place. One mis-conjugated verb and you’ll have a hole in the castle wall where the classroom used to be!
Canonically, Hogwarts only appears to teach wand magic, and therefore students only practise magic that must be channelled through a focused instrument (i.e. their wand, though this is also true for things like Moody’s staff, the Sorting Hat, Marauder’s Map, etc.). That magic only also occurs through the intent of using said magic, rather than just speaking the incantation (such as first years attempting spells but not really grasping how they work).
Any magic that is done outside of channelling is only done under extreme mental or physical stress, in which the conscious or unconscious mind of the magic user steps in to protect itself (re: Harry using magic to blow up Aunt Marge, various outbursts of magic from underage wizards/witches).
Wand magic has been shown to work without having the wand in contact with the user, but again, these have generally only occurred under mental or physical stress by the user, and has occurred with the intent of using magic (such as Harry using a Lumos incantation when trying to find his want in pitch black that time).
Therefore, it stands to reason that as long as Hogwarts offers these classes from a theoretical, wands away kind of class that poses no serious mental or physical harm, then teaching etymology of Latin and Greek would be a low risk boon to the school, as long as you stick to the mid level spells (as Latin spells are generally mid to high level spells in the arcana. Greek would be fine, as they’re healing magic spells). Imagine how much faster students would get a grip on spells if they had that training.
Then again, I am a Ravenclaw and I would 100% find a way to blast someone through a wall over an argument on the etymology and pronunciation of incantations using said incantations, so I’m definitely not the person to be arguing this counterpoint.
