All I needed was an ice pack, but really ended up just defrosting a couple pints of ice cream on my junk for 2 days.

FWIW, my BIL was golfing within 24 hours of his vasectomy

in kentucky, they say "northern kentucky" to refer to the three counties next to cincinatti because of this. weird stuff.

Lol, we know some people from the east side of KY that referred to this area as "northern kentucky," didn't realize how ubiquitous that was.

Reminds me of Arkansas - folks around there refer to NW Arkansas to refer to the, presumably, more progressive/different part of the state.

Thanks for all the details!

Also I’m not trying to shit on Covington/newport, but it’s just probably a slightly less good fit based on all the standard reasons you’d imagine. Newport in particular was a kind of party night destination when I was there. Maybe it’s massively changed though.

The KY side of the river feels almost like a resort town when driving along the main streets, which is to say I can see what you mean. Seems like there's been a lot of "revitalization" effort over there in the last 5 or so years, so I suppose a lot could be changing over there.

That's awesome to hear! From skimming Facebook posts it seems like the SW Ohio PSL branch does a lot in Dayton, OH. Is that the case in your experience?

That's super helpful context, thanks so much!

Probably misspelled it to get dems to share it.

That's awesome! I checked out dreaming spanish a while back and had some decent progress for a bit. Unfortunately broke the habit because of life stuff and kind of just forgot about it. I agree the beginning is definitely a slog, but you have to start somewhere

Your progress is very encouraging to hear about, guess I'll get back to it. Thanks for the details.

No recommendations, just pure jealousy. Bet it will be an awesome trip!

Any recommendations for studying Spanish? That seems like a fast pace to get to that level of fluency.

Totally agree with you, this stuff seems to happen much less at demonstrations where there is an organized group with some security plan.

I have a couple of thoughts regarding this.

First, in America at least, we spend a significant amount of time and energy legitimizing "nonviolent, civil disobedience" actions of the past , while pointing at any group that defends itself in any other capacity as just as bad, or worse!, than the status quo/gov/cops/take your pic. There is only one valid way, outside the ballot box, to demand/make change within liberal society and it is to literally demand that the gov/cops/military/local assholes beat you so badly that other onlookers are too embarrassed to let it carry on. This method is lovely for the ruling class because they can physically squash the people with demands and, if they are few enough of them, the protest ends, and the ruling class get several more years to run things.

As an extension of above, protest organizers, and some protestors, explicitly know that the cops are there to escalate the situation. To avoid escalation many people simply do not defend themselves or others.

This is all vibes base analysis based on my own experiences at protests, including ones where cops escalate the situation. I wouldn't take it too seriously.

I've seen this in comments a lot but never a source, do you happen to have one?

I always thought debates took 2 sides. Hmmm