Excessive Musings

Lostbelts? 14,000 years ago? Interstellar Navigation-Purpose Ultra-Massive Mothership?

Nah, that's all flavor.

SHIVERS [Legendary: Success] — Before you stands an inflatable pool filled with plastic balls. Despite being referred to as a "pit", it's quite shallow. Currently inhabited by a handful of young denizens, members of a social network, faces painted to look like characters from a story about teenagers who bring about the end of the old world and start anew.

YOU — What else do I see?

SHIVERS — It's flanked by an inflatable castle. The fans used to keep these structures erect fill the conference hall with an ominous drone, washing out the conversations around you. You can make out an utterance about shipping, but it's evident none of these people are involved in freight. Occasionally, a shoe squeaking on the concrete floor pierces the drone. You feel insignificant, and out of place here.

YOU — Embrace the cold.

SHIVERS — Further outward, you can sense rooms partitioned for speaker panels and lectures. Rows of empty chairs facing a podium, soon to be the stage for a one act tragedy. The anticipation of throngs of guests has uncoiled into an underwhelming sadness. The heroes and storytellers the people have been promised will not be making an appearance.

SHIVERS — At the hotel desk, a small calamity is brewing into a storm. A debt must be paid, and quickly, before the people taking part in this little experiment are expelled into the rain.

YOU — Where am I?

The most important safety tips in this video:

1 - Never trust a jack to support a car (do not work on or get under a car supported only by a jack; that is why he says to put the flat tire under the frame while you put the spare on) 2 - Don't put a donut spare on the front of your car, take the good tire off the back and put it on the front, then put the donut on the back (If you have a full-size spare, it is fine to put the full size spare on the front - a donut spare will be much smaller than your regular tire, so it should be very obvious if it's a donut).

If you've never changed a tire before I strongly recommend getting out your spare, jack, and wrench and practicing taking off your tire and putting it on in a safe, low-stakes, non emergency environment. Take half an hour some time to make sure the parts are all where you need them to be, that you know how to remove the various covers and equipment, etc.

https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Bills/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=70193&

more info:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/desantis-backed-e2-80-98anti-riot-e2-80-99-bill-clears-florida-house-following-hours-of-tense-debate/ar-BB1f0wro