An American who spent time stationed in Kenya (they never could tell me why we have a base there, go figure) told me about a group of navy seals that decided to try to put a t-shirt on a baboon once. Apparently they all ended up in the infirmary.

America isn't sending the brightest.

Pretty sure I stopped playing after an early boss fight.

The good stuff:

• struggling to carry too much stuff
• dropping too much stuff
• throwing containers at people
• building stuff with players you don't have to interact with
• peeing to grow mushrooms

The bad stuff:

• story was eh
• npcs
• sudden boss fight after 10+ hours of not using any combat related controls

Enjoyed my time with it overall though. Keep meaning to come back to it and never do for whatever reason.

I also never got around to MGS 5 even though I really liked all the other metal gear games I've played, something about a more open world is vaguely intimidating I guess.

With the right button, you've got MLK and Mother Theresa taking turns to punch it.

Well yeah, "the right button" could be anything. The button could have been "push this and Jewish Israeli people can live anywhere on earth safely and perpetually at peace with their neighbors." It doesn't even have to be anything about Israelis, religion, the region, it's a fucking hypothetical.

Instead, the button is "kill millions of people that inconvenience me". It doesn't resolve anything for the country - they're still at odds with a large number of neighboring countries. It doesn't completely remove their inconvenience - settlers would still need to settle the stolen and destroyed land (even if the button just evaporated humans, Gaza is effectively uninhabitable).

They just want to talk about killing an entire people on their, apparently, large platform.

Well, with any luck they'll be stuck somewhere in England with all the Amerikkkans because both shitty societies collapse at once.

Watched that b/c it was posted here last week. Incredibly disappointed they stopped making that series, it was really getting good.

Would that even work? Intuitively (I dont remember anything about chem) I would guess that you could take a portion of a tums to get the same effect as alkaline water, but wouldn't be able to achieve the opposite. If you drank an enormous amount of alkaline water such that your stomach acid volume is negligible then the ph of the solution would just be the alkaline water ph, right?

I'm a habitual lurker on forums, but the few times I've posted/commented here have 100% been better experiences than any other site I've used. It's nice to use a site that doesn't make me feel disconnected from reality for seeing the obvious and daily indignations millions-to-billions are forced to live through just because the currently dominant economic model insists this is justthewayitis. Its really validating knowing i can trust my own eyes. The only other place I've been that is similar is irl organizing, which I've not been able to do for some time now unfortunately (and, long story short, had locally become dominated with very electoral and liberal ideas, which was incredibly disheartening).

It's great browsing a site that can both validate these frequent observations of systemic failure while continuing to challenge my own worldview. Before browsing here and lemmygrad I had felt like an "internationalist," but in the last few years here I've started realizing how big the imperial core blinders really are. I don't necessarily know what to do with that yet, but it's something I'm working on and probably ought to just discuss on here at some point.

Plus, I always appreciate the way federated users are treated when they cruise by to spout bs imperial core takes (usually dressed up as if they're subversive in some way lmao).

I'm trying to post and comment more because yall seem pretty cool, I just usually don't have much to add.

Definitely depends on the area and a handful of variables, but I feel like there's an environmental argument to be had for frequent good deliveries to households.

It could be scheduled in a similar way as waste management and households just put in a recurring order that they could update every week with one off needs. Heck, it could even get fancy and offer to let you pick your produce at the door or van. It could be door-to-door or block-by-block with assistance for people that need it.

If this was a socially supported and accepted model for getting basic goods then a non-small amount of car trips would just not happen.

It would be really interesting if someone with a background in this and access to relevant numbers could see if something like that would be beneficial, or could think outside the box for other ways to make spread out metropolitan life slightly less environmentally shit (with the caveat that significant structural changes still need to happen obv).

Exactly, dollar general tends to be in poorer neighborhoods but is expensive as shit. At least around here, they only get business by being the only place to buy basic necessities.

There was one a block away from a homeless encampment a few of us were working with, and some of their basics were 50-100% more than the neighboring parts of town. There is a little public transport in this city, but definitely not adequate for most people to be able to use it for errands. Of course people in these neighborhoods are always running out of money, Dollar General is picking their pockets.

Unrelated, but the ice box outside was not only locked, it was just straight up off. This was during an extended heat wave. A worker mentioned that corporate stopped sending ice because it had been getting stolen. Just overall a shitty store to have to deal with.

Doesn't that imply that the control group are the people riddled with plastic 🤔?

He seems like a really good dude. It's easy to tell you two had something special. I'm really sorry for your loss.

The first dog my partner and I adopted passed 2 years ago. He was similar to your buddy - he always wanted to do what we were doing. He had a few favorite people and hated literally everyone else.

Honestly, he was a real shit head that caused us a ton of anxiety (soooo aggressive despite our best efforts), but he was our shit head. I don't miss the anxiety of walking him but I miss everything else, even the sometimes-scary stuff. He was full of surprises and kept them coming until his last days.

Sorry for hijacking, just been thinking about him a lot the last few days.

I wish there was something we could say to make things easier for you. I'm sure he felt all the love you have for him every day. He sounds like a hoot.

Rest in peace, friend.

tru

Obviously these folks should just avoid the crowd or go to concerts that have a vibe they actually enjoy, but it's not weird to be upset when someone, accident or not, hits you multiple times/pours beer on you/etc (especially when it's made clear to them that "hey, you swinging your fist around kinda hurts."). Accidents happen, crowds get really cramped, but it's usually considered courteous to be at least a little aware of where your limbs are going. It's a 2 way street: you hit someone and they acknowledge it, maybe be a little more careful. Someone's fist falls on your head, maybe remind them you're right there? It's not that hard. No matter the size of the concert though there's always gotta be at least 1 asshole. Haven't been to many with an invertebrate in the audience though.

All that being said, going to the manager is pretty fucking funny lmao. Just move a little further away from the stage and enjoy the show. You really can't expect people to not spill in a crowd, or bump you, whatever, when you're standing elbows to assholes or whatever the saying is.

All I needed was an ice pack, but really ended up just defrosting a couple pints of ice cream on my junk for 2 days.

FWIW, my BIL was golfing within 24 hours of his vasectomy

in kentucky, they say "northern kentucky" to refer to the three counties next to cincinatti because of this. weird stuff.

Lol, we know some people from the east side of KY that referred to this area as "northern kentucky," didn't realize how ubiquitous that was.

Reminds me of Arkansas - folks around there refer to NW Arkansas to refer to the, presumably, more progressive/different part of the state.

Thanks for all the details!

Also I’m not trying to shit on Covington/newport, but it’s just probably a slightly less good fit based on all the standard reasons you’d imagine. Newport in particular was a kind of party night destination when I was there. Maybe it’s massively changed though.

The KY side of the river feels almost like a resort town when driving along the main streets, which is to say I can see what you mean. Seems like there's been a lot of "revitalization" effort over there in the last 5 or so years, so I suppose a lot could be changing over there.

That's awesome to hear! From skimming Facebook posts it seems like the SW Ohio PSL branch does a lot in Dayton, OH. Is that the case in your experience?

That's super helpful context, thanks so much!

It's just starting to get funny tho

I'm sure some marketing suggests these things are healthier, but they're really just an animal-cruelty free alternative.

This is like when coworkers ask if a vegan is vegan for health reasons. I'm sure as hell not, I eat like shit lmao. Just no animal products.