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The Asses of Parnassus
- mxxc 6y agothe parnasses?
- divbzero 6y agoI liked this one. Philip Larkin Tries for a Vaccine Appointment Another long computer sesh As I attempt to land a day Before the bloody end of May: Log in, refresh, refresh, refresh… – Melissa Balmain (after The Trees) O! the joy of American healthcare.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoHow is this an American-specific problem? Problems with scheduling a vaccine appointment over the internet have happened also in European countries with public healthcare. For example, Poland has seen some bumps in the road.
- throwaway894345 6y agoAgreed. I think there’s a case to be made against the US healthcare system, but vaccinations wouldn’t be my case in point. Denmark which seems to be the leading EU country has only 9.2% fully vaccinated which lags even the most backwards US state by a considerable margin (presently Georgia with 20% fully vaccinated).
- dkarl 6y agoI agree. It was frustrating trying to get my appointment, but there weren't vaccines going unused or people getting it ahead of me who shouldn't. They managed to vaccinate people at the same rate as doses became available, and different groups were prioritized in a sane if imperfect way.
- dang 6y ago"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I realize the other comment more than dipped a toe in it but that's no reason to go all the way.
- cyberlab 6y agoAmazing that Tumblr is still around. Someone needs to scrape it and have a backup copy incase it gets shutdown for whatever reason. (Similar to the fate of Soup.io) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soup.io https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soup.io
- fuzzer37 6y agoThey really shot themselves in the foot (Or maybe they shot themselves in the head...) when they banned porn.
- bckr 6y agoThis poetry is really good Or at least it suits my taste. I find most poems pretty "meh" But these are pretty great.
- Loughla 6y agoI don't like rhyming. Seriously, it's better. Sort of like haiku's.
- Taniwha 6y agoThen you'll love the poem there on the front page entitled "Editorial Comments"
- Loughla 6y agoJust as an aside. Commenting in just haiku Makes you stop and think. ---Honestly, commenting in haiku form really makes you stop and consider what you want to write. Maybe I'll try this with all of my comments from now on.
- ryandrake 6y agoThe site, I wanted to try, but I browsed there and wanted to cry, and ended up asking why they broke the Back button, Oh my!
- InternetGiant 6y agoOh! Titanic Turgid tumblr beastie, Is it rhyme on which you feastie? Of doggerel have you had your fill? Or do you wait for McGonagall?
- dang 6y agoA poet friend of mine once read me this by a poet friend of his: a nice guy against a night sky
- coolgeek 6y agoDid the knight's guy win the (implied) battle?
- a0-prw 6y agoThe butterfly That fluttered by Got flattened by The fattened fly
- prepend 6y agoOn iPhone it immediately asks me to use the app. And it hijacks the browser history so I can’t go back. These characteristics mean the author is either a jerk or chooses a hosting system that’s a jerk. Either way, I missed the content because the presentation was so offensive.
- mr-wendel 6y agoI wrote This note To say Good day The end -- Your friend