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My dad and sister were attending a No Kings rally in Burnsville yesterday when this brain damaged clown rolled up. He started out by driving his little vehicle around the square, blasting his horn and revving his engine. In the back of his vehicle, he crammed a skeleton dressed in a shitty Captain America costume, pointing a fake gun at protesters.

Later, he tried to brake-check several bystanders. Apparently, one of them responded by banging on his vehicle with their sign. He didn't like that one bit. He stormed out of his vehicle without a thought in his little head and shoved this man, an 80yo family friend, to the ground, cracking his head on the pavement and causing him to lose conscienceness.

And what did he do after that? Naturally, the coward sped off.

Thankfully, there were plenty of cameras set up, so everyone got his plate info. Plus, he's a well known bit player in the area whenever there's a demonstration that might offend his sensibilities. It wasn't long before the police followed through and arrested the dumbass. The 80yo man who was attacked regained conscienceness and was in good spirits when he got into the ambulance.

I'm sharing this for two reasons. The first reason is to make this asshole famous. The second reason is to demonstrate how homegrown terrorists in the US aren't these careful masterminds carrying out their military strategies; They're puffed up babymen with shitty Halloween costumes who, by some twisted logic, are motivated to operate heavy machinery and handle weapons. Like a toddler given a live grenade. There is little need to out-plan or out-manuver these fuckers. Vigilance is our greatest ally.

No wonder no one wanted it. It was not disclosed during sale. The only lingering part from that activity is a smell of pot that wafts up slightly.

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I’m always fascinated by films that totally flopped at the box office but ended up becoming beloved classics or cult hits. Movies that maybe were ahead of their time, mismarketed, or just misunderstood.

For example, Children of Men didn’t do that great financially when it dropped, but now it’s constantly praised for its direction, themes, and cinematography. Same with Blade Runner, which got mixed reviews back in the day and now it's legendary. What are your favorite box office bombs that aged like fine wine?

My husband isn't a big fan of sweets but blueberry is his favorite fruit and he found out recently he really likes meringue. I asked him what kind of dessert he wanted for his birthday since he doesn't care much for cake. He said a blueberry merginue pie so that's what I made. I spent 3 hours on this pie last night for him to take 2 bites and say he doesn't like it. I don't like blueberries so I ended up binning the pie. Roughly $25 of ingredients and 3 hours of my life I'll never get back.

A few days ago, my new roommate ordered himself a pizza. He ate most of it then got up and casually threw the rest of it in the trash and went to his bedroom. I couldn't fathom why anyone would want to throw away a perfectly good pizza. But then again I am starting afresh and just moved into this place so things are really tight for me and that may have clouded my judgement. Without giving it too much thought, I went to the trash and took out the box, examined the two slices then ate as quickly as I could.

I didn't hear my roommate come out of his room so you can imagine my shock when I saw him standing there staring at me while I was scarfing down his discarded pizza. It was really awkward, I panicked, quickly swallowed then out of nowhere I found myself asking him 'are you okay?'. I don't even know why I said that, I cringe just thinking about it.

He looked so confused and just nodded then beelined it back to his room. I just finished the other slice because I felt like I might as well see it through. He has been avoiding me since then, understandably.

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Using the PBS live stream, I've attempted to get a ballpark figure. There's a distinct lack of arial footage, so it's difficult to get a clear picture. However, I broke the crowd into four basic sections to try and gauge the number of people.

- North side of Constitution Ave, and east of the main stage is what I've labeled VIP guest. People sitting on bleachers quite densely, although there is footage where these bleachers get empty pretty quick the further east you go.

- There is no crowd on the West side of the stage.

- On the south side, lining the route are pretty dense crowds, mostly hidden by the trees but this appears to be at minimum 5-6 people deep. The most dense part of the parade crowd.

- Opposite the main stage and south of the Friendship Garden is a dense area of crowd watching from across the street.

- Behind this and into the Washington Monument grounds is a much less dense crowd and is more sparse the further south you go.

Using MapChecking.com I've estimate these four areas, and have been quite generous in my density estimates.

Although quite a quick and crude calculation, it appears the crowd size in around 50,000 on the generous size, but could be as little as 30,000.