Anyway, it’s kinda frustrating that I can’t watch the whole tournament live due to time zones and a healthy sleep schedule, but it is nice that I don’t personally know anyone else into sumo that can spoil the matches for me.

I sure did end up doing this.

schools closed unexpectedly for two days, what is everybody supposed to do? take off work, lose two days’ wages because the occupying militia can’t be trusted not to murder their children?

So now there’s a real sense of “this could happen again immediately without any lead time,” and that’s really frightening.

Also, a lot of us spent years being like “they’re lying about doing this to keep us safe, they’re doing this for profit,” so sort of stunlocked by seeing it so openly admitted