CarbonIceDragon @ CarbonIceDragon @pawb.social

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Guam wouldn't even be leaving the US, unless you expect it to secede sometime in the immediate future and be successful at doing so. For that matter, if the question is "what would your dream place to immigrate be" rather than "what place do you think you would have a decent shot of being welcomed", why should people not mention popular places? If people didn't find them appealing, they wouldn't be popular in the first place.

That's not how a railgun works, that's how a coilgun works. Railguns create a loop of electric current that flows into one "wire" (the rail), through the projectile into the other wire, and back down to the starting point again, this configuration creates a force that pushes the projectile down the rails

The Netherlands probably, but with the massive grain of salt that I suspect that choosing a "ideal place to live" without actually having been to that place is likely to result in a skewed idea of what a place is truly like, and as I've never been outside the United States I have that issue when thinking about any other country. I also doubt they or anywhere else that might make my list of ideal places would want me, seeing as I'm just some random factory worker without any especially rare skill.

There's a dark irony to that name

What if it was a platonic love potion?

Frankly, I would not be terribly surprised if some descendant of our species, almost certainly incredibly, unimaginably divergent from what we are now but still someone, literally dies with the universe, however that ends up ending.

Sure, but a crop merely being bioengineered does not imply that that specific tweak has been made

Why? Tweaking the genes of something doesnt magically make it dangerous

Im fairly doubtful of that tbh.

Modern sirens would probably consider following around those ships that divers work out of to be cheating.

I feel the inverse. I kinda want to see what it would be like to be born, like, one million years into the future, or something like that.

Those look like common house geckos, I don't think that species hurts anything people care about and they catch bugs anyway.

This was me with peas growing up, hated them so much that I'd carefully swallow them without breaking the skins to taste them less, but they were one of the more common vegetables for my family. I've developed more of an appreciation for a few other vegetables since growing up but not those.

Honestly, it started sooner I think, or more to the point, it's had this sort of tendency lurking in the background for it's whole history to lesser and greater extents, the last few decades until the current one just being something of a lower period that makes this stand out by contrast.

After all, these aren't exactly the first concentration camps built in or by the United States, the country has a history with forced labor and institutionalized racial supremacy so severe that the country literally split itself apart over it at one point, and it's founding and expansion to it's current borders involved the genocide of those already living on the land in question.

The silver lining to all this I guess, if you can call it that, is that this history and the fact we even had something of a relative lul in all this, implies that as bleak as things look, the racism, nativism, and disenfranchisement can be squashed down again, because it's been done here before.

Didn't he attack the very concept of empathy at one point in all this doge mess though?

The pigeon, on the other hand, appears unimpressed

I bet stereotypical pirates would love orange juice, if they could get their hooks on any.

I interpreted it as "sarcastically pretending to be shocked by something that isn't really surprising", rather than a comparison to MTG

"As little as one hot dog a day", doesn't really strike me as a great example of a "small" amount of processed meat. I'd generally say I ate a lot of something if I had it literally on a daily basis.

I always just look at the cable/device and the port to see which half of the connector is empty and which has that plastic bit