[HN Gopher] The Asses of Parnassus
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       The Asses of Parnassus
        
       Author : rendaw
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2021-04-22 16:30 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (assesofparnassus.tumblr.com)
        
       | divbzero wrote:
       | I 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 wrote:
         | How 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 wrote:
           | Agreed. 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 wrote:
           | I 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 wrote:
           | " _Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and
           | generic tangents._ "
           | 
           | 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.
        
       | ryandrake wrote:
       | The 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!
        
       | dang wrote:
       | A poet friend of mine once read me this by a poet friend of his:
       | a nice guy against        a night sky
        
       | cyberlab wrote:
       | Amazing 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
        
         | fuzzer37 wrote:
         | They really shot themselves in the foot (Or maybe they shot
         | themselves in the head...) when they banned porn.
        
       | InternetGiant wrote:
       | Oh! Titanic Turgid tumblr beastie, Is it rhyme on which you
       | feastie? Of doggerel have you had your fill? Or do you wait for
       | McGonagall?
        
       | bckr wrote:
       | This poetry is really good
       | 
       | Or at least it suits my taste.
       | 
       | I find most poems pretty "meh"
       | 
       | But these are pretty great.
        
         | Loughla wrote:
         | I don't like rhyming.
         | 
         | Seriously, it's better.
         | 
         | Sort of like haiku's.
        
           | Taniwha wrote:
           | Then you'll love the poem there on the front page entitled
           | "Editorial Comments"
        
       | mxxc wrote:
       | the parnasses?
        
         | rendaw wrote:
         | At Parnassus can you find       of donkey lads and equine
         | lasses       offspring that one poster tried       to shorten
         | to "parnasses"?
        
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