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there’s an uncomfortable part of me that kind of shivers at how good it might feel to be confined by a large amount of weight (dirt) with just my head sticking out. What someone walking up might do, or what a conversation with a an ever present implication, underlying every sentence, that I’m helpless.

Lulz. We got sucked in.

Speaking of sucking…

Now I just have to find the friends that aren’t demanding the newest d&D and bringing schedule conflicts and RL drama into the session… a.k.a enshittifying.

*this is a joke.

I do wonder about the lemmy demographics, but I’d bet it’s closer to a 50/50 split than you’d think. I bet the majority of the people who came over in the reddit api exodus are tech-inclined, which, sure, would mean a majority are office/IT types, but I, for one, sure am working class. They use my industry as an example of how fucked up the country treats workers pretty regularly in news articles. So that’s at LEAST a sample of one for working class that came in the api shit.

I suppose you could see it (“groceries”) as “a normal grocery run,” but to me groceries just means ‘what you bring home from the grocery store.’ That includes random things like storm prep. So the phrase “40 euro worth of groceries in montana” still fits.

A really good guitar player.

If this is real, it looks like they’re stocking a storm closet, or ‘emergency supplies’ if you’d rather. Stable grains (even if the cereals are eewwugh, they’re still sealed tight and easy to eat), water for a few days, light sources with the fuel/power (batteries, it looks like) for them, the mac&cheese for the kids who would probably whine and need some form of ‘comfort’ food, and cleaning supplies. “Water and sugar” is almost exactly what you’d want if you were isolated by a storm for a short period of time. If they’re not using a wood burning stove (or gas, I’ll grant you, if it doesn’t go out), having food (the “sugar”) that doesn’t need much cooking is perfect.

I would guess the laundry solution there, and maybe a few of the other things that are hidden and you can’t quite make out, would be placed in normal locations for regular use in the house.

I’m looking, and it would appear to be what I or another family member would bring home from the grocery store (with the caveat that my choices would likely be far different) if we were stocking a storm closet. I see stable grains, sealed ‘almost-ready-to-go’ meals, lights with the fuel/power for them, water, cleaning supplies.

I will grant you that this wouldn’t be a normal grocery list, (and their claim of 40 euros is also likely way too low these days), but it would fit under the ‘groceries’ category in my view.

My poor ants had a very different experience this week. I didn’t find them in the sink…

I sat down on the (what I thought) was freshly cleaned toilet from the day before, look down as I’m sitting, and covering the bottom portion was a veritable writhing mass of ants. I would swear to it looking like they were recreating that scene from fantasia (or maybe another animation? idk) where the mops were circling a winding staircase around a cone, like worshipers with torches marching up and around a hill to reach the top.

I’m sorry to say, I couldn’t bring myself to treat them like spiders should be, and they got the insect spray.

Don’t forget that there are also two divisions of chordates: one where the mouth develops first, and one where the anus develops first*. Guess which one we fall into… :D

*::: spoiler spoiler Side note, ‘develop’ may have different meaning here (it’s like a dimple forming) :::

There’s been someone around here claiming to be a narcissist and acting super offended when anyone says anything negative about narcissists lately, so take that as a possible yes.

The issue stems from a problem with network routers that cascaded nationwide

Someone pushed claude’s
if reply.sacramento == 0
try ping LAX
repeat 1000

if reply.LAX == 0
try ping ATL
repeat 2000

etc.

Now we use red and blue. There may be another color floating around out there, but I haven’t seen any other color in… at least a decade or so in ERs.

Beans, jeans, and The_Picard_Maneuver Star Trek community drams.

The others are teasing you, hoping the full horror will hit you when you find it. I’m going to try to give you an inoculation.

I think the world has heard enough of the idiotic “own the libs” phrase to understand what motivates a great deal of the MAGA members. Bloody cunts that are making it their defining political desire, is what they are.

There’s a lot of debate on that, if you want to get into the academic side. I think the best definition for it (when I was studying it in college) was based on four primary ‘focuses’ of evangelism. The wikipedia article on the scholar that laid them out explains them in brief: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_W._Bebbington
I’ve seen them cheekily laid out with the ‘-centrism’ part in every one, as in ‘biblicentric,’ ‘crucicentric,’ ‘conversioncentric,’ and ‘activity-centric.’ The wikipedia page on evangelicalism itself is a pretty big slog, but talks more in depth about them.

What those four things mean in practice is very interesting, again in an academic manner, in how neatly they lay the groundwork for MAGA/this shit we’re seeing. The biblicentric primes them to reject the authority of more ‘traditional’ sects when there exists conflict between beliefs (even between different evangelical churches), because the bible is ‘always right’ and you can always find something in the bible to contradict something someone is saying, and is a major part of why evangelicals that move will church shop for a while (so they can find one that fits with their beliefs, highlighting, of course, that their beliefs are not necessarily based on much more than vibes). Crucicentrism isn’t as big, but it’s a part of their ‘us vs. them’ mentality that pops up. The emphasis on conversions and activism is part and parcel of why so many of them want to force their beliefs on others (think abortion bans and such).

Now take those religious aspects, and throw them at politics (where politicians specifically target them). They’re already primed to reject logic, even christian logic, so republican (well, fox news style propaganda even more so) calls to reject what the other side says finds fertile ground. Use their desire to spread their beliefs in controlling, political manners, and you’ve roped in every one of them that wants to ‘do christianity’ with all the guilt they have built in about not improving anything suddenly being assuaged.

Yeah, that’s the one they apply to themselves, while lashing out at everything around them while screaming from the first one.

Mine would scoot through the apartment at speeds faster than any of us half-hungover college kids could catch whenever the outside door would open, and somehow end up under my bed. It would take a bit to coax the cat out, and then I’d eventually have to fess up to the neighbor’s little kids when they’d start calling for it. I miss having the little black ball of warmth cuddled up on my shirt.

I’ve seen the results from dog bites. That 200,000 might not be enough to make up for your lost function/enjoyment-of-life. The damage can be pretty nasty.